That lockdown was mad, remember when they were putting guilt tripping adverts and drone footage of cars going to beauty spots like it’s a crime to be outdoors? One of my neighbours had a go at my mum cos she went out for a second daily walk with the dog LMAO
If this pandemic has taught me anything it’s that the government can control the public very easily and that the public will turn on each other very quickly if told to do so.
It’s the funerals that are the killer stories attached to this. Playgrounds…kids can play anywhere but when you are limited to 8 guests at a funeral which in the case of my best man didn’t even cover all the children of his dead father (11 Children, plus his wife), that was a killer. When you see Boris and his chums quaffing cheese and wine whilst all this played out and the misery it caused to so many, it’s no wonder people are sick to the back teeth of this whole ‘rules for thee, not me’ bullshit.
I’m loving all the media outrage and focus, but if the last decade have taught me anything, shit all will be done. Just another slap to the face for the rest of us.
The police are an occupying force, paid and controlled by the socio-economic elite.
The growing dissonance of whether to abide by government restrictions or not is growing on this sub. Curious to all the Covid evangelicals, what is your stance now?
We can’t ever let this slip from the national consciousness; they were literally *laughing at us* while they got drunk and did whatever the fuck they liked while we suffered and were depraved of our liberties.
Im all for the science and lockdowns probably saved thousands of lives. Never forget that while people got seriously ill, lost livelihoods and people died in their thousands, the government was *literally laughing at us*.
Never forget this total betrayal of the trust we place in them, whether that trust is placed naively or in full knowledge of just how little politicians care about their electorate.
Johnson has had it. There are undoubtedly more of these leaks to come and people much closer to him than us are turning on him.
I have absolutely no issue with the garden and Christmas parties that these Conservative politicians had. I have a problem with the fact they had these parties while telling us we weren’t allowed.
Fortunately I still had a 15 or so person Christmas party last year, so I didn’t miss out on much. But others who were trying to follow the rules unfortunately did.
Fuck Boris and this entire, shameful government.
Unelected twats.
Honestly I’m just happy I didn’t comply with the clapping.
It was cringe (and yes I’m using this word unironically for this one) at the time and I’m sure that everyone (including that arsehole 4 doors down who needed to make more noise than everyone else so actually got the fucking pots and pans out to make an exhibition of themselves) is telling people they never joined in with it now the optics have shifted and we can see how ridiculous it was in hindsight.
But I know better…
Oh and a lot of *essential workers* seem to have gone back to being *unskilled workers* again on sub 10 quid an hour.
Figures.
This is a reminder of how ridiculous we allowed restrictions on our behaviour to become, and how supine the population was in accepting it.
All while I was having suicidal thoughts after being stuck in a studio flat on my own for months and being told by police I couldn’t workout on my own in the park across the road.
“Why are you here today?” is the most British thing ever
And repeating the lie about one “form” of exercise a day (incorrectly wording of their incorrect interpretation of the law, no less)
I despair.
There was a video I saw on Facebook last year of a funeral with about six people attending and they were all sitting like 2 meters apart. A woman broke down in tears and a man moved his chair closer to comfort her and put his arm around her and a member of staff came in and ordered them to break apart.
It boiled my blood. I swear if was kind of ‘viral’ if anyone remembers it?
Let’s not forget the people who also completely ignored lockdown and had drunken parties. I know of several people who proudly boasted that they’d got away with much worse than a few people sitting at tables!
So what? People are still going to vote for the tory`s in the next election and nothing will change.
Y’know what’s fucking funny about this? Like really amusing?
I have a limited company, I was joking to my family that I should just invite them onto the board and have a board meeting with wine and food. That way we’d be able to have a get-together absolutely legally. It was a joke and we didn’t do it. That would make us all cunts.
Apperently the Tories didn’t see it as a joke and did for realsies.
We had other new mums sneaking in round the back of our house for a playdate and a coffee with the wife. Was only the older ones, the youngsters were too timid.
