Anyone have friends/family not complying with rest... - Page 3

Greeneyedlady21 · ‎01-06-2015

@suzyQ3 wrote:
@vermint wrote:
My SIL and her husband (both over 65) are visiting back & forth with their daughters & grandkids (they all live within 5 miles of each other). Sharing meals, etc.

Our much-younger-than-us next door neighbors had a cookout with friends yesterday. He has already told my DH that he would be going to work even if he got sick!
What a selfish *%$@^#&*, @vermint

Absolutely. That is beyond words, that he openly said he'd go to work. People like him are one reason this is spreading. So is his moronic barbecue. The more people who behave that way, the longer things will be shut down. No functioning brain capable of understanding that, apparently. Appallingly ignorant and selfish.

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

noodleann · ‎06-10-2015

I have a relative in a high-risk group who's continuing to visit friends who live together. He says they sit 6' apart in the room, but they're all breathing the same air, so it really doesn't matter.

He, like another male I know, has determined how he will or won't comply. I believe they're both taking risks because they're so lonely without contact and have decided they won't get the virus, or it won't kill them. Never mind the people they may give it to. That doesn't seem to enter their heads.

This is why this whole nightmare is going to last a very long time, because people think that their decisions trump public policy. Until people are fined meaningful sums and shamed and face legal action for spreading the virus, it won't stop.

vermint · ‎04-05-2010

@suzyQ3 wrote:
@vermint wrote:
My SIL and her husband (both over 65) are visiting back & forth with their daughters & grandkids (they all live within 5 miles of each other). Sharing meals, etc.

Our much-younger-than-us next door neighbors had a cookout with friends yesterday. He has already told my DH that he would be going to work even if he got sick!
What a selfish *%$@^#&*, @vermint

@suzyQ3 I totally agree...and he has a wife & 3 young children!

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

Some people and families seem to be doing the best they can, others some version of compliance and others not at all.

We are dependent on each other

and that makes it even scarier that we can do all we can and it may not be enough.

I feel like I am living half in reality, other times thinking it is a nightmare,

and other times just trying to escape all the worry in my mind for just a little. I'm sure I am not alone with all these thoughts.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

CrazyDaisy · ‎03-20-2010

@noodleann wrote:
@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@wakefield64 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone else has run into this problem. I have a fairly large family of close friends that are carrying on life like nothing is wrong. They have had a birthday party and are having Easter dinner. I feel frustrated and am not sure anything I would say directly would have any effect. Anyone else run into this, and if so, how do you react to it?
You can only control how you choose to live.
The problem is that other people are controlling how you don't choose to die, and that's the point.

You can choose to isolate yourself to protect yourself. You do have control.

Someday, when scientists discover the center of the Universe....some people will be disappointed it is not them.

mimomof4 · ‎03-08-2018

Yes I do but not to the extent you are describing. My feeling is that there are many people doing exactly what you are describing that is causing a continued increase in numbers.

My household has been abiding by the restrictions in Michigan. Although since we are now entering week 4 and weather is getting nicer I don't know how much longer those who have been following the restrictions will continue to do so. I do believe that even once restrictions are lifted not as many people will be having the gatherings they did before.

We have been having a hard time convincing my mother in law that she needs to stay at home. At the end of week 1 I finally convinced her to let me grocery shop for her(which I dropped off in her garage not wanting to go in her house). Week 2 I called and asked if she needed anything and she said no. Then last week she decides to go to the grocery store on her own outside of the designated senior hours and inside of the pharmacy. At the pharmacy counter they told her she should be using the drive thru not going inside (which I had told her as well). She has friends who are out so she feels that she can do it as well.

I noticed my neighbors have had family over as well in their homes. People don't understand that staying home means not going into even another family members home unless it is an emergency. Even my brother and sister in law had his mother over for dinner (an he is a Dr.).

noodleann · ‎06-10-2015

@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@noodleann wrote:
@CrazyDaisy wrote:
@wakefield64 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone else has run into this problem. I have a fairly large family of close friends that are carrying on life like nothing is wrong. They have had a birthday party and are having Easter dinner. I feel frustrated and am not sure anything I would say directly would have any effect. Anyone else run into this, and if so, how do you react to it?
You can only control how you choose to live.
The problem is that other people are controlling how you don't choose to die, and that's the point.
You can choose to isolate yourself to protect yourself. You do have control.

I do isolate but I have to get food, a permitted activity. I don't have control over what others do and the risks they pose to me.

Firefly901 · ‎08-18-2011

The military has ordered 100,000 body bags so far for virus victims. In looking at TV, there were at least 15 refrigerated longline trucks at one hospital in NY to hold the dead. Officials are estimating between 100,000 to 2.4 million Americans will die from the virus. The only thing we can do to live is stay home. There is nothing we can do when people chose their death and the death of others over life for themselves and life for others.

dulwich · ‎01-18-2012

@wakefield64 I feel sorry for your dilemma but some people just don’t seem to get it.

Our family, thank goodness, all obeying the isolation, etc., DD, SIL, DH Me and one of our granddaughters all in our home and across the road our other GD, husband and baby and we have not had contact with them - even though just across the road - we shout back and forth, wave from our decks. Have not had contact with them for 3 weeks now. It is hard but we feel necessary.

It must be hard when families don’t work together hope all goes well for you - be safe.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

@wakefield64I don't know - and I don't want to know because I don't respect their decision to ignore the advice I think may have the only possibility of our limiting the time and severity of the pandemic. Ironically, lots of time I think I should live closer to family or at least to long-time friends. But now, I don't even want to know they might be out and about, all of which makes my isolation easier to take.