Risk from playgrounds

[OllietheOwl]

What do you think? Will Boris announce the closure of playgrounds tomorrow? As mum to a 3 year old, I really hope not! But how much risk do you think there is when they’re quite busy? Even though I ask DD to try and keep a bit of space around her, it’s near on impossible when she’s climbing around.

@Frokelius

For nearly 9 months, except for a few weeks in the summer, where I live has been in lockdown, additional restrictions for Tier 3. Without pause.

I’ve stayed at home as much as possible. I don’t go to the supermarket. I don’t go to the shops for non essentials. I don’t drive so I’ve walked everywhere to avoid public transport. I’ve WFH. I’ve cancelled holidays. I’ve seen/ had meaningful contact with my mother, 1 friend and my grandmother. In 9 months.

Enough is enough. In the extraordinarily unlikely event lives are lost because my son goes on a fucking swing almost a year after a pandemic began, frankly that’s not my fault. It’s a failure of govt and policy that didn’t get on top of the pandemic sooner and appropriately.

And you can fuck off too.

@Sitt

Haha Frokelius go on. I know this is a pisstake but I’m sure you’ve got more

Only regulation bread and water rations, switch off WiFi and TV broadcasting, government propaganda only

There is something that feels uncomfortable about DC and families out enjoying themselves when our poor nurses and NHS staff are all rushed off their feet in ICUs

What the actual fuck?

I’m starting to really worry about people on here. The plot has been utterly lost. I know a range of doctors and nurses. Not one of them would begrudge a small child fun in a playground during this challenging year.

You sound unhinged.

DH is a nurse. I'm sure he'd definitely prefer that he came home to the DC bouncing off the walls because we stayed out the playground just because he was at work.

[quote Frokelius]@SimonJT

The vast majority of people should be able to access food deliveries online.

Personally I would support closing supermarkets for 1 month with food ration packs being delivered by the army.[/quote]
Your lack of understanding about logistics is quite apparent.

People who were shielding were waiting up to eight weeks for their first government supplied food pack, a pack that would last around three days. How many people would you personally like to die of starvation?

As you want pharmacies closed how many people would you like to die due to a lack of medication?

As you want pharmacies closed how many people would you like to die due to a lack of medication?

Ooh I don’t think it would matter.

If it’s not Covid, doesn’t count, remember?

@TheKeatingFive

As you want pharmacies closed how many people would you like to die due to a lack of medication?

Ooh I don’t think it would matter.

If it’s not Covid, doesn’t count, remember?

This is it, people genuinely have lost all sense of reality, and Covid really has addled the brains of certain people. I don't understand it at all, very odd.

[quote Frokelius]@AnaisNun

The priority now has to be saving lives and protecting the NHS.

As part of that, we should all be staying at home at all times unless we are key workers.

Leaving home to visit a playground or park is not essential so it should not be happening.

Hopefully we'll all be in tier 5 with no one allowed to leave home except for work soon anyway [/quote]
This must be a spoof post. No one could be this oblivious in real life, surely.

[quote Frokelius]@TheKeatingFive

We've had 80,000 deaths from COVID in the U.K. 65,000 new cases today and hospitals are close to being overwhelmed.

The absolute and total focus now has to be on COVID and saving lives. [/quote]
By starving people to death 🤣

[quote Frokelius]@TheKeatingFive

We've had 80,000 deaths from COVID in the U.K. 65,000 new cases today and hospitals are close to being overwhelmed.

The absolute and total focus now has to be on COVID and saving lives. [/quote]
Keep watching the media and swallowing the spin

Bloody hell some people have lost the plot...

So far we have
Army giving out food parcels and food shops shut
Kids needs to have no fun to support our nurses and doctors
Let’s have a nationwide tier 5’lockdown!!

Crikey

@Frokelius do you think you might benefit from a chat with your GP? Your extreme reactions are quite worrying

Mental, more like.

[quote Frokelius]@FoxtrotSkarloey

Nowhere would be busy if the government would follow the science and implement a proper national lockdown enforced by the army.

No one leaves home unless a key worker- simple.[/quote]
Do you know how many people are key workers?

Anyone who cannot WFH, which is a hell of a lot of people, not just nurses and doctors

You are actually unhinged.

[quote Frokelius]@FoxtrotSkarloey

Nowhere would be busy if the government would follow the science and implement a proper national lockdown enforced by the army.

No one leaves home unless a key worker- simple.[/quote]
Now I know you are taking the piss.

Anyway back to playgrounds, they long been the resting place of all childhood germs, bugs and viruses, but have e eve in the office stopped children from using them, no.

Why?

Because children need to build an immune system.

@ReesMoggsGlasses

Anyway back to playgrounds, they long been the resting place of all childhood germs, bugs and viruses, but have e eve in the office stopped children from using them, no.

Why?

Because children need to build an immune system.

Have we ever stopped children*

In Scotland under 12s don't have to socially distance so unless the science has changed with the new strain they won't close playgrounds here.

The army handing out food parcels 😂
This government can't organise a piss up in a brewery. Half the country would starve!

@frokelius I'm just really happy you're not in the government tbh. You're batshit. Have you ever met a toddler? Or a teenager? Or another human being?

There is something that feels uncomfortable about DC and families out enjoying themselves when our poor nurses and NHS staff are all rushed off their feet in ICUs

Yeah right. Luxuriate in your pointless sanctimonious virtue-signalling.

The NHS is ALWAYS under pressure. Have you heard of flu? Car accidents? Cancer patients? Heart attacks? Mass attacks? Strokes? Suicides

Why should your dc wear a hairshirt for covid but not for anything else?

Sigh.

I actually think I am going to have step away from MN for a bit. People have gone quite mad.

I am reading all these threads and am in complete despair - this infection is for majority of people just like the common cold.

Close all the parks down - why ? Just don't take your kids if you are completely neurotic, I'll keep taking mine regardless if they close them and continue to see my family and taking my kids to the supermarket