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.

We chose not to join in but my village had loads of celebrations but the 2m rule and social distancing were all observed very well.

That's great. My street did not socially distance and had children running in and out of each others houses whilst sharing bottles of wine. Obviously people who have abided by SD are fine, but I bet a large amount of people didn't once alcohol got involved.

We had a nice time on our driveways. All walks of life, everyone observed the rules, all great.and much, much needed. So there!

How many people who fought in Europe have actually died as a result of coronavirus? I'd like to know that information. People went interested in honouring their efforts yesterday, they were interested in getting pissed. If they were interested in honouring their efforts they would have done more to keep them safe.

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

I agree OP . I kid you not, in my ex's street , they actually did a conga line down the street - about 60 odd people . Part of me thinks , ah well , natural selection , but seriously , how stupid are this government ????

I suspect there will be a spike in cases as well. Maybe this will get the message across?

There aren’t that many ve veterans left OP / it has been 75 years after all so I imagine not that many.

We had a nice time on our driveways. All walks of life, everyone observed the rules, all great.and much, much needed. So there!

So there? I'm obviously not moaning about parties like yours. That sounds great and I'm glad you had fun 😀

Agree wholeheartedly with the OP, it was a very strange set of mixed messages from the authorities. We stayed indoors - not many people were out on the street anyway, and not being British it wasn’t a struggle for me. I felt a little bad that my children who are British, weren’t involved but it would have been impossible to keep the younger ones physically distant from the children of other households who were playing outside. The government should have taken a much much firmer handle on this and told people to stay home, as we are still in lockdown and nothing has changed. Mention of street parties shocked me TBH when I first heard it.

I think it's such a shame that people have to push the limits of what's allowed. The idea was meant to be people in their own front gardens, well distanced. Which was what happened in our village, and it was a really lovely sense of community and a break from the monotony of lockdown. Then daft people pushed the limits as they have all the way through the lockdown. I suspect there will be another spike, and those hopes of lockdown lifting will get pushed further back.

Its like it was devised to test the water, as a step into coming out of lockdown without it being the government's fault.

It also lines up nicely with any restrictions being lifted on Monday, then we have a second spike in 1 month's time the gov't can say 'it was you lot on VE day'

and who can argue, yesterday we had neighbours inviting people to their gardens, all sat next to each other sharing drinks, cakes. People walking past from the next street all day, we found out later on someone had set up a cake stall at the bottom of the road. People walking back with paper plates, stopping to chat to everyone in their drives. We stayed out for 10 minutes and came straight back inside.

It’s a typical English mindset that a day be marked with copious amounts of alcohol to fuel their jingoistic celebrations.

It's using VE Day as a reason that takes the piss a bit too. I imagine many people couldn't tell you much about it beyond "VE Day, innit?".

For many it was just an excuse to break lockdown and get drunk.

I stayed in, I'm naturally a recluse and dislike people, but I watched the local FB page.
People had a street party, it got to the size and breached the distancing guidelines so.much that the police arrived in two SUVs to break it up.
Where the party was astounded me.. a small cul-de-sac and car park of an old folks care home.. all it would take is a single asymptomatic carrier and 50people and a care home could have been infected.
Stupid, selfish, dangerous... But hey the fuckers were having 'fun' so leave em be..
Nah, fuck that, they should be sent a bill to cover the costs of their inevitable care.

OMG a conga line!! I wonder if those pictures will end up on Facebooks many name and shame posts, probably not because it didnt count yesterday as we needed a good party?

@ItsAllForYou I really hope you are a troll. My lovely neighbour has been very poorly with Covid and her unborn baby will be delivered early this week due to complications from Covid 19 (babies can get Covid 19 in uterus). She caught it from her husband who is treating patients with Covid 19. People who catch Covid 19 from their own selfish actions still spread it to other and our NHS staff will also probably he exposed and infected too.

All the people who are desperate for schools to reopen will be very disappointed in 2/3 weeks when the number of new cases and deaths go sky high because of VE parties, and schools have to stay closed.

We celebrated in our back gardens in my road I know some were out the front though

Disclaimer: this is just my view.

The lockdown was only ever put in place to slow the spread of CV not to stop people getting it. It was to make sure the Nhs had enough beds for all cases. It wasn't because the government cared about each individual person, we are all probably going to get it over the next two years or until a vaccine is produced and given out to the majority of the world. People will continue to die of it everyday for the foreseeable future but in smaller numbers.
You can't police the entire population and force them to stay indoors. It's just not possible, the lockdown is based on people having basic decency and compassion for others, not everyone will have this.
Until we address the way the world farms animals we will have new viruses created again in the future. Ultimately Mother Nature is in charge, not us.

We celebrated VE day, DH is in the military. We had a picnic in our garden, decorated our windows and had a lovely day without exposing anyone. My Mum didn't get to celebrate VE day as she's recovering from Covid that she caught from her work at the hospital.
Then you have half our bloody street out hugging and singing together with kids playing without a care in the world. The same people that are out showboating with their clapping for the NHS.

I'm obviously not moaning about parties like yours

Hard to tell, OP. You seem to just be aimlessly moaning

I didn't celebrate at all - I work in a crematorium and we are working flat out around the clock to cope with the amount of deaths. If people could see how busy we are then they would think twice about partying. Not only are we busy - we can't even allow families to attend their loved ones services. It's a sad affair all round and because of yesterday I can't see it letting up at all

I am wondering what you refer to @runrunrunrunt?

The only photos online I have seen, show people sitting outside but apart.

What have you seen?

I do however know of people having parties in their gardens, walking outside in groups of more than 2 family members, and so on.

But I've not seen evidence on social media or the press.

What I did hear from the government for days and days was that people should abide by lockdown even though it was VE day.

You appear to have a different narrative?

Call me a cynic but I suspect this is a strategy of herd immunity by stealth.

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.

@stairgates
I told him to video it but he was so disgusted he just left them to it ! You couldn't make this up !!!!