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.

@hamstersarse

We have over 90% compliance. It is unnecessary, patronising and frankly beyond irritating.

But it seems we are a nation of infants and apparently we all need the constant firm hand from Daddy Government

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I am doing all I can. If the NHS still can’t cope I fail to see why this is my problem.

@Lemons1571

I also understand that the majority of transmission is in hospitals and care homes. Which makes it even more irritating that the blame is put on us for not doing Stay Home well enough. Frightening Mrs Jones enough so she daren’t even pick up the post from the front doormat, is not going to flatten the curve.

You're about 9 months late to this OP.

I hope it's a sign that a tipping point has been reached.

I don't do MSM which helps. I care for my mum and when I catch sight of it there, I'm more amazed by the day that people are falling for it.

People definitely still arent getting the message. I usually work from home but had to leave house for work the other day. Coming back on the metro around 2pm, the metro had maybe 20 people on the same carriage as me, only about half had masks 'on' (most had them on face but pulled down) the rest just didn't bother at all. Was only me and 2 others with them on properly. One group of men (aged 30) were drunk and on their way to someones house. Another young man was loudly talking about stopping by his mates house for a few drinks in the evening on his phone. There were two mums sat together discussing who they are going to have look after the babies so they can make plans at the weekend - non of this was me listening in by the way, they were all loud gobshitey people you cant help but hear.

The rest were mainly young men, some with dogs so not going anywhere essential. And I highly doubt minus a couple anyone was going anywhere essential either, definitely not to work if wearing trackies and stinking of weed.

I know this doesnt replicate the compliance everywhere. But it shows that some really don't understand the stay home message.

'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.'

I don't have nets thanks. Seriously something should be done about the stupid parents who let their dc go out in groups. Its all there on sm, some think they're above the restrictions!

Get the covid marshals to issue fines to encourage a bit of responsible parenting i say, it seems the only thing some take notice of.

It’s not aimed at people like you OP, or me but at people like my neighbours. Constant visitors, regular trips out in the car, teenage children meeting up with their mates on the corner. It’s constant! From what I’ve seen it’s only 10% compliance in my stretch of street!

The main reason for the NHS struggling to cope lies with the government. They’ve successfully passed the buck onto the irresponsible public though, so everyone now hates their neighbours.

I thought you were annoyed because it should be stay AT home!

@BlueBaubles12

The main reason for the NHS struggling to cope lies with the government. They’ve successfully passed the buck onto the irresponsible public though, so everyone now hates their neighbours.

To be fair the majority of posters on MN hated their neighbours well before this started.

It means YOU stay at home, but we shall not. Rather like Bojo's advice on excercise regulations, followed by him doing a 15 mile bike ride

Just go for a walk if you want. I go for at least 1 walk a day, I'm on my own with 2 kids and a dog we are not spreading covid because no fucker is catching it off us or giving it to us when we are outside, passing other walkers for a nano second.

Yeah I'm finding this too. I'm not a government critic for the sake of it, but I feel like there's so much emphasis on personal responsiblity (which is crucial, don't get me wrong) but there's only so much that individuals can do when the government choose to lock down far too late. We can't compensate for poor decision-making from the government

There's definitely not 90% compliance where i am! I'd say 70 at most..the amount of people I see on the roads when I go for my walk is shocking, not to mention when I am at the park I see people in groups who clearly aren't family as they're asking each other what they've been up to etc..

Yep I hate the “ stay home” Americanism. Nothing against US but that’s not how we should phrase that . Also it feels like a rude, aggressive instruction especially when the absolutely hideous “stay THE FUCK home” gets wheeled out. It makes me feel really angry and frustrated. So rude.

@Tier4muffintop

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

Me too. In fact, I clicked on this thread thinking it might be a rant about grammar.

As long as there are such a number of irresponsible twats about, then unfortunately the message does have to be hammered home. We should have all been acting as if everyone has Covid, but even then there are, astonishingly, those who don't care and think it won't affect them.

@FourTeaFallOut

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.

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If people were actually complying - like they were forced to do in China - by being locked in their houses and local streets being patrolled for 2- 3 weeks stopping anyone from going ''out'' and totally deserted streets - then the ''advice'' would be more effective. Although it seems to be coming back again in China.

All I can say is the traffic on my running route is nowhere near as low as it was in March/April/May - the schools are shut, everyone is WFH, so I'm not sure what the difference is, but a lot of people clearly are not staying At Home...

I'm guessing it's a mixture of (a) more workplaces are open and not letting people WFH (b) more people taking up school places compared to last time (c) a fair few people who don't care compared to last time and are going to the shops twice daily/popping to their mum's/socialising etc.

It’s also time the daddy government started acknowledging the ruin that lockdown will cause to business, education and mental health, grovelling about it, and telling us concrete plans for what they will do about it (not Boris rubbish like “boost for the summer”). They are minimising this big time, distracting us with “stay at home for the vaccine”. They can’t even call an election in the hope of offloading the legacy of lockdown on to someone else; the shit will hit the fan before then.

When they break their silence on this, I might have be less inclined to believe they’re on a power trip of bossing us about and ruining our future for shits and giggles.

Ask people to stay at home yet these are the scenes at rush hour because of all the businesses that are open and people going to work in them:

twitter.com/BBCTomEdwards/status/1349650712444203008

What's wrong grammatically with 'Stay ''at'' home'? What should it be if not ''at''? Just ''Stay home''?

It’s not aimed directly at you OP.
If you consider the number of fines handed out recently I think you can appreciate there are some people who need this constant reminder! There are unfortunately individuals who firmly believe they know how best to carry out their own risk assessment despite the advice of the people qualified (government and the scientific advisors)

@wanderings Rishi is seemingly the only one who needs to give a shit about this, and since Cummings subjugated no. 11 completely to no. 10 (remember Javid?), his mutterings about the fact we're bankrupting ourselves can be ignored. But money is the real reason there is more activity. There has to be, we have to actually pay the pharma companies for the vaccine, so someone has to be paying taxes, and construction is a big sector. I can imagine that builders on large sites are not very compliant.

The local authority here have redeployed a lot of their staff to testing centres and community testing. Many are using public transport to get to these jobs and also knocking doors and coming into contact with hundreds of people a day. Many more people than they would usually be in contact with.

So some of us are much more at risk than we ever were before and would love to stay at home.

@Boogie5678

Yep I hate the “ stay home” Americanism. Nothing against US but that’s not how we should phrase that . Also it feels like a rude, aggressive instruction especially when the absolutely hideous “stay THE FUCK home” gets wheeled out. It makes me feel really angry and frustrated. So rude.

Yes there isn't any need to use the F word, and it just gets my back up.

I don't like being preached at, and I don't like being sworn at.