Rules for the sake of rules

[Lauren1983]

Just a rant really. I know we need to try to keep each other as safe as possible but I'm getting frustrated over all the rules which are about being covid safe but don't do much in practice.

For example at the start of the first lockdown our local Tesco sent everyone around the back of the store and down to end past about 25 aisles so instead of starting our shop at the start, we did the opposite but still ended up through the same aisles anyway! Not sure that helped the old or disabled to have to walk more.

Same with arrows on the floor. I ended up going up and down aisles I had no interest in just to not deviate from the arrows and get a telling off.

At my DS's school I forgot to pick up his bike from the shed on the way in so had to walk all the way around and back to start and then around again rather than be allowed to go back 15 feet to get it. The kids are mixing all day anyway and there is no distancing at the exit point anyway. The same if you have kids in different classes. You pick up one from one class that finishes earlier, walk back to the start, get the next child and walk around again. Surely it's more dangerous to have people walking around more?

This whole Covid thing has been a jobsworths dream that’s for sure, with all the wannabe hitlers at shop door and stupid rules.

Also been a fun time for the curtain twitchers and spying on their neighbours. Most of whom have then come straight here and posted about it. 🤣

TBH as a former sufferer of OCD and therefore expert on infection control (I say this with a hint of jest) most of the rules are utterly ridiculous. Some even do more harm than good. I despair.

Like, no one cleans card machines. Ever. All those grubby fingers all over them. I mean the ones at the till and the ones outside.

Bin men, taking waste from covid positive households and they don’t even know it.

Masks, viruses can be caught through the eye. I know masks are to help prevent the spread rather than catching it. But who exactly is policing mask usage? No one.

If you give people the idea that they can and must 'stay safe' from a highly infectious virus, this is what happens - they behave like people who have lost the ability to reason or think straight. From a psychologist's point of view, the rules indicate a person who is living under torture conditions, unable to understand what's helpful and not and therefore behaving in irrational ways.

Agree,,,madness is prevailing..and some people like it! Most don't...

We have taken leave of our senses.

The word ‘safe’ has no meaning anymore.

The one-way system is so that everyone is walking single-ish file in the same direction and not coming face to face with one another. The idea is to avoid people inhaling directly the air that others exhale.

It might or might not work in practice, but I think that's the logic behind it.

Changethetoner - that is interesting and I suppose makes some sense but then when we pass the classrooms the kids are coming out from the side and people hang around facing all different directions!

I'm quite an anxious person anyway but the risk of a telling off makes me want to avoid places even more.