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It's just as important to call out if people are incorrectly negging others because they think they are flouting the guidelines because they don't have a similar set up/experience/situation as them.
Definitely. Already fed up of wiseacre cyclists telling everyone they shouldn't ride outside because strain on the NHS etc.
The government guidance is very clear and guess what - it's put together by people who know better than you! If you want to take a stronger stance and never leave the house then bully for you but stop bending my ear about it.
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It's just as important to call out if people are incorrectly negging others because they think they are flouting the guidelines because they don't have a similar set up/experience/situation as them.
And I don't mean to single out @atz here (truly). There was a misconception, it was called out (sarcastically, by me - probably not helpful) and offense was taken to being called out/corrected (or offense to how that call out was made).
More broadly, I am seeing people on social media lambasting those who have no choice but to open their shops or travel to work saying "why can' they just follow the rules like everyone else", and by that there is often an undertone of unrecognised privilege. I have already seen this morning (I need to delete Facebook), a cushy IT home worker sharing pictures of packed tube carriages calling all the travellers "wankers". No consideration given to who those people are, what they do or how they might be feeling having to get on that packed tube with every other fucker. They might be doctors or nurses, they could be labourers working in a hospital, they might be cleaners.