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notevenat20 · 29/10/2020 09:40

Can we still have the dishy gardener?

notevenat20 · 29/10/2020 09:41

There were people in wave 1 who argued that sanitary towels/tampons were non-essential so going into a shop just to purchase them was tantamount to murder.

That might have just been in a bad dream.

cologne4711 · 29/10/2020 09:42

Definitely no virus-shedding jogging.

It isn't a goady thread, since March people have delighted in saying lockdown was too lax and now saying they want another one. The OP is just playing them at their own game.

cologne4711 · 29/10/2020 09:42

@notevenat20

There were people in wave 1 who argued that sanitary towels/tampons were non-essential so going into a shop just to purchase them was tantamount to murder.

That might have just been in a bad dream.

Not sure about that, but there was a thread on here about a pharmacist who told a MNer that pregnancy tests were not essential.

Duggeehugs82 · 29/10/2020 09:43

@Rushjob

Let’s have a bit of fun. Given the hysteria from some on here. What do people see at the ultimate Mumsnet lockdown?

I’d guess everything shut apart from Hospitals, Police and Fire plus associated services.

People forcibly locked in their homes and doors/windows welded/sealed shut

Delivery of pasta once per week nothing else.

I suspect some would want all TV channels to either shut of just be relays of BBC News 24 to keep up the brainwashing and panic levels.

I find this really poor taste , in china families where forcibly shut in their apartments, window and door sealed etc .

mrshoho · 29/10/2020 09:45

Warped weirdo

herecomesthsun · 29/10/2020 09:48

We should completely lockdown the entire country. This would include hospitals and schools, including the regular staff. They are lazy shirkers who keep complaining about the need for restrictions in the case of nurses and the need for safe workplaces in the case of teachers.

So they should all be at home (without pay). After all, they don't really want their jobs because they keep complaining that things should be done differently!

Instead, we should entirely staff the hospitals and schools with people who know how to do things! Management consultants, now is your hour! Rise to the country's need!

With all the members of UKIP, Us4Them and anybody left who thought voting for Boris was a good idea. Those are the people who know what to do in a pandemic, let them lead us now....

ChelseaCat · 29/10/2020 09:52

[quote Armi]@Rushjob - that’s not a MN lockdown. There’s no way any self respecting MNetter would condone a weekly delivery of pasta. Think of the carbs![/quote]
Clearly it would just be on whole chicken per household, per week.

toxtethOgradyUSA · 29/10/2020 10:00

@doubleshotespresso

What a vile and goady thread OP you've clearly got too much time on your hands. If you've no sense at least spare a thought for those who have suffered impacts you've obviously been lucky enough to evade.

And perhaps people like you could spare a thought for people who have lost everything in this - jobs, homes, businesses, sanity! These things work both ways.

BaileysforBreakfast · 29/10/2020 10:05

Jrobhatch29 · 29/10/2020 10:07

Personally I think any of you that have been out to buy a pumpkin should be locked up. Utterly selfish

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 29/10/2020 10:11

There were people wanting that back in March, suggesting a Wuhan type weld the doors up should be happening.

There have definitely been posters on here saying that we should have been doing it more like China. I remember because I remember being like WTAF?!

TheSeedsOfADream · 29/10/2020 10:20

@cologne4711

Definitely no virus-shedding jogging.

It isn't a goady thread, since March people have delighted in saying lockdown was too lax and now saying they want another one. The OP is just playing them at their own game.

The hyperbole in the OP is offensive. There are people on MN who have had to watch their parent's funeral on a webcast. There are people here whose relatives have died of Covid. But let's have a hilarious thread about the inexistent clamours for a full lockdown. Certainly on MN we've been gaskighted since Feb by astroturfers, Covid deniers, mask refusers' and conspiracy theorists. They are the ones we should be shaming.

Heyahun · 29/10/2020 10:21

lolz yeah and everyone who is working at home to have their jobs taken away too so its fairer.

BamboozledandBefuddled · 29/10/2020 11:04

@KnightsofColumbusThatHurt

There were people wanting that back in March, suggesting a Wuhan type weld the doors up should be happening.

