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Rant about our neighbours.

33 replies

Bigjigsaw · 12/04/2020 16:46

Our next door neighbours have had a visit every day from their son with the shopping (why it's needed every day I don't know) usually stand on the drive talking not 2m apart though, but on Friday the son turned up with his wife and child and they all went inside for nearly 2 hours. The neighbours have underlying health problems that's why they are not going to the shop.

About an hour ago an ambulance turned up and has taken the husband to hospital. I went out and shouted to the wife what's happened and guess what her Dh has a bad cough and is finding it difficult to breathe. She was complaining that she wasn't allowed to go with him to the hospital.

As my Dh has said you can't educate stupid.

OP posts:
Bouncer4me · 12/04/2020 17:17

You can’t can you 😞

ifonly4 · 12/04/2020 17:24

I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but if people don't follow the restrictions, they're more likely to get it - only problem is they might give it to someone adhering to restrictions but having to go out and work

covidnamechange · 12/04/2020 17:25

This will be my friend soon. You just can't tell some people.

bestbefore · 12/04/2020 17:25

So now their child and his family will have it...ffs

eggcream · 12/04/2020 18:15

So now their child and his family will have it...ffs

It is equally likely that their son and/or his family brought it into the house with them.

tulippa · 12/04/2020 18:17

Well they made a choice...
I'm sure they feel bad enough now.
I wonder if their family will stop visiting people now?

MrsWonderland · 12/04/2020 18:22

Your neighbour has been taken to hospital in an ambulance yet you still want to "rant" on here about him. If the visit was on Friday it's very unlikely he would have caught it then and been taken to hospital by ambulance today. Do you actually know why the son went in? Maybe the father needed help. Stop twitching your curtains and ranting on here and show some sympathy.

Mrskeats · 12/04/2020 18:31

mrswonder
Stop being ridiculous. People have been told not to visit older people. Why is this hard to understand? They are killing other people.
Curtain twitching is not the problem here.

MrsWonderland · 12/04/2020 18:35

The father has been taken to hospital in an ambulance and the OP came on here to rant. Compassion and kindness have been the biggest victims of this awful virus and I say this as someone who has just lost a beloved father in law to Coronavirus

avocadoze · 12/04/2020 18:39

Perhaps if we had a more equal society, that man, his wife and his children and grandchildren would have had a better education and would have made better choices. I don’t equate people who are disengaged with the government messages as stupid: many of them are just disadvantaged.

OhNoNoNoNotThatOne · 12/04/2020 18:45

I don’t equate people who are disengaged with the government messages as stupid: many of them are just disadvantaged.

But they arent disadvantaged, we are all exposed to the same information and you can't say they don't have access, I guess they could choose to ignore, which again doesn't make them disadvantaged, unless you would discribe willful ignorance as disadvantage?

Shadowdoor21 · 12/04/2020 18:50

Tbf for all we know the family could have been self isolating for a week (bar the garden visits) before visiting and going inside and so thought it was safe. Otherwise surely they would have stayed outside like usual.

Seems a wee but curtain twitchy to complain about people having visitors every day when these people stay outside too.

There are people doing a lot worse who dobt get sick. Luck of the draw.

MrsWonderland · 12/04/2020 18:51

I sincerely hope over the last few weeks you asked them or their son if you could do anything for them especially if they have underlying health conditions. Did you offer to help with food or get meds. Instead of assessing whether they were exactly 2m away.

NotEverythingIsBlackandwhite · 12/04/2020 18:57

Well, if your ndn's husband turns out to have contracted CV, it is unlikely he contracted it from a visit on Friday. The median incubation period is longer than that.

It isn't very nice of you to just whinge about your neighbour and not show any sympathy for your neighbour's husband being poorly enough to be admitted to hospital. If he does have CV, and is hospitalised then he is really ill.

@bestbefore
So now their child and his family will have it...ffs
Just because you come into contact with it does not necessarily mean you will contract it but I also agree with a PP that, if the neighbour's husband does have CV, then he probably contracted it from their son or his family anyway. Any or all of them could have CV and be asymptomatic, and the son could be a carrier.

user53175387 · 12/04/2020 19:02

I think I'd rather be stupid than judgemental and nasty. Why would you go online to gloat that someone's spouse has been taken to hospital in an ambulance? Just why?

InFiveMins · 12/04/2020 19:04

How about mind your own business...?!

miccymaccy · 12/04/2020 19:06

Be kind

MrsWonderland · 12/04/2020 19:08

Seriously OP your post has made me so angry. Of course she'd want to go in the ambulance with her seriously ill husband. Wouldn't you? Or maybe you're as unpleasant about your husband as you are about others. The more I think about your post the more appalled I am.

WorriedMummyNow · 12/04/2020 19:14

If the son is a carrier and has passed it on to his dad then who knows how many other people he's also been in contact with and passed it on to. If he's not being careful around his own high risk family he's certainly not going to be careful about coming into contact with anyone else! I wonder if the family will even bother isolating after this.

Fines crossed your neighbour feels better soon and his offspring learn from this.

Statistician999 · 12/04/2020 19:23

What Mrs Wonderland said. What on earth is happening to people that they feel it is appropriate to make these awful comments about others in these terrible circumstances - and then encourage the rest of the mob to pile on in judgement.

Maybe their son was visiting to check up on them every day? Caring for the vulnerable is specifically allowed for in the government guidelines.

Maybe he was worried sick about his parents because of their underlying health issues. Maybe he went into the house on Friday to check up on his father because his mother said he had breathing difficulties. You have no idea, Op.

And one thing is certain - a call to the house on Friday would not have led to his DF contracting CV and becoming so ill by today that he had to be hospitalised.

PurpleDaisies · 12/04/2020 19:25

What a lovely thread. Hmm

PurpleDaisies · 12/04/2020 19:26

You do realise this guy could die and you’re on here “ranting” about them?

coffeeandcreamer · 12/04/2020 19:56

Curtain twitching on your neighbours EVERY day then when the ambulance arrives going out to shout "whassapnin'ere then?!" to get your fix of gossip. And when she told you she couldn't go with her husband I'm sure you were all "oh Sandra love, that's so sad, oh I hope he's okay what a horrible time!"
Then you dash indoors to get on Mumsnet to complain about them. Oh, probably after texting your friends to pass on the goss.

Am I close?

toryandproud · 12/04/2020 20:00

You must feel very smug OP, well done on your shaming

FourFlapjacksPlease · 12/04/2020 20:03

what a horrible post.