People who would like lockdown indefinitely

[PooRaulsRagDace]

Some of the threads on here have me thinking of my mother. She’s no longer with us but l know that if she were still alive then this pandemic would have been a gift from god.

Put bluntly she had no life, she never wanted to leave the house, go to work, learn to drive, she had no friends, no hobbies, no interest in anything at all except daytime TV and having a drink.

She knew that she was judged for her lifestyle and she knew she was very much in the minority and deep down it bothered her.

She loved snowy weather - snow days meant you couldn’t leave the house! No one judged you for staying in all day, you were fully expected to stay at home.

The pandemic has allowed people like this to relax and be safe in the knowledge that no one is expected to leave the home. All the people in my circle continually calling for further lockdown are people who don’t or don’t like working, never go anywhere, never do anything and have few friends and no outside interests.

People with young children who are not sending them back to school at all - I suspect so they don’t have to bother getting dressed to take them. It’s the same type of people!

No one that I know who is working, who has hobbies, friends, interests are calling for further lockdowns - only people with no lives anyway.

Anyone else notice this?

Wow. How judgemental.

I think some people have enjoyed the drama of it.

My mum was a real misery whore and loved nothing more then telling me about terrible tragedies and how awful it was. She could barely wait to call me when she heard about a neighbour's brain cancer for example.
She'd have been in her element with the daily death stats.

Twaddle.
I work, have hobbies, friends, drive, travel. I’ve still enjoyed lockdown and in no rush to get back to normal.
I am fortunate to WFH and live in a beautiful rural place. In no rush for commuting and socialising.
I don’t want lockdown forever but could do the rest of the year happily. I only want normality for those struggling, not myself.

I think people like your mum are a very small minority though aren't they. Most people are somewhere in the middle of liking staying at home and going out all the time.

I do think your comment of people not getting their kids dressed is odd/judemental.

You don't sound like a very nice person.

You'd think my life was empty and worthless but guess what, I'm okay with my choices.

Agreed. I've never seen anything like the utter misery from posters on here who are clearly hoping and praying for yet another lockdown, wallowing on their own misery day in day out, trying to bring others down with them. It's really worrying.

I agree OP. I think there are swathes of people on MN who have absolutely revelled in many aspects of the past year, with lockdown being their ideal state. The desperation on here the last couple of days as we start to think beyond "staying the fuck at home" is galling. Why anyone would want to continue this hideous non life existence we have had since Christmas is truly astonishing.

Why extend it longer than it needs to be though? There’s definitely an element of people who are quite frankly too lazy to want to get ‘back to normal’. And it’s dressed up as concern that we are unlocking too soon.

I see it every day. Woman on the news earlier stood on her doorstep in her pyjamas saying she wasn’t sending her kids back to school, it was too soon. Are you sure it’s not because you can’t be bothered getting dressed to take them?

Yes I’ve noticed but only on here and Twitter.

People refusing to send their kids to school, teachers threatening to boycott, others wanting lockdown until at least 2022. I don’t know if it’s almost a year of fear building up causing them to be irrational, or maybe they don’t actually believe it but enjoy scaremongering or if for some it’s just pure stupidity.

The problem is that it’s these people who shout the loudest and so are most heard.

While it might be phrased not very well it's certainly my experience that people who've been out to work for the past year have a very different outlook in general to those who've choosen to become hermits for non medical reasons.

@PooRaulsRagDace

Why extend it longer than it needs to be though? There’s definitely an element of people who are quite frankly too lazy to want to get ‘back to normal’. And it’s dressed up as concern that we are unlocking too soon.

I see it every day. Woman on the news earlier stood on her doorstep in her pyjamas saying she wasn’t sending her kids back to school, it was too soon. Are you sure it’s not because you can’t be bothered getting dressed to take them?

I agree with this too.

Who’s going to be incentivised go back to work if they’re receiving 80% of their pay to do nothing.

What nonsense!

Some people are more vulnerable than others. Some are more anxious than others. Some are more risk averse than others. None of these things mean that they don't have lives, jobs, hobbies or friends.

Are you always this judgemental towards people who don't share your views?

One of my long-departed elderly relatives would have loved this pandemic. So many random illnesses and deaths of the most tenuous aquaintences of aquaintences to gossip whisper reverently over.

For the last 25 years of her life, she lived mainly in her kitchen with the occasional being ferried around to places like church. The past year would have had little practical impact on her.

She'd have loved it.

Initially I liked the excuse to have cosy, lazy weekends. That’s as far as it went.

People with young children who are not sending them back to school at all - I suspect so they don’t have to bother getting dressed to take them. It’s the same type of people!

What a weird thing to say.

You’re right OP.

@AlexaShutUp

What nonsense!

Some people are more vulnerable than others. Some are more anxious than others. Some are more risk averse than others. None of these things mean that they don't have lives, jobs, hobbies or friends.

Are you always this judgemental towards people who don't share your views?

But that's not what the OP is saying, unless I'm reading it wrongly, she's not saying that vunerable people don't have jobs or that anxious people don't have hobbies, that would be nonsense

As I understand it she's saying that their is a group of people who don't have jobs, hobbies, friends etc and are quite happy for us to stay locked down indefinitely as it normalises their lifestyle.

Have I got that right?

Well I don't think I fit your theory. I have loads of friends and too many hobbies and so do my family. We would go out and do stuff every weekend. I have enjoyed lockdown though. It's been nice to have my family to myself and not have to be constantly running around. It's put things in perspective a bit for me.

I like being at home. I love spending time with my children and have lots of activities I enjoy. I don't much enjoy being overcharged for sub-par food in restaurants, shouting conversations in sticky bars or rubbing elbows with leery beery males in pubs.

The only thing I've really missed is seeing relatives who live in distant places.

Ironically I've not been furloughed as I work in an essential industry - I think it would have been the very heaven for me!

I can look through my Facebook feed and all the people who don’t want lockdown to end, who don’t want the schools to open are the people who don’t work, don’t like working, don’t leave their house anyway, don’t go anywhere, take their children anywhere etc.

It’s really annoyed me today the number of threads saying we won’t be ‘back to normal’ anytime soon or ‘we’ll be locked down again in the autumn’.

Well buckle up people, it finally looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel so be thankful for that.

Absolutely this! It normalises their lifestyle- exactly what I’m saying, thank you. It gives them confirmation that they are no longer the ‘odd ones out’.

I did try to reply to @Ch3rish thank you - it’s exactly what I’m trying to get across. You put it far more eloquently than me.

I’m surprised you’re friends with all these people you’re sneering at. What a nasty post.

I've not stopped working at all during the lockdown periods. I've complied with all the guidelines/laws as have all my friends, family and colleagues. It's not really been a hardship as I felt that everyone was working towards the same goal. The only people I see that are miserable, are those that can't understand that to achieve as near normalcy as possible with a global virus in circulation, is to be patient and stick with guidelines developed by people that know better than them.

My mum would've loved it too! She was very antisocial and would've loved being at home not having to do anything, especially if she was on furlough and still being paid. She'd have also been another one researching all the latest stats and curtain twitching for rule breakers! I don't think she'd be reporting them to anyone except me and my sister though