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.

I hate it too.

It highlights the assumption that everyone has a warm, safe home to stay in. Which is just not true.

But there are a lot of privileged people with secure housing/jobs/able to WFH/outdoor space who seem not to realise this.

Am beginning to think if the messaging carries on like this, everyone will reach fatigue point and switch off from it all.

That point appears to have long been breached tbh, among people I know anyway. SAGE did predict that lockdown fatigue would set in, was apparently a large problem for when to start the March lockdown, as they k new people would only comply for so long. Some will comply endlessly, of course but a lot will not, not when its gone on for ages.

@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.

Couldn't agree with this more.

It’s the same reason we have ‘wash your hands’ signs in toilets, catch it, bin it, kill it’ posters and that funky little guy putting his rubbish in the bin.

It’s only aimed at those who aren’t doing it.

@movehimintothesun

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.

Oh my god i so do this 😀

Im obviously at fucking home if im watching you on the telly 😀

It reminds me of that tv programme ‘ why dont you...just switch off your television set and go do something less boring instead’

Fine...i will then, no wonder it went off air

(And before anyone starts i know you dont have to be home to watch telly and i know tv series naturally ends and that it wasnt me switching the tv off that did it)

@Justanotherdayina

I'm irritated by my reflection. I get on my own nerves !!!

😂 I know. I am so fed up looking at my own stupid face. Especially in teams calls, when I'm reminded again how much weight I've put on!!

I'm waiting to see if my FB friend who last time had lots of Stay the F at Home and Aren't people who live in high rise flats and have young DCs selfish for going to the beach.
In the interim he clearly decided that Stay the F at home didn't apply to him so we got daily pictures of his Canarian Holiday.

I'll do what I'm told to do, just can't stand self righteous idiots on FB reminding me about it - and no I won't defriend anyone as I think the last 9 months have driven some folk into temporary madness, and also it's fun to watch the inconsistency.

@Billie18

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!

You're STILL repeating this utter nonsense. You've been directed to the figures enough times already. Lockdowns DO work. What more proof do you need other than the ones that have already been given to you?

I'm sick of them since April to be honest. The reminders should be outside of homes rather than inside. Don't need them when you are at home

I agree OP. Especially in regards to the briefings. I like watching them to get the figures and vaccine info first hand but I hate how it's literally just repeat stay home, save the NHS for 40 minutes every day. They don't even answer the questions people ask them properly other than to repeat the above.

If you're not going to actually answer the questions people are asking why bother even taking them.

Most of us are staying at home if we can, so clearly our lack of compliance isn't generally the cause of the increased numbers. The government needs to acknowledge this and admit that with some people having to go into work, the virus will spread. There's no such thing as 'Covid secure' because the stuff is in the air. It annoys me being nagged by Matt Hancock and Boris, because they both got Covid themselves so according to their own logic they were non-compliant with their own rules.

It is tough now but it's not aimed at you. I personally know several people who either had Covid or were supposed to be self isolating who went out. It's aimed at those idiots and the rest of us are suffering for their bad behaviour and lack of social responsibility.

The problem of the Stay Home message on TV is that the fools who are out & about for non essential reasons aren’t in their homes to see the ruddy message.

I vote for giant loudspeakers on poles (like the ones you get in the US for nuclear emergencies, tornado warnings et al.) continuously blasting ‘Stay Home. I repeat, stay home’ ( or some such warning) just to add to the dystopian ennui.

This situation is only going to get worse if the ‘I’m doing what I want & sod everyone else’ folks keep pootling around Morrison’s (which was Bank Holiday style heaving yesterday as I shopped for my elderly Dad - who, being in a care home, I can’t visit - but still have to get essential personal supplies for). Like, Mum, Dad & the kids milling around.

I can understand the whole family maybe needing to go together (I can’t drive due to illness) but if my kids were small DH would keep them in the car whilst I shopped (because his random approach to shopping, even with a list, would end in scurvy or rickets, as oranges would be replaced by Jaffa cakes etc. He’s of the absent minded Professor genre. Which is endearing but utterly useless sometimes).

I digress. But there needs to be a change to media policy to target the lockdown swervers. That includes nonessential businesses flouting guidance - or law - too. I run my own business, with no govt support, so I understand the pressures right now, I really do. But the longer this goes on the worse it will be for everyone.

Just listening to the traffic outside my window (on a main road). Lockdown 1, barely any cars. Today, it’s a normal day.

I think people are complacent because of the vaccine too. Old Doris has had the jab, so it’s back to normal.But that’s not how it works, is it?

