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No one can fix this apart from us

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 11:00

It's clear that numbers of cases are now going up rapidly. It seems likely we will copy either Spain or France but a few weeks behind. The only way to stop this is for us to change our behaviour. There is no other way.

We need to stop socialising, wear masks, wash our hands, keep our distance and not decide to break the law/do the opposite just because the govt annoys us. We don't need to wait for the govt to pass laws or tell us what to do. We already know.

No one can fix this apart from us.

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Redlocks28 · 12/09/2020 11:02

Indeed, but many people going to work and school can’t socially distance-there just isn’t room.

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 11:03

Indeed, but many people going to work and school can’t socially distance-there just isn’t room.

True, so we will need to do everything we can outside of those settings.

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KitKatastrophe · 12/09/2020 11:27

We need to stop socialising, wear masks, wash our hands, keep our distance

The vast majority of people are doing this already.

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 11:44

Soo...what's the solution? Close schools again, close restaurants again, close shops again and sit home in a hazmat suit until...when exactly?

I wonder if this is true given the number of children's parties discussed on MN.

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lljkk · 12/09/2020 11:46

ffs, they are doing all that & still having to cycle in and our of control measures everywhere else. Why are MNers so keen to find the "baddies" to blame? It's like conspiracy theory thinking. Only the virus is to blame.

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 11:52

, they are doing all that & still having to cycle in and our of control measures everywhere else. Why are MNers so keen to find the "baddies" to blame? It's like conspiracy theory thinking. Only the virus is to blame.

Who are "they" in this post?

I am not blaming anyone but only we have to power to reduce the number of deaths and we don't need the govt to tell us how anymore.

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PennyDreadfuI · 12/09/2020 11:53

@notevenat20

It's clear that numbers of cases are now going up rapidly. It seems likely we will copy either Spain or France but a few weeks behind. The only way to stop this is for us to change our behaviour. There is no other way.

We need to stop socialising, wear masks, wash our hands, keep our distance and not decide to break the law/do the opposite just because the govt annoys us. We don't need to wait for the govt to pass laws or tell us what to do. We already know.

No one can fix this apart from us.

Most people are doing that.

It was always accepted and expected that cases would rise come autumn. Short of a national lockdown there's not much more we can do than is already being done, and there is zero appetite for a second lockdown (apart from, perhaps, with a sizeable chunk of MN).

Nobody is not washing their hands because the government is annoying. And people who aren't wearing masks are probably exempt from doing so.

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 11:53

(I quoted the wrong post above. I meant to quote The vast majority of people are doing this already.)

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PennyDreadfuI · 12/09/2020 11:54

only we have to power to reduce the number of deaths

What a ridiculous statement.

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 11:55

Nobody is not washing their hands because the government is annoying. And people who aren't wearing masks are probably exempt from doing so.

The news suggests people are inviting people round to their house and MN is full of people watching they will still run their DCs birthday with more than 6 people.

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Tomatoesneedtoripen · 12/09/2020 11:55

but you could still go out every night mixing with 5 people
we need to follow Belgium

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 11:56

What a ridiculous statement.

Who else can?

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MadameBlobby · 12/09/2020 11:57

What’s the point of this preachy post?

I’m already doing all these things btw.

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notevenat20 · 12/09/2020 12:00

I’m already doing all these things btw.

It's for everyone who hasn't realised the problem or that we can fix it ourselves.

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MadameBlobby · 12/09/2020 12:01

Fair play to you if you think that people who aren’t following the rules already will change their behaviour due to this post

Redcups64 · 12/09/2020 12:17

Are you serious? You can’t me serious? Surly?

People have to go to work and school. We have no power over that....the government do though.......

TheKeatingFive · 12/09/2020 12:24

We have to accept that we could be doing all that and it will still spread. Spain has been very pro active about mask wearing and it’s still spreading like wildfire.

It’s an extremely infectious disease. Lockdown contained it, but any attempts to return to regular life will give it space to grow again. I don’t think telling us ‘we can fix this’ is particularly helpful. It’s very possible we can’t.

Softpebbles · 12/09/2020 12:31

Grrrr we have been so careful all along as we have someone vulnerable in the house. The children have gone back to school and now we have a child with a high temp and really not very well. We’ve had a covid test and are awaiting the results.

Post like yours infuriate me. The only things we are doing are supermarkets, work and school. We only see our parents. I’m not sure what else we can’t not do to stop the spread.

annabel85 · 12/09/2020 12:34

Time people stepped up now and follow the rules and use some sense.

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 12/09/2020 12:36

... and if we do all that. What’s your exit strategy OP?

If we lock down everything and spend the winter at home #makingmemories - what next?

If there’s no vaccine until 2045? How are you going to live your life?

BoggledBudgie · 12/09/2020 12:39

Nope, not stopping socialising. The virus is here to stay, death rates are small and life needs to continue. I’ll happily wear a mask, I’ll happily social distance, I’ll wash my hands til the sodding cows come home but I will not ever again go weeks without seeing another living soul. I’d rather die of Covid.

vodkaredbullgirl · 12/09/2020 12:42

I have to go to work (care home) dont socialise, no one has been in my house since Feb. Wear masks when going out, washing hands all the time.

PennyDreadfuI · 12/09/2020 12:43

@notevenat20

I’m already doing all these things btw.

It's for everyone who hasn't realised the problem or that we can fix it ourselves.

I think everyone has 'realised the problem' by now.

As for who else can fix it - those who know about things like antiviral drugs/treatments/vaccines.

Covid isn't going anywhere. Putting the onus on the public to 'fix it' is as unfair as it is ridiculous. It's a little like the government telling us we can go to pubs, hairdressers, weddings, school, university, use public transport - then blame as when the rates inevitably go up.

PennyDreadfuI · 12/09/2020 12:43

*blame us

PennyDreadfuI · 12/09/2020 12:47

@annabel85

Time people stepped up now and follow the rules and use some sense.
People have been following the rules, in the main, since March.

The schools have reopened, we're encouraged to use public transport/go to the shops/eat out (there were even discounts to do so)/get the economy going. None of this can be done without an element of risk, as the rising numbers of infection show. Infections aren't rising because people have stopped washing their hands (they haven't) or because a few people are exempt from wearing masks. It doesn't take a virologist to realise that if hundreds of people are in enclosed spaces in schools/shops/bars/trains, infections will rise.

Stop scapegoating people who are going about their lives as they've absolutely no choice but to do.