The rise in the hero complex

[PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock]

There has been a certain rise in people claiming they are or thinking they are heroes. "We are saving lives".

That basically involves an avid desire to report anyone that dares to leave the house, police everyone else, dismiss the worries and concerns of others, ridiculing, attacking,bullying and emotionally blackmailing anyone who struggles, some kind of irrational fear/hate of children and gleeful virtue signaling about how much better they are at staying home. Abusing key workers that in their eyes are not doing their job,for doing their job, following guidelines(made up or official) ,not following guidelines,in the wrong clothes etc.

There are people who are seriously struggling right now, emotionally,financially,mentally,physically etc. People that are becoming more and more vulnerable as more restrictions and public policing come in. People that have killed themselves due to the situation we are in.

They are not heroes,they are not saving lives.

The 'don't breathe outside' poster is going to have her mind blown if someone explains the concept of wind to her. I mean, by that logic someone could breathe outside and if she opens a window, a gust of wind could blow it into the house.

Personally I think anyone who is breathing every day is taking an unnecessary risk. If you end up in hospital because you were so selfish that you couldn't resist the urge to breathe, I hope you can live with yourself. In my house we're taking it in turns to breathe on alternate days. Our need to breathe doesn’t trump someone else's desire to live, you know.

Alternative days?? How selfish, why should you get to breathe at all when others can’t?? I personally have abstained from breathing for the last week!

I’m not saying I’m a hero but???

PrincessConsuela - you left hot cross buns out of the things you mustn't buy list.

My dp not only bought hot cross buns, they turned out to be chocolate caramel ones. I was worried they'd leave the toaster in a gooey mess (it's already a mess) but the chocolate didn't melt, luckily. The flavour was very similar to ones with currants in!

We also buy loads of chocolate (me) and crisps (all of us) and I've been buying packets of pains au chocolats - for some reason there are a couple of packets left when everything else on the bakery shelves has gone! Tonight there were also chocolate brioche and chocolate filled crepes (those don't appeal to me, DS1 doesn't like chocolate much (very odd!) and DS2 would probably like them but I wouldn't want to risk him wanting them regularly and dp indulging him!

It's just lucky that I don't drink and dp only rarely does now, as we couldn't afford that!

I don't believe in Charlie. That story is insane.

@elkiedee hot cross buns are a sensitive subject to me after I had to ask for my thread to be deleted!! 😂. God the level of abuse a treat can attract

Well this thread is a refreshing change i am glad to say.😀
Some threads have been glaringly stupid questions but others dont deserve the utter bile unleashed on them.
So you knew, with absolute certainty, that before you went out you would not see another soul? You know, with certainty that within the past 3 hours no one had walked that route and breathed out droplets containing the virus?

Someone actually wrote that?
The world has gone mad.

I agree with the theme on here. Far too many people being hysterically worked up about people going for walks (all alone without a chance of seeing another soul ) and taking longer than 12.5 minutes. (Hell a landed gentry type could take a 2 hr walk on thier 500 acre estate without seeing a soul but they would still be selfish bastards "because i cant do it so neither should you and you could spread it to your whole community just by being outside you fucking selfish idiot" mentality.
Buying a bar of choc with you shopping or some glue or cigarettes or anything else "not worthy". All of these will result in MURDER OF MILLIONS!!!!
Get to feck.
And the amount if shite given as "facts" by the holier than thou brigade is mindboggling!

Mn has become one big bitch fest and virtue signalling mud wallow lately. Its really quite scary how quickly people can turn on other people and be gagging to 'report them' when they think they will benefit from it, even if its only to make them feel superior.
Reminds me of something cant quite think what.. 🤔🤔

And some of the most sensible anti-hysterical posts are ironically from NHS staff saying stfu stop using me as an excuse.

@willow2017 the quote I posted is true unfortunately. It is a case of because the poster is in the advised to self isolate for 12 week category (as is my own dad btw), then everyone else is selfish for leaving the house for food/exercise. Simply because if the poster can’t then no one else should be able to

@Willow2017 good news is though that @PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock is giving away Spanish soldiers to cheer us all up 😂

Sign me up i need some distraction from wrangling 2 teens!😂😂

@willow2017 I think you need to marry an injured one though, I’m unsure 🤷‍♀️

We have a little park on our new build housing estate, you know the type. Those houses facing the park have taken to photographing anyone seen on it, or near it, and posting on fb to shame.

Just make sure you wear your best outfit @onthewaves40 😂. As long as they aren’t messing about on playground equipment enjoy it

I'm certainly not a hero. I'm lucky enough to love my job. But we have absolutely nothing to do and hardly any patients. At the minute. I was cringing during the clapping last week, as I'd spent my 12 hour shift doing very little!

What do you do @Toddlerteaplease? If you don’t want to say that’s fine. My hubby is a key worker but some days are spent on the couch waiting for something to happen, but when it does he is actually needed,

Loving this thread, my post was about the washing machine mentioned up thread. They did leave it in the garden any way as the company had to look after their staff ( fair do’s). But it was a bad week for me (stress n anxiety). Being told to leave it in the garden for 24 hrs made me laugh though as it would have got nicked or rained on. But I’m actually loving lockdown now it’s happend... don’t leave the house.....fantastic!!

We should all hail the Queen of this thread @PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock for making this happen 🍷

@Mum2threejs glad it got sorted :)

You are only allowed to shop once a week.

This can not be a mumsnet rule. I have been told several times, by different posters since a week is too much.

Cant even go to the local shop for bread and milk in between. Because no one needs bread and milk.

Although to be fair lots of people jumped to defend me yesterday. I went shopping got hair dye, hot cross buns (wanted then after pigeons thread), chocolate amongst my weekly shop. A poster was outraged, but joking. Along came people who kept having a go.

Though to be fair I could understand, people assuming f they were being serious. Given how vicious some posters are getting about people leaving their house.

I am planning on savings lives today. I might frown at people as they walk past my house. But only if they look all non essentially in their behaviour. Oh shit....no I wont. I have to do load of work...winding my team down before we are furloughed on friday.

Also theres a 'how many times have you gone shopping and did you get what you want' thread.

The competitive 'I have stated in longest is quite funny'. Especially given that the one boasting they havent left the house for weeks, have all had several deliveries in that time.

Hey! My people! I've found you!

My own personal favourite from the last few days has been: "It's not that bad. Think of the Holocaust". To a poster who was struggling and scared.

People have had a compassion bypass - which is wrong because presumably that operation was done on the NHS?

The mythical chicken now became the mythical bread that last a whole week, that not only doesn't get mouldy but doesn't get eaten either.

Ah but it does get eaten you see and then you eat the imaginary bread! Isn't that obvious???

I have firmly been put back in my place by THAT poster 😂😂

He he loved reading the new MN guidance.

The mythical bread is true. I have suspicions that the We haven't been out for weeks, we don't need to brigade are The Stockpilers.

Saw this gem yesterday; If you have to go out, do NOT speak to anyone at all. Speaking leaves droplets in the air.
#be a hero, blank everyone.

Posters who say even breathing outside is dangerous because you don't know who has been breathing there three hours ago do my head in. Incuding out in the sticks.

And everybody has to stay in for as long as they have to stay in otherwise it's murder, but they are sheltered and they need to stay in for months so no one else can go about their business.

Just how they are going to get their food deliveries we're all in remains unclear.

What happened to common sense?

The 'don't breathe outside' poster is going to have her mind blown if someone explains the concept of wind to her

The concept of wind

People like to sensationalise and like to feel valid (masssge their egos).

Agree theres alot of it everywhere bleuchhhh