Page 4 | So are we assuming Edward and Sophie stood in the garden an consoled the queen?

satishoused · 2021-04-10T15:36:12+00:00

I hope they didn't and instead used their common sense. Hopefully more and more people are doing the same thing.

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satishoused · 10/04/2021 18:59

@cyclingmad not true. Compliance was actually higher than the modellers predicted at first.

And now, lots of people are breaking the rules, and cases are still plummeting.

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Xenia · 10/04/2021 19:07

The treatment of the dead and dying and funerals (never mind weddings and baptisms) in this pandemic has been dreadful. The rules are cruel and inhuman and breach human rights and yet most people in the Uk support them. I continue to be utterly amazed by the fact so many are fine with them. We, the 13 guests at my child's church wedding next week are not even allowed to sing a hymn due to the law. What are the chances we the only 13 in a massive church most of us in the same 2 households have covid and pass it on?

Rockbird · 10/04/2021 19:08

I hope she's getting a hug from everyone within a 10 mile radius if that's what she wants. We have to start thinking for ourselves again.

DIshedUp · 10/04/2021 19:09

All this fantasising about how devastated the Queen must be, whos consoling her etc is a bit weird. Its absolutely none of our business, we do not know these people, we have no idea whats going on or how they are feeling. Just leave them alone, its morbid

There is not a single person who has ever said you cannot console someone following a death, its pretty distasteful to use someone's death to push your own agenda. Its like everyone has lost any common sense.

DIshedUp · 10/04/2021 19:10

@Xenia no one has to get married
If your child wanted a big wedding with hymns they could wait a year or so.

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satishoused · 10/04/2021 19:19

There is not a single person who has ever said you cannot console someone following a death, its pretty distasteful to use someone's death to push your own agenda. Its like everyone has lost any common sense.

Errrr this has been the case for the last year?!

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satishoused · 10/04/2021 19:21

There was that awful Picture today in the news of a a latex glove filled with warm water placed on the hands of dying patients in hospital and my fb was full of people praising the ingenuity of the nurses rather than decrying the fact that this barbaric treatment of denying ill
People human contact is now normal.

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satishoused · 10/04/2021 19:21

That isn't a dig at the nurses btw

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satishoused · 10/04/2021 19:23

Yes "no one has to get married"

No one has to hug their friends and family
No one has to play sport
No one has to get an education
No one has to go to shops
No one has to eat in restaurants
No one has to watch or play live music

No one has to do any of the stuff that makes life worth living

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HolmeH · 10/04/2021 19:24

Well I hugged my ECV mum when my granny died last year. My mum was devastated as she basically missed the last months of her life. I absolutely could not stand their & watch her sob from 2m apart. There had to be some compassion somewhere, we aren’t zombies. I imagine the royals have probably had private tests to double check as well to be honest ..

maddiemookins16mum · 10/04/2021 19:25

It really doesn’t matter does it. Edward is my age and I’m due my 2nd jab is 6 weeks.

bloodywhitecat · 10/04/2021 19:25

@satishoused

There was that awful Picture today in the news of a a latex glove filled with warm water placed on the hands of dying patients in hospital and my fb was full of people praising the ingenuity of the nurses rather than decrying the fact that this barbaric treatment of denying ill People human contact is now normal.

And this is the very reason I am planning to nurse DP at home in his last weeks if we are still under these measures. We have already faced the delay of his cancer diagnosis and him having to deal with lots of bad news alone. I will not have him die alone too.

GintyMcGinty · 10/04/2021 19:26

I hope they didn't. I hope they went inside to console her.

HercwasanEnemyofEducation · 10/04/2021 19:28

How else did number rise when people relaxed too much thats when otherwise they were dropping
Not the point of the thread but SCHOOLS!

Consoling anyone grieving isn't a problem. I hugged someone whose relative died in a tragic way during the first lockdown. I'd do the same again.

StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind · 10/04/2021 19:30

@satishoused

There was that awful Picture today in the news of a a latex glove filled with warm water placed on the hands of dying patients in hospital and my fb was full of people praising the ingenuity of the nurses rather than decrying the fact that this barbaric treatment of denying ill People human contact is now normal.

@satishoused that is absolutely awful. Again no criticism of the nurses, this must be so fucking painful and de-humanising for them as well.

Where the hell is the balance in anything right now? No one is saying packed out music festivals would be the most clever thing to do- to take away basic human rights and the most fundamental human contact is absolutely barbaric.

Radio4Rocks · 10/04/2021 19:32

Some really horrible people have crawled out from under their rocks to post on this thread. Sad little lives.

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satishoused · 10/04/2021 19:32

@bloodywhitecat so sorry about your dh

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Sparklingbrook · 10/04/2021 19:32

How long is this sort of speculation going to go on? Do we really have to pick everything apart WRT this?
I hope they did whatever they thought was right given the circumstances and if that meant Edward consoling his Mother it's not our place to be wondering this and that.

Kitkat151 · 10/04/2021 19:37

@satishoused

But even if they are all vaccinated that's still against the (ridiculous) rules.

You are allowed to support a vulnerable family member.....so all her children ( quite rightly) can....and have visited her

Chamonixshoopshoop · 10/04/2021 19:40

None of our business, they’re grieving.
I wouldn’t begrudge anyone comforting a recent widow.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 10/04/2021 19:41

[quote ballsdeep]@cyclingmad
Are you seriously saying, if a close member of your family passed away you wouldn't console your family because of the covid rukes????????[/quote]
Well now I feel like an utterly utterly shit sister and niece, and that I have a shit family too. My dad died suddenly at the end of last year. At the funeral I didn't hug my sibling, or my dad's sibling, or any other family, and none of them hugged me. We live hundreds of miles apart and haven't been able to see each other since, so no further opportunities for hugs. I did get a lot of hugs from my DP thankfully. My family and I are rule followers by nature, cases were pretty high at the time, nobody was vaccinated, and I guess we assumed we were just doing what most other bereaved people were.

Kitkat151 · 10/04/2021 19:42

@cyclingmad

They should be following the guidelines like everyone else has to. Lead by example

Queen isn't on her own she has staff their.

You sound absolutely vile She just been widowed....the staff are not her children

Sadsiblingatsea · 10/04/2021 19:43

Agree. All these inhumane ridiculous rules now need to be consigned to the dustbin.

osbertthesyrianhamster · 10/04/2021 19:43

God, who cares it's their private home! Enough of this ridiculousness now.

ConnieCaterpillar70 · 10/04/2021 19:45

I hope she's surrounded by love, kindness and compassion.

And anyone griping about Covid rules should crawl back under their anxiety rock. A 95 year old woman who has devoted her life to this country has just had a devastating loss. She will be in a degree of shock, and in great need of her family around her.