People that don’t understand the rules !

[Givemeabreak88]

It’s crazy how many people don’t seem to understand the rules, today I’ve had to explain to someone that if you have a support bubble you are only allowed to see that person and their household not everyone they are related to! They seemed to think that if you are allowed to be in a support bubble it includes everyone they are related to (so all their extended family) even though they don’t live in the same household.) I can’t believe how many people don’t understand?!

There’s a lot of misunderstanding of bubbles, not all of it inadvertent.

To be fair, I can understand some confusion around the rules. They change constantly and are not always very clear. And a lot of people aren’t very bright.

You can’t blame them for feeling jaded by it all. “Rules” changing every week, something is fine one day, forbidden the next. And still one of the highest death rates per million in the world.

At this point.. I'm not sure how much of it is misunderstanding compared to just not giving a toss anymore to be honest.

I'm saying this as someone whose followed the rules and still does.. but people are getting complacent and giving up, it was bound to happen. I'd assume they understand the bubbles but just don't want to comply any longer..

Hasn’t there been something like 60 rule changes since last March? Not really surprising some people don’t keep up.

I actually think most people do understand the rules. They just don't care/think they don't apply to them. Or think bending/tweaking them slightly doesn't matter.

Tbh I don’t think people are Misunderstanding I think it’s pretty clear a support bubble doesn’t include all your exes/ partners / friends family that they don’t live with , I think it’s more a case of people deliberately “misunderstanding” them

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo yep exactly

I think there’s a lot of wilful misunderstanding of the rules.

My friend has a "bubble" with her other single friend and kids.....also her mum and her sister and her sisters kids and her brothers when they're home from uni and her sons father...

We are still friends because I haven't seen her otherwise I might not be able to hire my tongue.

To be fair she doesn't keep up with all the rule changes and has had coronavirus but she's also not stupid..,,but also very stupid!!

Everyone thinks they deserve a loophole, you see it all the time on here. And that’s why we are where we are and why the front page of the BBC is full of experienced consultants and nursing staff crying with exhaustion and despair over the war zone they find themselves in every day

Makes me furious.

I think people have decided to pick and choose the rules that suit them, so they feel that they are doing something, but will draw the line somewhere. Particularly for bubbles, I think many people have chosen to think that bubbles mean being able to see your friends individually. So they will happily break the rules to serve their own social needs, but will look daggers at a stranger who dares to pass them on the pavement.

She couldn’t get that a household means people you live not just people they are related to 🤦‍♀️ I’m sorry but unless you have learning difficulties it’s all very very clear.

I know a few people who are very 'liberal' with their understanding of bubbles and have maybe 3-4 households bubbled, but they tend to be small households so maybe 6-8 people in total and outside of this they are very, very careful with any contacts and fastidious about distancing, masks and hygiene.

I think it's because a lot of the bubbles don't make sense. Eg if you have a baby under 1, you're allowed a support bubble, even if you don't work, have a supportive partner and live in a part of the country that's only recently gone back under heavy restrictions. Yet you could have 3 young dc over 1, be working ft from home with a partner working out of the home long hours, or be a teen only child and be in a part of the country that's been under heavy restrictions since March and it's tough shit. People are going to assume a bubble applies to them if they see others with a lighter burden are legally allowed them.

That does make a lot of sense, I have seen people upset about others getting bubbles when they can’t but I can see why now as it does seem annoying when someone is having multiple bubbles, clearly taking the piss.

Plus I don't think everyone explains the exact reasons. Eg my friend comes round with her son a few times a week, even though we both have partners and she doesn't work. It's fairly obvious to anyone close by her dc has complex needs, and we are only outside, but I don't go round telling everybody his specific needs or the exact details of why that bit of respite/ support/horse therapy is so essential for the whole family. People probably just assume they are entitled to bubbles with friends if we have one, or that we're stretching the rules so they can too.