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The elders were having a street party in the cul de sac when I got up from my third night shift in the hospital today. 13 of them sat on one front garden. It's ok becuase they were sat two metres apart. 🙄
We didn't get an invite, I guess that's because I'm a selfish millenial who doesn't appreciate VE day and both my wife and I are covered in covid from seeing to patients.
We then took the kids for a walk across the fields. Large group of teens having a party with cans of Stella. Good for them. They are young so it'll only kill someone else's father or nan. Let em crack on.
I'm just getting annoyed that I'm trying to stick to the rules. maybe I need to be a C U Next Tuesday as well. Seems acceptable, I haven't got grandparents and my dad lives abroad, won't kill anyone I care about.
At the risk of rerunning a previous thread, are all the posters quite rightly concerned at people taking big risks making obvious breaches of the lockdown rules reporting it to the Police?
Either these people need to be warned/fined to stop their dangerous behaviour, or we need to leave them to it and stop letting it get us so upset.
Getting - justifiably, from the descriptions of some of the antics - so angry about it but doing nothing to stop it strikes me as a lot of wasted negative emotion.
Seems quite a few countries celebrate VE Day Alpin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day
The point still stands that there are plenty of countries that celebrate the end of WWII with a public holiday more frequently than the UK.
Albeit without the patriotic flag waving devoid of any real reflection other than a sense of us vs them and "yay, Union Jacks!".
Surprised at how many people had gatherings in their front gardens - the same people who previously would have been lockdown zealots. Just really strange. And it tended to be the "new money" people eager to show off their (perhaps fleeting) wealth to the neighbours. Made me realise how much I dislike living where I do! Time to move.
Getting so angry about it but doing nothing to stop it strikes me as a lot of wasted negative emotion.
Are you new here?
Albeit without the patriotic flag waving devoid of any real reflection other than a sense of us vs them and “yay, Union Jacks!”.
Meanwhile in [s] Poland. [/s] Russia
At the risk of rerunning a previous thread, are all the posters quite rightly concerned at people taking big risks making obvious breaches of the lockdown rules reporting it to the Police?
Either these people need to be warned/fined to stop their dangerous behaviour, or we need to leave them to it and stop letting it get us so upset.
Getting – justifiably, from the descriptions of some of the antics – so angry about it but doing nothing to stop it strikes me as a lot of wasted negative emotion.
People. (Mildly) Anti Social Behaviour in a specific spot near me. All over Facebook. Talking to the local rozzer it became clear that more reports prompt more action. I decided we ought to try to organize and generate 200 reports. (random target I made up) Before I started I checked with the local police 'commander' (cool word!) to see how close we were to our target. There had been zero reports of anti-social behaviour. I gave up.
Complainers like complaining, they don't actually want the things they're complaining about to stop.
Seems quite a few countries celebrate VE Day Alpin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day/blockquote >Meanwhile in Poland.
Love it!
singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/lock-down-is-over-street-party/#post-11181903
Just because they have money doesn’t mean they’re not chavs! In fact isn’t that what chavs all aspire to..!?
I'm depressed enough without stressing myself out over something I can't control, we have stuck to the guidelines since day 1,protecting yourself and your loved ones is as much as you can do
Complainers like complaining, they don’t actually want the things they’re complaining about to stop.
New forum sticky? 😄
Freedom! So can we all drive to the garden centre this morning, B&Q, the supermarket.. but driving 5 miles to go sailing, go to the beach or do an excerise not starting from home is forbidden..
Freedom! So can we all drive to the garden centre this morning, B&Q, the supermarket.. but driving 5 miles to go sailing, go to the beach or do an excerise not starting from home is forbidden..
Garden centre: Nope, AFAICT you can't go to a garden Centre even if it's open.
B&Q: Allowed, for maintenance and upkeep not improvements.
Supermarket: Allowed
Driving 5 miles to go sailing: Allowed
Driving 5 miles to go to the beach: Allowed if you're going to the beach for exercise.
Driving 5 miles to do an exerise: Allowed.
What the Police (in England) will stop us doing is not the same as the advice we should be following.
