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.

@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...

Agree. Or indeed the parent of teenagers who are losing their life staring at screens more than they were before.

Or the partner of someone whose depression is spiralling due to lockdown.

Or in an abusive home.

Or in possession of a job in a sector which is being hammered and likely to disappear at any moment.

And yes, if you have to spout this ridiculous message time and again, at least do it grammatically. Stay AT home. DH as teacher does not allow children to say "can I go toilet Sir?" which happens regularly where we live, so why the hell are the government allowed to say "Stay home"?

It is so irritating. There really isn't anywhere to go anyway!!!!!

Unfortunately the stay at home message doesn't apply to some people which is why they have to force message across day after day. Try not to take it personally. Protesters aren't helping

They should change it to stay in your home, with only the people who live in your house. Maybe that would work? My MIL isn't talking to me because I told her now we are tier 4 she can't keep popping over. There are some benefits It wouldn't be a problem is she was isolating, but she has carers in for her husband, the cleaner, various trades and my child is at school still. Apparently I'm out order. First lockdown was fine, but after Boris relaxed the rules she and a lot of people don't seem to be able to go back. I understand it's tough, and I wouldn't be all preachy to general people or on social media. There are still a few keyboard warriors on Facebook !

I've noticed that they are clearly aware of the potential for the compliant population to get a bit pissed off with being accused of being on the naughty step. There's quite a lot of stuff around thank you to the 90% of people complying.

Lol you're not wrong. Everyone knows, the people not following aren't going to suddenly start!

Pisses me off when I'm watching tv at home, minding my own business, staying home and trying to forget the shitshow that's going on outside and Twat Hancock pops up on my screen with his sodding STAY HOME message. I AM! And I'm trying to chill - leave me alone!!!

I'm more annoyed at the parents who let their teenagers do whatever the fuck they like rather than being sick of the public health messages.

We are staying at home but it is beyond irritating to see social media evidence of the same thick, selfish kids meeting up in groups having a lovely time.

Like you, we are STAYING HOME and it does make me wonder when people talk about tightening restrictions if we will have to STAY AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS.

But it's just the cabin fever kicking in, they aren't speaking to me.

I'm getting very pissed off with being told to stay at home, actually staying at home, but then looking outside my window every day and realising I'm the only bugger in my road who is.

Loads of people don’t follow the guidance. I have loads of family members still going inside each other’s homes for lunch together or other ‘reasons’. They justify it to themselves somehow.

The stay at home messages don’t bother me because I am and I hope the bombardment might make some of the selfish people stop and think for a second.

What I don't understand re Staying at Home and protecting the NHS is why throughout this many NHS admin staff were told they could not wfh.

I have friends who work as medical secretaries at my local hospital and their managers refused to let them wfh at all. They are not on reception and in depts. which have been very quiet due to all non urgent ops being postponed due to Covid.

One friend often pops to the supermarket on the way to work, will go to the local sandwich shop to get her lunch and has children who were in school. Surely there is a high risk of her contracting Covid, being asymptomatic and passing it on at work? Why are non frontline / non essential NHS admin not wfh?

The message isn't personally aimed at you, you know. It's aimed at the huge numbers of people who are still going out and about for non essential things.

Bloke on my Facebook last week "just been in to town to collect my takeaway, couldn't believe the number of people out and about, some lockdown this is!" LOL

Also my local council is forcing staff who could wfh, and have previously, to go into work. Some departments have all staff wfh, others will not allow it. Surely they should be following the government guidelines?

'Loads of people don’t follow the guidance. I have loads of family members still going inside each other’s homes for lunch together or other ‘reasons’.

I'm surprised they don't make it more simple to report, an app or something . I'd go full busybody mode if they did. It seems ott to go on the police site to report the same group of teenagers roaming about but maybe if the parents got a 200 quid fine they might start parenting.

1500 deaths, 45k cases, ICUs snowed under, most responsible people sticking to restrictions yet as always the selfish few can't quite manage it 🙄.

I'm surprised they don't make it more simple to report, an app or something . I'd go full busybody mode if they did.

That's exactly why they don't want to make it easier to report! I don't know where people think all the extra police have magically come from - or whether it's that they think that all normal crime has miraculously stopped - but absolutely no one wants to make it easier for you to bother the police about every teenager you see while peering round your net curtains.

Yes it’s irritating beyond belief, we are in this mess because Boris let everyone mingle at Christmas and grown adults wanted a piss up. We are not in this situation because Vera wanted to have a rest on a bench for 5 minutes.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

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.

Yes, same here. Especially one friend who works for the NHS but is able to WFH. Absolutely irate that her neighbour goes out twice a day to walk his dog/someone in the co-op was buying lottery tickets/how many people were in B&Q on Saturday, but she still allows her teenage daughter to go round her friend’s houses.

Every time the local press posts a Covid story on FB it is full of people banging the Stay Home drum. There is always one who tells everyone that she hasn’t left her house since March and gets everything delivered - hasn’t seemed to have crossed her mind that she’s able to do this because of all the “covidiots” that she’s moaning about are going to bloody work.

Lots of businesses here closed during the first lockdown. They didn’t have to, but for various reasons they did. The company I work for closed for 6 weeks and I was furloughed. We’ve stayed open this time - there aren’t the grants available this time, we’ve put loads of time and £ into making the factory safe and we haven’t had anyone here test positive (yet) but due to the nature of the business, none of us can work from home.

Furlough doesn’t cover rent, machine HP payments, insurance and all the other bills that we have each month, and if the staff aren’t working we aren’t earning to pay the overheads each month

There seems to be a huge lack of understanding about other people’s circumstances. FB is full of posts about how busy the roads are, where is everybody going - all posted by people who were food shopping, or on their way to work - seemingly unable to understand that most of these people are doing exactly the same as they are. We have horses and during the first lockdown one of my neighbours was incensed that I was leaving the house twice a day to care for them. I was a covidiot that should be fined as “PEOPLE WERE DYING” because I was flouting the rules. I followed all the rules, but she just couldn’t see past the end of her own nose

@bobbiester

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

Yes me too! Having worked in healthcare all my working life, I soon began to realise that people only want to comply or ‘ understand’ when it suits their agenda. The messages are continually rolled out because the Government and councils don’t want to be accused of not informing the public of what to do, or not to do! And there are many people who, when questioned, deny that they knew ‘the rules’

I think there are many people (myself included) who don't just go out once a week for a supermarket shop. I'm off work today so heading out for a snowy walk and will then go to the supermarket later. I generally walk most days and pop to the shops when I need to.

However I haven't met up with family, don't have any bubbles and WFH. In my eyes I am staying at home but probably not as the 'rules' would like me to.

if you have to spout this ridiculous message time and again, at least do it grammatically. Stay AT home. DH as a teacher does not allow children to say "can I go toilet Sir?" which happens regularly where we live, so why the hell are the government allowed to say "Stay home"?

I thought that's what this thread was going to be about - grammar.

@BonnesVacances

I'm getting very pissed off with being told to stay at home, actually staying at home, but then looking outside my window every day and realising I'm the only bugger in my road who is.

How do you know where they are going though? It might be all legitimate, some of our recent journeys have been: taking DS to his autism support group, popping down to MIL's to sort things she needs in hospital, going to buy things she needs in hospital, going to take the things to the hospital.

The neighbours wouldn't know that though, they just see us going out.

It always sounds American to my ears, ‘stay home’ although I’m not sure why.

Where is anyone going to go anyway? It's freezing cold, dark, wet and miserable and everything is shut.

We're expected to go out to work, come back home and stay there. Rinse and repeat. And any essential food shopping.