Disgusted at VE celebrations

[runrunrunrunt]

I absolutely cannot believe what went on last night in this country.

The government should never have encouraged this nonsense and instead should have firmly nipped the idea of celebration completely in the bud.

Absent Boris should have never implied lockdown will be eased on Monday a couple of days before a fucking sunny VE Day bank holiday when we still have 5,000 plus new cases every day.

It isn't rocket science.

I am absolutely appalled.

I've just seen a shared post from a nurse in Wales who works in A&E saying they had large numbers of piss heads through their doors last night. Way more than normal. She points out that this has put them and the staff working there at unnecessary risk.

I'm also wondering whether there'll be a spike in cases in 2 weeks. I'm sure plenty of people will have been sensible with their ve celebrations but others clearly saw it as a greenlight to get absolutely hammered.

runrunrunrunt

I can't decide if some posters on this thread are stupid or just complete selfish bastards “

Suspect probably a lethal combination of both.

If people are stupid enough to have parties and even more stupid to get so drunk they forget about social distancing then that's down to them

The trouble is that it isn't down to them, is it? They pick up the virus, they go back home and spread it to anyone there who wasn't at the party, they go out to the shops and spread it there, they cough over people they walk past if they get too close - and then they take it into hospital and put people there in danger. And lockdown has to continue for longer.

Christ, it's like an overdose of a million Victor Meldrews on here this morning.

The government wants people to contract Covid and die? Do you think the UK government is benefiting from the situation?

Imo it's like a tory wankfest. The elderly in care homes deaths - no more money. Deaths in mental health closed hospitals filled with learning disabled and autistic people - no more money. Take your autistic and disabled kids out 3 times a day if you want, here's a special letter.

All of that benefits a Tory government, or any government. The weak, the disabled and helpless cost them money. The pandemic was happening anyway, why waste the opportunity?

They can say at the end of it all that we told you to stop in. Its your own fault.

Just in my opinion of course.

We had a street party yesterday evening. We all stayed away from each other in our family units and apart from one incident when a dog got out of its lead so the owner had to come close to get it no one broke any social distancing rules.

Bramblebear92
I'm going to assume that people who think children mixing =instant death are not planning on sending their kids back to school.

Did anyone say that? Just pointing out that once my kids go to school, there's no need for any restrictions and we go back to life as normal. You are not telling me I can't have my hair done, go out for diner or meet friends when there's no social distancing for the kids.

The schools opening is a sign that we no longer have to follow any distancing, unless we actually want to. It's a free country.

Or the view by Boris that some people are expendable. The rich and wealthy will be marking the occasion by quaffing champagne in their huge gardens with duck houses and islands in the lake whereas the hoi polloi Labour voters will be celebrating with their neighbours and getting drunk on Diamond White and Aldi Prosecco.

I quaffed champagne by my duck house - however I would have far rather been celebrating with some neighbours on Aldi Prosecco - those parties looked like real fun

That 6 week old baby had underlying health issues. As sad as it is it doesn’t mean this one case which is very unusual means the country continues in lockdown.

I do think the VE celebrations should have been cancelled. Just like the recent bank holidays. People will now think a party is a party, it doesn’t matter what it is for, the message was terrible.

Yeah it’s ok really. It’s only killing the fat, black over 70s.
We NEED to get McDonalds open again.

I agree, socially distant street parties were not socially distant at all. People were openly flouting the rules, inviting their relatives from other households to join in, gathering in groups etc. No one I saw was staying in their own front gardens.
I despair..

he schools opening is a sign that we no longer have to follow any distancing, unless we actually want to. It's a free country.

Katie Hopkins dat you?

"It’s horrible for those working in the NHS, but if those who’ve been partying up close to their neighbours today get Covid now, that’s there own fault. Lockdown has allowed a majority of the country to be able to keep themselves safe if they want to. If idiots want to volunteer to get herd immunity for the rest of us, then I guess so be it."

So if I need an ICU bed but they're all full of these people (some of whom work in the NHS) "so be it"?

I do think it’s wrong if anyone had a party which didn’t observe social distancing, and I am passionate about marking VE Day. We didn’t sit out front as my daughter is 2 and cannot understand needing to stay away from people, and at 36w I can’t keep chasing after her to keep her away from people!

That said, I think some of the posts on this thread are ridiculous and some of the children might be sleeping for a long time in a few weeks was utterly unpleasant.

Covid matters, the people who contract it matter. But also: Mental health matters, cancer matters, poverty matters, vulnerable children matter, abusive homes and those who live in them matter - this lockdown is catastrophic and while I agree it is necessary, I don’t think there’s any recognition of the damage it is doing from a lot of the people on here, particularly OP who hasn’t answered @BovaryX about a realistic timeframe to keep people locked down for having regard to the harm it is causing.

I'm with you Rooster

NHS? Overwhelmed?

It's not and never has been, even during the peak. Did you read the "My hospital is empty" thread? Have you seen that the Nightingale has only treated 54 people? Let people do what they want, if you want to lock yourself down for a year you do that.

@MonkeyToesOfDoom what an utterly appalling thing to say.... and also wrong! Normal, healthy kids are no more likely to die than they would from flu.

I don't care how appalling my posts come across. Any parent putting their child at an increased risk of catching a potentially lethal disease for the sake of celebrating something that happened 75 years ago is a shit parent.
Oh and FYI.. 'Normal healthy kids' also can have underlying health issues that haven't been diagnosed and they can carry it to parents and others.

So call.me all the names you like, I welcome them, but always remember to consider the source of insults...

Let people decide from themselves. As long as you stay locked down you will be okay - just worry about yourself

Trouble is that all those selfish twats who just "worry about themselves" have the potential to spread it around infecting all the others who do actually want to protect themselves with the 2 metre rule etc.

I live 5 mins drive from the each...can see it from my house. However, in Wales I am not permitted to drive there for exercise as exercise must start and finish at my house but I am allowed to drive to the nearest garden center which is about 8 miles! Crazy!

The ‘realistic timeframe’ is crystal fucking clear. It’s when R

@Goatymcgoaty

I think this has been the case since Al and the prefects realised there was no other way.
They are going for the rope and hang approach.
''We told you to follow the rules, it isn't our fault that you didn't''

It is why Neil Ferguson got chucked under the bus.

Let people do what they want, if you want to lock yourself down for a year you do that.

What about all those who've had their cancer treatments cancelled/deferred? They may not have a year of life left without treatment, but could live for many years, if not decades, if they got the treatment they need. Cancer treatments can only get back to normal if hospitals etc are made safe and to do that, they need proper precautions for staff and patients, social distancing, etc.

One of the newspapers commented that Boris is like a 'mediocre Churchill tribute act' which rang true.

Even countries who are much further along than us don't have a properly worked out exit plans.

So I'm under fire (not a politician, epidemiologist, person with any power) for not providing an exit plan but it's okay for the government to make an arse of everything? It's okay for people to ignore social distancing and potentially burden / overwhelm the NHS and carry the virus around to vulnerable folk?

Okay then. carry on chaps do what you like a random poster on MN doesn't have an exit plan so it's all good.

Oh shut up! People have had enough! It's been 2 months. Let people decide from themselves. As long as you stay locked down you will be okay - just worry about yourself
It's not about personal safety. It's about the good of all and especially the most vulnerable and trying to protect NHS staff. Can people not see the irony of people saying they are celebrating the war time generation who had to sacrifice more than we are being asked to sacrifice (for 6 years not 2 months!) by openly flouting rules that are hard but not impossible to abide by for the good of ofhers.