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.

Don't worry, Scot Gov have already put in law for employers to make sure their staff are able to work at home as much as possible, so Eng Gov will be following soon.

I had to put several Facebook friends on the hidden setting because I was sick to death of the STAY THE FUCK HOME that some of them had plastered across their profile pictures. Twats.

@Tier4muffintop

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

Agree.

I'm annoyed that the 'your grandfather fought in the war, all you're being asked to do is stay at home and watch netflix' memes have started circulating again - I don't think anyone who thinks that lockdown means sitting and watching netflix all day is the parent of a toddler...

Additionally, whilst I am massively in favour of an appropriately funded NHS, If the government gave a shit about saving the nhs, perhaps they should have funded it properly in the first place. Is also a bit of a red herring. Absolutely no health care system anywhere would be able to cope with the sheer numbers of people coming through our doors. Our worst winter flu years pale in comparison to the number I have seen this week. To appropriately accommodate the number of people needing hospital beds right now, we would have to run hospitals that were 50% empty the rest of the time.

@Tier4muffintop

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

God, yes. It is so, so annoying.

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

What do you class as a jolly? The police can't seem to agree on it.

@Tier4muffintop

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

Yes! I thought that was going to be the point of the thread!

OP, do you really think they have time to qualify it every time they say it with “unless of course you are already staying at home in which case well done!” ?

There is zero evidence that the "lockdowns" and social distancing measures imposed by the government will stop virus spread. They are both ineffective and dangerous. When they don't work rather than admitting that they have been responsible for implementing damaging restrictions pointlessly they just tell us that it's our fault for not doing lock downs correctly. Madness!

@Lemons1571
I agree with everything you posted especially making sure the NHS was properly funded in the first place !!! All the money they have used throu this pandemic cud have easily been spent into healthcare x

Because if they don’t continually remind us, people forget and start to go out.

As for the 90% compliance ... not in my area that’s for sure.

There’s a woman in my street - hairdresses from home (clients come and go all the time), has regular visitors, parties for birthdays, and any other occasion that takes her fancy, is often out in the car ... the list is endless. She’s been reported MANY times to the council and police - NOTHING IS DONE, NOONE COMES TO INSPECT. She clearly has someone high up in her back pocket.

The fines we hear of on the news must only be filmed for tv purposes. Or things are only policed in high up/major cities. Not also in the real world where it’s needed.

And there’s folk like her everywhere. Don’t assume everyone/majority are following the rules like you do - it’s a joke. Boils my blood.

Dumplings. Yes that’s how it seems to work. Scotland does the sensible thing. Boris follows her lead around two weeks later.

It would help if the government would close more non essential workplaces and financially support those who work in them. We really don’t need cafes, takeaways, garden centres, car showrooms etc open. And employees shouldn’t be put at risk having to travel around and work in them at this time.

There are people still not staying at home though so they do need to get the message across if they can. For those who are set on breaching the rules I don’t think scare tactics ans stay home instructions will stop them. My neighbour ‘had to meet someone’ in town yesterday which involved a 30 mins bus ride. He went to the supermarket down the road twice and went for 2 walks. He tells me he definitely hasn’t got covid because he would know and he feels fine. Also wanted to come in for me to sort out a problem with his phone. He seems to think I’m being OTT saying he can’t do that especially as I’m shielding . He watches the news every night, tells me how bad the situation is but all the collective responsibility part of trying to get the cases down just doesn’t apply to him. It really annoys me but some people no amount of scare tactics will stop them doing as they please.

Ugh yes. It's preaching to the now either terrified or totally fed up choir. --

If you haven't got the message by now, you're wilfully ignoring it and are unlikely to change your behaviour.

@Hardbackwriter

I'm annoyed that the 'your grandfather fought in the war, all you're being asked to do is stay at home and watch netflix' memes have started circulating again - I don't think anyone who thinks that lockdown means sitting and watching netflix all day is the parent of a toddler...

Yes we are back to the "only NHS staff are working" type bollocks. I lost it last year one of those "The government are paying you to stay at home, so just do it." Like crap they are, me like many others are still bloody working.

I think I'd feel better if Boris Johnson and whoever he drags to the podium would direct an all out swearing rant at the 10% of dickheads who are out hugging people.

I am at home, where I have been since March. The most exciting trips out I've had are the walk to school and the supermarket. I felt like I was on a day trip when I went to the dentist and spoke to other people in person.

The next time I go into Manchester is going to feel like a holiday!

I kind of agree with the OP. I remind myself daily that the messages are not aimed at me but it does, somehow, feel like we're all getting a group telling off for going out needlessly when for most of us, that isn't the case.

I don't really think it takes huge amounts of time to recognise the effort that millions of people are putting into trying to follow the rules diligently and responsibly. Often at some level of cost to themselves (personally, emotionally, financially etc).

Ultimately, I guess, I can ignore it but I do empathise with what the OP is saying.

I'm sick of hearing it everywhere too. Where else am I supposed to go?
I dont think this time of year is helping peoples moods either.
Although I'm going out to the pharmacy AND the supermarket today which I need both I suspect both will look like normal.
I'm getting more annoyed at the supermarkets being a free for all. I think they need to go back to one way and limited numbers.

@Tier4muffintop

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

This.

Personally irritated by all the whining about a simple and important message.

Is this going to be about exercise again? As pp states supermarkets are one of the most risky places in terms of virus transmission currently, not least because the police have always refused to enforce the law on face coverings while preferring to patrol the countryside and seaside to stop people driving for exercise - an activity with no evidence of virus transmission.
Plus there are regulations about non-essential workplaces, which are also not being policed.

Just taken DS to work, there were roadworks and LOADS of traffic, not sure where everyone is going

I would stay at home if I didn't have to go out to work. So yes, I'm sick of hearing them banging on about staying at home.

[quote Hairobsessed123]@Lemons1571
I agree with everything you posted especially making sure the NHS was properly funded in the first place !!! All the money they have used throu this pandemic cud have easily been spent into healthcare x[/quote]
All the money thrown at pointless and ineffective asymptomatic testing has made Mat Hancock and chums happy. He can hardly stop smirking. If public health was really of importance we would not have fewer hospital beds per head of population than most European countries and we wouldn't have people living in such poverty that they have to rely on charitable food parcels to eat.

@barofsoap

Just taken DS to work, there were roadworks and LOADS of traffic, not sure where everyone is going

Same place as you...

I have to admit, I know what you mean OP. I have found myself shouting back at the TV recently...
"Stay Home"
"I AM at home!!!!!!!!".

I do worry that Huw Edwards will hear me one day and tell me to calm the fuck down.