AIBU to ask what is the worst lockdown rule you have broken?

[EmJay19]

AIBU to say a lot of (but not all) people have broken the rules to varying degrees once or twice even when they generally stick to the rules?

What’s the worst thing you’ve done?

I went to the pub with a friend when I shouldn’t have done as not from same household. Sitting outside would have been ok at that point...

I stood in the street for an hour on NYE for a socially distanced glass of wine (own glass, own wine!) with a couple of neighbours.

We did that a lot in the summer lockdown (when it was allowed, eg VE Day) and it made a massive difference (between maintaining human connection and total isolation). Wish we still could, well worth getting cold for.

It wasn't allowed in the summer lockdown either, people just did it and the powers that be turned a blind eye to the ridiculous VE Day parties.

So if you want to stand around on your driveway in the cold with a glass of wine, crack on. Nobody cares.

I went out for 2 walks on Sunday!

See our childcare bubble for dinner once a week. My ILs

The week after VE day I met with my parents outside and they held my baby and played with my toddler. I decided it was ridiculous that I was "allowed" to sit in my front garden and talk to my neighbours for 2 hours I couldn't do the same with my family because they didnt live in walking distance.

In the Summer the rates here were low and I made the most of it. I visited and hugged my elderly grandparents, I let my daughter play with friends and family members, went to peoples houses and didn't socially distance. I have no guilt or regrets.

Held a bbq with two friends and their kids back in May

Took my mother and uncle out for dinner in tier 2 I December

Go round visiting friends and taking their kids out for he says generally

Frankly not giving a damn unless I’m forced to

Let dd age 15 have her best friend to stay. In my defence dd is autistic and has adhd. The first Lockdown saw her self harming and developing acrophobia which led to her being medicated. This lockdown she is at school but missing her best friend to the point her mental health is suffering.

Having illegal sex. It was amazing, I came 3 times

@Babe3 I hope that all the jiggling and spaffing was worth the murder

Sorry @Babe3 I jumped the shark on that last comment. There's no murder through shagging. But you are breakin dem ROOLZ. Say a rosemary for penance and the shut your legs...to the 'rona

@AlternativePerspective

So what exactly was the point of this thread? To play rule-breaker top-trumps?

Have people actualy been watching the programmes and reports from ICU units across the country? Where more and more younger people are being taken ill and ventilated?

Stop fucking obsessing over people dying and get a grip. There is far more to catching COVID than dying, actually surviving it with serious long-term consequences, but as long as you’re not dead, eh? Doesn’t matter that you might have sustained serious lung damage, breathing problems, might not be able to work again, all those things are seemingly inconsequential because you’re not dead.

I haven’t broken any rules because A, I’m not a selfish twat, and B, having spent time in ICU on a Ventilator, and then on oxygen these are not experiences I am in a hurry to repeat, and given I have a serious heart condition, if I end up with COVID that’s where I will likely end up.

I actually have to travel to Papworth to the heart failure clinic to see one of the transplant consultants in February, to see whether my heart has deteriorated to the degree that I need to go on the list yet or whether I’m still stable enough not to. I have had to ask my parents to drive me there, even though they live 2 hours away. They can legitimately act as my support bubble, but I still feel guilty for asking them to drive me there and come into a hospital, where COVID patients are being treated, with me. I have seriously considered doing the 2.5 hour train journey instead of the 50 minute car one so that I don’t have to rely on them and have them put at risk.

Maybe if we’d had a lockdown like China we would have been out of this by now. But now there’s too much scope for selfish arseholes to do what the hell they want.

I literally have 0 sympathy for anyone who breaks any rule and catches COVID as a result. In fact it’s no more than they deserve.

@AlternativePerspective

“No more than they deserve”??

That’s harsh. Given the link between obesity and Covid, I wonder if you think obese people who didn’t make any effort to lose weight or eat more healthily deserves “0 sympathy”?!

I find your comments quite upsetting and this is from someone who’s has multiple ICU admissions, mechanical ventilation and organ failure, so believe me, I do know what it’s like to ‘survive’. I’ve shielded but I can’t bring myself to tell the poster who hugged her mum after a cancer diagnosis that if she’d caught Covid, it was “no more than she deserves”......

*Held a bbq with two friends and their kids back in May

Took my mother and uncle out for dinner in tier 2 I December

Go round visiting friends and taking their kids out for he says generally

Frankly not giving a damn unless I’m forced to*

Meanwhile many of us do give a damn and have stuck to the rules, even when it's been difficult.

I had a normal summer school holiday. Safer to see friends and family during those weeks when the risks were our own choice, that at any point during the school year when I'm the vector. Did the same the last weekend of the Oct half term, and Christmas holidays.

@Botoxtime

Had sex with someone from tinder

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It’s not surprising we’re still in lockdown really reading some of these. Everyone blames the government for our high death/infection rates but the truth is, we’re a nation of selfish, entitled people.

We live on an island, so should be able to control this virus better

@Nanette21

It’s not surprising we’re still in lockdown really reading some of these. Everyone blames the government for our high death/infection rates but the truth is, we’re a nation of selfish, entitled people.

