If the doctor's comments in the other thread don't make you think twice about breaking COVID rules maybe this will...

[bobbiester]

Tragedy as man, 62, who is one half of Britain's first married couple with Down's syndrome catches Covid-19 and 'doctors don't think he can recover'

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9101617/Husband-62-one-half-Britains-Downs-syndrome-couple-marry-COVID-19.html

And for anyone thinking "yeah - but he's got an underlying health condition" perhaps they could explain why his life is less valuable than yours? Or your NYE party?

We really need to stop blaming other people. It's very othering and really not that healthy for us mentally. Humans are social animals and that is what viruses rely on. All we can do is try to limit the spread - but short of literally locking everyone in their houses for months on end - we will still get transmission of the virus.
There is just too much of it around.

If you want to be angry at anyone then the government is a much better bet. There was not enough action early on, the track and trace system has never worked well enough to get on top of the virus.

For example. If you develop symptoms on a Thurs or Friday and request a postal test, it may not arrive until after final collection on Saturday. You then can't post it back until last collection Monday. Assume 24 hrs for results but more realistically Wed. By the time you get your results - any contacts of yours are already potentially well into the incubation/infectious period. Its a bloody ridiculous blip in the system that must drive up infection numbers.

I don’t know what it’s going through some people’s heads.

We went into Tier 4 yesterday.

My friend has just messaged to say she’s off to spend New Year with a random guy she’s met online and all of his family .

As someone who has high risk family on the front line, I don’t know how on Earth to reply to her. I’m fuming in all honesty. She constantly pressurises me to meet up too. What part of “Stay Home” do people not understand?!

Any unnecessary contact with other people risks unnecessary spread, illness and death.

Hospital visit, or working in a hospital? Necessary.
School contacts? Generally considered necessary.
Shopping for food? Necessary.

Shopping for the right colour tree lights, meeting friends, going out to watch fireworks in a crowd- unnecessary and contributing to extra deaths. Put a

CV+ asymptomatic person in an empty room, and they won't infect anyone. Add a few other people who also need to be there, and they may infect a few people. Add a load of extra people who don't need to be there and everyone gets crowded together and more people will get ill.

Going out increases other people's chances of getting it, as well as your own.

Sadly OP, no amount of threads are going tout stop the rule breakers. Selfish people rarely change.