.... To think Coronavirus is also bringing out the worse in people

[mellie1806]

Exactly this. I have seen some displays of absolute abhorrent behaviour in person and on the TV this weekend. It has confirmed to me what I already suspected, that I don't like the people outside of my immediate family very much at all. I see so many people posting about people doing good things like leaving food, wipes etc outside peoples houses, and good deeds, if anyone has any nice stories to restore my faith in the human race, id very much appreciate it currently. Thank you for reading my little mini rant! xxx

Others are clearly seeing nice things, I have only seen horrible people abusing staff in shops, attitudes that are just diabolical. x

I agree it's bringing out the worst in some people.

But the absolute best in others.

I haven't been to the shops much but on the couple of occasions in the last two and a bit weeks, everyone has been decent and civil.

if anyone has any nice stories to restore my faith in the human race, id very much appreciate it currently.

Around here there is a Facebook group where people can request stuff they have run out of and can't get due to all the selfish cunty panic buyers.
Several people have asked for and been given for free, items like pasta and toilet rolls which the cunts amongst us have emptied the shops of. Of course it wouldn't be needed if the cunts were not about, but decent folk are doing what decent folk do, too.

There was a clip on ITV news this morning of a man going round the supermarket and licking everything on the shelves. Seriously he should be arrested and barred from supermarkets for the foreseeable future.

I saw a house with pictures of rainbows and positive messages such as ' be happy' and ' stay strong'
But at the same time they parked their car on the whole of the pavement! The whole of it. Only car to do so.

So any elderly, person with disabilities or a problem had to go on the road to get pass.

It just shows that people are still so thoughtless. And full of contradiction

@Hingeandbracket Sorry for typo, at work, and a mistype

I witnessed a man shouting at a man (a worker who had been made to put on a hi-vis jacket and be "security"), on the door of a supermarket, right up in his face, because the mans wife was already in the supermarket, and he "wanted" to get in to be with her, despite everyone else patiently waiting in a queue. The poor man on the door ended up having to let this abusive individual into the shop, as he was getting more and more irate. Just general rudeness, and I think we will see more and more of the disgusting attitudes that some people in the UK think are acceptable.

Around here, the GAA team are doing grocery deliveries to isolated rural old people, growers who usually supply restaurants are donating produce to charities that provide meals for low-income and homeless people (now on a takeaway basis), people are making an effort to support small local shops and businesses, artists and writers and culture groups are making lessons/challenges in art, craft, storytelling etc available freely online — and friends who run a small farm that supplies restaurants, and who are now selling their produce at the gate on an honesty box stall, say that there’s always more money in the box than there should be.

I see a lot of public-spiritedness.

Well, yeah, but people have and always been absolutely wankers.

The media do choose to report the very worst examples of humanity and I don’t think most people are like that.

Saying that, I cannot believe the number of threads on MN where people are asking if it’s ok for them to be exempt from the rules. Really fucking thick.

All pretty civilised where I am: people moving to the edge of the pavement, standing outside marked area at the checkout, normal supermarket behaviour and no punch ups over the last pack of loo

I have never before felt this way, but I am ashamed of our country. I am ashamed to be part of this. Greed and selfishness everywhere.

My arguments have been in Iceland. The cashiers were still not giving anyone space and shoving shopping to the end, so they could serve the next person. I got told that it was 'stuff and nonsense' by a cashier who was at least late 50's, if not 60's.

They'd decided to open two adjacent tills and have the outer one's left empty.