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What do people think of someone doing this

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yarncakes · 27/10/2020 19:26

Been speaking to an old colleague of mine and of course, subject turns into a corona subject. She was saying that as she doesn't have a mobile phone, she can't download the app any way and even if she could, she would never do it.

She also wouldn't get tested for covid if she had symptoms of it because it is a waste of time and just giving the government another statistic to cause more scaremongering media. She will still go and see her family and friends and nobody is going to stop her as she wants to live her life. (She's in her 60s). She's not going let the government tell her what she can and cannot do and she won't be told to stay indoors and 'self isolate'. If test and trace did manage to get hold of her which the only way is on her land line, then she would just hang up on them, etc and tell them to piss off

I can't help but feel like I wish I was like her somewhat but as a healthcare worker I have to put other people's health before my own therefore I do comply but one thing I won't ever do is download the app.

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Ellapaella · 28/10/2020 08:36

Going out with symptoms is a selfish thing to do and saying she would suggests to me she is very immature in her thinking and if she is still so childish at 60 then there's no hope for her now. I suspect the family and friends she wants to go and see wouldn't thank her for visiting them with symptoms or if she'd been told to isolate but she sounds like a person who thinks it's all about her and what she thinks/believes/wants.
It's unlikely someone like that will change their mindset.

WitsEnding · 28/10/2020 08:37

I have a relative who thinks like this but is tested regularly anyway as they are a healthcare worker. She has plenty of visitors but also plenty of ex-friends who don’t want to risk her company.

QueenStromba · 28/10/2020 08:53

@WitsEnding

I have a relative who thinks like this but is tested regularly anyway as they are a healthcare worker. She has plenty of visitors but also plenty of ex-friends who don’t want to risk her company.

That's fucking terrifying - how many vulnerable patients does she see in a day?

DameFanny · 28/10/2020 09:00

This is the year we discovered that being a moron is also infectious

thinningtheherd · 28/10/2020 09:41

I would think that she is a selfish idiot

knittingaddict · 28/10/2020 09:46

It's bravado, fear or idiocy, but you know her better than me op.

Whatever it is she is part of the problem and not part of the solution. I would be judging my judgey pants off.

Mumski45 · 28/10/2020 09:54

How selfish. What will she expect if she needs hospital treatment when the hospitals are full.

Northernsoulgirl45 · 28/10/2020 10:25

Sounds like someone I know but can't be as she has a mobile phone. However she is in constant pain and needs surgery. She has been offered it but won't have it as she is a required to have a COVID test.
She won't have one as it contains nano particles which will alter her DNA apparently. I tried to put her straight but she has just been so brainwashed.
I just feel so sorry for her dd who has to put it with this nonsense daily.

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yarncakes · 28/10/2020 11:37

No she does not live in Norfolk and she just believes that if it gets her then it gets her. There's nothing she can do it about it and she will not spend the rest of her days stuck in the house and not seeing her family or friends. I like her so I didn't disagree but at the same time I did sort of wish I had that attitude and stopped being so worried about this bloody virus.

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Ellapaella · 28/10/2020 12:34

Well that's her choice to feel like that but unfortunately lots of people are concerned about the virus and don't want to catch it, it's not all about her.
And even if a person gets a mild to moderate reaction to the virus it's enough to keep people of work for 1-2 weeks. How will your friend feel if hospitals and schools have to close down because the staff are all off sick or isolating? Infection is rife up here in the North East and I work in a hospital, we have nearly 100 members of staff off because of Covid at the moment and my kids are self isolating because staff in their school have it which means my husband and I (doctor and nurse) have to take a week off each for the next two weeks to look after them.
It's irrelevant whether someone thinks the virus isn't that bad or don't care if they get it - that's such a childish way of thinking. Your friend needs to grow up.

amicissimma · 28/10/2020 13:56

What's her age got to do with it?

Would it be OK for certain age groups? Which?

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