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Eid celebrations

163 replies

Alex50 · 31/07/2020 14:06

I’ve just driven down a road where the local community are celebrating Eid, going into each other’s houses, one terraced house looked like it had 50 people in. My couldn’t how many they could fit in a small area. Are people mumsnet celebrating Eid at the moment?

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Rudolphian · 31/07/2020 14:20

Yup.

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Alex50 · 31/07/2020 14:54

Are you having big family gatherings?

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Redolent · 31/07/2020 14:57

Personally, we’ve stayed at home today. Tomorrow me and DD will see my mum in a park for a few hours, then head home.

My in-laws had their traditional inter generational Eid gathering today: 3 households / 15 people in a small terraced house. No social distancing. Everyone on their street is doing the same.

Hippofrog · 31/07/2020 15:00

I think the gov should have given more than 3 hours notice (I don’t believe they didn’t know that rates were increasing) Can you imagine if they stopped all gathering on Xmas day at 9.30pm Christmas Eve?

Rudolphian · 31/07/2020 15:06

We were gonna meet at my mums. Now gonna meet at my sisters instead. She's got a huge garden about the same size as the local park, everyone bringing some food.

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Alex50 · 31/07/2020 15:06

To be honest we won’t be having people round at Christmas, is it still supposed to be only 6 people to meet up?

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cheshirechav · 31/07/2020 15:06

I've just come back from a local (ish) beauty spot and there were at least three big families celebrating Eid in the sunshine, when I say big, I mean BIG!! 30 ish in each party .... no social distancing but they were outside so little risk. I was quite jealous of their sense of 'family'

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Alex50 · 31/07/2020 15:06

Are you not worried about catching Covid?

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BKCRMP · 31/07/2020 15:09

Realistically if you were told to cancel Christmas.. would you?

FrameByFrame · 31/07/2020 15:12

You must have been driving very slowly (and have X-ray vision) if you were able to see 50 people inside a terraced house!

cheshirechav · 31/07/2020 15:15

@Alex50

Are you not worried about catching Covid?

Me??

No, it was a big river and we were never closer than 3m or so

minimagician · 31/07/2020 15:16

@Hippofrog

I think the gov should have given more than 3 hours notice (I don’t believe they didn’t know that rates were increasing) Can you imagine if they stopped all gathering on Xmas day at 9.30pm Christmas Eve?

This.

It's not about choosing in July not to have visitors at Christmas. It's being told at 9.30pm in Christmas Eve, when food shopping is done, meals planned and in some cases cooked etc that sorry, Christmas is off.

Eid IS about family. Maybe more so than it is for many who celebrate Christmas, religiously or culturally.

I don't blame people for going ahead with celebrations. Especially outdoor ones. It's not like the beaches and train stations are empty.

scaevola · 31/07/2020 15:21

Realistically if you were told to cancel Christmas.. would you?

China cancelled Chinese New Year.

Nobody wants Christmas cancelled completely, but if we want to minimise the chances of big impact, then the best way is to follow the advice now and onwards

BKCRMP · 31/07/2020 15:24

@scaevola So you think eid should be sacrificed with 3 hours notice to ensure Christmas isn't too disrupted? What the government have done is literally the same as said by PP and cancelling Christmas 9pm Christmas eve.

frazzledasarock · 31/07/2020 15:29

@scaevola

Realistically if you were told to cancel Christmas.. would you?

China cancelled Chinese New Year.

Nobody wants Christmas cancelled completely, but if we want to minimise the chances of big impact, then the best way is to follow the advice now and onwards

Did China cancel new year celebrations lay on New Year’s Eve?

We’ve wished eachother happy Eid over WhatsApp and text. We’re staying home and it’s just us.
Same for my friends and relatives.

I can understand the families who are celebrating together however. This should have been headed off months ago.

I really hope we don’t have stringent lockdown at Christmas. My mother in law will be utterly devastated.

There needs to be proper clear guidelines and a plan in place for the year ahead. Festivals and celebrations are not a shock neither is the need for people to see eachother. I’m hearing more and more of my friends and family admitting to feeling depressed and unable to continue.

Rudolphian · 31/07/2020 15:30

@Alex50

Are you not worried about catching Covid?
To be honest, when I'm at work im in closer proximity with multiple people. Most of these people I work with I have no idea what they are doing in their spare time, whether they are out in huge crowds or staying at home. I dont have a choice about going to work. With my family, I know my siblings coming and goings. Two are teachers so at home pretty much all the time at present. Another lives with in a multigenerational household with my mum. They are at home and not really going anywhere unless essential, to keep my mum safe. But they have 3 kids. Two in secondary school and another in primary. So come September we are still in a difficult situation its not really possible to keep 3 kids at home from school to keep a vulnerable adult safe. Apart from my mum who will be very carefully socially distancing everyone else is facing higher risks just from going to work than a socially distanced gathering outdoors.
Chloemol · 31/07/2020 15:31

Let’s put some perspective on this, it’s not all eid celebrations is it, only those in the north of England where local lockdowns are happening

Perhaps they need to look at why rates are so high in those areas? Lots of reports of large gatherings, ignoring previous rules. If that is the case then sorry they only have themselves to blame

Elsewhere eid celebrations are continuing, one hopes in line with guidelines but I am not holding my breath

Uhoh2020 · 31/07/2020 15:31

Realistically if you were told to cancel Christmas......would you?

Easter got cancelled . Passover got cancelled. Christmas will likely get cancelled the rate we are going.
However it was unfair to effectively cancel Eid the night before, especially when some areas that have had restrictions put in place have been talked about for a while beforehand, the suggestion of such lockdown coming in could have saved a lot of families preparing for it an possibly made alternative arrangements or at least had a back up plan in place.

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Alex50 · 31/07/2020 15:32

There should be social distancing in place at work?

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cheekaa · 31/07/2020 15:36

Being an Indian , we have Rakhi celebrations on next Monday. But we have decided this year to give it a miss . So I will be celebrating it with one of my brothers who is in my bubble.

Newbiehere123 · 31/07/2020 15:37

I celebrate Eid and despite not living in the area where there is a restriction, we still decided as a family to just FaceTime family and friends. To be honest it's a very hot day anyway and the last thing I would want is to go to a relatives house where there is other visitors coming and going and sit in a small house. We've decided to do a bbq instead and DH has inflated the pool for DS and we are just going to enjoy the day as a family.

Also, we are in the middle of the summer with the hottest weather, if there is still local lockdowns/restrictions being implemented right now, I would suggest EVERYONE should forget about Xmas this year in the middle of the winter and not hold any hopes to have a normal one.

randomer · 31/07/2020 15:39

Please, with respect can somebody tell me is this Eid on an equal footing to the one after Ramadan?

randomer · 31/07/2020 15:40

btw, yes I would cancel Christmas because I can't bloody stand it.

scaevola · 31/07/2020 15:42

[quote BKCRMP]@scaevola So you think eid should be sacrificed with 3 hours notice to ensure Christmas isn't too disrupted? What the government have done is literally the same as said by PP and cancelling Christmas 9pm Christmas eve.[/quote]
No, I didn't say that at all.

And a subsequent poster has listed some of the other major celebrations that have been sharply curtailed. Many groups have been all in this together.

The national restrictions are the ones I meant.

Though I suppose by posting support for them (even with my greatest sympathy to this evening about to wed), I'll call down the wrath of the 'anti-dementors'

Sirzy · 31/07/2020 15:45

So in the time it took you to drive down one street you where able to see that everyone was going in and out of each other’s houses AND count how many people where in the houses. Clever skills!