I’m part of a Facebook group for the estate I live on. I never post anything, I just keep an eye on it for local news and events. Recently it has - understandably - blown up with posts about CV, and some of these have been quite nasty in tone.
Earlier today I popped out to collect a prescription and deliver it to my friend’s dad, who is elderly and self isolating (along with her mum). I live very close to them, unlike my friend, which is why I was helping out. They gave me a bottle of wine to say thanks, and I returned home carrying it.
I have just seen a post on the Facebook group from someone who lives on my street (opposite and a few houses down) saying:
people still not taking lockdown rules seriously really pisses me off. Keel seeing groups of kids playing together on the street and people popping out for total non-essentials like bloody wine
Am I being super paranoid to think this was about me? I don’t have kids so that bit is nothing to do with me but the bit about the wine feels really on the nose.
Part of me wants to comment to say maybe that person had good reason to be out, but part of me thinks the bun fight just can’t be worth it - especially if it wasn’t actually directed at me in the first place.
Anyway - it’s left a bad taste in my mouth. The village is like the bloody panopticon with the amount of spying and reporting going on.