Household gatherings

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As we trail towards the next deadline, truthfully are people sticking absolutely to the no household mixing etc? Or are people sneaking round to each other's for meals etc

I am sticking to it but only because my husband keeps me on the straight and narrow which is obviously the right thing to do. Just wondered?

We are one of the only countries who have banned mixing households yet one of the highest death rates, hmmm interesting...if you want to stay in your house and not see anyone that’s great, me however I will carry on sensibly seeing my support bubble as I care just as much about mine and others mental health and not just a virus with an overall death rate of 0.66%!!!! ( source: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196573/covid-19-one-five-over-80s-need-hospitalisation/amp/ )

Sticking to the rules a year ago and sticking to the rules now are totally different- you cannot lock people up indefinitely. First we were flattening they curve, then we were reducing the R rate, then schools weren’t going to shut again, now we are talking about single number of infections, really?!
Would I clap for the nhs now? No I wouldn’t- because every appointment for my children for conditions they have (not covid- shock horror), have been remote and utterly pointless!

Also makes me fucking sick to my core to hear people say if you’ve been vaccinated mix away- excuse me!!!! Those last to be vaccinated are least at risk, why not have let them mix for the last year the and tell the elderly and vulnerable to stay inside!!!! But I’m expected to feel guilty for hosting a play date for my 3yr old whilst some vaccinated 70yr
Old books a holiday to Cyprus - piss off!

@southeastdweller

Hell no! And neither is anyone I know. What’s the point in staying away now?

You cannot be serious??

The point is not to transmit Corona virus to others. Where have you been this last year??

FFS

@LucilleTheVampireBat

STOP MIXING HOUSEHOLDS YOU FUCKING SELFISH MORONS!

This is making me feel quite nostalgic for STAY THE FUCK AT HOME.

Selfish, as an insult, really doesn't work anymore. You will have to try harder.

So what insult would work for you? I’m guessing nothing will as you obviously think you are special enough not to have to follow the rules.

We have pretty much. Outside only.
Apart from Mil but she’s in our bubble.

@EileenGC

Yes I am because I want this to end.

The thing is, this will not end. We will get to a point where a combination of low numbers, high % of vaccinated population and low hospital occupancy will mean restrictions are lifted and we start to co-exist with Covid. No more 10 day isolations if you catch the virus, people will just go out and about and spread it in a similar way we spread flu every year. Some people will die, yes, but this virus isn’t going away any time soon.

I am sticking to the rules myself, always have. But where I live we can mix up to two households, and this never changed, even during lockdowns. I’m not sure I’d be doing the same in the UK, it’s starting to get ridiculous. My friend hasn’t legally been allowed to see her long-term boyfriend except for walks since September, because they both live in house shares. Yet she can teach hundreds of non-masked, not-tested children at a school since this Monday. Ridiculous.

It might seem ridiculous on an individual level, but on a national level it's not.

People have been banging on about the 'childrens education' so the Govt were forced to make opening the school fully, a priority

When numbers get lower there's a margin of risk they're ok with taking & so they 'used it up' on opening schools. They could have kept schools closed & let up on lots of other things.

People without children aren't benefitting from schools opening first, but the people benefitting from it seem to be the ones throwing caution to the wind.

Unbelievable! I havent seen my children since october or any family or friends since july. My dh works, im at home all day, twice a week dog walk with a neighbour. Why have i bothered? So all you selfish people stay safe hmm

You’ve said it right there. You have a husband you can talk to every day, he’s at work and (presumably) being paid. You have a neighbour you can meet for walks.

People like me have also been at home all year, but some of us live alone, in a different country to all our relatives and friends, have no neighbours we can walk with, and haven’t actually earned any money over the last 12 months. Try having no human touch for 3-4 months at a time.

I’m in my 20s, I don’t have grandparents or elderly neighbours I interact with, so why have I bothered sticking to the rules? I don’t care if I catch Covid and there’s not many people I can give it to. I’ve checked and we’re all young, healthy, and happy to catch it if it happens. I don’t understand why I’m losing the most important years of my life to a virus that in 99% of cases, doesn’t actually affect people my age.

I completely understand people needing to see other people. We’re a social species, we need contact with other humans. I’m sick of this stoic attitude ‘I haven’t left my front door or seen anyone in a year’. Good for you, your mental health must be incredibly strong for you to endure that.

When numbers get lower there's a margin of risk they're ok with taking & so they 'used it up' on opening schools. They could have kept schools closed & let up on lots of other things.

Or they could’ve opened the schools AND made them safer than they are atm, and allowed people a basic level of social interaction and independence to make individual risk assessments.

People without children aren't benefitting from schools opening first, but the people benefitting from it seem to be the ones throwing caution to the wind.

I completely agree with this though. It’s those of us who have stuck to the rules all year at the cost of our mental health and with seemingly no benefits, that continue to respect rules.

