Venting about family and friends not sticking to rules thread

[nanbread]

I'm feeling pissed off because I want this to end, but I know so many people of all ages and backgrounds who aren't sticking to Covid rules, and I feel like this sort of behaviour is prolonging us coming out of lockdown.

PIL have regular dinner dates (2/3 per week) with different people each time.

Friends and family members are going to each other's houses because they don't like walks. And not just locally either - in some cases traveling 50/60 miles to see friends.

Friends of my DC are having birthday parties inviting others - just slightly smaller ones, at home.

I'm not talking about people who are lonely or in MH crisis who need some human contact. I understand this situation is horrible, I hate it, and I don't blame them for wanting to socialise, but I'm annoyed that it is potentially costing my children more weeks and months off school, costing me more of my career, making me wait longer for a happier life.

@DuchessofHastings1

Maybe if you listened to what others are saying, you might not get so pissed off. If you think children's tea parties are prolonging the lockdown, no wonder your getting your knickers in a twist.

Nope, still pissed off. My general level of ire is high - as you yourself said, people are angry. And yes, I'm focusing a small quantity of my ire on people who have fucked off the lockdown guidance, because MY life cannot change as they are changing theirs, and no one has shown me any evidence that their actions are NOT prolonging it.

@Linearpark

Oh dear Nanbread (it's naan btw) you have sooooo much faith you clearly haven't actually checked for evidence-based peer -reviewed articles, have you! It's proper frightening. It's reality denial.

No, it's nanbread. (It's called a pun btw.)

And you have about as much idea of what I've read as you seem to have about puns.

You are fond of googling Nanbread try googling Vincent Racionello, Hugotalks, Ivor Cummins, Dr Been, Coimmunity, ZOE, Dr John Campbell, Bjorn Andreas... both sides included here, and don't forget World Economic Forum! You will own nothing and be happy, as Klaus Schwaab says.

Nanbread, I am a bioinformatics computer programmer who specialises in immunogenetics of antibodies in immunodiagnostics. Denial denial denial.

If you had read a lot Nanbread, you would know the truth.

Wow, what a lot of angry covid denial on this thread!

Op I’m with you. I have a friend who was meant to quarantine but didn’t bother. Our mutual friend’s mum had died of covid three months earlier. It’s unbelievable to me that friend A would take that risk, knowing how her actions could affect others. She has a large home and garden, works from home etc. Quarantining would not have been that hard.

I did not deny covid, that is a bare faced lie.

@nanbreadNope, still pissed off. My general level of ire is high - as you yourself said, people are angry. And yes, I'm focusing a small quantity of my ire on people who have fucked off the lockdown guidance, because MY life cannot change as they are changing theirs, and no one has shown me any evidence that their actions are NOT prolonging it.

And you or anyone else has provided any evidence they ARE prolonging it so why get your knickers in a twist? People have stuck to lockdown guidance for a year and wheres it got them? Same place.

@Newkittyangry Covid deniers here we go again. As soon as anyone makes it clear they are anti lockdown, were Covid deniers/Covidiots and the rest. Fasc

Nanbread back to your original post which seems to of been slightly hi jacked, yes its shit when your trying your best to follow the ruled and your teenagers / kids are whilst others blatantly break them but there isn' t a lot you can do.
All this lockdown doesn't work yet we have gone from 50000 a day to 15000 or thereabouts, so the proof is there, yes its not sustainable forever and getting to zero not achievable by lockdown alone here.
And those that think people who break the rules regularly don't contribute to the virus spreading , what do they think does then?
Really you can only worry about yourself , its made me look at some in a different light, not little rule breakers but those that really don't follow barely any of it just because they don't want to and don't see why they should
Someone suffering who goes and has a quick chat in a garden say as they are at breaking point etc I can understand but people going about as though nothing has happened visiting multiple people , several times a week do annoy me . Most of us are struggling

We also haven't been in lockdown a year , tiers are no lockdown and by many countries standards our lockdown isn't even as harsh
Yes its shit but how have numbers gone down? Just luck

Nanbread, I am a bioinformatics computer programmer who specialises in immunogenetics of antibodies in immunodiagnostics. Denial denial denial.

