Anger at rule breakers.

And yet there are still posters on GN saying that they are seeing various family members who are mixing with other people and they feel obligated to ‘help out’ .
All you can do is keep Yourself safe and stay away from those who are mixing with others, who are also probably mixing with others.
We haven’t seen our Daughter or Grandchildren since last year due to ill health, so I get cross too!

PS
Short term pain for long term gain......
Hopefully!

I’ve discovered lately that I am much happier if I take the attitude that whilst I cannot control what other people do, I can control what I do.

Do what is right for you and put these other people out of your head. You can’t influence them but neither can they influence you, if you feel that what you are doing is right.

Just know that you are protecting yourself, no matter what other people do.

I'll remain 6ft apart from everyone rather than 6ft under.!

Mark my word there'll be another lockdown come winter---which will be worse.

Totally agree with everyone upthread. I really don’t understand why people are prepared to put themselves and others at risk. This virus is a unseen killer, it spreads at will.
I appreciate that life has to go on, but in a safe way. It’s almost as if people are boasting about their disregard of safety measures.

I don't think it's "nice' to get angry.
Lots of us are, but we usually get really told off.

I agree though, there are some selfish people around.

I only get cross about this when I feel that someone breaking the rules might be putting my family at risk.

........or when that person is Cummings........

Life is hard at the moment, and I really do think that, for your own sake, you need to concentrate on keeping yourself safe and try and ignore the decisions that others may make TenaciousB.

Not for the first time do I wish there was a tick box to agree on every post. I'd be upvoting all these posts.

I think, as well, it depends how well you know the person, or how physically close they live to you.

It feels like a personal 2 finger salute to your safety when someone is so blatant.

Definitely need a ‘like’ button.

I've also stuck rigidly to the rules since day 1; not touched a living soul since the 21st March. And much as it galls me to see others taking little or no notice of the risks there taking with their own, and therefore other people's health, I have to agree with SueDonim, you can only have control on your own actions, no one else's. It's enough for me to know that I won't have spread the virus to anyone else by being reckless.

I came home from work to a large bbq on the grass outside my flat,complete with bouncy castle.

It fleetingly made me cross, but it's not my friend, they're not living in my block. Easy to ignore.

Haven’t seen my neighbour for some months since lockdown started...but last night had a text to say on Tuesday she travelled 100miles to attend her sister in law’s 50th birthday party....she said they were all “spaced out in the garden”...!

Don’t know how many people were there...

I just replied that I hoped they were social distancing...

Irony is, my neighbour actually works for the NHS in a hospital!

I understand why people do get angry at those friends and neighbours flouting all laws/advice and carrying on their lives as normal whilst the sensible among us are doing the right thing.It may seem that it doesn’t affect us personally, but actually it does, because if numbers don’t go down enough (deaths and positive cases /illness) then measures can’t be relaxed for us all and life continues in this abnormal way for much longer.The thousands all jostling together on the recent protest marches is a case in point.

We can only keep ourselves safe and follow the advice from Frozen and 'let it gooooo'.
Like everyone I know who has been blessed with grandchildren, missing them is the hardest part of all this. The only rule breaking we have done, is to see them from a good distance, over a garden wall. And then, only when eg dropping off a lock down birthday gift or lending an essential item, (lawn mower the most recent)
The R rate is continuing to drop, despite the mixing of some groups over VE Day. The next couple of weeks after the demonstrations in London particularly but most major cities, will be worth a watch.
keep calm and carry on is good advice in any crisis. (imo)

My friend travelled over 200 miles to her sons I wasn't impressed at all. She said it was special circumstances it wasn't people are breaking the rules to suit themselves. I didn't say anything because she has been a good friend for over thirty years. My brother came over to visit me last week we are close. He lives in Wallasey but was working near me in Liverpool so dropped in for tea in the garden. I wasn't happy when he said three peopIe his wife works with have covid. I would have preferred after hearing this he hadn't visited. It's very difficult times for everyone but try to occupy your mind to stop the anger eating you up.

All we can do is to take responsibility for ourselves. Pointless letting anger getting the better of you. The rules grow ever more confusing and the vast majority of people have been abiding by them. While there's no simple answer all you can do is to take care of your own health.

Not only Cummings, Luckygirl, what about the hundreds who descended on beaches and in parks the other week ? He was only one who was only slated because of his position.

All those hundreds of people -who happen not to have written the rules.

TenaciousB, I know how you feel, but I think that SueDonim's advice is good. I was getting cross about my neighbour going out constantly in her car (she is retired, and I have no idea what she is doing) and then I decided that I would just assume that she is delivering food parcels Since then, I have felt relaxed when I see her setting off again.

All our DGC are at least 150 miles away and for various reasons we are not driving, so it may be ages until we can see any of them safely again. Hey ho - and thank goodness for modern technology!

I agree that SueDonim has got it right - we can only protect ourselves. If others flout the rules, as my dear old mum used to say, " it's their look" out if they become ill, not that we wish it on anyone.

wheniwas, I often get in my car too. I drive to a nearish country park where I can walk in safety. I do this for exercise and just to get out. I have never walked close to,anyone else and the area I walk in is wide and open so it’s easy to avoid anyone who might be passing. Maybe this is what your neighbour is doing, or perhaps she’s visiting family in their gardens. I’m glad you no longer feel cross as there can be lots of reasons for someone driving without their actually flouting the rules and endangering other people.

It’s very difficult in different situations, if my daughter doesn’t go to work she’ll lose her job and I normally help after school and one day a week . I have no choice but to help for odd occasions in the week , but we are careful when they are here . She has no one else to ask only her mum