Lockdown is where middle-class people hide and working-class people bring them stuff

[havanacabana]

I’ve seen this quote on twitter a few times and realised there is actually a lot of truth to it. IRL most of the people I know who are truly able to ‘hide away’ are the middle-class, privileged ones who are currently on furlough or working from home. People I know on minimum wage are the ones having to go out and mix at work in supermarkets, takeaways, warehouses etc. to keep everything going.

This thread is hilarious. People jockeying for position to be less "middle-class" 😹

Y'all love to pin the labels the rich provide for you onto each other and then fight about it don't you.

Divide and rule.

Wake the fuck up and start shouting at the wanker in Downing Street and his sociopathic Etonian mates who caused this fucking mess.

Unfortunately Covid doesn’t pick and choose who it affects, people from all walks of life.
I say well done to those keeping us going, whether it be delivery drivers, supermarket workers, NHS staff and carers.

Household me and DD. DD on Mon wage in hospitality, currently furloughed on 80% pay. I'm furloughed as highly vulnerable and need to be shielded. Work in Care Industry on around £1 an hour more than min wage so certainly not megabucks. Are we middle class? Not according to our income certainly. Do working people"bring us stuff? When we can get a delivery slot, yes. And we're bloody grateful! Otherwise, DD dons PPE and braves local shops.
Mumsnet and their champagne socialist generalisations!

‘Hide’ is a very emotive word to use. How would it help if middle class people left their homes and went out to work?

If you work for your living you are Working Class
The only one’s who haven’t ever or don’t work for their living.Are not working class because they don’t go to work simple
I think you will find some very “high class” people who work
for a living therefore are working class because they go to work regardless
of what their jobs are or where they live or how much they have in the bank.
Those days of class was more or less got fuzzy during and after WW1
Why can’t people be nice to each other and start trouble 👿
This pandemic is bad enough without all this

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum
Basically true. Just look at the occupations of the people most likely too catch the virus. Let alone die.

What like doctors & teachers?

I do broadly agree with OP though.

sorry not

jj19094
This thread is hilarious. People jockeying for position to be less "middle-class" 😹

Y'all love to pin the labels the rich provide for you onto each other and then fight about it don't you.

Divide and rule.

Wake the fuck up and start shouting at the wanker in Downing Street and his sociopathic Etonian mates who caused this fucking mess.

WELL SAID. About time people did wake up and evict him & the rest of his millionaire mates out of their common room in no 10. I hate him so much, I was REALLY disappointed when he survived Covid. I wanted him to die. No comments on this please, I am allowed to feel like this and be honest, no nicey nicey.

This is largely (but not wholly) true, but what is the point of saying this?

I am currently wfh, and am certainly not middle class. I just do a job that can be done on a computer at home. My DP has been working throughout (plumber) so suppose you'd call him working class, however he earns more than double what I do.....

We're middle class. DH hasn't hidden - he's worked relentlessly to keep other people safe during this pandemic. Last week he tested positive for Coronavirus which he caught from his workplace. I now also have it.

Coronavirus really doesn't care about class.

Coronavirus doesn't care about class, but working class people are more likely to die from it. I think it's self evident that a lot of people on low incomes are working to keep the middle classes comfortable by e.g. delivering their amazon parcels It's also true that anything bad that happens: coronavirus, austerity, global warming, recession... People on lower incomes always suffer the brunt of it.

@ValancyRedfern

Coronavirus doesn't care about class, but working class people are more likely to die from it. I think it's self evident that a lot of people on low incomes are working to keep the middle classes comfortable by e.g. delivering their amazon parcels It's also true that anything bad that happens: coronavirus, austerity, global warming, recession... People on lower incomes always suffer the brunt of it.

Coronavirus really does care about class. Sadly outcomes vary enormously depending on social class.

We need to be addressing healthcare inequality. The virus affects the poor disproportionately.

@amispeakingenglish

evict him & the rest of his millionaire mates ... I hate him so much, I was REALLY disappointed when he survived Covid. I wanted him to die

I will comment on this. You can't help your feelings. but this is an awful thing to say.

Why should this kind of hate, discriminatory speech be tolerated when directed at people with some characteristics and not others?