And the garden centre thing… if they are open then the police will adapt and will not stop people visit their local store, unless they are doing something stupid (there’a always some) and even then it’ll just be giving them advice and/or asking them to go home, nothing more in most cases.
James Brough (@thasceles) Tweeted: @GoatSarah Turns out that Werner Herzog predicted all this. His remake of Nosferatu has a scene where the inhabitants of a plague-ridden town party rather than listen to the person who knows how to deal with it. The music is better too.
The good people of Wimbledon will not surrender to the virus!
https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1259029126196928512?s=20
What the Police (in England) will stop us doing is not the same as the advice we should be following.
This. The Police don't make the law, nor do the CPS whose guidance the college of policing cut-and-pasted. Just because the police aren't enforcing it doesn't make it right or legal (see also dangerous driving).
Which is why waving that guidance at the PC trying to move you on just makes you a dick, not right.
By way of practical example, if you drive and have an accident your insurance company will be perfectly entitled to refuse to pay out.
Meanwhile in Poland.
Preeety sure that's not Poland Drac. And quite an offensive mistake to make!
Oh shit! That’s nights for you Russia celebrating VE Day. 😳
Felt like it was all back to normal out there just now. Lady in the village having her annual charity plant sale on the driveway - probably 15 oldies scratching about for the best bargains within inches of each other. Out on the road 5 groups of middle aged male cyclists riding in small groups replete with club jerseys some of them. And before you ask I know a few of them to say hello to and unless they are living a double life their wives know nothing about I don't think they are living together.
So **** it, lock down is over then. Happy days.
By way of practical example, if you drive and have an accident your insurance company will be perfectly entitled to refuse to pay out
On what grounds?
The only sign of V.E. here was a short report on the news. No flags, no parties just confinement as usual. I only go to the 11/11 ceremony and 8/5 is usually an MTB weekend in Spain to make good use of the bank holiday - we stop for a minute's silence.
Only two days left before we can travel and people are respecting the confinement laws till the end. Locally things didn't start well with infections in the ski resort and people returning from ski holidays, but confienment has worked and we're down to zero new cases. Hopefully limited travel between regions, mask wearing and all the reorganisation of schools and work places will keep us clear as people go back to work and school. We'll find out if people remain infectious when in theory they've recovered.
On what grounds?
There is likely to be a clause excluding liability for criminal acts.
Oh shit! That’s nights for you Russia celebrating VE Day.
If there's one question you can ask of a Pole that is guaranteed to get an answer at least five minutes long it is:
Who do you hate more, Germans or Russians?
There is likely to be a clause excluding liability for criminal acts.
To which criminal act are you referring? It looked like a blanket statement about driving to me
Driving 5 miles to go sailing: Allowed
Where is 5 miles mentioned?
Well it went off big time here yesterday!
Everyone out in their front gardens having a bit of a singalong and a few beers. Everyone socially distancing, until....
Some of the younger kids started running in and out of each other’s gardens.
At that point the middle class equivalent of a riot occurred...
A number of people posted some disapproving passive/aggressive comments on the streets WhatsApp group (yes, really), normally reserved for complaints about bin collections, and it soon stopped 😂
“Imagine” if many hospitals in UK had empty or nearly empty covid wards. What would people think about lifting the lockdown then? Cos it was to stop overwhelming the NHS, right?
I think a lot of people would quite like to get back to work under those circumstances!
Cos it was to stop overwhelming the NHS this time around, right?
FTFY.
I take it you are not an epidemiologist.
“Imagine” if many hospitals in UK had empty or nearly empty covid wards. What would people think about lifting the lockdown then? Cos it was to stop overwhelming the NHS, right?
I think a lot of people would quite like to get back to work under those circumstances!
Exactly. Which is why that is the area where we should be easing restrictions first whilst keeping the total social interaction down from normal levels by maintaining social distancing in social activities like reminiscing about the end of a war 75 years ago with a knees up or biking with each other. The general public is collectively too stupid to understand that level of nuance however.
And now this thread has turned into the other covid thread.