Anyone else becoming irritated by STAY HOME

[Lemons1571]

It’s starting to do my head in. We are all At Home. Haven’t left since Sunday. Apart from DH who is a keyworker so no choice. Haven’t even ventured near the mud sodden garden. How much more can we STAY HOME? Are we doing it wrong? Perhaps I should shriek any time someone goes within a foot of the front door. And putting the bin out - forget it!

Yet the media still keep on, Stay Home Stay Home Stay Home, accompanied by endless clips of makeshift ITU’s in children’s wards. Wtf do they want? Us all to lock ourselves in the under stairs cupboard?

Am beginning to think if the messaging carries on like this, everyone will reach fatigue point and switch off from it all. Ok I know I’m being a mardy cow and unreasonable, but does anyone else feel like this?

If the government gave a shit about saving the nhs, perhaps they should have funded it properly in the first place.

@Orf1abc

Unfortunately many people do not know the meaning of STAY HOME that's the problem.

You mean the millions of people having to go to work?

Compliance is high, but the rules as they are mean many people are still being put at excessive risk.

No of course I don't mean them. I am one of them.

I agree OP. The problem IMO is not (mostly) due to non compliance. It’s the flex in the rules that mean plenty of people are still going out and about and mixing whilst complying with the rules.

The wide definition of keyworkers meaning loads of kids are still in school. The fact you can still go to work if you can’t work from home, so that means all builders, tradesmen, manufacturing, cleaners, nannies, etc are still going to work and now plenty of other employers have decided their employees “can’t” work from home and are needed back in the office. I’m being sent emails from massage companies saying they can still come and give me a home massage if it’s for “therapy”. The fact you are allowed to meet one other person for exercise so plenty of pairs meeting for a takeaway coffee (standing in a queue) and a walk. The endless support bubbles and childcare bubbles.

I can understand why the rules allow all these things BUT the government needs to admit that their own rules are going to limit lockdown effectiveness, rather than blaming it all on non compliance.

I'm fed up with my local council (which is useless anyway) constantly posting sanctimonious preachy social media posts. Get on with doing something useful and stop telling us what we don't already know.

Those who are breaking the rules, know they're breaking the rules. It isn't that they don't know to stay at home.

@Sparklingbrook

I do wonder if the compliant Stay At Homers are going to reach tipping point and check out completely.

Where are they going to go? Nightclubbing? Theatre? Meal out at a restaurant? There's not that many options to 'check out' is there?

Presumably will start doing what all the non compliers are allegedly doing (hence the gov think the messaging is needed in the first place)?

Presumably will start doing what all the non compliers are allegedly doing (hence the gov think the messaging is needed in the first place)?

Yes that'll be the going round to each other's houses.

It does piss me off because I can’t STAY HOME. Believe me I’d love to. But if I STAY HOME I can’t do my job. I’m not sitting on the central line at 8am because I don’t know the meaning of STAY HOME.

I keep thinking it should be stay AT home, that annoys me!

A thousand times yes. I'm disappointed this is not what the thread is about.

Most people on my Facebook feed shouting Stay Home are going out for their own very important reasons and incredulous to find others doing the same. What they mean is everyone stay at home except me.

It's irritating, yes. But we all went for a very muddy walk yesterday and enjoyed it. It gave the kids something to do when we got back as well - giving the dog a shower and making hot chocolate plus a board game afterwards). But surely 'irritated' is better than 'intubated'? I feel safe, rather than bored. Hopefully the weather picking up in spring will lighten everyone's moods, too.

If you’re not leaving the house, then the message clearly isn’t aimed at you, hopefully you understand that?

I drove to work yesterday and was actually stuck in traffic because the roads were so busy. Driving to work in March/April/May was like stepping out after the apocalypse-I often didn’t see a single car!

So many more people are out having to work this time. The schools are jam-packed of workers (as well as a fair few who are simply taking advantage), others aren’t allowed to wfh or be furloughed.

The message of Stay (at) home, is useless when people actually can’t.

No. I'm happy to and understand why.

It's the safest option.

I had to attend a blood test this morning. Wish I hadn't had to.

