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Would you call the police if neighbours had family round?

274 replies

Baileysforchristmas · 04/04/2021 09:04

Just wondering if people will still call the police if next door had more than 2 households not in the garden?

OP posts:
FireflyRainbow · 05/04/2021 12:44

No. My uncle delivered my children easter eggs and I invited him in, it was nice! My neighbours have had people visiting inside throughout so I know none of them would report me for doing it once all year.

trappedsincesundaymorn · 05/04/2021 17:22

Maybe take a trip to a COVID ward and see where that attitude has got people

Nice bit of victim blaming there. Hmm

flumposie · 05/04/2021 18:03

Nope.

TristantheTyrannosaurus · 05/04/2021 18:04

No. As long as they are not blasting music I don't give a fuck what other people do.

TristantheTyrannosaurus · 05/04/2021 18:08

Maybe take a trip to a COVID ward and see where that attitude has got people.

Oooo, me, me! I had no idea they were taking visits, like the zoo. I need to see the hairdresser first, though, and get my share of the sanctimony, no fair Raspberry gets it all.

canigooutyet · 05/04/2021 18:22

Maybe take a trip to a COVID ward and see where that attitude has got people

Why do people post tripe like this? I mean come on like the hospitals are going to let us just have a wander around the wards to begin with.

When cyclists are racing through red lights without any care to themselves or anyone else no-one says eh go and have a walk around ICU to see the last prat who did this.

Or go around the wards during the winter to see flu patients and see why you need that vaccine. Or how about lets all go and gawp at adults in hospital with whooping cough?

Scottishskifun · 05/04/2021 18:39

Like most I would report a big party but nothing else.

Unfortunately covid isn't going away and like other viruses yes it naturally mutates. We have to learn to live with it and everyone has their own level of what is an acceptable risk to them or not.

I've said it many times on MN the rhetoric that you only catch covid if you break the rules is gobs wallop. Actually the places its circulating is work places and hospitals most but they can't shut these places down so it comes back to the govt message of you won't catch it if you do as we say.....

There are too many asystomatic cases for that to be true and its a great virus at spreading!

I say all this from bed as I got covid from my DS exposure at nursery through a asystomatic case in his bubble who's parent was also asystomatic and picked up through their routine testing! I unfortunately have a moderate case and it's been pretty horrible. But reality is that we are all going to have to live with it and probably have it at some point depending on vaccination although hopefully will be milder then mine!

TristantheTyrannosaurus · 05/04/2021 18:43

I wouldn't even report a big party. I'd probably chap the door and ask to join in.

WouldBeGood · 05/04/2021 18:45

@TristantheTyrannosaurus

I wouldn't even report a big party. I'd probably chap the door and ask to join in.
Me too
Roselilly36 · 05/04/2021 18:49

No I wouldn’t dream of it.

LatteLoverLovesLattes · 05/04/2021 18:50

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss

If under six so within the rules then no. Over six and breaking the rules would be different.
Clearly you missed the 'not in the garden'.

So yes, breaking the guidelines.

OP - I wouldn't call the police, it's hardly a rave! But I do think you're being selfish & irresponsible. Why are you so special that the rules don't apply to you. Why could you not stay in the garden? (Someone else's garden if you don't have one yourself).

moochingtothepub · 05/04/2021 18:50

Full on party yes, a couple, eg the grandparents, no

moochingtothepub · 05/04/2021 18:51

That said we sat in the garden as we are meant to

LatteLoverLovesLattes · 05/04/2021 19:00

@RosieLemonade

FFS 10 people died 28 days after testing positive yesterday. It's over. Some people on here are so desperate for it to carry on.
Yes, on a day where loads wouldn't have been reported. See what it's like the/wed and approximately 3 -4 weeks after Easter.
LatteLoverLovesLattes · 05/04/2021 19:07

@Strangekindofwoman

I wonder what people like Thelmber will get bent out of shape about when Boris lets us all out.
There is no need to be nasty to an individual poster, just because she's keeping to the rules & explaining why.

