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CallTheSheriff · 2021-05-03T20:33:34+00:00

Our family has followed all rules to date but with two weeks left until social contact restrictions are lifted I see more and more people using a ‘common sense’ approach for their own risk. My DC go to school (primary), attend swimming lessons, attend dance classes and indoor football classes but we decline the offer of play dates with other DC in their class. DH and I have not mixed indoors with any other adult since last March. We both WFH and are both partially vaccinated. We do not attend gyms etc as we didn’t pre covid anyway. Our friends and family think we are being OTT, especially in not allowing DC to visit others after school but allowing them to attend classes. It made me wonder how others are doing it?

LST · 05/05/2021 09:00

@yomommasmomma

So those of you ignoring the rules are happy to put the rest of us at risk? All that's matters is that you are happy though of course!

Don't you all think we would love to have our families over but we have managed to survive. Clearly you are just weaker people.

So Which do you prefer? Either you are just not strong enough to manage without breaking the rules or you are totally self obsessed and all that matters is yourself.

Sorry if it sounds harsh, but it is true .

I am just a totally self obsessed person. Obviously.

yomommasmomma · 05/05/2021 09:02

That's exactly how it comes across yes

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2021 09:02

It is high time people start acknowledging the very significant impact lockdown has had on the population.

I’m seeing marriages break down, people back on MH medication after years off. Breakdowns involving hospitalisation. Eating disorders. People losing family homes because their businesses can’t function. People dying having spent the last year mostly estranged from loved ones. It goes on and on.

And we have posters on here with the audacity to call people selfish and pathetic because they’re finally calling a halt? At a point where the vulnerable are all vaccinated. I think we’ll all think hard before making these kinds of sacrifices again, if this is the thanks being given.

Making individuals responsible for the public health of the nation is bizarre. Did we judge people previously for asymptomatically passing on flu? Yet that has caused many deaths too.

MiddleParking · 05/05/2021 09:02

@yomommasmomma

So those of you ignoring the rules are happy to put the rest of us at risk? All that's matters is that you are happy though of course!

Don't you all think we would love to have our families over but we have managed to survive. Clearly you are just weaker people.

So Which do you prefer? Either you are just not strong enough to manage without breaking the rules or you are totally self obsessed and all that matters is yourself.

Sorry if it sounds harsh, but it is true .

Yes, I’m happy to put you at risk. No need to apologise for your ‘truth’, no one gives a fuck what you think or say

JeanClaudeVanDammit · 05/05/2021 09:04

So those of you ignoring the rules are happy to put the rest of us at risk? All that's matters is that you are happy though of course!

Yes I’m happy to put you at risk when that risk is minuscule and the benefit to me is being able to hug my mum. Hope that clears that up.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 05/05/2021 09:05

@yomommasmomma

So those of you ignoring the rules are happy to put the rest of us at risk? All that's matters is that you are happy though of course!

Don't you all think we would love to have our families over but we have managed to survive. Clearly you are just weaker people.

So Which do you prefer? Either you are just not strong enough to manage without breaking the rules or you are totally self obsessed and all that matters is yourself.

Sorry if it sounds harsh, but it is true .

People who are high risk have been offered the vaccine now. If you haven't been offered it yet you are low risk. That includes myself. So yes, I'm fine with putting low risk people "at risk". The rules were there to protect the NHS and the high risk, not us.

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2021 09:05

Either you are just not strong enough to manage without breaking the rules

Yes I think plenty of people are ‘not strong’ enough to live in this isolated and wholly unnatural way.

What are you going to do? Judge to your hearts content. I don’t care. I’m not ashamed of it.

However, if anyone starts bleating about resilience, I will not be responsible for my actions

yomommasmomma · 05/05/2021 09:07

@JeanClaudeVanDammit

So those of you ignoring the rules are happy to put the rest of us at risk? All that's matters is that you are happy though of course!

Yes I’m happy to put you at risk when that risk is minuscule and the benefit to me is being able to hug my mum. Hope that clears that up.

As I said totally

osbertthesyrianhamster · 05/05/2021 09:08

@JeanClaudeVanDammit

So those of you ignoring the rules are happy to put the rest of us at risk? All that's matters is that you are happy though of course!

Yes I’m happy to put you at risk when that risk is minuscule and the benefit to me is being able to hug my mum. Hope that clears that up.

Yep. We all put one another at risk every day - there are communicable diseases other than Covid which can damage and kill even healthy people, we get behind the wheels of cars, have sex, all sorts. I've contracted influenza 4 times in my life; one of the times I developed pnuemonia in both my lungs, spent weeks in hospital, then got post viral syndrome and was ill for the better part of two years, and I was a fit young adult at the time.

That's life. It's never been safe.

yomommasmomma · 05/05/2021 09:08

All those saying they are happy to put others at risk are proving my point that they are only interested in themselves. Selfishness is such a problem in our society now.

osbertthesyrianhamster · 05/05/2021 09:10

@TheKeatingFive

It is high time people start acknowledging the very significant impact lockdown has had on the population.

I’m seeing marriages break down, people back on MH medication after years off. Breakdowns involving hospitalisation. Eating disorders. People losing family homes because their businesses can’t function. People dying having spent the last year mostly estranged from loved ones. It goes on and on.

And we have posters on here with the audacity to call people selfish and pathetic because they’re finally calling a halt? At a point where the vulnerable are all vaccinated. I think we’ll all think hard before making these kinds of sacrifices again, if this is the thanks being given.

Making individuals responsible for the public health of the nation is bizarre. Did we judge people previously for asymptomatically passing on flu? Yet that has caused many deaths too.

