Not a single person following covid rules

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I kid you not, I know no one in real life that is actually adhering to COVID rules. Everyone on my social media/friends have openly celebrated Xmas yesterday despite majority of them living in tier 4 and mixing up to 8 household in one house. Everyone I know and even those I follow on social media, all got with family and celebrated like any other year. Even today everyone is mixing multiple households. I haven't seen a lot of family members as am scared catching anything and passing it on to my family. I feel like the only people following rules are those on mn!
It's got me annoyed that if everyone else is acting normal and are perfectly fine, not spreading anything then why the hell am I following the rules??? These same people didn't follow the lockdown rules either in March, they still mixed multiple households. There are elderly and vulnerable amongst them and (thankfully) no one has actually caught corona. I myself forget about the virus as I no longer watch the news, except when I go out and see everyone in masks. It's really got me thinking today

I don't know anyone who isn't following the rules and I know lots of people who have cancelled plans and quite a few who spent Xmas alone.

We're following the rules, it's just me and the dc's. Not seeing any family or friends over Xmas and new year. I've got a supermarket collection this week and a dc's doctor appontment. That's all.
I've reluctantly shut the windows because of the wind tonight. Been keeping them open for ventilation.

For the ones bending rules there are other people doing less mixing than they would normally and far less than allowed under rules, due to caution.

I will never understand how people can rampantly break rules & laws & tell everyone they know about it. OP: does everyone you know who ever took drugs or drank under age talk openly about it? Would they all tell you about their shoplifting habits & trespassing adventures?

My big revelation of 2020 is that some people know enormous amounts about the lives of their friends & family. My parents know so little about us!

@VulvaPerson there's also the fact that ppl don't disclose their vulnerability as it's private. As I said, it's all hyped up. Months ago on the news (so my DH told me as I don't watch terrestrial TV at all) there was a young lady, I think she was 21 who died from Covid - turned out she had a heart condition, but news didn't want to tell ppl that - vulnerable and elderly would be better off if young and healthy 'weakened' the virus and caught it - mild symptoms as science continously says - T-cell immunity for upto 20yrs (more in some ppl according to studies) and there are thousands of variants of Covid too - it's the TV Vulva it's always been indoctrinating.

I have stuck to the rules over Christmas and so have all my family although we were sad not to be able to be together. There will be other Christmasses. Most people I know are sticking to the rules. A few are not.

We are following the rules , saw my parents yesterday and that was it. We were moved to tier 4 from tier 2 today. No plans to see anyone else, my street is very quiet so I think many following the rules best they can. There will always be people that don’t , but I just worry about what we are doing.

@FascinatingCarrot how does it make sense that I can be in a car and hospital room with my parents but not in their house? None of us are single so we are two households but I see them all the time anyway.

@VenusTiger

So that makes ok then for a colleague of mine who has just lost her mum to covid on Christmas Day . Early 70s . No health problems.

All these people have families and sons and daughters and grandchildren.

T4 here and the majority of my circle are sticking to the rules. Disappointing but not surprising to hear that others are thinking primarily of themselves.

I've been following the rules. I live in a Tier 2 area, but it would make very little difference to me personally if we were moved into Tier 4. The only person to have been in my house since March was a guy who came to fix the boiler. Haven't been in anyone else's house either. Friends and family have been equally compliant, but neighbours not so much. Don't need to curtain-twitch to see it. It's right there in my line of vision. I let DH do the stressing over that. I can't control it. But if one of them gets Covid, it'll rage through the entire bloody estate within days.

@GrumpyHoonMain

I’m not following the rules but Boris let us know the change of plans far too late to be any use to us. My family were already enroute by then and I wasn’t about to not let them in just to appease the curtain twitchers on my street.

So, they had a 4 day journey to get to yours? The announcement was on the 19th and the original 4 days started on the 23rd.

[quote Pinkchocolate]@FascinatingCarrot how does it make sense that I can be in a car and hospital room with my parents but not in their house? None of us are single so we are two households but I see them all the time anyway.[/quote]
Pink, I have no issue at all with your needing to care for your parents. I have no issue with people needing support bubbles for mental health reasons, or because they need help with the kids, or any number of valid reasons that are about actually caring about people that really do need it. That is a reason to mix, a proper valid understandable reason to mix.

My post was clear.

@FearlessGreatExpanse

Good on them. Hopefully their hard partying will help remove them from the gene pool.

Did I misread the OP? where does it say about "hard partying"?

[quote VenusTiger]**@VulvaPerson* there's also the fact that ppl don't disclose their vulnerability as it's private. As I said, it's all hyped up. Months ago on the news (so my DH told me as I don't watch terrestrial TV at all) there was a young lady, I think she was 21 who died from Covid - turned out she had a heart condition, but news didn't want to tell ppl that - vulnerable and elderly would be better off if young and healthy 'weakened' the virus and caught it - mild symptoms as science continously says - T-cell immunity for upto 20yrs (more in some ppl according to studies) and there are thousands of variants of Covid too - it's the TV Vulva* it's always been indoctrinating.[/quote]
Yeah 'news' has been disgraceful over the past months I think.

A lot of those I know have actually used the sensationalist coverage as an excuse to rulebreak. Have seen a few arguing that if it really was as bad as they say, why would they have to manipulate figures and such to make it sound scarier.

Not a view I subscribe to (though I do think the media has been irresponsible as fuck) but I can see why that conclusion is reached also.

My next door neighbour usually spends Xmas with her sister, both live alone, this year they were cooking and eating Xmas dinner over Zoom. Meanwhile neighbours and next door but one on other side who have children have disappeared and wouldn’t be on their own have both disappeared since Xmas Eve. Tier 4 FFS.

@FearlessGreatExpanse

Good on them. Hopefully their hard partying will help remove them from the gene pool.

I agree, let's get rid of the lowest common denominator.

I don't live in the UK anymore but a lot of my family and friends do and most of them have been following the rules very carefully throughout all of this. It seems that Christmas was a turning point, as every single person I spoke to was breaking the rules. Every. Single. Person.

We followed the rules in March and are still following them as are the people we know. Each week in the supermarket I see everyone wearing masks abs trying to follow some social distancing.

MumOfPsuedoAdult

Many I know haven't stuck to the rules, but have rather 'bent' them. For example, me and DS (over 18) have spent Xmas with our support bubble - the same one we've been in since June but is now banned (Tier 4).

Support bubbles aren't banned in tier 4! If yours was allowed in June, its allowed now.

In tier 4 and cancelled Christmas plans to stay at home with no visitors

However, i don’t judge anyone breaking the rules around me and was quite tempted myself

Back in the 80s should we have told people with HIV not to bother with condoms unless they're skinny or dying of pneumonia. After all, they looked healthy

Back in the 80s there was that absolute nonsense that there was a risk of catching HIV/AIDS off a toilet seat or cutlery/crockery. I feel bloody sure that if the internet and social media had existed at that time coupled with those rumours that we would have had a lockdown.

@FascinatingCarrot you said that you were sick of hearing that the rules don’t make sense and I was explaining what I was referring to when I said that. Maybe I missed something else said. Either way we can agree that meeting friends/ relatives for a chit chat because people are bored is bullshit and unnecessary.

Pretty much everyone I know is following rules. Or if they aren't it's by staying over 1 night - not huge gatherings of 8 households etc.
My family are following rules to protect vulnerable members who should be vaccinated soon.