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They should probably ban milk.

Unfortunately, 300 days in, I am neither mentally capable of adhering to restrictions, nor do I have the trust any more to follow through if I did.

For me, it's the risk of death and/or a chronic condition, or the certainty of psychosis.

Hourly reminder that it's been almost 100 days since it was last legal for me to have a friend over for a cup of tea.

Best of luck, glad you're holding up well; sorry that I've failed you.

The problem of course being that after extreme isolation and/or social breakdown, even those of us that know full well how large those numbers are start to snap.

Approximately 0.2-0.3% of the UK population has died due to coronavirus.

But my personal risk of psychosis as a result of lockdown is far higher than that, it's starting to approach 1, and when it happens, it doesn't matter if those figures are 10%.

Maybe it's just me, but I really doubt it is. Social unrest is coming if we do this for much longer, I can't see any other way.

I can't live in a world that doesn't allow me to have a friend over for a cup of tea indefinitely; compromise really needs to happen soon.

So come up with a timeline that's not made up, then.

In the absence of Government leadership, I've had to do it for myself - I have a set date beyond which I will no longer follow social distancing. If I didn't have that, I'd have snapped long ago, which is strictly a worse outcome.

People individually snapping and choosing to do whatever they want is more dangerous than the alternative of the Government explicitly announcing that lockdown is a time-limited policy (and as such providing more support to the hardest-hit individuals).

Perfect is the enemy of the good.

Well, if that's even a good analogy, since lockdown is clearly nowhere near perfect, it's trading life for life.

I'm simply refusing the concept that my mental health is "opt-in".

If you don't want to interact with me, that's cool. If you want to ban large gatherings and restrict smaller ones for a period of time, I get it.

When it gets to the point that it becomes illegal to be outside without an excuse, 300 days in, you're just subjecting people to cruel and unusual punishment at this point.

The idea that people are going to die in greater proportion than the damage caused by preventing people from going for a walk to the park and sitting down with a cup of coffee is not backed by evidence, and I absolutely believe that you are trolling if you think we can all just endure this indefinitely. You're just gonna have to throw me in prison because I will treat those basic freedoms as absolute until the day I die.

I hope you stay safe, best wishes.

300 days of restrictions.

If your country is less restrictive, I'm happy for you.

It's been illegal for me to have a friend over for 100 days.

It's illegal to have a picnic on a park bench.

So yeah, I'm not doing this any more. If you think that's selfish - cool, I'm selfish according to you. I'm not going to kill myself for your social credit score, stop trolling.

Outside without an excuse.

It's illegal in the UK to take a picnic to a park bench.

I'm sorry for your loss. But no, it's not drunk driving, it's existing as a human being.

Best of luck.

Nah, me staying inside for years on end with no or very limited social contact is less safe for me.

It guarantees a horrible outcome (psychosis), versus a slight risk of a bad outcome.

I'm not going to put myself into a coma for multiple years on the off chance that someone else gets ill. Best of luck.

Awesome.

I'm opting out anyway.

"What are you in for, son"?

"Being outside without an excuse."

Clown world.

I give a shit, just not to the level that I'm willing to kill myself for the cause.

Thank you.

I don't know what I have to say to explain this to these people. Maybe it's not quite explainable.

Restrictions haven't pushed their buttons in the same way. The only way to get this across is to describe all of their needs disappearing. But it doesn't hit the same, and it seems petty.

So it goes.

> Why wait a month or two?

Because I have just about enough left in me, and by then, in the UK we will have vaccinated the groups which make up ~99% of preventable mortality.

At that point, the moral argument of "go outside and you're putting people at risk" completely falls apart in my view.

If there are variants which escape the vaccines, then at that point it's game over since I know I definitely won't be able to make it through another year.

It's a no from me.

I'd rather we go back in time and not normalize draconian, authoritarian restrictions on everyday life.

edit: Nah, I'd rather we go back in time and not normalize draconian, authoritarian restrictions on everyday life.

edit: Nah, I'd rather we go back in time and not normalize draconian, authoritarian restrictions on everyday life.

edit: Nah, I'd rather we go back in time and not normalize draconian, authoritarian restrictions on everyday life.

edit: Nah, I'd rather we go back in time and not normalize draconian, authoritarian restrictions on everyday life.

When I see comments like this it reminds me just how different I am to many people. It feels like I'm an alien trying to understand a new civilisation.

I used to have "sex" and the like, but it was only to experience certain transmitters firing in my brain. Now that I've discovered my right hand I don't have to force myself through that hell any more. Comments like this suggest there is something attractive about such acts even if you take the pleasurable transmitters away. I'm so happy, happier than I've ever been, that I don't have to interact with another human ever again.

Yep, the UK went full authoritarian pretty much straight out of the gate, it's been illegal for me to have anyone in my house for 97 days now (and was also illegal or heavily restricted a number of times before that)

UK Government 2020:

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

makes pubs shit to be in with distancing rules and masks etc

people start to socialise at home more

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

closes pubs earlier

people start to socialise at home more

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

close everything else, make meeting up outside illegal

people start to socialise at home more

It seems that most people are catching coronavirus in private homes.

I literally cannot come up with an explanation for this that isn't conspiratorial. For all of Boris' fluff, I don't believe that our Government is this incompetent or stupid - there has to be an ulterior motive here.

Different countries, and different situations.

Living in a big old house in the country with your family? Your life is probably basically the same as it always was. Potentially better, depending on the work situation. Okay, sure, you're not going on as many holidays, and depending on how strict the rules are where you are, dinner parties are off the cards.

Living in a flat as a single person in the big exciting city? Literally everything you do has been illegal or restricted in some form for almost a year now.

I have no issue with how people choose to live their lives. I'm sure one day when I settle down I'll be in that group too. It sounds lovely.

But we have to be very, very clear about this - a month or two more and I'm going to be in the 'pitchforks and torches' group. There are limits, you can't just delete my lifestyle for a year and counting as a risk-aversion play and expect me to roll over and take it. Nah.

Vaccination has literally fuck all to do with this. Our restrictions are randomly generated.

It's illegal for me to have a friend over because they made it illegal.

We have adverts trying to scare people into working from home, as if that's a choice.

The government is literally trolling us, just showing us that we'll do whatever as long as there's propaganda backing it.

Fuck this reality.

UK.

I don't know, indefinite lockdown.

It's currently illegal to sit on a park bench.

I'll do it anyway, of course, but it might not be legal.

[redacted] 97 days since it was last legal for me to have a friend over for a cup of tea.

You know in the movies where at some point the psychotic main character thinks "I'm not the crazy one, it must be them"? I flip flop on this every other hour.

The way things are going at the moment, I'll have to emigrate to somewhere "sane" like Belarus in order to even meet another person.

This is illegal in my country.

edit: every day it gets worse, not better. https://esotericnonsense.com

It's cool. I wish I could be happy.

But for me, this sort of thing just sends me further into a deep depression.

It ain't right. Pictures of food don't fix hunger.

I hope that we snap out of all of this soon. Writing these comments, just to leave a log, in case someone cares, if it all goes wrong.

I miss having the ability to miss. Having the feeling that others exist. Right now I feel that other people stopped existing.