Bloody horrendous seeing mums wearing masks outside pushing their babies in prams. Still see them now, it breaks my heart.
It’s going to take years to deprogramme this behaviour.
Yet here we all are, moaning about this evil assholes but doing nothing to oust the fuckers. The fact they’re still in power, openly breaking rules and nothing is being done brings no hope for the future of this country.
I think also noteworthy here is that in May 2020, ‘Boris’ was still getting sympathy for ‘nearly dying’ from Covid- which he caught in March.
I think this whole thing is disgusting, not just that it’s been done, but that it’s only now being leaked because it’s politically expedient to do so. Put it this way, I’ve not changed my mind on old Alex over this.
I couldn’t take my child to the park. After a long winter of doing NOTHING. He had just turned 2. No nursery, no friends, no birthday party.
If someone walked down the street towards us he would hide behind us.
We could go out for walks but the parks were shut. And the toilets too.
We were still pretty much forced to stay indoors.
Edit: downvoted for sharing my experience of isolation during the first lockdown with a toddler. Yay!
If the government are not scared of it why should we?
Everyones using this to (rightly) be mad at Boris but all im seeing is more proof the police are fucking useless.
It really is like a whole other life even though it was not even two years ago.
May 2020 was not even a month after my cousin’s funeral which only like 5 or 6 people were allowed to attend in person. I daren’t think how my aunt might have reacted if the ‘wine and cheese’ story had come out back then…
Other harrowing anecdotes from the time include:
* Single mothers being told off for bringing their children to the supermarket with them
* The government having to clarify that its OK to leave your home to escape domestic abuse
* Getting dirty looks if you left the house more than once, even though the law never actually stopped you from doing that anyway
* Being able to go on an hours-long walk and seeing a single digit number of cars driving past
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The sheer stupidity of police kicking people out of parks, how everyone went along with this is beyond me.
[Outdoor transmission accounts for 0.1% of State’s Covid-19 cases](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/outdoor-transmission-accounts-for-0-1-of-state-s-covid-19-cases-1.4529036)
That lockdown was mad, remember when they were putting guilt tripping adverts and drone footage of cars going to beauty spots like it’s a crime to be outdoors? One of my neighbours had a go at my mum cos she went out for a second daily walk with the dog LMAO
If this pandemic has taught me anything it’s that the government can control the public very easily and that the public will turn on each other very quickly if told to do so.
It’s the funerals that are the killer stories attached to this. Playgrounds…kids can play anywhere but when you are limited to 8 guests at a funeral which in the case of my best man didn’t even cover all the children of his dead father (11 Children, plus his wife), that was a killer. When you see Boris and his chums quaffing cheese and wine whilst all this played out and the misery it caused to so many, it’s no wonder people are sick to the back teeth of this whole ‘rules for thee, not me’ bullshit.
I’m loving all the media outrage and focus, but if the last decade have taught me anything, shit all will be done. Just another slap to the face for the rest of us.
The police are an occupying force, paid and controlled by the socio-economic elite.
The growing dissonance of whether to abide by government restrictions or not is growing on this sub. Curious to all the Covid evangelicals, what is your stance now?
We can’t ever let this slip from the national consciousness; they were literally *laughing at us* while they got drunk and did whatever the fuck they liked while we suffered and were depraved of our liberties.
Im all for the science and lockdowns probably saved thousands of lives. Never forget that while people got seriously ill, lost livelihoods and people died in their thousands, the government was *literally laughing at us*.
Never forget this total betrayal of the trust we place in them, whether that trust is placed naively or in full knowledge of just how little politicians care about their electorate.
Johnson has had it. There are undoubtedly more of these leaks to come and people much closer to him than us are turning on him.
I have absolutely no issue with the garden and Christmas parties that these Conservative politicians had. I have a problem with the fact they had these parties while telling us we weren’t allowed.
