| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. 07:54 - Jan 19 with 775 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/i-put-my-arms-around-her-doctors-s
"Buttar’s thread has been read by tens of thousands of people and generated hundreds of similarly heart-wrenching examples of momentary rule-bending out of love or compassion: a nurse who admits suggesting to a family they remove their gloves to hold their dying mother’s hand; the son who raced over to his parents’ home after his father collapsed, only to be chastised by police; the stranger who offered a lift to an injured elderly man. As one respondent observed, none of them referred to after-work drinks because the weather was sunny."
In lockdown one I hugged our neighbour who was on the verge of a mental breakdown because sometimes just being human top trumps the rules!
Anybody else want to fess up? [Post edited 19 Jan 2022 7:54]
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:25 - Jan 19 with 647 views | Cotty |
It's quite dusty in here.
Edit: We had to break the rules in May 2020 as my wife went into labour, and we had to drop our son at a neighbour's house for the night. [Post edited 19 Jan 2022 9:27]
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:27 - Jan 19 with 636 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:25 - Jan 19 by Cotty |
It's quite dusty in here.
Edit: We had to break the rules in May 2020 as my wife went into labour, and we had to drop our son at a neighbour's house for the night. [Post edited 19 Jan 2022 9:27]
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I am beginning to think we have a forum of angels! | |
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:30 - Jan 19 with 624 views | bluelagos |
A good mate buried his father in lockdown 1, his death not CV related. His family was limited to just 7 mourners and his mother had to choose who to allow to attend, compounding her grief.
On a zoom call before he traveled for the funeral, he told me he wasn't allowed to hug his mother due to the rules and asked my opinion of what he should do.
My advice was simply that some things were more important than following the rules. I hope he followed it.
Edit: I think that makes me an accessory to the criminal act he committed. [Post edited 19 Jan 2022 9:32]
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:37 - Jan 19 with 597 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:30 - Jan 19 by bluelagos |
A good mate buried his father in lockdown 1, his death not CV related. His family was limited to just 7 mourners and his mother had to choose who to allow to attend, compounding her grief.
On a zoom call before he traveled for the funeral, he told me he wasn't allowed to hug his mother due to the rules and asked my opinion of what he should do.
My advice was simply that some things were more important than following the rules. I hope he followed it.
Edit: I think that makes me an accessory to the criminal act he committed. [Post edited 19 Jan 2022 9:32]
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How could you not!
I actually find that criticisms of Johnson's transgressions carry even more weight from this place of "imperfection' and admitting to being human. | |
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:43 - Jan 19 with 581 views | bluelagos |
| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 09:37 - Jan 19 by BanksterDebtSlave |
How could you not!
I actually find that criticisms of Johnson's transgressions carry even more weight from this place of "imperfection' and admitting to being human. |
Yeah, cos most of us if we erred, it was out of desperation for human/social contact or to help someone struggling with their mental health and in need of human/social contact.
Not to attend a fcking works party with cheese and wine or down in a basement with an impromptu DJ all fueled with a suitcase of secretly purchased booze. | |
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 10:03 - Jan 19 with 553 views | BlueBadger |
I went round to my neighbour's house to sit with him whilst he waited for an ambulance. He was having a mental health crisis. Luckily I had a spare FF3 mask in my work bag, so I stuck that on and went round. I sat with him for 2 hours whilst we awaited the crew. I told the ambulance crew I was a nephew who'd come to stay in March and ended up 'stuck' there. I don't think they believed me but I heard nothing more about it.
He came home in the early hours of the morning in fine fettle declaring 'that's the last time I smoke something I find in the back of my bedside cabinet'.
Three weeks later, my neighbour was found dead at home by the police.
He'd died alone. We still don't know what killed him.
Boris Johnson was hosting a 'work meeting' the day he was found dead. [Post edited 19 Jan 2022 10:16]
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 10:08 - Jan 19 with 535 views | bluelagos |
| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 10:03 - Jan 19 by BlueBadger |
I went round to my neighbour's house to sit with him whilst he waited for an ambulance. He was having a mental health crisis. Luckily I had a spare FF3 mask in my work bag, so I stuck that on and went round. I sat with him for 2 hours whilst we awaited the crew. I told the ambulance crew I was a nephew who'd come to stay in March and ended up 'stuck' there. I don't think they believed me but I heard nothing more about it.
He came home in the early hours of the morning in fine fettle declaring 'that's the last time I smoke something I find in the back of my bedside cabinet'.
Three weeks later, my neighbour was found dead at home by the police.
He'd died alone. We still don't know what killed him.
Boris Johnson was hosting a 'work meeting' the day he was found dead. [Post edited 19 Jan 2022 10:16]
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I wanted to give that an uppie, but it felt inappropriate. | |
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 11:17 - Jan 19 with 481 views | Steve_M |
There was a very ambiguous line 'between' rules and 'guidance' from the UK government, perhaps deliberately but more likely through sheer lack of thought. For example, there was never a proscription on people exercising more than once a day despite what ministers (Gove in particular I think said).
All of which left the police in a difficult position, which they then compounded by stunning absences of judgement like these:
And on your question, I stayed at my parents in June 2020 having seen hardly anyone for three months about a week before overnight stays were permitted. Might have stretched the rule of six to meet with family too. |  |
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| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 12:16 - Jan 19 with 434 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Found this quite moving....Covid rule breaking. on 10:08 - Jan 19 by bluelagos |
I wanted to give that an uppie, but it felt inappropriate. |
I did but I think he will know what I mean. | |
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