What is it with some peoples entitlement during this global pandemic?

[YellowBlueDaisy]

The cafes and restaurants are just opened. The pubs are opening and there's a huge sense of entitlement to go out and not only go out but to do so every weekend also along with foreign holidays and travelling has shown up to be high risk. For some people there is just no balance to their life and they want it all. Some people I know, unfortunately their priorities is not with their children or trying to keep safe and healthy for their childrens sake if anything else. Their priority is going out every weekend and continuing with holidays.

I'm someone who would be more than happy with a walk along a beach or staying in and working on laundry that had to be done instead of feeling entitled to go out every weekend.

Some people would argue that the only entitlement they feel is the entitlement to choose and the freedom to do what we want, which everyone deserves. I agree that if these things were banned still then people shouldn’t do them, but now they are allowed so people have the freedom to do as they please within these industries. As a parent I also feel that my priority is giving my child a fulfilling and interesting life rather than keeping her in all the time so I can catch up on laundry! We will be going on our holiday as planned if the flight is going.

Some people I know, unfortunately their priorities is not with their children or trying to keep safe and healthy for their childrens sake if anything else.

Depending on your life experiences that can be exceedingly hard. Lockdown pushed my mental health to breaking point for multiple reasons. I should care about my health because I have young children but I don't. However would you have said the same pre pandemic about everyone with children who is overweight, smokers, indulges in dangerous sports, speeds?

Some people think their kids would be better off without them. Some people think the risk to them is exceedingly small. Some people probably just don't care.

Without a travel or hospitality industry, we will have millions more unemployed.
All claiming benefits and not paying tax or VAT.

With SD, temperature checks and CV tests, pubs and travel can be safer.

Where i do agree with you is the drunken non SD behavior, personally, during this time, i'd make being drunk a crime and charge for alcohol related AE admissions.

Ooh, laundry. Always the highlight of my week. If I'm really lucky there some hoovering too.

As long as people are staying within the government guidelines, I don't think you can blame them for wanting to go out and enjoy themselves. You may be happy staying in and doing laundry but not everyone is!

You enjoy housework and are happy with that.

I hate housework, have been back at work in a public facing role for a month now and want to be able to go where I please (within reason) on my days off.

And my mental health was severely stretched during three months of furlough, so no, I'm quite happy to be entitled if it's all the same to you.

The risk compared to two months ago has significantly reduced though and you have to get back to normal life eventually!

Unless of course you want to stay in forever as there could never be a vaccine and even if there is it will only be offered to the vulnerable!

Covid is probably going to be here to stay the same as any other flu it's just getting it to a manageable level!

Even if you stay home forever you will still die eventually. 1 in 2 will get cancer in their lifetime. Whether they are miserable at home or living life. I know which I'd rather.

The government has allowed them to reopen.

If you don’t want to go out, stay home.

Doing the laundry. Dear God.

On my local beach I have a less than 0.04% of seeing anyone with Covid. As I have ever less chance of being intimate enough to exchange any virus that survive the salt and UV I’m happy to risk my safety and that of my child. It’s called ‘risk assessment’ not ‘entitlement’. We’re more likely to be killed by a rabid seagull.

You do you. I don't feel like going to the pub just because I'm generally too knackered to go out at the best of times. After more than 100 days at home, balancing childcare and working from home plus making a seemingly endless stream of meals, I'll do what I need to do to relax. Laundry can fuck off. I've done enough bloody walks in all weathers to find them enjoyable anymore. If I could go to the cinema tomorrow without my kids and sit in the dark for 2 hours and focus on something else I absolutely would.

I'm someone who would be more than happy with a walk along a beach or staying in and working on laundry that had to be done instead of feeling entitled to go out every weekend
That's great for you, please feel free to continue what you enjoy. Other people are not happy to go for a long walk and do the laundry - they want to do the things they enjoy. And as long as they're doing that legally and safely I dont really see why you have a problem with it.

My priority is with my children. I want my children to have an enjoyable life, interact with friends and family. So that's what we have been doing. Locking kids away and allowing them only to go for walks with with their household for 4+months is not "putting your kids first" IMO.

Their priority is going out every weekend and continuing with holidays. Or getting their mental health back on track. Or supporting the economy for those people without the luxury of staying home to protect their children? You can’t really support your children if you can’t feed them or put a roof over their heads, can you?

There are some people even more virtuous than you and they would think that walking along the beach is going out far too much. The sense of entitlement is with you and that everyone has to have the same priorities as you.

But they are ‘entitled’ to do it... all those things are open and are permitted under the guidance.
If you’re happy to stay in doing laundry then that’s fine, you do you. Anyone who wants to go and put money back into the economy and enjoy themselves in the process while following government guidance... well they’re perfectly ‘entitled’ to do so.

I'm someone who would be more than happy with a walk along a beach or staying in and working on laundry that had to be done instead of feeling entitled to go out every weekend.

Good for you. Wouldn't it be a funny old world if everyone thought and did exactly the same as everyone else.

Even with a family of 5 I don’t have enough laundry for it to fill a weekend.

Plus you know of course that not everyone lives near a beach?
We have walked every street around us multiple times over the past 4 months. There are only so many times you can walk the same streets with three young children before you go insane.

Can you do my laundry while I go and sit in a socially distanced beer garden? Then we’re both happy.

Well there are these things called human rights which entitle everyone to go out whenever they want to anywhere that will have them. Do you not believe in personal autonomy or something?

Yet another thread judging others for choosing to do what the government is now allowing us to do. It's getting tedious. You do whatever feels safe for you OP, and leave the rest of us to it.

Yes - I felt 'entitled' to go to the pub yesterday. I will also feel 'entitled' to take my holiday later this year if it goes ahead. Life is for living.

The hospitality industry is on its knees, it needs people to go out and spend money on food and drinks, and if they’re following the rules, why not?

In not in the U.K. and our restaurants and cafes have been open for weeks now, and we’ve eaten out several times a week, supporting local businesses, without a sense of entitlement but a sense of responsibility

You appear to have very little understanding of different individuals needs OP.

You sound like a content person, good for you. But don't expect others to feel the same. Other people aren't so lucky or have difficulties in their life which mean doing these things is a priority for their own wellbeing. Some people need greater social interaction for good quality of life.

I suffer with anxiety, I find being at home for long periods of time increases my anxiety. Therefore the stricter part of lockdown had a profoundly detrimental effect on my mental health. I don't feel the need to go to restaurants or pubs or meet in big groups but I understand that for some people that is important to having a good quality of life.

As another poster pointed out, you can't blame people for sticking to the guidelines the government has given us.

Maybe try to understand people a little better instead of making assumptions and judgements.

So if you don't really like going out, what's the problem?

Have I missed something....is this niche, secret and extremely outing hobby that some people have on here is laundry?

Fuck me.

I'll stick to sailing thanks.

You're annoyed people are doing things the government says it's OK to do because you don't want to do them. OK.