Plenty of hardworking doctors and teachers in the middle classes and plenty of working class sitting on their asses on benefits.
My eldest two are both at uni, middle class and both working PT in supermarkets now, they couldn’t get as my hours before the pandemic.
It’s a silly and divisive little tweet.

@GreySkyClouds if you weren't literate, how would you pass a degree ? Essays? Assignments? Dissertations? You need to be relatively literate to do that.
They saved my life yes and one of my babies. The other one was a late stillborn baby though so it isn't a nice story.

But I still think that you're being harsh to midwives unnecessarily

trulydelicious
@amispeakingenglish

evict him & the rest of his millionaire mates ... I hate him so much, I was REALLY disappointed when he survived Covid. I wanted him to die

I will comment on this. You can't help your feelings. but this is an awful thing to say.

Why should this kind of hate, discriminatory speech be tolerated when directed at people with some characteristics and not others?

. What on earth...so a rich prat who has ruined the country & should have his head on a spike at the Tower of London. I can only assume you a supporter of the worst government we have had. Your message doesn't even make sense, 'some characteristics' What?? Someone who thinks they are better than everyone else, LAZY & that's a fact, I know someone who worked for him as mayor.... breeds all over the place, LIES, & doesn't give a toss about you, me, or anyone but his fellow rich overprivileged cronies? These qualities are his choice. You are deluded if you defend him. Anyway I am entitled to my opinion, as you are to yours & we don't have to agree. Just as I don't really care what you think, you have no right to challenge me. We are all entitled to our opinions. I don't know him so why should it affect me if he had dies, except to be happy that the worst prime minister and not a very nice person is dead. A lot of very nice and much better than him people have been killed in this pandemic. Specialist doctors, with years of knowledge, someone very nice I knew, kind, caring people.. Yet this total ignorant shit lives?? How is that fair or right. It's not awful at all, in your opinion but not mine. Its true.

Coronavirus really does care about class. Sadly outcomes vary enormously depending on social class

We need to be addressing healthcare inequality. The virus affects the poor disproportionately.

This. Finally someone speaking some sense.

@amispeakingenglish

trulydelicious *@amispeakingenglish*

evict him & the rest of his millionaire mates ... I hate him so much, I was REALLY disappointed when he survived Covid. I wanted him to die

I will comment on this. You can't help your feelings. but this is an awful thing to say.

Why should this kind of hate, discriminatory speech be tolerated when directed at people with some characteristics and not others?

. What on earth...so a rich prat who has ruined the country & should have his head on a spike at the Tower of London. I can only assume you a supporter of the worst government we have had. Your message doesn't even make sense, 'some characteristics' What?? Someone who thinks they are better than everyone else, LAZY & that's a fact, I know someone who worked for him as mayor.... breeds all over the place, LIES, & doesn't give a toss about you, me, or anyone but his fellow rich overprivileged cronies? These qualities are his choice. You are deluded if you defend him. Anyway I am entitled to my opinion, as you are to yours & we don't have to agree. Just as I don't really care what you think, you have no right to challenge me. We are all entitled to our opinions. I don't know him so why should it affect me if he had dies, except to be happy that the worst prime minister and not a very nice person is dead. A lot of very nice and much better than him people have been killed in this pandemic. Specialist doctors, with years of knowledge, someone very nice I knew, kind, caring people.. Yet this total ignorant shit lives?? How is that fair or right. It's not awful at all, in your opinion but not mine. Its true.

@amispeakingenglish you really don't sound very well. Have you thought about any anger management therapy?

@havanacabana
Ha Ha, I am so calm, glass half full and very optimistic, its just a bit of fun to wind people up.... no anger problems at all, because I can be angry if I want and calm when I want. Its harmful to pretend you don't get angry and you are being very passive aggressive, perhaps anger scares you? You seem to be very bothered by it, or what you perceive to be anger, and by the way I'm not typing in a seething rage, I'm watching Grayson Perry actually. You should look to analyse yourself and why you seem to care so much about my comments? Why do they get to you? Does it take a lot to keep up your persona?
'Nice' people are often not nice at all. You can carry on entertaining me if you like!!

I'm not a fan of vitriol or spite. To me it says more about the person giving it than the one receiving it.

So long as you are ok. That is all.