Fortunately I still had a 15 or so person Christmas party last year, so I didn’t miss out on much. But others who were trying to follow the rules unfortunately did.
Fuck Boris and this entire, shameful government.
Unelected twats.
Honestly I’m just happy I didn’t comply with the clapping.
It was cringe (and yes I’m using this word unironically for this one) at the time and I’m sure that everyone (including that arsehole 4 doors down who needed to make more noise than everyone else so actually got the fucking pots and pans out to make an exhibition of themselves) is telling people they never joined in with it now the optics have shifted and we can see how ridiculous it was in hindsight.
But I know better…
Oh and a lot of *essential workers* seem to have gone back to being *unskilled workers* again on sub 10 quid an hour.
Figures.
This is a reminder of how ridiculous we allowed restrictions on our behaviour to become, and how supine the population was in accepting it.
All while I was having suicidal thoughts after being stuck in a studio flat on my own for months and being told by police I couldn’t workout on my own in the park across the road.
“Why are you here today?” is the most British thing ever
And repeating the lie about one “form” of exercise a day (incorrectly wording of their incorrect interpretation of the law, no less)
I despair.
There was a video I saw on Facebook last year of a funeral with about six people attending and they were all sitting like 2 meters apart. A woman broke down in tears and a man moved his chair closer to comfort her and put his arm around her and a member of staff came in and ordered them to break apart.
It boiled my blood. I swear if was kind of ‘viral’ if anyone remembers it?
Let’s not forget the people who also completely ignored lockdown and had drunken parties. I know of several people who proudly boasted that they’d got away with much worse than a few people sitting at tables!
So what? People are still going to vote for the tory`s in the next election and nothing will change.
Y’know what’s fucking funny about this? Like really amusing?
I have a limited company, I was joking to my family that I should just invite them onto the board and have a board meeting with wine and food. That way we’d be able to have a get-together absolutely legally. It was a joke and we didn’t do it. That would make us all cunts.
Apperently the Tories didn’t see it as a joke and did for realsies.
We had other new mums sneaking in round the back of our house for a playdate and a coffee with the wife. Was only the older ones, the youngsters were too timid.
Bloody horrendous seeing mums wearing masks outside pushing their babies in prams. Still see them now, it breaks my heart.
It’s going to take years to deprogramme this behaviour.
Yet here we all are, moaning about this evil assholes but doing nothing to oust the fuckers. The fact they’re still in power, openly breaking rules and nothing is being done brings no hope for the future of this country.
I think also noteworthy here is that in May 2020, ‘Boris’ was still getting sympathy for ‘nearly dying’ from Covid- which he caught in March.
I think this whole thing is disgusting, not just that it’s been done, but that it’s only now being leaked because it’s politically expedient to do so. Put it this way, I’ve not changed my mind on old Alex over this.
I couldn’t take my child to the park. After a long winter of doing NOTHING. He had just turned 2. No nursery, no friends, no birthday party.
If someone walked down the street towards us he would hide behind us.
We could go out for walks but the parks were shut. And the toilets too.
We were still pretty much forced to stay indoors.
Edit: downvoted for sharing my experience of isolation during the first lockdown with a toddler. Yay!
If the government are not scared of it why should we?
Everyones using this to (rightly) be mad at Boris but all im seeing is more proof the police are fucking useless.
It really is like a whole other life even though it was not even two years ago.
May 2020 was not even a month after my cousin’s funeral which only like 5 or 6 people were allowed to attend in person. I daren’t think how my aunt might have reacted if the ‘wine and cheese’ story had come out back then…
Other harrowing anecdotes from the time include:
* Single mothers being told off for bringing their children to the supermarket with them
* The government having to clarify that its OK to leave your home to escape domestic abuse
* Getting dirty looks if you left the house more than once, even though the law never actually stopped you from doing that anyway
* Being able to go on an hours-long walk and seeing a single digit number of cars driving past