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.

Agree totally.

@Ursulasunderstudy if you read my post you will see that I lost my oldest sister three weeks ago. I’m sorry to hear about your mother in law but I think your reaction is completely unnecessary.

My sister, my blood relative who was in my life every day of my life so that’s 64 years. She was there when I was born and saw me take my first breath and I was unable to hold her hand when she took her last. She was my big sister, the one who stuck up for me when I was bullied at school. The person I shared secrets with as teenagers.

My niece, a lovely and caring nurse is currently isolated on her own In her little flat with coronavirus and we’ve had to set up a camera monitor attached to my phone in case she deteriorate and can’t get to the phone.

And yes, we did enjoy our ‘fucking party’ although I’d love you to explain how ‘pissed’ we got on homemade dandelion and burdock?

Our neighbour Harry who is 99 years old and fought in Burma during the war - I suggest you have a read about how dreadful it was for those poor devils - was guest of honour at our street party and he bloody well deserved it. As someone else has pointed out to you, this 75th anniversary was special. It will be the last VE Day some of these veterans will see. A lot of them have lost everything else, must you really take this away from them as well?

Lots of us all struggling with personal grief and sadness but that doesn’t give you an excuse for such bitterness.

Yes the police will have been inundated with calls but many of them will have been people who were socially distancing. Someone called the police on us because we had gone into our neighbour’s garden with our kids, but she looks after them whilst we are at work as key workers. The police said we were being very responsible and that too many people had turned into curtain twitchers, which was making their life difficult as too many people were trying to do the police’s jobs for them and making judgements about people when they are not aware of their circumstances. We got slated on social media, photos of our kids posted into a wattsapp group, and I received a number of angry messages on messenger. It was all very intimidating. The people that were complaining about us, have since posted photos of their own VE Day street parties, including with the neighbour who looks after our kids. She said they were getting less socially distant as the evening wore on. So yes, people need to call the police, but on genuine cases like that, and not for carers etc!

@Olivia517809 - well said! Your street sounds much like ours. No morons here either. 👏👏

They did the same for mothers' day - allowing the press to show all the people flouting the rules at the same time. Out own gvt want us dead and blamed.

@telvg - I love your ‘curtain twitchers’ description! It reminds me when my husband was a police dog handler and someone reported him for having a German Shepherd ‘out of control’ - it was his trained working police dog! The lads at the station had a good laugh about it.

It's typical, highest death rate in Europe. Ra Ra let's have a party.
What a load of bollocks.
And the clapping for NHS. I can't bring myself to do it, first of all the majority of the NHS staff just want PPE equipment not people clapping. It makes me feel embarrassed to live in this country

Can't believe some of the comments on here. I'm sure my Grandfather and Grandmother didn't fight in WW2 in order for people to just throw themselves to the invisable enemy of today. I totally respect what my Grandparents went through, we stayed in and celebrated safely as a family.

How selfish that people are going to their friends house to "enjoy the garden" when some of us are taking this seriously and not seeing our elderly relatives even though we want to!

Someone stopped me to tell me I shouldn't wear a mask a few weeks ago and it was all conspiracy. I didn't even comment, quite frankly I just felt sorry for the man.

If you had a party yesterday and can honestly say that you were able to stay 2m apart - good for you. We saw two street parties when walking our dog and they definitely were not 2m apart as drinks flowed and music played.

Sometimes we need to actually stop, listen and learn from others' mistakes. For goodness sake, people are still dying in high numbers. If you can't commit to walking around a shop safely retaining a 2m distance, then just stay in for goodness sake, and stop people like Bugbabe1970 from making such a decision just because she/he is "fed up of going to work and observing people not respecting the rules." This sort of attitude does NOT reflect what the English, French, Soviet Union USA and Chinese soldiers fought for in WW2. It wasn't a case of, "Well if they can't be bothered, why should I?" Coronavirus is the new invisible enemy of today and some people may not care but if anyone really has any real respect for the History of England and what our country stands for, please think about others' not just yourself. Just because some people don't think Coronavirus isn't serious doesn't mean we all feel that way.

This virus needs people to work together so that our soldiers of today, our Keyworkers, have a fighting chance to help and clearly some, for example (Bugbabe1970,) are already throwing in the towel and quitting because of lack of consideration he/she has witnessed from others. Maybe the teamwork foundations we once had 75 years ago need to be reaffirmed.