Doesn't make you right though its your opinion, as many more qualified disagree plus you could work at tesco , we can all say we are anything on here

How's your anger and ire at the government and the professional sports folk who can internationally jet set for 'essential ' games??

How's your anger and ire at the government and the professional sports folk who can internationally jet set for 'essential ' games??

You can have anger at both but thats not what this thread is about, there are plenty of threads about what you have brought up

Going against the grain on here and agreeing with you OP! It is annoying that these actions do stop the numbers coming down faster, hence in lockdown longer, with adverse impacts to health (covid and non-covid), economy and education.

Linear 'I am a bioinformatics computer programmer who specialises in immunogenetics of antibodies in immunodiagnostics'

-as well you might be; but the reality is all but no one gives a pygmies about The Science. And frankly, you being what amounts to a 'computer programmer' fails to impress in 2021. So's my 14 year old.

That doesn't tell us that you understand the science anymore than a court stenographer is required to understand the Points Of Order.

@donewithitalltodayandxmas

How's your anger and ire at the government and the professional sports folk who can internationally jet set for 'essential ' games??

You can have anger at both but thats not what this thread is about, there are plenty of threads about what you have brought up

Its not what this thread is about? Says who? So 'ordinary ' people who are seeing family because of the horrific impact on mental health are MUCH more to blame than footballers flying from 2 countries to a third and jumping all over each other a mix of 40+ house holds for one game?

I agree too OP, incredibly frustrating. It’s generally just complete selfishness. Nothing more to it. Their “basic human rights” bla bla are more important than everyone else’s so they will do as they please.

If you want the restrictions to end, join them. If you don't want the restrictions to end, don't.

It's simple. The government isn't some sort of benevolent charitable organisation. Remember that Cummings' first response was 'so what if some old people die'? They're not motivated by conviction, they're just reactive. People for a very long time wanted a lockdown and were very frightened by Covid. So we have had them. As soon as they sense we don't want lockdown any more and their own political futures are on the line, it will be over.

@ElderlyTruthseeker1942 “what price is a few years of lockdown”? Are you kidding me? For starters how about the price is thousands of lost local businesses, God knows how many lost jobs, kids‘ educations drastically impacted, increase in domestic violence, cancer and other diseases undiagnosed till it’s too late, loss of the right to protest. Those are some of the prices.

If posters who are badmouthing my opinions would like, they may pm me and i'll provide links to my publications in the field of of diagnostic immunology, my PhD thesis and proof of id.

Laughing my ass off at the thought of ' 'cooking, A good book, Knitting or sewing, walk in the garden and meditation' whilst looking after a toddler, a newborn and trying to keep a business afloat.
Alright for some I guess.

This is a seriously weird thread I'm not going to lie.

I thought I could see where it was going to go by the first post, but then @Linearpark came along to brighten it all up, sounding absolutely batshit, with some very strange sounding conspiracy theories and urging us to seek the truth... Whilst using lots of big long important words to make us believe that they're some sort of scientist.

I'm deeply sorry my dear but I do not believe a word you've written, however it's made for a very funny if not somewhat bizarre thread at 4am

@DuchessofHastings1

Good for them

A year into this and people have had enough. We've had a year of our lives and our children's lives on hold and people have got to the point where enough is enough.
If people can go to hospitals who are ill and cant be separated from Covid patients and catch the virus, I'm sure your friends children can have a birthday party.
If people can pack into supermarkets and BM for a plant then your family can go to each others house.

Their behaviour is normal human behaviour, who need to interact and socialise.
Our government changing the goal posts due to variants (which they had anticipated from the start) is prolonging lockdown.

Let them do what they want and you carry on with your life.

What an incredibly selfish remark