At the garden centre....on home oxygen

[Clemmieandareallybigbunfight]

Went to buy plants. Lady in the queue looking frail and with husband carrying her home oxygen tank. Life is for living

I'm sure many would say she should stay at home but I applaud her.

I hope she has many happy visits to buy plants.

Oh, I'm not thinking of her in particular, I'm thinking of the many others who don't seem to understand how their selfish actions might affect others in the present situation, or how contagious this virus is, or that "herd immunity" without a vaccine is actually going to be deadly. I'm with @madcatladyforever. Also, I am more concerned about how the UK government has mishandled and is continuing to mishandle the situation and am in total agreement with the poster who said noone should be visiting garden centres anyway.
But I'm out now, being a demented dementor. I'm vulnerable, so obviously my opinion doesn't count.

I like how the dementors are now dividing people into the 'worthy sick', and those 'taking up a much needed bed'.

My dad was on oxygen before he died (of influenza, ironically caught from the man who delivered his oxygen) and there is no way on earth he would be at the garden centre in the midst of a respiratory pandemic. I think it’s reckless and it’s not just herself that she’s putting at risk is it?

You were there and you're judging?

FFS!

No-one should be visiting garden centres anyway

Me and my extremely fragile mental health are going to visit one next week and I am going to buy an extra plant just to have a bit of extra fun while I'm there, having been told I shouldn't be visiting.

It is not for you to say no one should be doing things like this. The advice that has been given that people can go to them is based on science (which says the risk of spread is very low in places like that).

So she gets Covid-19 and has to be admitted to hospital with complications due to her health issues. She’s now taking up a much needed bed

Someone on home oxygen is very unlikely to get as far as needing a hospital bed if she gets Covid. Or are you going to call her selfish for taking a crematorium slot?

@Clemmieandareallybigbunfight

**Wow.

There certainly are some miserable and selfish people around but they aren't at the garden centre on oxygen. They're right here, allowing their fear to facilitate some horrible, horrible posts.

@Sorryoo I'm sorry you had to read this. I genuinely thought she was pretty bloody magnificent and had every right to be there.

Nobody needs to tell me what it's like in a hospital, I work in one. Garden Centre lady isn't getting within twenty miles of a ventilator. But she got some sun and saw a bit of life today and that's good news**

I think you’ve got a bit of a cheek to be honest OP!!

You knew fine well that posting this would potentially cause a heated debate, so don’t act shocked that people don’t agree with you!!!

You were there and you're judging?

The op? The op was there and she wasn't judging - or at least that was the premise of the initial post that set the scene for this inflammatory thread.

Maybe she's agreed with her doctors not to go into hospital if she gets unwell, and is determined to live whatever time she has left. Maybe she is dying from lung cancer and has only weeks left anyway.

We don't know, and it's not our business.

She's allowed to be there, no one knows her circumstances or what plans she's made with regard to her health / hospital care. What would be nice if all the curtain twitcher types stopped judging others and just got on with their own business.

Good on her i say perhaps shes been inside for months and wanted to get some fresh air and new plants just because shes on oxygen doesnt mean shes not to step over her front door

What if she has been sick with covid, mostly recovered, and needs a bit of O2 at home due to other conditions?
I'm so surprised to see this reaction here, the place that taught me how important it is not to judge on appearances or make assumptions - what if they have ADS or LDs? , try walking a mile in their shoes etc.
Enjoy the sunshine all. Some of us really need it.

But where do you draw the line with this? 65% of the population is overweight or obese. Should they all be made to stay inside? Their risk of catching Covid and being in ICU is probably equal to that women. so do we ban fatties from shopping?

If other people social distance as they ought to, this woman ought to be safe.

Do you honestly think that she thought everyone is going to be of the same opinion?

I was being sarcastic.

Statistically, 6 out of every 10 posters here are overweight or fat and much more likely to need hospital care and ICU.

Those who say this woman should not be out, what are you choosing to do that is endangering other people?

People in glass houses.......

@Hunnybears Why shouldn't the OP be shocked at some of the comments on here? I frequently think intelligence, understanding and empathy have hit absolute rock bottom on here and yet people still manage to descend to new levels of fuckwittery on a regular basis. There's having a different opinion and there's spewing cruelty and venom. Some people on this thread don't realise there's a difference.

Maybe she's only got a short time left to live and wants to go out. It's easy to judge if you are not in a situation. She won't necessarily be using up resources. Some people have signed a do not resuscitate form.

People still don’t get it do they?

It’s not to protect yourself so much as to protect other, vulnerable, people.

So selfish.

@FourTeaFallOut

I was being sarcastic

So you were four. Please accept my apologies 💐

I’ve done some apologising on this ‘intentional inflammatory thread’!😂

Good for her. I work in palliative care and we want people to have as good a life as they can for as long as they can! Why should she not enjoy what she likes?

A lot of the more elderly people are behaving selfishly including my own mother.

My mother received the shielding letter but seems to think it isn't really that important.

As soon as it's possible to do so, she will be the first on the bus back to her hobby classes and getting a coffee at Waitrose. She's already getting electricians and painters round to do odd jobs and goes round to the neighbours.

I keep trying to advise her to be careful but she rolls her eyes.

I winder how it would look if someone had started a thread

At Garden Centre / B&Q/ The Range....fatties...

Don't they realise they are likely to end up in ICU, infecting a nurse with 3 kids, who dies

It would be taken down.

What's the difference?

@AnnieCartwright so what about the fat people? Overweight and obese.
Would you ban them from garden centres too?
There is no difference in greater risk and ending up in ICU.

If she wants to get plants let her get plants, if she gets covid she gets covid, she is an adult who made her own decision, everyone makes choices and sometimes bad ones, not just this pandemic in life, cross the railway line and fall, drink too much and do something we regret, life is full of risk and the unknown, she might think fuck it every other twat is out partying for VE why can’t I get some bulbs to enjoy my garden that I’m mostly sitting in for the next 2 million years until they find a vaccine or I die.