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We had a street party - 20 houses on our street. we are fortunate that we have a singer/guitarist and he did a little sing for us all. 18 houses sat on their drive and behaved to the letter of the law. Two fucking idiot houses invited mates over, got shit faced and ruined it for the rest of us, one of the guests to one of the houses then went on facebook inviting the rest of the village ' oh you should have come' Now we can't have any parties again because of risk of the whole bloody villlage being invited. Thank good one of the tw*ats is moving soon

I am disgusted by those who ignored the lockdown restrictions on the V. E Day Celebrations. This is such selfish behaviour, and the irresponsible idiot who says they had a great time needs to take a long look at himself. He and others like him are putting people like me at massive risk of catching this deadly virus as I am working on the front line delivering food to those most in need including low income families care homes, hostels, women's refuges etc. How would you feel if you passed this on to a child for example? Unbelievable.
I also find it shameful and disgusting of the morons who are saying that V. E Day is a waste of time. This is a celebration to celebrate our victory in Europe, the end of the second world war where thousands of people died to give morons like you your freedom. How can you not understand how important that is and it is honouring those who gave their lives in a way. We could've celebrated it in a much better way as people are basically not giving a damn who they transmit or carry this virus and many more will die because of them. Selfish wastes of space. You can't change stupid.

Get a grip how many people died for you to gripe - so long as people kept there distance from each other why can’t they celebrate and remember those who died

Got to agree, thought was just me being anti social and grumpy! 2 huge "dos" near me. at 10.30pm in dark one group playing footie on field across road in dark using torches, im talking 15-20 familiys, no way can tell me that was social distancing!

Stop fussing about others.

This sort of whining is what GRANS net is for ... Keep off the grass, stop bouncing that ball on the kirb, don't use chalk to draw on the pavement.
YYYAAAWWWNNN

so a few people got out n celebrated. Yes I know what's going on, but come on. As bad as 30k deaths are, they expected 500,000 plus deaths in this time.

We know several thousand should be removed from the total to allow for the usual deaths at this time... They finally admitted that half the care home deaths would've happened anyways.

Don't get me wrong, any death is sad, and devastating for the family involved.

The numbers are going DOWN, we managed NOT to overwhelm the NHS, the total is approx 10% of what they thought.

Celebrate and enjoy, next week it's gonna snow, and conditions eased.

Two weeks ago approximately 25,000 people managed to catch the virus as about 250 died today. Two weeks and one day ago over 30,000 people managed to catch the virus as yesterday over 300 people died. That’s based on a 1% death rate. If the death rate is lower it means more people were infected. That’s hardly contained. Testing outside or hospitals has only just begun. Testing and contact tracing is the only thing recommended by scientists to get the virus under control. Numbers may be going down and sound low compared to the peak, but the level of testing and contact tracking needed in absolute numbers is not possible. We are in no position to track the contacts of 25,000 new cases a day. Getting people together across the UK outside houses during lockdown for a street party is just daft. I totally agree.

We had a VE Day party - every family sat on their own drive, which are at least 20 feet apart!

The neighbours know, who are vulnerable among us. DH and DD are vulnerable; the only time they go out is in the countryside.

Last Thursday, we went for a walk on a public footpath in the countryside. DD felt ill and sat down on the grass. A family of 2 parents with 2 young children walked past us, within 2 feet of us - when they had an empty five acre field to walk across? We find this every time we go for a walk, through the country on our doorstep - usually it’s cyclists or joggers coming up behind us, and passing us within inches!

I hear ya.
But curtain twitchers are adding nothing useful to the situation. The police can’t monitor 65 million people.
People who catch the virus because of attending parties have to take responsibility for their actions. Numpties that they are.
It is the people they may unknowingly infect and cause harm to who will pay the price.
Unfortunately, all you can do is look after you and yours.
But numpties beware, people will remember how you acted during the pandemic.

If these people do get covid they would be the first wanting nhs treatment. Absolutely infuriating

I totally agree, except it would be better for the govt to express this clearly........transparency and all that.

I’ll stand on my fathers grave and tell him he was silly to give his youth to fight and end Nazi tyranny shall I - because 75 years later you think it was ‘silly’

I think people were having parties because the weather was nice and it was the bank holiday weekend. I don't think it had anything to do with VE day whatsoever. I could hear our neighbours having a party next door and they definitely weren't commemorating the end of the war!

Well nobody has taken any notice of any of the lockdown round here in London. Waste of time because the dense don't listen!! I'm proud that we still wanted to celebrate VE Day and glad that we did!!! We've got nothing else but nonsense to celebrate at the moment. Parks full up with barbecues, picnics, bikers out in crowds, what's the difference!!

Runrunrunrunt.....I think you need to be quiet now..you have insulted the prime minister and the majority of the british people .

How can anyone be happy right now with so many deaths and grieving families , it beggars belief . Most people just wanted to get pissed never mind about VE day. It made me sick , when I cross the road to avoid someone out of respect for them , and safety for myself, and yet people were partying . And you cannot socially isolate when you are drunk. Makes me wonder what's in these peoples heads.

a few houses in my street had the ve celebrations yesterday, most of us kept a respectful distance, so whats the problem , i know this virus is so bad and so many people have died but , surely, just for one day we can have a little bit of fun, my husband and i , like a lot of people have been at home for six weeks , this celebration was just a little chance to see and speak to neighbours . also i am a staunch royalist so seeing the flags flying did, for a time. cheer me up , now we get back to the new norm

All over now anyway.