Yep.

Was on a train yesterday. Doors opened and one woman is yelling, 'Keep back from me!' This one guy responded, 'Who'd want to be anywhere near you anyway?' We fell out laughing.

osbertthesyrianhamster · 05/05/2021 09:11

@yomommasmomma

All those saying they are happy to put others at risk are proving my point that they are only interested in themselves. Selfishness is such a problem in our society now.

But it's not selfish to expect everyone else to exist in a way that's entirely unnatural due a virus well over 95% survive with no ill effects. 😂😂😂

Waxonwaxoff0 · 05/05/2021 09:11

@yomommasmomma

All those saying they are happy to put others at risk are proving my point that they are only interested in themselves. Selfishness is such a problem in our society now.

It's been over a year. We have done enough sacrificing. I care more about myself and my own family than I do about strangers, yes. That's human nature.

GintyMcGinty · 05/05/2021 09:11

they are happy to put others at risk

I have pretty much read the whole thread and I don't think I have seen a single person say they are "happy to put others at risk".

RedcurrantPuff · 05/05/2021 09:11

@yomommasmomma

All those saying they are happy to put others at risk are proving my point that they are only interested in themselves. Selfishness is such a problem in our society now.

Yawn. A year of “selfish” being the best that can be levelled at people is quite tedious.

I wouldn’t say I’m happy for people to be put at risk but I’m not willing to live under restrictions for an indefinite period to prevent people I don’t even know getting sick. We haven’t done it before Covid so once the immediate health emergency is past why would we do it now?

yomommasmomma · 05/05/2021 09:12

And you can all reply whatever you have to, to make yourselves feel better and to try and justify yourselves, but the reality is you only care about what makes you happy or you are weak, or both of course!

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2021 09:13

I’m coming to the conclusion that expecting people not to hug their elderly parents, who may not have much time left, for a healthy 30 something at minimal risk from this disease, is a lot more selfish.

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2021 09:14

but the reality is you only care about what makes you happy or you are weak

Well you’re pretty nasty.

But I guess we should be bowing down to your ‘strength’ huh?

JeanClaudeVanDammit · 05/05/2021 09:15

@TheKeatingFive

It is high time people start acknowledging the very significant impact lockdown has had on the population.

I’m seeing marriages break down, people back on MH medication after years off. Breakdowns involving hospitalisation. Eating disorders. People losing family homes because their businesses can’t function. People dying having spent the last year mostly estranged from loved ones. It goes on and on.

And we have posters on here with the audacity to call people selfish and pathetic because they’re finally calling a halt? At a point where the vulnerable are all vaccinated. I think we’ll all think hard before making these kinds of sacrifices again, if this is the thanks being given.

Making individuals responsible for the public health of the nation is bizarre. Did we judge people previously for asymptomatically passing on flu? Yet that has caused many deaths too.

Couldn’t agree more. I was happy, well not happy but accepting, of following all of the rules when no one was vaccinated and community spread was prevalent. Neither of these things are true any more. I’m following the rules I have to follow like masks and not being able to go to indoor venues, but I’m also seeing a small number of family members indoors and it’s improved our wellbeing immeasurably.

osbertthesyrianhamster · 05/05/2021 09:16

@yomommasmomma

And you can all reply whatever you have to, to make yourselves feel better and to try and justify yourselves, but the reality is you only care about what makes you happy or you are weak, or both of course!

😂😂😂

Why do you assume people are justifying themselves to feel better about themselves when they've already told you they don't give a shit about what you or anyone else thinks?

Hilarious!

RaspberryCoulis · 05/05/2021 09:19

Genuinely interested in some people's perception of "risk".

We are having a couple friends over for dinner tonight. All of us have been vaccinated, the man of the couple has had two doses. According to the official government figures, there have been ZERO cases of Covid in my neighbourhood area, and all the adjacent ones, for a fortnight.

So exactly who's putting anyone at risk, and how?

TheKeatingFive · 05/05/2021 09:19

There’s a whole cohort of people now getting upset because throwing around the word ‘selfish’ isn’t working any more.

AyyX · 05/05/2021 09:19

@yomommasmomma

So those of you ignoring the rules are happy to put the rest of us at risk? All that's matters is that you are happy though of course!

Don't you all think we would love to have our families over but we have managed to survive. Clearly you are just weaker people.

So Which do you prefer? Either you are just not strong enough to manage without breaking the rules or you are totally self obsessed and all that matters is yourself.

Sorry if it sounds harsh, but it is true .

Interesting.....

RedcurrantPuff · 05/05/2021 09:19

@yomommasmomma

And you can all reply whatever you have to, to make yourselves feel better and to try and justify yourselves, but the reality is you only care about what makes you happy or you are weak, or both of course!

I do principally care about what makes me and my family happy, yes. So do you, or you’re not a good person. It’s not normal to put yourself and your family behind random people all the time. As for “weak”, do one. This garbage has gone on a year. It’s not “weak” to have had enough or to finally stand up to the ravings of a corrupt regime.

RedcurrantPuff · 05/05/2021 09:21

@RaspberryCoulis

Genuinely interested in some people's perception of "risk".

We are having a couple friends over for dinner tonight. All of us have been vaccinated, the man of the couple has had two doses. According to the official government figures, there have been ZERO cases of Covid in my neighbourhood area, and all the adjacent ones, for a fortnight.

So exactly who's putting anyone at risk, and how?

Quite.

I took my son’s friend in my car the other day. Bearing in mind they sit together in class all week at school.

LFTs were done, masks were worn. Me and the boy’s parents have had one dose of vaccine.

Where’s the risk?