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Anyone feel like, “what was the fucking point?”

188 replies

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 16/05/2020 13:45

We’ve stuck to guidelines as I’m vulnerable and dh and ds are key workers. Today, on one of our usual walks, groups of people walking abreast down the middle of woodland paths (we pulled off the path), kids running down the path close behind people, joggers taking the middle of the path then coming home across a bridge about 3 metres wide (which has arrows telling you which side to walk on) a couple stood on the wrong side having a good long stare over the water. People were coming over the right side and we were waiting to go over the opposite way. In the end, dh went across the right side and asked them what they were playing at. “Well , you can get by can’t you?” Not very safely. It’s like people think the virus has just vanished because lockdowns been lifted a bit. And walking down the small Main Street home is like hopscotch.Sorry, I’ve tried to be as positive as I can, but this level of dickheadedness just makes me thing the sacrifices we’ve all made will be for naught.

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Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:22

Probably better to go out when it's quieter then. Sorry but just the words 'vulnerable ' and 'key worker are making me feel slightly queasy. Or perhaps it's the tone they are said in.

ErrolTheDragon · 16/05/2020 17:23

Sorry but just the words 'vulnerable ' and 'key worker are making me feel slightly queasy.

Maybe better stay off these threads then (using your own logic)?

ErrolTheDragon · 16/05/2020 17:28

As to going out when it's quieter, that can be hard to judge. Our nicest walk with no drive is a canal towpath, which is barely wide enough for walkers to get 2 metres apart. We tried early and late... that seems to be when runners like to be out, and while some try their best to go wide and give warning when overtaking, others don't.

So, yeah, we're not going there now, because we do have other options within a reasonable drive. But it's really not always as easy as some people are making out.

Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:29

Oh logic is it? ...ok then...

ErrolTheDragon · 16/05/2020 17:30

Sure, you seemed to be recommending avoidance to the op.so... if you feel 'queasy'... Grin (sorry, I was joking!)

FliesandPies · 16/05/2020 17:33

Otherwise the risk is R will go up and we'll be under stricter conditions again. Slow handclap, dickheads and their apologists

So many kind decent defenders of the vulnerable here, it's really touching. Hmm

The blessed R number is considered a crude and unhelpful measure by a number of scientists but it was something simple to visualise and repeat so this Govt leapt on it as usual. There won't be any return to stricter conditions as the first lockdown has shown that the NHS is able to cope even when the numbers of infected and symptomatic is high.

No one here has given a credible reason to obsess about the 2m rule and even the Gov advisers and scientists have accepted that the chances of catching it outdoors, in passing, are tiny so it's not worth getting so angry and misanthropic about.

If hating on others is your thing you will just have to find another outlet for it.

firstimemamma · 16/05/2020 17:34

@Catsmother1 I could've written your post myself, you're not alone.

Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:34

See previous page for my Smilesuggestion Re costume. .

FliesandPies · 16/05/2020 17:39

Destroyedpeople

Probably should be a MURDER HORNET costume for the fullest effect..

Noextremes2017 · 16/05/2020 17:41

The OP has been totally taken in by the Government Fear Campaign.

The virus is not going away.

We all have to live with it.

If you are not comfortable going out - stay in.

Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:41

I think we should have a competition to design it...

ErrolTheDragon · 16/05/2020 17:41

What on Earth is this thing nowadays of equating criticism of behaviours with 'hating on others'?

The80sweregreat · 16/05/2020 17:44

When you see on the news that estate agent to can come round to your house and your cleaner and all the rest no wonder people think ' what's going on?' And do what they want to do. It's the mixed messages again isn't it?

ErrolTheDragon · 16/05/2020 17:45

We all have to live with it.

Yes. And reducing transmission in whatever way we can is how we can do that.

Expecting others to stay in when very simple adjustments in behaviour would allow them to get on with their lives too isn't much to ask, is it?

Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:46

@ErrolTheDragon instead of giving random 'dickheads' a slow hand clap nd blaming them for the R rate going up (a simple notion the govt has been putting about) save your 'slow hand clap' for 'the whole shower of venal idiots that are running this shit show.

Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:48

..if your hands aren't worn out from Thursday nights that is..

ErrolTheDragon · 16/05/2020 17:51

I'm spared thursday virtue signalling performance by always being in a work Skype meeting, thanks.Grin

And as to the runners of the shit show ...two wrongs don't make a right. How about being more sensible if are leaders are crap, rather than less sensible?

ErrolTheDragon · 16/05/2020 17:54

R is a standard epidemiological concept, not something dreamed up,by the government. It's measurement may be very approximate but it's still a useful guideline to whether there's likely to be another exponential surge or a decline.

Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:54

I don't know what to think or do errol I really don't. ...Smile

FliesandPies · 16/05/2020 17:54

What on Earth is this thing nowadays of equating criticism of behaviours with 'hating on others'?

Personally, it's a thing I infer from people using a spiteful phrase like 'dickheads and their apologists'.

Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 17:55

I know it's not been dreamed up by the govt of course but it is a simple thing that they have latched onto to make it sound as though they know something...if that makes any sense.

ragged · 16/05/2020 17:59

Since I never feel like anyone didn't try to stay 2m away.. .it must be me, I must be the offender who doesn't stay 2m away.

But if we are both on the same country path - sometimes they are just too narrow to stay apart. We have to spend a microsecond

Eyewhisker · 16/05/2020 18:02

These young people are at no risk from the virus and have their lives, education and future trashed to protect those who are vulnerable. Please stop and think of the sacrifices they are making before being so judgemental. They are missing out on their formative experiences for something that has no risk to them. No university (though they pay the fees), no first dates, job prospects trashed etc

Being ordered to stay at home is no hardship to young families if you have income, but it is very unnatural for those from 15-30 who have virtually no risk from the virus.

Please have some empathy for their situation and how you would have felt to have missed your formative experiences and the sacrifice they are making for you. And next time, thank them instead of being so entitled.

FliesandPies · 16/05/2020 18:03

@Destroyedpeople

My competition entry..

Anyone feel like, “what was the fucking point?”
Destroyedpeople · 16/05/2020 18:07

Flies you are a genius. ..that is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind....Grin ..

Or perhaps something like the beaked medieval plague doctor but in neon....

Let me see what I csn come up with..