Sticking as we always have. I have tickets to a place that haven't been used in 5 months as it's not 'local', but my friends are still going

@BearPear

We have stuck to it 100% since Christmas. Our son is in our bubble so we have seen him but we haven’t seen my parents or our daughter. Seeing all the other posters are meeting family & friends regardless makes me sad - does it make me the idiot for following the rules?

No, it makes you a sensible, responsible adult.

Thankfully there are some of us around.

Not a lot we can do about idiots doing as they please, we just have to hope enough of us doing what needs to be done keeps the NHS in a state where it can cope & hopefully preventing deaths of innocent people.

I'm sticking to it. It's a pain but at I feel I'm doing 'my bit' if I do. I have severe asthma though and I'm 31.5 weeks pregnant. I'm aware lots of people aren't and I'd say around our friendship group and family it's 50:50.

I live alone so have a support bubble of friends with small kids locally who I visit to help with the childcare/WFH/homeschool fun. I visited my newly widowed dad on Christmas Day, otherwise I last saw my family for my mum's funeral in September. My twin sister had a baby in November, so I have a three month old niece who if I'm lucky I may first see when she's about to turn six months old - as they live a couple of hours away.

It's incredibly depressing to see random people going in and out of my neighbour's house regularly, they've told me directly they've broken lockdown rules even going back to last spring. To hear people talk about fuck it they're doing what they want. The more we stick to only essential and limited contact, the more likely we are to be able to actually follow the roadmap dates. If case rates rise too much and despite vaccination we get pressures on hospitalisations and deaths, it will be pushed back further.

The whole society benefits from schools opening up first. Doctors don't get their qualifications by sending away tokens from a cereal box

I find it depressing that so many of the answers here have been from thick people who don't listen to the rules, do what the hell they like and, presumably are looking forward to a third wave. Well done to all of you.

I never clapped for the NHS. I don't have a support bubble, I'm a LP. I'd rather do my bit to slow down the pandemic than allow it to keep moving around.
I don't have human touch in normal times so it's not a problem now.

We have been bending the rules and meeting another family outside. We will stick to the indoor rules.

@givemushypeasachance
It sounds like you are breaking the rules yourself so I don't think you really have a right to be judgemental about other people. You can't be in a support bubble with multiple households, that's quite a major rule break in my opinion

[quote DancingQueen85]@givemushypeasachance
It sounds like you are breaking the rules yourself so I don't think you really have a right to be judgemental about other people. You can't be in a support bubble with multiple households, that's quite a major rule break in my opinion [/quote]
By "a support bubble of friends with small kids locally" I mean my two friends who are married and have a 4 year old and a 1 year old. It's one household, they're both my friends. That alright with you?

@givemushypeasachance
Absolutely. I'm not the one getting myself upset about who my neighbours are socialising with.

We haven’t mixed indoors. Mainly as my family aren’t close and friends are sticking to indoor rules.
We’ve met up in groups outdoors though.
This week I’ve had a kitchen fitter in my house all day. The cleaner is here now. Plus a man to fix the loo.
I went to a Spanish education class and in a small unventilated room with two of my friends and a teacher. All legal as money is involved.

The last thread like this was deleted. I think it was about a poster seeing her Dad indoors and others were doing the same.

Funny how this one, when more are piling on to say they are now mixing is standing....

We live in a democracy. If compliance on a law is say 40% then the law/rules need to be looked at.

I’m pleased people are making their own risk assessments now and thinking of mental health. This government have monumentally messed up. To say we can’t see family and friends inside for another two months is ridiculous after a year of this shit.

Other countries do not have these rules on family indoor meeting. Maybe if they made a sensible rule like rule of 6 indoors people might actually follow it.

If compliance is low now what do we think it will be like in a month? Then there’s still another month to go. Makes a mockery of it and to needs to change.

Nope. We just follow the rules. Pisses me off when people do what the hell they want.

You've done so well, don't join the feckless idiots now 💐

Ooh the insult has moved from 'selfish' to 'feckless idiots' now. Hahaha.

I’m sticking to it but luckily I’m a single parent so I get to bubble up with my parents.

It is frustrating when other people are not sticking to it as they are usually the type that can afford to pay the fine but those who struggle financially aren’t able to.

Ooh the insult has moved from 'selfish' to 'feckless idiots' now. Hahaha.

I'm surprised MURDERERS hasn't been shouted yet.

At least us "feckless idiots" are honest idiots.

@Cookiecrisps

I am following the rules and will continue to do so. I work in a primary school where I feel that there are barely any mitigation measures so it has made me tighten up on all non school areas of my life. I also strongly feel that I have a duty of care to all the children in class and my colleagues which means following the rules. I would be saddened if the families of children I work with and my colleagues were deliberately flouting rules by having sleepovers and indoor gatherings etc as that’s a huge slap in the face when we have worked so hard to make school a happy welcoming space to support these children.

Absolutely this.