Taking responsibility for our own risks *title edited by MNHQ at OP's request*

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Sorry for the DF link: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9194443/FOUR-members-family-died-Covid-met-Christmas-bubble.html

So the woman's fiance (a supermarket worker) met up with his parents for 2 hours on Christmas Day. His parents and uncle tested positive within the next week. Another uncle then had it passed on to him when one of the family went round to assist when the fiance's mum was in hospital.

This is obviously heartbreaking for the family - but how can you say that this is entirely the fault of the government? The writing was on the wall, mixing over Christmas was obviously going to spread the disease, but they took the risk of meeting up and now this has happened. I'm not sure the government could have made it any clearer that meeting up over Christmas WOULD cause deaths.

Frustrating as hell listening to people who took the risk and are now suffering the consequences, when our family decided it wasn't worth risking it and put a million socially distanced measures into place to protect my grandma in her 90s - he passed away in June from undiagnosed stage 4 ovarian cancer, with none of us having seen her since March.

You took the chance, you knew the risks.

While it's very sad, this blame thing is madness? Does she intend to sue?

One thing strikes me looking at that article and it certainly isn't that her partner looked in the picture of health, even though she claims he had no underlying conditions.

But we are not allowed to mention this.

@Mousehole10

It’s very sad, but I fail to see how it’s the governments fault. No one forced them to meet up, they took the risk.

Agree.

@PrincessNutNuts

Motorway speed limits are a political and economic decision, the same as the covid rules.

Would the family have done it if it was against the rules?

Would they have broken the law to do it?

Would these deaths have been prevented if the mixing had not been allowed?

The rules are the problem. Not the people.

Do you honestly believe this family thought covid wouldn't spread xmas day?

We all knew the risks.

Some of us decided to take them some didn't.

Some were lucky the risk didn't affect them - some wearnt

But we all knew if we mixed covid was a risk.

@Barnicus

I really don't like the blame culture that is developing around corona.

It's a virus, it's going to do what it's going to do. There doesn't always have to be someone to blame.

Loads of people are catching it in hospital, are they to blame for breaking their hip, or are they somehow more worthy than someone who nipped to the shops for a bar of chocolate to cheer themselves up and caught it.

Remember the good old days when we just used to feel sympathy for the sick and dying rather than try to blame them or rate the worthiness of how the caught it.

4 people in the one family died, how about maybe just thinking what a shame rather that who's fault it is.

Well said!

Not the governments fault. It's time for people to take responsibility for their own actions, instead of blaming others. From the images It looks as though her partner had an underlying health condition of obesity. It's been mentioned time and time again being overweight increases the risks associated with Covid. It's an underlying health condition and rightly so.
I feel for the partner, but she needs to realise they were adults who took a risk, and unfortunately it had terrible consequences.

In the article I read, one of the family did feel unwell but dismissed it and still met up. Unfortunately there are so many people who just don’t understand

I'm no supporter of this government and there are lots of ways in which they have handled it badly. I do think it was bad judgement to encourage families to meet up at Christmas time.

But the risks were clear and grown adults are supposed to be able to make their own risk assessments. However, this lady is grieving and understandably looking for someone blame. Maybe a little compassion wouldn't go amiss? It's really tragic that all four of them died, I'm not surprised that she's lashing out.

@AuntyClementine

I’m not sure the blame culture is really anything new. It’s been around for years. If you trip over a paving slab, it’s the council’s fault. If you fall down the pub stairs it’s the pub’s fault for having stairs. I once worked for a law firm and someone called because they wanted to claim because they tripped over the rug in their living room. They beat a retreat when they were told the claim would be against themselves.

But who did they think they could claim against - the rug manufacturer?!