I joined the Us For Them facebook group months ago last year when they first set it up, just to see what it was about. I hid the group pretty soon after joining it and have ignored it ever since until now as we're stuck in the house as my eldest has caught covid at school (we've not been anywhere else) she's pretty poorly, we can't see our family who live a very long drive away at the opposite end of the country, are elderly with health conditions and vulnerable, our Christmas plans are cancelled, I'm gutted, we're all gutted.
Anyway, I've just been back to have a look at the Us For Them facebook group and I can totally see how the country is in the situation it's in and exactly who is responsible for the massive increase in cases in school age groups.
I cannot believe so many people can be so selfish - the news feed is full of people railing against masks, vaccines, testing - they're getting all high and mighty about how dare the school ask that a child do an LFT before going to school if a family member has covid, even events, scout groups etc, totally up in arms about it, refusing to test, lying about having tested, even members advocating running tests under the tap to fake negative tests. I am so angry, I feel like I could cry.
Do they not realise the whole point of testing and masks was to prevent the very situation we're now in - yet they're complaining about schools potentially closing/not opening in Jan, events being cancelled, yet they're refusing to do the very small personal sacrifices that would help keep all of these things open - I just feel so angry with them, the group membership is huge. They are causing the very thing they want to prevent, how can they not see that?