There have definitely been posters on here saying that we should have been doing it more like China. I remember because I remember being like WTAF?!

There were people on here a couple of weeks ago saying that the army should be brought in to patrol the streets and keep people in their homes in the event of a national lockdown circuit break. I wish those people would just bugger off to China if they think it's so wonderful.

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Rushjob · 29/10/2020 11:06

Loving some of the typical hard left replies (and I say that as a Labour voter before anyone says I’m hard right). Get offended at everything but then happy to start throwing around accusations of people being law breakers, anti maskers, conspiracy theorists.

This is my whole point in this, we need a meet in the middle approach which people seem to have forgotten it’s not all or nothing.

Double standards indeed. Don’t forget to keep spamming that report button.

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OpheliasCrayon · 29/10/2020 11:11

@Nellodee

Personally, I would lock down the entire country, apart from nurses and teachers, who would have to continue their jobs, only in a relocated posts at the furthest away point in the British isles from their original workplace.

I for one have always fancied a short break away teaching in the outer hebrides......

monkeytennis97 · 29/10/2020 11:22

@herecomesthsun

We should completely lockdown the entire country. This would include hospitals and schools, including the regular staff. They are lazy shirkers who keep complaining about the need for restrictions in the case of nurses and the need for safe workplaces in the case of teachers.

So they should all be at home (without pay). After all, they don't really want their jobs because they keep complaining that things should be done differently!

Instead, we should entirely staff the hospitals and schools with people who know how to do things! Management consultants, now is your hour! Rise to the country's need!

With all the members of UKIP, Us4Them and anybody left who thought voting for Boris was a good idea. Those are the people who know what to do in a pandemic, let them lead us now....

Sounds good to me

OpheliasCrayon · 29/10/2020 11:24

@monkeytennis97 will we be given booze? To have at home. Whilst someone else does our jobs and we don't get paid ? If that happens I would like free booze.

Original poster

Rushjob · 29/10/2020 11:32

No that’s non essential, do you want to infect people?. Water only.

WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

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OpheliasCrayon · 29/10/2020 11:34

@Rushjob

No that’s non essential, do you want to infect people?. Water only.

WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

But I'm not anywhere near the children! I'm not allowed in a school because I'm a teacher !!!! So I need booze because of the children I was thinking of until now !!!

raviolidreaming · 29/10/2020 11:38

I’d guess everything shut apart from Hospitals, Police and Fire plus associated services

But emergency response would only be for the deserving. Not for someone out buying tampons when they could have ripped up a bedsheet, or for someone who burnt their house down during non-essential frivolity.

Washing shopping will be compulsory. I am still waiting to find out if the person who said they washed it and then hung it on the line was joking or not.

Ecosse · 29/10/2020 11:40

To be frank @herecomesthsun, there are millions of people who have lost their jobs as a result of lockdown and restrictions. Many of them would happily take any job they can get their hands on in order to feed their D.C.

I have no issue with teachers and nurses asking for better working conditions. But they are not going to get much sympathy from the millions unemployed for the first time ever. Particularly the 1 in 5 (and growing) young people who cannot even get a job in Tesco. Never mind the careers they’ve studied and trained for.

IrmaFayLear · 29/10/2020 12:14

I think it would be illuminating to mine the threads of six months ago and show that there were indeed posters screaming that people were murderers for going for a walk, “lives before the economy” and I do remember those saying that loo rolls weren’t essential...

herecomesthsun · 29/10/2020 12:18

@Ecosse

To be frank *@herecomesthsun*, there are millions of people who have lost their jobs as a result of lockdown and restrictions. Many of them would happily take any job they can get their hands on in order to feed their D.C.

I have no issue with teachers and nurses asking for better working conditions. But they are not going to get much sympathy from the millions unemployed for the first time ever. Particularly the 1 in 5 (and growing) young people who cannot even get a job in Tesco. Never mind the careers they’ve studied and trained for.

I'm very sorry for anyone who has lost their job. This has affected us as well, in various ways.

But - in the humorous vein of the thread- this special lockdown plan would create a lot of opportunities. In hospitals and schools. Wouldn't it?