Would you call the police...

[spongebob1000]

...on your neighbours?

My neighbours are having friends around atm. They have people around often and don't care about lockdown rules. They never cared really. I am a bit jealous tbh that they are having people around having fun/ drinking, when we can't have friends around due to obvious reasons.

I think there are 6people in the house.

What would you do?

Nothing. If you report them, you still have to live next to them with that on your conscious.

@XenoBitch My conscience would be very clear with my trying to stop people dying.

I suppose it does mean possible repercussions/stress if they find out/guess who called (the police wouldn't tell them.)

What I wish I would do is photoshop the heads of loads of my friends and family onto some huge posh party do maybe even Downtonish or Notting Hill Carnival or a combo and post it on Facebook.

Just because

Ignore them

@AubergineDream

I would mind my own business, actually I would go further than that and give them my blessing and wish them well and covid away from them. If they got covid, I would be sympathetic, offer any help I can give, and not judge them either.

For my own conscience I follow the rules as closely as I can. But I will break them to help other people and to share some human kindness. That's my personal social contract.

You and delphinium blue sound like two lovely people and there are others on this thread also We are constantly surrounded by a soup of viruses and bacteria. It’s their planet too you know.

@IAmongstTheWorld

I would think about whether causing someone else misery would actually make me any happier.

For me, it wouldn't.

For me it would. If they were acting in a way that was endangering life, which your neighbours are. I’d shop them without a second thought.

@Hercules12

This reminds me of neighbours reporting each other to the Nazis. That said I would moan to mt kids too and to my family on our next zoom call.

please dont say that ts not comparable in the slightest

@nimbuscloud

I would call the police I’m sick of selfish fucking bastards My views may be coloured by hearing of 3 Covid deaths today of people that are known to me

Sorry for your loss @nimbuscloud

I completely agree with you. Bloody idiots like that are not going to help this nightmare go away.

I wouldn't call the police in that situation, but I wish I could on people who post advice like "have friends round yourself".

I have some advice for people. Walk in fast moving traffic. Reclaim your right to stand somewhere stupid. You have nothing to lose.

@spongebob1000

I knew they'd be Clappers.

Bastards. I've changed my mind and you should report them.

off to walk into some fast moving traffic due to advice I received on mumsnet because I cant think for myself

There’s a reason the fines only apply to groups above 15

No one - even police- won’t call for less than that

Of course there diff between huge groups

I see two of my mates each week for drinks

But we are all 3x tested per week and none of us mix with vulnerables

We put less at risk than those in legal bubbles with family

I haven’t seen my parents indoors since March 2020

How many can say that?

If ur parents are married then you’ve broken rules to meet them as no bubble has allowed that (Xmas aside)

I'd report them. This is a deadly virus, by mixing they are potentially going to cause a spike in your local area, which is endangering lives, including yours if you use the same local amenities

It’s cross generational mixing that’s issue

If people isolate from older people it’s minimal risk

Most people moaning also see parents and grandparents

I mix with friends but none of us see parents

Our risk I assure you is lower than others

@pastanred wow 11 months in and you still don't get it. So none of you go to shops or anywhere you might come into contact with elderly or vulnerable people...

I would report them.

Covid doesn’t pass on those areas

There a reason contact is “15 mins” within 2m

Not passing briefly!

And before you say “supermarkets are the main place everyone who’s tested positive has been” - that’s because every adult goes the supermarket once a week!!!

No evidence it actually transmits in supermarkets - it’s just that everyone has been!

Bubbles, hospitals and workplaces it transmits

I haven’t mixed out of my age group in a year

I meet friends all time - Indoor and out and have done throughout

I’m border of Liverpool/lancs , so peak area - I’ve been on lockdown all year with month off in July/Aug

Not one of us has had virus - not a single member of our families - and we are tested 2-3 x a week as part of Jobs

I work everyday as do my mates but we made choice to isolate from family

Not once have we seen family indoor since March

How many can say that?

I would mind my own business. And I’m an ex police officer married to a serving police officer.

I find these threads upsetting.

It is your business and we're in a pandemic where every extra social interaction has the potential to start a chain of infection which will eventually kill someone. Even if someone does not become ill, another infected person means another opportunity for mutations to occur which leads to the emergence of new strains.

You're not a bad person for wanting to report to the police. I'm not sure if I would for 6 people, because arguably that could be within the guidelines of bubbles etc.

I find the Nazi comparisons so unbelievably offensive in this context. Reporting your neighbour for their religious beliefs, resulting in torture and murder is not what we're talking about but people seem to love bringing it up.

Here your neighbours will get a ticking off or a fine, and hopefully change their actions which are going against guidance that's been put in place to save lives.

I'm not a lockdown fan and it's precisely because of this that I would report them (because I don't want lockdown to last a second longer than it has to)

I hate people who do this - we all want to see our friends and family but most of us are showing patience and restraint in the hope that restrictions will be lifted soon

@Chimboo

I would mind my own business. And I’m an ex police officer married to a serving police officer.

and before anyone says it; no, we aren’t breaking the rules ourselves. My husband is recently had a brain tumour removed, he could have died but hasn’t seen his family. He would love nothing more. But shopping your neighbour for having a mate round solves nothing and the police are overwhelmed as it is.

I can’t believe people think it’s the odd person having family or friend around that’s causing lockdown 🤷‍♀️

No offence but are people that thick?

All the mixing that goes on .......in work
School
Hospitals
Care home
Bubbles

All these “legal” places mixing hundreds of people without distancing and you blame your neighbour having someone Over? Are you that stupid?

Get some reality please!

@Pastanred

I can’t believe people think it’s the odd person having family or friend around that’s causing lockdown 🤷‍♀️

No offence but are people that thick?

All the mixing that goes on .......in work
School
Hospitals
Care home
Bubbles

All these “legal” places mixing hundreds of people without distancing and you blame your neighbour having someone Over? Are you that stupid?

Get some reality please!

Are you that thick? Do you think it's sheer coincidence that

It's not correct at all that police won't act if needed if numbers less than 15.

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.... that infection rates have reduced dramatically since lockdown and the reduction in the amount of household mixing that now can take place?

Exactly @Pastanred my son needs to use public transport to get to school and school insist on this despite them having the means of picking up. Their reasons for no longer picking the children up is due to covid safety reasons. Yet by encouraging the children to use public transport, they're adding more risks. It boggles my mind.

Then those who call the police. The police never go solo, so however many enter the property are potentially exposed, or are exposing those in the home and then the officers go around however many other people afterwards.

But yeah, it's only the rule breakers and non mask wearers who are to blame for this virus.