Shocked at people blatantly ignoring rule of 6!

[chestergirl39]

I knew it would happen, but it has still shocked me, especially the types of people who are doing it! (Eg not always younger ones). Someone at work, who has only just returned from shielding has flouted it 3 times already. She has bad chest and heart problems, so I’d have thought she’d be more careful. It’s hard not to feel cross about it, especially when you’re keeping to the rules yourself, mainly to protect people like them!

Not shocking. People are fed up. I'm complying but I completely understand why people aren't.

Criminals. It's up to the police and the authorities to enforce the law.

Not shocking at all. People are over it now...

But it's also hard to stick to it when the people telling us what we can and can't do can't stick to their own rules..

I don't get why it's shocking

It doesn't shock me. The rules are random. They change all the time and don't apply to old money (hence the meme that 7 children feeding ducks are breaking the law but 30 men shooting ducks aren't.)

6 people means two families can't meet. Students in Halls can't meet anyone outside their own flat. There's no proof of the effectiveness of this kind of random and partial lockdown, if those same people can use public transport, go to school, join in sports sessions, eat in cafes, drink in pubs. It's random, ill-thought through and yet the effects of it are causing stress and isolation.

If it actually worked as a system of stopping the spread, there'd be grounds for it. There aren't.

If it actually worked as a system of stopping the spread, there'd be grounds for it. There aren't.
Well, as the law only came in on Monday, and so many are flouting it, there isn't going to be a chance to prove or disprove whether it stops the spread.

Considering that my sister's 6 grandchildren can all go to the same childminder after school but can't go to my sister's it's a bit of a nonsense rule. She jokingly suggested that she should dress one up as a grouse and give the others water pistols to "hunt" with, or charging her grandchildren's parents a nominal fee for coffee and calling herself a barista. People aren't going to follow the rules if those rules don't make sense.

Well it's hardly shocking when the rules are so contradictory.

There's also the fact that they are sensationalising unfection rates (i.e. yes, rates are going up because more people are being tested). The death rate continues to decline. It's all aload of BS.

@onewish05

But it's also hard to stick to it when the people telling us what we can and can't do can't stick to their own rules..

This with bells on it.

The gov has no apparent strategy to deal with Covid so is putting the onus on on the population to follow changing, nonsense rules. I’m not shocked that people aren’t sticking to them. The blame for further spread and suffering (health and economic) will be neatly placed on the rule breakers.

It's a maximum of 5 in Belgium and their upward trajectory came down pretty quickly

www.info-coronavirus.be/en/faq/

Yet it’s okay to sit in a class of 30 or go to work in an office with a hundred people.

The grouse shooting is a sporting exception. Whether or not you agree with shooting, or agree it's a sport (I don't, on either point) is irrelevant, it will be following guidelines.

On Tuesday you would have seen me out in a group of 12 runners. We were not blatantly ignoring the law, we were working within it, because we were following the guidelines of our governing body. I also went swimming on Monday and there were more than 6 people in the pool.

Shooting ducks comes within an exception, feeding them doesn't. Whether you agree with that doesn't matter, it's not hard to accept that some activities fall within exemptions and others don't.

Someone on a thread a while back described it as a budget.

If you have £100 you have enough money to take the children to the cinema or you have enough money to take them out for tea but not both.

The country has enough budget (socialising) to have children in school or to have socialising in private homes but not both.

Which would you prefer?
I have no small children but I'm quite happy to restrict my social contact so the schools can stay open.

Bring back the gallows.

I just heard 7 mn school children breaking the law as they met indoors in their classrooms. Luckily Covid couldn't touch them inside schools.

Yet it’s okay to sit in a class of 30 or go to work in an office with a hundred people

And it should also not be difficult to understand that when you are seeking to strike a balance between competing priorities, education and keeping the economy going outweighs parties of over 6 people.

Going to school is important. Working is important (though not sure you need to be in an office if you can work from home effectively and I disagree with the government on that). Having a party is not and you can still socialise with up to 5 people.

Not shocking at all, infact I've broken the rules already.
People are sick to death off it, it makes absolutely no sense, I can go to work and mix with 40 people, I can go to the pub but I can't meet more than 6 members of my own friends or family.
Not happening anymore, I refuse to miss out on seeing my loved ones again

Yawn.

I wonder what all the curtain twitchers are going to do when all this is over? They'll be at a loss.

I don’t believe it’s safe to mingle in offices or classrooms or restaurants.

Hence why we had a lockdown.

They can’t have it both ways. It’s either safe or it’s not.

We got told we can't socialise at all with other households today and we have to leave the pub by 10pm.

Totally clear cut instructions

I'm impressed with anyone that has managed to break the rule three times in four days.

But, unless she's arranging mass raves, I can't get in a fuss about it.

The law came in Monday, it's only Thursday and colleague has flaunted it 3 times????

The trouble is that we have a government whose members have been blithely announcing to the world that it's absolutely fine to break the law in a limited and specific way, or in a way that you can fudge. So it's not surprising if people follow their lead.