We live on an island, so should be able to control this virus better

It's not because a few people have met up for a shag from tinder that we haven't been able to get a better grip on this virus. If you believe that, you're doing exactly what Boris wants.

I agree some things on here are a bit much and not what I'd do myself. But it's been nearly a year now. I can't get myself worked up about people meeting their mum for a brew or seeing a friend, having sex, walking to the post box twice a day. It really isn't the reason we are still in lockdown.

And we're not a 'nation of selfish peoole'. We are a selfish species generally, full stop. You cannot coop up human beings and lock them away for a year and expect total compliance for just as long as you say jump for. It'll never happen. It goes completely against human nature as social creatures. It's completely unsurprising to me and all of the 'Ive not left my house since March' posters will also reach a point where they too will no longer follow every rule and restriction thrown their way, I don't believe for a moment that there is anyone who'd put up with living this way for the next however long. Some may be better at it than others but imo everyone would break eventually, it's a matter of time.

Ive not found this interesting ive found it deeply depressing, yes there is a difference between hugging parents at funerals or going out for walks with more than should, to snagging people off tinder and people have wrote more like proud than "they need to do it for their mental health" which gets thrown around a lot. This pandemic just shows which actual people r selfish, we knew people were, we now know the actual people which incldes my family who have ignored rules, i haven't . Makes me sick

Also what ive found is a lot of people ignoring the rules seems to see the government as this evil thing that is just putting these rules in place to be awful and evil ,

I dont like government particularly but im intelligence enough to understand they r trying to help stop the virus. Yes they have probably made a few mistakes but its a impossible situation and i dont think they r u out to ruin my life like some people think

Is it surprising to you that mental health issues are more prevalent or 'thrown around' as you say after a year of restrictions on peoples lives, movements, family, finances, livelihoods etc..? It isn't to me.

I mean I only have to go on my Facebook to see my local community pages have seen a real shocking increase of missing persons, suicides, children running away from home etc...

Mental health is going to be (is already) a big problem. Pretending it isn't won't make a difference. You can roll your eyes and pretend it's just 'thrown about' for the sake of an excuse if you like, and it might be in some cases, but I don't find it surprising, at all in fact, that we are seeing much more people talking about their mental health and having to do things like break 'rules' to help with it. I mean when you think about it, it's pretty fucking awful that seeing your mum for a chat is breaking a law in 2021. No wonder people's MH is plummeting. I don't judge at all.

@Duggeehugs82

I dont like government particularly but im intelligence enough to understand they r trying to help stop the virus. Yes they have probably made a few mistakes but its a impossible situation and i dont think they r u out to ruin my life like some people think

Nope, I don't buy any of the conspiracy BS about them just wanting control, vaccines having microchips and whatever else etc..

But I think stating the government have made a 'few mistakes' is a bit naive.

It's not just their handling of this situation now in the present. It's been years of measures that have led us to the point where we now have a health service that can't actually cope with the health needs of its population (and its much the same every year in Winter).

We left borders open, schools open, encouraged people to cram into shops over Christmas, Boris changes the rules faster and more often than most change their underwear etc... add into that the fact that they have spent years stripping the NHS to the bone, is it really a 'few mistakes'? The handling has been shambolic and I would imagine accounts for a far higher number of infections than people not distancing on a walk properly.

I’m certainly not pro Boris.

I do think many are entitled and selfish though. We also don’t see the manpower to enforce the rules. We should have curfews and certify why we’re leaving the house etc

@Nanette21

I’m certainly not pro Boris.

I do think many are entitled and selfish though. We also don’t see the manpower to enforce the rules. We should have curfews and certify why we’re leaving the house etc

Who's going to enforce that in practice? The police force that have also been stripped down to barely present under our government?

@MirrorMirrors

Is it surprising to you that mental health issues are more prevalent or 'thrown around' as you say after a year of restrictions on peoples lives, movements, family, finances, livelihoods etc..? It isn't to me.

I mean I only have to go on my Facebook to see my local community pages have seen a real shocking increase of missing persons, suicides, children running away from home etc...

Mental health is going to be (is already) a big problem. Pretending it isn't won't make a difference. You can roll your eyes and pretend it's just 'thrown about' for the sake of an excuse if you like, and it might be in some cases, but I don't find it surprising, at all in fact, that we are seeing much more people talking about their mental health and having to do things like break 'rules' to help with it. I mean when you think about it, it's pretty fucking awful that seeing your mum for a chat is breaking a law in 2021. No wonder people's MH is plummeting. I don't judge at all.

When i say its been thrown around i mean from personal experience i know it is, my mum has had my brother round for dinner all through lockdowns even thou he lives with his gf and they both work in a hospital, when i questioned it my mum said it was cause she was in his bubble. My mum dont live alone, when i said he doesnt have a bubble she said its because of his mental health. If it was genuinely mental health she would have said. Of course their is genuinely people struggling with their mental health but there is also people who r not but saying they r. We shouldnt ignore that.