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

[OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow]

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.

Yeh true ...Probably a sign of aging..

I might be digressing but as a significant majority of young people have not been taught manners or how to behave in public for years it's a bit of a stretch to suddenly expect it now.

That's complete and utter rubbish.

A small minority, maybe.

No its not 'utter rubbish'. There is a whole generation that I have seen grow up because my children are in it , whose first phrase was 'you can't tell me what to you're not my mum'....and who spent their formative years strapped onto the back seat of a car like crash test dummies. Being ferried from one 'activity' to another. No idea how to behave on public transport.

To be honest, the entire country has been on lockdown to protect the vulnerable for months now, despite knowing that if they themselves got the virus it would probably cause them absolutely no harm. The majority of people are still sticking to social distancing, statistically.

The community effort that has been seen has been amazing and most people have been putting others before themselves for a prolonged period of time now. People are dying because they aren’t going to the hospital for fear of taking attention away from coronavirus patients; people are dealing with lost income; lost education quality for their children; lost human touch; people who already had anxiety, depression or felt suicidal are keeping themselves locked away to protect you. People are doing their part. But people also need to enjoy time outside and live their lives and if you are vulnerable then the person with the most responsibility to keep you safe is you.

If you know that a park you usually frequent is getting busy then don’t go there. I know it sucks, but it also sucks only going out for an hour a day to protect random strangers who I will never meet. I’m still doing it though, and I would hope that during my 60 minutes of outdoor time someone wouldn’t begrudge me stopping for a moment to admire the river.

Well said Persephone

Yeah. What persephone said.

@destroyedpeople

But as you said when I posted the link about views of disappointment from older generations to younger.
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....It is not new. Never has been.

No generation is markedly more disrespectful or having poorer manners or whatever than the previous.

When we're adults we think the following generations are more feckless/shallow/selfish/lazy/disrespectful/criminal when the stats tell us they're not that different to previous generations though the focus may be different including SM for instance.

With cognitive bias we filter.

Adults, especially when going into middle age and beyond always think their generation was better behaved as children/adolescents which is based on cognitive bias and not reality.

It's why since the dawn of time, parents say 'I wouldn't have been able to get away with that..in my day this would've happened if I said/did that...my Mum/Dad/teacher would have said .....

NoCaseToAnswer I reckon these might be the first youths to change that. There’s now a whole tribe of kids that never go out and get drunk in the park because they meet friends online. And they don’t even to get drunk because that’s what their tragic parents do. They can see the fun in weed but to many cigarettes are pointless.
There’s a whole new youth that don’t want to fight, rebel or assert themselves. They just want to get on because they see that life changes quicker now a days.

Absolutely Persephone, generally people have been incredibly generous, uncomplaining & community minded, sacrificing so much - particularly young people. It’s never enough for the corona warriors though. Still they bitch & moan.

Its not difficult. If you go out you are supposed to social distance yourself from anyone else you cone across.
The fact that you maybe think this is OTT or you don't give s shit, can't be bothered, aren't worried about Covid, the risk of catching it outside slim blah blah blah is all totally irrelevant.
We are all supposed to be practising social distancing when out of our homes.
I don't get why some people are so hateful towards others they just don't do this.

I wonder what the point was in the government paying out billions of pounds to furlough everyone - when the virus is now going to bounce back and be the same problem that it was 2 months ago.

pontypridd There have been endless explanations for lockdowns.

Do you really think every country in the world decided to have one just for the fun of it?

No I don't think it was just for fun.

I think the lockdown (and all the money poured into it by government) would have been worth it had the testing and tracing been sorted out during that time. So when we exited lockdown we knew what was happening with the virus and how to manage the exit as safely as possible.

As things stand - we have organised nothing during lockdown. There's no tracing, no proper/organised testing - this virus is going to take hold again and we'll have no idea what to do about it. That's why our lockdown (not lockdown in other countries) will have been a waste of time.