Grandchildren are next-door!!!

[Redwoodmaz]

I am fuming. I haven't seen my son [27] since before lockdown.
And our nextdoor neighbours have their adult children and grandchildren in their garden!!!
What don't they understand about 'Don't visit family or friends who don't live with you" ????

If the bloody football comes over the fence they're not having it back.

Do people really not understand the message ‘stay at home’?

I would not be fuming, I would think they are stupid. Your family are protecting you. You are the lucky ones

My neighbours have just welcomed 4 visitors; they are ALL coughing and have lit the BBQ!!! Just as 708 more deaths in 24hrs news broke!

My neighbours have had lots of visitors today. They have now put a sign on their door telling people who visit to wash their hands. I hope they are ok because I can’t understand having so many people visit at this scary time.

1forsorrow I think you're mixing me up with someone else, my husband isn't a doctor, and "selfish arseholes" is from me, and quite frankly tame.

I don’t get why some people still don’t get it ? Some of the posts on here ? Unbelievable.

Don’t visit family .

Stay in your own house or garden .

It’s just so selfish .

If the kids give it to the grandparents and then they need a ventilator and don’t get one these people will be the ones shouting the loudest and blaming the government for everything .mark my words .

I bet you'll get lots of people saying it's none of your business, are you the Covid police, and other comments. Brace yourself!

You will indeed!

But you know something - if someone is doing something which potentially causes risk to you, or to other people - then that MAKESit your business!

If they were dangling a baby out of a window, no-one would think you were being nosey if you rang the police, or ran outside and told them to stop.

How is spreading a virus which is potentially lethal both to individuals and the economy any less your (our) business?

They are wankers (but sadly I don't think there's much that can be done)

If they’re all two metres apart there isn’t a problem. One of the worst aspects of this horrible situation is some people’s inability to mind their own business.

Yes there is. We have been told not to mix with members of our family who don't live in the same house as us. One of the biggest problem with this horrible situation is people's lack of comprehension, deliberate or otherwise.

None of the neighbours have been isolating and I'm not sure what difference that would have made, anyway, @ToTheDoctors

I can smell BBQ fuel now...

Surely for a few weeks more, can't we all do what we've been asked? The alternative to controlling the spread of this virus doesn't bear thinking about.

To all the posters minimising this :

I am a nurse in the NHS. I am responsible for 2000 plus staff who are caring for COVID 19 patients. I am anxious for their well-being and safety. I cannot tell you how many sleepless nights I have thinking about our patients and how the amount we have lost already. We are doing everything to make sure they are not alone.

I have worked for 16 days without a day off. I am exhausted and there is no end in sight. We cannot take any leave. Yesterday to hear the deaths of members of my profession is heartbreaking.

You are clearly the type of person who confidence outstrips your actual knowledge. Usually that just makes you look like an idiot. In this case it makes you a actual liability and a threat to the safety of the people around you

Wind your necks in.

OP - thank you for being cross about this. You have every right to be.

You can be totally asymptomatic. Whatever you touch could infect someone. Right now we need it to go down. If it does not we will be in this perpetual hell for longer. We are not just saving lives, we are saving people's jobs. You know the 000s of furloughed people who need jobs to go back to so they can generate more jobs for the 1.5m unemployed people. Or, the government bails out more and it fucks the future for young people. I am not a curtain twitcher. I provide business support to frontline services.

@ToTheDoctors, you have somehow missed the very clear advice that has been given that we MUST ALL ADHERE TO. Do you need me to explain it to you, FFS? It's nothing to do with if they have been isolating or not.

@Lynda07 said "Oh stop it, Redwood. For all you know they could have been self isolating for a couple of weeks and are now clear."

Yes, that is totally true, BUT they are still making unneeded journeys which put others at risk (and are prohibited) so could still happily be spreading it about.

If I saw people breaching the regulations, I would report every single one of them for risking the lives of my DH, friends and family.

It's frustrating isn't it. I havent seen my adult children or grandchildren since before lockdown and I miss them terribly. I ache to touch them every time I see them by video. But I also want us all to stay safe. OP you can only be responsible for your own actions. Just try to get on with your life and ignore them.

And when people say they’re going to “report” what do they think is going to happen?

1forsorrow I think you're mixing me up with someone else, my husband isn't a doctor, and "selfish arseholes" is from me, and quite frankly tame. Sorry I thought you were the poster whose husband was a doctor. I still think referring to serious ill dead people as arseholes is unnecessary. Are we going into the realms of the deserving and undeserving sick?

I admit that I haven't read the full thread, but sadly you will get people who will tell you to mind your own business, stop being nosey, stop obsessing, etc. as demonstrated on a thread that I had recently stating various people who are flouting the rules. Apparently we're not allowed to express how pissed off we are about it.

If they’re all two metres apart there isn’t a problem.

They are mixing from different households - as we have been asked NOT to do.
And they are NOT 2 metres apart, in any case!

We have been told not to mix with members of our family who don't live in the same house as us and to keep two metres away from those people who don’t live in our household.

If they’re two metres apart they’re fine.

Our local drug dealer lives with his grandma. She has carers in 3x a day. And he heads off to meet customers and has mates dropping by.
That house is going to be a flashpoint.

Honestly, the amount of mumsnsetters who think the restrictions are some kind of school rules and anyone concerned about them being broken is some kind of teachers pet tell taler is worrying.

Do they really not understand the implications both in terms of spreading a virus that can be fatal for some people at a time when hospitals desperately need a flattened curve, and forcing authorities to bring in stricter and stricter restrictions.

Another 708 people dead. Stay the fuck at home, stop calling people curtain twitchers fgs, this isn't a game.

Will you feel clever if you get done for criminal damage?

Don’t be so utterly ridiculous. Like the CPS would prosecute that! Quite the funniest thing I’ve read on here today!

Can you imagine the OP’s neighbour phoning the police to say she’s deflated the kid’s ball. ‘Oh really, Madame and why were your grandchildren socialising with you?’