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.

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 think people should follow the rules. However, I have no control over what my neighbours do and am not aware of their circumstances. So bitching about them on MN isn't going to help anyone.

@Saladfingersscaresme

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

charming

Most of the responses aren't stupid at all. They are merely pointing out that whatever your views on the lockdown, curtain-twitching and passive aggressive attitudes are totally pointless and annoying.

I'm a total rule-follower. But when these rules are made, they are obviously designed using calculations allowing for the likely level of compliance. Expecting everybody to comply all the time is simply unrealistic, I'm afraid. Uphold the rules yourself, and be happy in the knowledge that you're in the part of the equation that brings the number of cases down. Getting your knickers in a twist about what other people are doing will do nothing but raise your blood pressure!

@Saladfingersscaresme

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

In other words, you're an asshole if you don't agree with me .

@Mother40

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.

But what's the point of wasting energy being annoyed by something you have NO CONTROL over? Starting a snitchy thread on MN complaining about your neighbours' rule breaking is just utterly pointless.

And yet here we all are debating it!

We all really need to get out more... oh no wait...

If only...

I cant get over how stupid it is for posters to think that people on this thread support breaking the rules

When actually most of us have said that rules should be obeyed

Oh and i forgot the charmer up thread who thinks that anyone who doesn’t froth at the neighbours is an ‘arsehole’

Loving some of the replies on here...made my night

I think some of these responses were to be expected but can’t be nice to be on the receiving end of.

Op, in all seriousness, how do you know exactly how many guests your neighbours have? Are you sitting watching them?

That’s the kind of thing folks don’t take well to. It’s like starting a thread saying I sit and monitor my neighbours activities.

@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.

THIS. Thank you!

Howling at some of the responses. Step away from the curtain OP.

@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.

You must be sat in the window looking. Absolutely no clue what's going on around here.

My parents are visiting me to provide care as I’m sick and pregnant. My husband is deployed. It’s perfectly legal.

I don’t know what’s happened to MN lately. There seems to have been an influx of very vocal, unpleasant posters who for whatever reason have decided that no-one should follow lockdown rules

I think you'll find an awful lot less people give a shit now. The bollocks has gone on long enough.

I'm a stickler for following the rules, but we did break them when my dad died. We had his children in, his stepchildren, the nurses, the doctor, heck, we even allowed his best friend into the house. There must have been over a dozen people a day in that house the week he died! Shoot us now. Thankfully his neighbour didn't feel the need to report it.

@backinthebox

I'm a stickler for following the rules, but we did break them when my dad died. We had his children in, his stepchildren, the nurses, the doctor, heck, we even allowed his best friend into the house. There must have been over a dozen people a day in that house the week he died! Shoot us now. Thankfully his neighbour didn't feel the need to report it.

And this is why it's best to leave it be.

Sorry for your loss

I have legally had guests in my house once since March as it seems best to minimise indoor, close contacts. Outside, the risks are very different and I have ignored some rules that do more harm than good such as banning chronically bored, understimulated children from playing in a playground.

We have to survive through this with some sanity in tact.

It’s interesting how we have went full circle

Curtain twitching on your neighbours has always been socially unacceptable behaviour , but When the pandemic first started, folks were so worried the fact people were breaking lock down was the much bigger crime. So the curtain twitching paled into insignificance and to some extent was justified due to worry.

Now we have come full circle to creeping on your neighbours is back to being socially unacceptable and breaking lockdown pales into insignificance in comparison to it.

OMG curtain twitcher much 😂😂

OP posted this thread and hasn’t returned, people just post this stuff for fun

@OgwdihwO

Is your name Karen?

Just stop it with the Karen shit please

@RegularHumanBartender

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".

It makes sense though . If I was the one having to deal with the impact of increases infections leading to hospitalisation then I would feel a bit more forceful about things .

What shinynewapple2020 says.
There's no need for nasty ageist misogyny.

I follow the rules to the letter and have throughout. However, I really can't get worked up about what my neighbours or other people are doing.

Am I the only one who noticed the username and thought ha ha, good joke. Can’t believe people are taking it so seriously!

I don’t think it’s because people don’t care anymore I think it because we now know the reality.
In March we didn’t know anything - what the risks were etc. I remember going out and buying medicine just in case and it was all so sudden. But the fact is is that many people have just not been affected medically and if they have they have recovered. People have been affected financially so people will
Now be reluctant not to go to work.

It’s not a full lockdown anyway - schools are open, select shops are open- garden centres for example there’s nothing essential
About a garden centre. We haven’t been told to only go out once a day.

This lockdown is purely so the government can say they have done something to get infection rates down after they hashed up track and trace. Covering their backs at the cost of people’s livelihoods.