I am special/exempt/don’t have to follow the lockdown rules because......

[Watermelon999]

Just waiting for all of the above to start...

What reasons will be bandied about this time? And when will people realise that the more of us that do it, the quicker it will be over?

[Watermelon999]

@MadameBlobby

And when will people realise that the more of us that do it, the quicker it will be over?

They won’t realise this, because this is simply not true!

The lockdown not the virus

[RedskyAtnight]

I have risk assessed (with relation to myself and my family only, without consideration for anyone else) and decided that what I'm going to do is perfectly fine, even if it is against the guidelines.

[MerylStropp]

Because I need to, even though I have symptoms, to travel to the other end of the country for childcare even though I have relatives who live locally.
Don't forget to go for a drive to test your eyesight while you're at it...

[SoupDragon]

I don’t think people think they are special, selfish is a better word.

No, they think they are special when they are really just selfish.

[SoupDragon]

The Dominic Cummings stuff is boring now. Mildly amusing at the time but it's been done to death.

Just wait a short while and someone new will come along though, don't worry!

[Bathroom12345]

I agree with most of what has been said. What is it about people who just HAVE to go to the supermarket with the whole family. My DS was working in a large store during the last lockdown. There were signs up stating that they would really appreciate just one shopper per family but at least 50% of people just had to do it together. It buggers up the queuing as well. If 60 people are allowed in the store at one time surely it is obvious that if you selfishly insist on going with partner/kids etc then the queue takes longer to go down.

[SoupDragon]

@RedskyAtnight

I have risk assessed (with relation to myself and my family only, without consideration for anyone else) and decided that what I'm going to do is perfectly fine, even if it is against the guidelines.

Translation : the guidelines don't apply to me.

without consideration for anyone else

Absolutely right there.

[DdraigGoch]

@islockdownoveryet

I remember seeing a post on here may have been last week on a thread about local lockdown not mixing households.
Anyway the poster was sympathising that people not seeing family and that she has family from another country visiting. She implied that they didn't quarantine because they lived in a other country seamed to think the quarantine laws were for people who lived in this country. I asked her to clarify but I didn't see if she did .
Posts like this people think they are following the rules but they aren't .
Also I know of 2 people that have tested positive even though they claim they don't go anywhere but 1 caught it off a family member in another city even though in local lockdown so shouldn't mix households. I know people do have many reasons for this but be honest .

Oh yes, I know a doctor at Royal Gwent Hospital (area locked down for more than a month now) who says that they're getting entire extended families worth of cases. Yet they claim that they have been following the rules. I think not, somehow.

[TheSeedsOfADream]

@RedskyAtnight

I have risk assessed (with relation to myself and my family only, without consideration for anyone else) and decided that what I'm going to do is perfectly fine, even if it is against the guidelines.

And there, in a nutshell, you have it.
That's what they all said last time, that's what they'll say this time.

[HugeAckmansWife]

It's not about being special or selfish, but realising that for many many people, the impact of lockdown is far far greater than for others, in numerous different ways and having some empathy for that. I also have zero patience for those who sanctimoniously announce that they are keeping the rules when the ACTUAL impact of what they were doing was worse than someone who was technically breaking them but in real terms having fewer contacts - eg "rule of 6"

• the poster who was planning on seeing about 4 different groups of 6 over Xmas and Boxing day who thought that was better than someone who would have one group of 7 or 8 including small children. As a pp said, this will not be "over quicker" if we all do things "properly". It just won't. It won't be over until there is an effective vaccine. As before, the lockdown is to slow the spread to allow hospitals to cope, to allow T&T to be fixed, if that's even possible - it will not make it go away and individual infringements of single adults are not going to be the tipping point into NHS meltdown.

[OrtamLeevz]

It's at times like this I yearn for a second home - just so I have a reason to come up with a spurious justification for being able to stay there.

