Is lockdown over?

[DanaScully53]

Thought I must have missed an announcement. House down the road had 8 visitors yesterday, another has got 3 today and they're only the ones I've seen.

It’s not over, but it’s the start of a massive festival for a lot of people, which given some of the responses on mumsnet to how few people will comply with restrictions if they’re in place over Christmas, might influence things

Folk shouldn’t have lots of visitors and it is everyone’s business if they do because infections are easily spread in the home environment

You stay in then. Let the rest of us make our own judgement calls, like we have our whole lives, with every other illness and virus and risk.

Get a life

We all know people who are following the rules, those who bend them and those who ignore them. Getting your knickers in a fankle by what others do is pointless. Counting them is on another level of pointlessness.

@RegularHumanBartender

Folk shouldn’t have lots of visitors and it is everyone’s business if they do because infections are easily spread in the home environment

You stay in then. Let the rest of us make our own judgement calls, like we have our whole lives, with every other illness and virus and risk.

Now now, don't start making sense, people might accidentally start thinking for themselves instead of blindly following the rules govt makes but doesn't follow themselves...

OP is right. Folk shouldn’t have lots of visitors and it is everyone’s business if they do because infections are easily spread in the home environment.

How is standing by your net curtains while making outraged posts on MN going to influence other people's behaviour?

You stay in then. Let the rest of us make our own judgement calls, like we have our whole lives, with every other illness and virus and risk.

I'd love to, but unfortunately I'm a nurse so can't and have to deal with the increase in Covid cases. I'm in the SW and cases are lower than other areas of the UK and we still have over 100 Covid patients in our DGH, one community hospital closed due to Covid abs notifications that residents in care homes are testing positive daily.

The rest of you making these judgement calls will lead to the NHS getting overwhelmed and then everyone will be once again complaining they can't access treatment for other illnesses.

It is strange how everybody who supports lockdown and the policing of other people's behaviour is always a nurse, or a "key worker", or "front line".

Doesn't mean the OP is curtain twitching! I sit facing a window for 8hrs a day, I can see everything that's going on

'OP, report them.'

😂😂

Actually, I'm not a key worker. I have and will continue to follow lockdown rules but I'm just sick of people asking silly questions.
No it is not over. As you very well know. Some people aren't following the rules, as you've seen. Lots more people are following the rules.

We don't need 100% of people following the rules, we never did. Obviously the more people that follow them the better but I'm not going to stress about Doris having Hilda round for a cup of tea.

@IcedPurple

OP is right. Folk shouldn’t have lots of visitors and it is everyone’s business if they do because infections are easily spread in the home environment.

How is standing by your net curtains while making outraged posts on MN going to influence other people's behaviour?

This

I don’t disagree at all that people shouldn’t have lots of visitors etc

OP is right. Folk shouldn’t have lots of visitors and it is everyone’s business if they do because infections are easily spread in the home environment.

And posting a pass-agg thread about it on MN will have precisely what effect on the OP's rule-breaking neighbours?

And i agree with shitfuck

Its like when posters say ‘am i the only one obeying the rules’

Of course you’re not 😒

@NerrSnerr it seems that a great many cases are being caught in hospitals and care homes, in fact in the SW that appears to account for the greatest percentage. Perhaps the government should be looking at why that is, (and doing something about it) rather than keeping families apart.

Sadly op this thread shows that most people are ‘over it’.
You can only control what your doing but agree it’s frustrating when you see so many with complete disregard. Even more so if your working in the nhs / emergency services or schools right now who can see first hand the effects of community transmission.

@RufustheSniggeringReindeer

And i agree with shitfuck

Its like when posters say ‘am i the only one obeying the rules’

Of course you’re not 😒

It's like all those 'Is it just me or has everyone forgotten the roolz? In my town today nobody was wearing masks, the shops were full, gangs of teens were loitering and drinking cider etc"

Thing is, unless they too were out and contributing to those rool breaking crowds, how would they know all this?

Exactly iced

I can't believe.how many stupid responses there are on here. I would be annoyed as well Op. We are meant to be following the rules. Having 8 visitors right now is ridiculous. Do most people think it's fine not to follow the rules? I would be able to see if some of my neighbours are having visitors without.curtain twitching - doesn't mean you.have to go out your way to catch people breaking rules.

I despair of what this country has become.

These threads are so boring.

I want people to follow the rules too but what is the point in posting the same threads on Mumsnet every day? What will it achieve?

It's not over, but I think people are fed up and don't think it's working so they're just ignoring the rules now.

It's a shame because I think it'll just make it drag on longer for those who do follow them.

@DanaScully53

Thought I must have missed an announcement. House down the road had 8 visitors yesterday, another has got 3 today and they're only the ones I've seen.

Yes, clearly it's over. It's a UK wide conspiracy to keep you in the house until Christmas. Everyone knows about it, even Mulder......

If you're that bothered report them, stop making passive aggressive threads about it that will achieve nothing.

You are right op, ignore the arseholes, they frequent most threads these days.