Totally uncalled for it makes you look nasty not 'big & clever'

Scottishskifun · 05/04/2021 19:12

@LatteLoverLovesLattes you don't just catch covid if you break the rules I can testimonial to that one so it's not really selfish if people decide to take their own risk and have people in their house or not.

It doesn't mean that I am going to hug random strangers or lick my friends faces anytime soon and I do think people should go for tests and isolate if they have it to reduce wildfire spreading. But it's going to continue to circulate regardless. Its out of Pandoras box so people are just going to have to do what they are comfortable with.

I mean the English govt will say in mid June that there are no restrictions within houses it doesn't magically mean that it's disappeared at this point in time. Nor is there any difference between the day before restrictions change and the day after!

LatteLoverLovesLattes · 05/04/2021 19:15

@Baileysforchristmas

Thanks I forget what the rules are. Surely the risk must be very low if everyone has been vaccinated or had Covid at Christmas?
You're clearly able to use the Internet, surely it's not beyond your wit to look up the rules if you 'forget'

' Everyone' hasn't been vaccinated or had Covid and you know that.

Just follow the guidelines & stop being careless with other people's health.

LatteLoverLovesLattes · 05/04/2021 19:45

[quote Scottishskifun]@LatteLoverLovesLattes you don't just catch covid if you break the rules I can testimonial to that one so it's not really selfish if people decide to take their own risk and have people in their house or not.

It doesn't mean that I am going to hug random strangers or lick my friends faces anytime soon and I do think people should go for tests and isolate if they have it to reduce wildfire spreading. But it's going to continue to circulate regardless. Its out of Pandoras box so people are just going to have to do what they are comfortable with.

I mean the English govt will say in mid June that there are no restrictions within houses it doesn't magically mean that it's disappeared at this point in time. Nor is there any difference between the day before restrictions change and the day after![/quote]
I never said, or even implied, that you only get Covid if you break the rules! No idea where you got that idea from ???

It is selfish to break the rules because you risk passing it on to others. It's not just your own risk. If it was, people could lick Covid infused ice lollies if they wanted to as far as I'm concerned, but all the while they risk passing it on to others, then social responsibility comes into it -or does for people with decent morals at least

Pootle40 · 05/04/2021 20:01

We had dinner at our in laws yesterday (inside) - the kids were so excited to go!

Scottishskifun · 05/04/2021 20:02

😂 Love the implied I don't have decent morals because I don't care if people decide to have family in their own home!

The most at risk people have been vaccinated and whilst Covid is pretty grim it's not going away be it now or in the summer it's going to continue circulation.
Yes it does come down to what people are happy with if your not comfortable wear a FFP2 mask everywhere for your own protection.

We need to learn to integrate back in the world with covid and I say this as someone who had to take steroids and have a wee trip to hospital at 34 years old.

canigooutyet · 05/04/2021 20:13

Well part of the country were convinced that schools had a special coating when they reopened with minimal restrictions. So of course there will be those who believe that after whatever day, the virus will know instinctively to fuck off.

Abraxan · 06/04/2021 10:22

Everyone' hasn't been vaccinated or had Covid and you know that. *

-*

I suspect the op means everyone in their group, not everyone in the country.

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Baileysforchristmas · 06/04/2021 10:42

@LatteLoverLovesLattes yes I know that as all family members, all done now anyway, we had a lovely day, seeing as the weather was so nice we were mostly outside.

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SamW98 · 06/04/2021 12:44

Never in a million years would I grass on some in their own home. But personally I don't spend my life watching what other people are doing. I worry about me and mine and let others crack on with doing what they feel is right for them and theirs.

I seriously don't understand anyone who really is that interested in what anyone else is doing let alone pick up the phone to the police. What a sad little way of living

And as for the virtual signalling 'take a visit to a COVID ward' posts - not enough eyeballs available.

As others have said we have to start finding our way back to real life again. Boris said data not dates but that only appears to work one way - we need to make our own carefully considered choices and stop sticking our oars in anyone else's business

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