[Booboobibles]

@user1471588124

Because my minimum wage, stressful and essential job pays so little i have no choice but to live in a mouldy house share with strangers, so cant even bubble with my partner of 2 years. I cant legally see anyone i know apart from outside at 2m distance and as a young person i am terrified about the future and cant see a day were i will be able to rent, let alone buy my own place. The only thing that will get me and millions of others through winter is an occasional hug from someone i know and if that makes me selfish so be it.

I think its more selfish to expect people on minimum wage essential jobs, to sacrifice not only our health and our futures, but also the bare minimum social interaction because the system means we cant afford to live in anything other then cramped, unsafe housing and so cant even form support bubbles.

Maybe actually think about what some people, who are at very low risk of dying from covid are being asked to do. Its not about wanting other people to die, its about the fact that humans are social animals and need some social interaction from people they know, even if they are young and poor.

You have as many hugs as you like.

Or we could all prove exactly how unselfish we are by following the rules to the letter and committing suicide!

As long as the op is satisfied that we’re all behaving ourselves, it doesn’t matter if those of us with depression end up in complete despair or worse.

Why don’t you find yourself some empathy op and stop stirring up trouble?

[Underhisi]

Boris let the Cummings thing be a big issue because they wanted people to 'break' lockdown at that point and get out and start spending and doing. It may come to bite them on the arse now.

[Youngatheart00]

The fact the nights are getting darker and the weather is fully miserable will mean those with gardens won’t benefit half as much as they did the first lockdown (and I was one of them).

DH and I both WFH for an 8th month in a row and getting cabin fever but knowing there are others much worse off.

My step count since Friday has been less than 500 each day and can’t seem to motivate myself to get out as it’s so gloomy. Suspect I won’t be alone.

[Bathroom12345]

It’s the mixing of people in extended families for hours on end. People who won’t listen to the government because of cultural differences or just because they have always mixed with their family and btw - we all feel ok so why not.

There will be hugs and kisses, no SD, no masks and in each other’s company for hours on end.

[TiersTiersTiers]

It's a climbing holiday and we are away from everyone else.... I'm

It's my holiday home and when I get there I will lockdown ...blah de blah de blah...

But surely 'children don't count' when meeting multiple friends for a walk...

You cannot make me chose who to have in my support bubble so I will have as many bubbles as I want because I'm special...

It's an extra special 40th birthday party so the rules don't apply because my second cousin Fred said so... anyway no-one follows the rules so why should I....

etc.... etc..... etc.....

[SeverusSnape1]

"And when will people realise that the more of us that do it, the quicker it will be over?"

By now I must have seen hundreds of posts explaining why this isn't true and yet some of you are STILL parroting this...

[TiersTiersTiers]

My favourite dipshit comment is:

'well the children are mixing at school so why should I bother to not let them mix at the weekend/evening/meeting with friends/other lame crap reason'

They are a special kind of stupid

[HitchikersGuide]

Probably have to wait longer than for the sanctimonious posts which turn any attempt at discussion into personal attacks about being 'selfish'.

[SeverusSnape1]

Because if I don't at least get to see my friends, I might commit suicide.

[SeverusSnape1]

Apologies, I forgot no one cares about suicides since only covid deaths matter now.

[FTMF30]

@Watermelon999

Just waiting for all of the above to start...

What reasons will be bandied about this time? And when will people realise that the more of us that do it, the quicker it will be over?

I think most people have realised that, in fact, is not the case.

[ramblingsonthego]

Its going to be fucking shit again but no different for us as we have no garden, in some ways it will be easier as nursery will be open so we won't have to walk and entertain a toddler.

I did say yesterday in a fit of bitterness that all the people with their gardens will actually get a taste of what it is like not being able to use the outside space like we had too if the weather stays shit. I soon got over that mood though.

[Vintagevixen]

Oh god the suck it up squad have arrived.

Can't eradicate an endemic virus.

[RedMarauder]

@SoupDragon

The Dominic Cummings stuff is boring now. Mildly amusing at the time but it's been done to death.

Just wait a short while and someone new will come along though, don't worry!

What like seeing my lover who is also married and has a few children?