(The level of basic scientific literacy, or rather lack of it during this pandemic, is astonishing. That’s a whole other rant).

Why are you taking it personally? It's a good, simple message in my opinion. Everyone can easily understand it. A couple of times I fancied a walk for a coffee or something, but honestly heard the Stay at Home message in my head and decided against it. Unless you have to go out, don't.

Just listening to the traffic outside my window (on a main road). Lockdown 1, barely any cars. Today, it’s a normal day

I don't think traffic is a fair comparison though. Lots of people are having to go to work this time when they didn't before.

If the govt really do want people to stay at home at all costs they need to be looking at the employers who are still telling people to come to the office even when they can WFH. Or they need to pay people sufficiently to isolate etc...

It's no good just repeating stay at home when lots of people literally can't if they hope to be able to pay their bills and feed themselves.

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants

If lockdowns work how come countries that didn’t lock down have less cases? In the U.S. they compared two states with similar demographics. One locked down, the other didn’t. They both had identical cases. The virus is going virus.

I'm not as irritated it as I am by other people giving me the evil eye when I am out of the house - because their essential reason for being there obviously trumps mine.

@MrsFrisbyMouse

I'm not as irritated it as I am by other people giving me the evil eye when I am out of the house - because their essential reason for being there obviously trumps mine.

Are you sure they’re actually giving you the ‘evil eye’? They might just be looking in your direction... especially if they’ve a mask on, it’s quite hard to read an expression as meaning anything in particular.

People need to go out of the house for work, exercise, shopping, medical appointments. Do these people screaming STAY HOME want us to be barricaded in our homes?

And not as irritated as I am about the fact the current spike in numbers (and subsequent hospital admissions and deaths) was caused by government mismanagement (including but not limited to inefficient test and trace system and allowing large groups outside Tier 4 to mix at Christmas.)

“Essential” is getting right on my last nerve too. Stay Home unless you have an ESSENTIAL reason to go out. Yet in the rules it is perfectly ok to go to a botanical garden or heritage site as long as you are pretending to exercising. It’s so contradictory and annoying.

I am now working in 'make shift' ICU unit. Although I understand how annoying the 'stay at home' must be and unavoidable in some cases.

It is really scary at the moment - I'm not a trained ICU nurse but am now nursing critically ill patients in my ward, which has just been turned into a ICU ward due to the demand and increase off critically ill people requiring high level oxygen needs.

Our patients are mostly under 60, usually fit and healthly. The effects off covid have left them needing high levels of oxygen to meet minimum requirement levels. It is scary, majority have either come into contract with a covid person through work, socialising within bundle or unsure.

Our hospital has turned it's 5th ward into a ICU unit and continues, the majoirty off our wards are now Covid wards.

The majority off staff: doctors, nurses, HCA, phsyio etc are now working in ICU wards to help with demand.

This means that there are less hospital beds, staff etc to deal with the other demands: traumatic fall injuries, Road traffic injuries etc.

As a lot of people have said on here already. The first lockdown a LOT of businesses closed when they didnt technically have to. However they furloughed staff and spent time and money getting their business covid secure. My partner was furloughed for 12 weeks first lockdown. His business now has PPE, rapid covid testing, sanitizer and is carrying on now. They struggled to keep the business going the 12 weeks it was closed. Now they need to keep going. For some people it is an essential service. I know a lot of friends in the same position who are working this time round now there is testing, procedures and PPE in place. The people going to work are not an issue.

I don't want to defend nor absolve all businesses/employers as I am sure there are a great number of lazy, unethical examples out there but I am seeing a lot of people complaining that employers who allowed wfh in March will no longer allow it so it's their fault that there are more people going out unnecessarily

The fact of the matter is, it has been almost a year. Businesses are suffering and in many cases, it was possible to allow short term wfh/drop in productivity when we were promised normality by Easter/Summer etc but this can't continue. Many of the problems caused by wfh might not be visible to most of the employees. Companies are looking at huge losses and are just trying to survive right now. The problem is that we have a government who are not engaging with the people, not understanding the problems that both employers, employees and every real person on the street (and in their homes) is facing. Instead they throw the blame at us for failing to comprehend a simple message and turn us against each other. In reality, a better strategy in March (and being prepared before), a robust test, track and trace system and not seeming to be blindsided by the arrival of vaccines for which they've been supposedly planning, and more funding for the NHS would all have helped alleviate this mess. Above all, show people empathy and humanity - don't just yell at us and imply that we are stupid; this just makes people dig in their heels and rebel against the government messages. I utterly detest David Cameron but could really do with his "we're all in this together" slogan right now.