We do get fresh air any day we can but thankfully live very close to a nice open area and don't need to walk close to people to get there.

You're allowed to be a mardy cow op. Life is just a never ending treadmill where those playing by the rules are made to feel guilty.

Perhaps a new govt tagline Be Irritated - Not Intubated

@Tier4muffintop

I keep thinking it should be stay AT home, that annoys me!

Yes, I agree - it's a horrible expression! Like everyone else, I am SICK of staying AT home, but what can you do? Tired of staying in, scared to go out, nothing to do - fed up!

Not helpful but it reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb comedy stints.

@Tier4muffintop

I keep thinking it should be stay AT home, that annoys me!

This.

I hate the ‘stay the fuck home’ bollocks you get on here as well

This. As soon as I see this it makes me want to go out!

(I obviously don't!)

@DenisetheMenace

Don’t shoot the messenger. It’s the numpties ignoring the message you should be irritated with.

I agree.

The announcements are not aimed at people like you OP.

It is irritating without any evidence on compliance and where it’s being spread. Mostly I think it’s easier to get us blaming each other, and much more politically expedient, isn’t it?

Music radio and Netflix, OP. It’ll switch to ‘get out spending’ again in due course.

Don't forget millions of people who work in industry, manufacturing, construction etc are obliged to go into work, unlike the first lockdown when they too had to stay at home.

Unlike the first lockdown, many of these businesses are insisting that their office staff, who can work at home, also go into work. They simply don't trust their staff to work effectively at home. They do trust my DP as they have said so, but insist they go in to set an example.

Yes I feel the same OP. It's really annoying. Now the weather has turned miserable we never go anywhere. Ever.

There are a few people who like to post it all over our local Facebook page too. As if some of us have been living under a rock and this is the first time we've heard about it I don't know how they think they're helping. If people aren't following the rules now, I doubt a Facebook post is going to change their behaviour.

They need to set up road blocks and ask where people are going and turn them back if out on a jolly.

It's really that simple.

@jay55

Im annoyed by the news cameras in multiple hospitals every day, exploiting another person's grief, illness or work fatigue, and putting the news crews in the position of spreading it more.

Being told to stay home by people out and about interviewing people on the high street.

Being told to stay home by someone visiting another school to report on how crowded it is.

I know that news reporters can't work from home. But they don't need to do the same report from a different school, hospital and high street every day. All while preaching at the public to stay home.

Yes this annoys me too

@jay55

Im annoyed by the news cameras in multiple hospitals every day, exploiting another person's grief, illness or work fatigue, and putting the news crews in the position of spreading it more.

Being told to stay home by people out and about interviewing people on the high street.

Being told to stay home by someone visiting another school to report on how crowded it is.

I know that news reporters can't work from home. But they don't need to do the same report from a different school, hospital and high street every day. All while preaching at the public to stay home.

I quite agree - I often think this about news reporters. They have also added to traffic on the roads with their outside broadcast crews, or whatever. Completely unnecessary! They could just do a video phone interview with (perhaps) a member of staff going off duty, if it is absolutely required.

They need to set up road blocks and ask where people are going and turn them back if out on a jolly.

I would suggest as we have had the police cut to the bone over recent years, and councils have had their budgets slashed, there isn't the resource to do this, bar perhaps at the borders between England/Wales/Scotland. Even then it won't be 24/7.

Well it isn't aimed at you.

It is aimed at the group of women I saw at the weekend at our local park who had "bumped in to each other" there (my arse).

It's aimed at Bob down the road who pops the newsagent each morning, then to the supermarket and the local cafe to collect his takeaway coffee and then back out in the afternoon at the allotment having a catch up with Betty before taking a completely unnecessary bus journey to a different supermarket because he prefers their beans.

Names changed, but both true stories.

Also:

I also understand that the majority of transmission is in hospitals and care homes.

Is simply not true. Community transmission is very high, the riskiest place currently being the supermarket (due to proximity and numbers of other people, length of time spent in them, lack of airflow and insufficient cleaning). Plus supposedly "covid safe" work places, which are anything but.