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...

@Sunplanetearth8

The only rule I’ve broken is leaving the house twice in a day. Once for a walk with the dog, once to the local Sainsbury’s. Can’t combine the trip because nowhere safe to leave my dog while I go into the shop.

That's not a rule. The once a day is for exercise,. Hence why it's not enforceable because what's to stop you doing two dog walks, a run and a cycle ride to and from work?

Hugged my friend when she was sad after breaking up with her partner.

Wow chuckleknuckles you really don't give a shit do you 😂

Actually what's more interesting about this thread isn't all the selfish granny killers but the fact that people they've bent rules that don't exist.

I took a non essential journey... my 3 very small children were driving me crackers so I bundled everyone in to the car and went for a drive for an hour with music up loud. Everyone enjoyed it and I felt so much better/happier/calmer for getting out of the house. We take lots of walks but on this occasion I needed them strapped down! 😊

Refused to check in to venues with the 1984 app, as a matter of principle; and kept the GPS turned off.

"Exercised" four, five, six times a day, and travelled to it.

Worn a visor instead of a mask; and the mask I do have bears an anti-1984 slogan.

And I'm prepared to do much, much more, until Saint Boris pulls his grubby finger out of his arse, and at the very least admits that his beloved lockdown is causing widespread distress, economic ruin, severe damage to mental health, and thanks us for submitting to this dystopia, instead of constantly blaming the public who pay his wages. He and his merry men are keeping very silent on the damage that their lockdown is causing, instead parroting "people will die". Yes, they will: of suicide and many other reasons caused by lockdown.

Every time dc had symptoms and got tested Dh still went to work

Allowed DD to regularly see her boyfriend on the advice of her Counsellor.
Let DS have a school friend here for tea on his bday

The only rule I broke was to sneak into DS's Halls of Residence because he had not spoken to another living soul in 7 days and had stopped eating or sleeping from the stress of isolation (no one else from his freshers' flat share moved in so he was entirely alone and didn't know anyone else well enough to bubble with them) It wasn't illegal as you are allowed to meet with people living alone to care for them in crisis, but it was a uni violation. It was a bitterly cold day and all cafes were closed so the option was to freeze outside or pretend to be a student and sneak in.

Apart from that, nothing. I get so baffled when I hear people, including family members, having drinks with friends, at the friends' homes, of discovering they have two bubbles. We've seen no one for weeks, no one over Christmas. Nothing. I hate lockdown but there's no point in ignoring it as it will last longer if we do!

God this thread is so depressing. People feeling guilty because they let their kids play outside for the first time since March, ashamed because they sat in a garden with their parents etc.

My dc went into my parents house when we were allowed to meet in gardens. I told them off and took them back out but then they would go in for a wee, stroke the cat, pick something up, wander into the kitchen. My parents encouraged it so I gave up.

I hugged a relative I bumped into outside a shop. It was lovely.

We went to a celebration in a function room restaurant late last year when restaurants were allowed to be open, but strictly speaking I'd imagine they weren't supposed to be holding functions. Family groups were seated together and tables well apart, so no groups were mixing at length but I'm sure there was still a bit too much talking, albeit at a distance, between groups. though we kept apart and put on masks if moving away from our table. Doesn't seem to have been any outbreak of cases from it fortunately.

Was always negative though but still it was a risk but we needed to eat and pay bills

Went to pick my brother up to go to the hospital after my Mum passed away to say our final goodbyes and pick her things up to take home. Completely aware it wasn’t ‘allowed’ however we had been stuck in the hospital room together for 2 months and he is my only surviving relative.

Shared a car with a friend to go shopping. AND we ate out together that day too.

@Breastfeedingworries you say you’ve just had COVID and been really careful lately but also you’ve had casual sex once this year so far. Given that it’s only January, it doesn’t take a genius to work out how you caught it.

@Icantrememebrtheartist

I took a non essential journey... my 3 very small children were driving me crackers so I bundled everyone in to the car and went for a drive for an hour with music up loud. Everyone enjoyed it and I felt so much better/happier/calmer for getting out of the house. We take lots of walks but on this occasion I needed them strapped down! 😊

Ah you reminded me that I took my car around the block every 2-3 weeks in the first lockdown. Figured the fine at the time was a lot less than a new battery or other parts would cost me if it seized up on the driveway.

Have visited my dad (in my "bubble"), PIL and other relatives throughout.

Slightly went over the permitted bubbles at Christmas.

Have had a coffee at a friends house.

Have went shopping with a friend.

Drive up to 30 mins to go for dog walks.

DH goes to a friends house every weekend.

Have allowed dd to have a friend over.

Possibly other things that I've forgot. I wear a mask in shops but don't actually believe they do much, if anything.

@OllietheOwl

God this thread is so depressing. People feeling guilty because they let their kids play outside for the first time since March, ashamed because they sat in a garden with their parents etc.

And that's exactly what they wanted wasn't it? People turning on each other being blamed and shamed, called selfish and stupid. Sad state of affairs.

@GintyMcGinty

I have my nieces for a sleepover one night a fortnight and one night my two go to my sister.

IMy husband and I, sister and her partner all work from home and we see no one else.

Doesn’t this count as a childcare bubble? So totally within the rules

I could argue we were only a risk to each other - but I suppose the argument against that is that if one of us had it and gave it to the other, we could then padd it around our respective immediate family, who might then meet just one other person, who could pass it to their family, who could meet one other person ad infinitum...

This thread is so depressing

@FrostyChocolateMilkshake

To all you people flouting the rules and breaking guidelines, I hope you're happy.

Most of us are breaking our backs trying our hardest to follow government guidelines to get out of this lockdown as quick as possible.

I cannot believe the amount of selfishness I have seen on this thread. It is absolutely disgusting. Why should me and all the other law-abiding people in society make sacrifices so the rest of you can flounce around living your normal lives?

It isn't fair and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Absolutely disgusting and disappointing to see what as a society we are unable to respect each other and work together to beat this thing.

As for you lot meeting "several households" and going to "raves", there are no words for you. But I hope someone you know and love catches Covid.

Utterly, utterly selfish. Fucking morons.

Do you not feel there is a contradiction between presenting yourself as a person who sacrifices to protect the health of others, yet in the same post actually wishing illness on other people? And not even the 'rule breakers', which would be bad enough, but their loved ones?

Back when we could actually go anywhere I pretended to scan the T&T QR code rather than actually scan it.