Covid restrictions - are you adhering or not?

[cheb]

I'm mostly following the rules, masked and sanitising, it's the travel ones I struggle with. I've had three trips the the mainland since this whole farrago kicked off, all for what I consider to be good reasons and were within the guidelines. I have to go shopping, there's no local delivery nor click and collect.

I know people who've had it and am in close contact with people in the medical and emergency side of things. I still think I'll either get it or I won't, and if I get it I'll die or I won't.

Please spare me the OMG if you don't obey every single guideline and hide away from everyone for ever you're going to drown slowly in your own bodily fluids. I might be left paralysed from the neck down and drinking through a straw from having a bike accident, or dying underwater and then eaten by crabs when solo SCUBA diving.

Life: Get on with it at a level of risk that suits you, whilst taking the needs/wants of others into account as far as is reasonable.

One noticeable thing, to me anyway, is the people who banged on about there being too many humans on the planet and we needed a plague to cut that number seem to have gone quiet. Probably because they realised it might affect them directly. That's a positive.

[cheb]

Jeez, I'm being to subtle.

Subtle, perhaps, but spot on.

We need a total lockdown, no exceptions. Fucking stay home! Alternatively your gran and grandad (and me) will be toast before Easter. We have a vaccine, and in 3 months time we can start to ease off, but now is NOT the time. Cancel fucking Xmas!

FFS, people getting fed up with lockdown, how do you think my parents generation coped with 5 years of war? Grow a pair!

Is that 'No exceptions', or 'No exceptions apart from those involved with medical care, food delivery, emergency services, essential utilities, and those who enable the previous list to function'?

[cheb]

More fucking ranting: Don't forget, old people are too stupid to make their own decisions. You know the old people that actually lived through WW2 and possibly experienced the Blitz or lived in other parts of the country that the filthy Huns bombed.

They fought in the war for people like us.

[Rockburner]

The honest answer is that I'm not really sure whether I'm adhering or not as I'm not completely certain over what the current exact rules are, and I have been carrying on in the same way for the last 9 months or so.
I've been completely respecting people's personal space, wearing masks in shops and pubs/restaurants, and generally being what I consider to be sensible but I haven't really bothered trying to work out whether I'm possibly breaking any particular guideline or law that may be in place at any particular time by making what may be deemed as non-essential or disallowed journeys or meeting a greater number of people than any given quota.

Basically the same here.

We're shopping in a large supermarket about once every 3 weeks, and going to any other type of shop only about once a week. Masks on indoors wherever there are other people.
Last weekend we did stop in a cafe for a drink and a pastry, but the place was empty.

The restrictions are neither one thing nor another and so it's not surprising that the infection rates are roller-coastering.

[gremlin]

how do you think my parents generation coped with 5 years of war? Grow a pair!

They went down the pub for a good knees up, a sing-song 'round the old Joanna and a bit of how's yer father in a doorway on the way home. Good for keeping the spirits lifted. Maybe we could try that.

Oh, hang on a minute....

[Asian Boss]

Maybe it's the young showing similar regard that the (toxic) elderly have shown for them.

[Asian Boss]

We have one of the lowest infection rates in the UK, maybe the above is the reason why, but it's going up.
Further up the coast in Aldeburgh and Southwold they'll get an influx of people visiting they're holiday homes, this could be the cause of the rising figures.

Incomers.

This is why we fear incomers.

[gremlin]

Maybe it's the young showing similar regard that the (toxic) elderly have shown for them.

Or maybe it's the young seeing their entire future, careers, dreams, aspirations, etc. being crushed before their very eyes that makes them want to go out and forget their troubles on a Saturday night....

How selfish of them.

[irie]

London's bigger and more populous. Not a good omen.

Agree, it's a safe bet that Covid's going to hit London big time.

[demographic]

I reckon I've been pretty good with it.
Work is a bit of a grey area and with about 90 people on the site I'm on social distancing is sometimes an issue but other than that pretty good.
Being naturally antisocial helps a lot mind.

[Asian Boss]

Maybe it's the young showing similar regard that the (toxic) elderly have shown for them.

Or maybe it's the young seeing their entire future, careers, dreams, aspirations, etc. being crushed before their very eyes that makes them want to go out and forget their troubles on a Saturday night....

They were long gone pre covid. Unsustainable financial and environmental practices had left the young with a broken planet and diminished financial opportunities and security.

[gremlin]

Maybe it's the young showing similar regard that the (toxic) elderly have shown for them.

Or maybe it's the young seeing their entire future, careers, dreams, aspirations, etc. being crushed before their very eyes that makes them want to go out and forget their troubles on a Saturday night....

They were long gone pre covid. Unsustainable financial and environmental practices had left the young with a broken planet and diminished financial opportunities and security.

Yeah, but the yoots got box-fresh creps, innit?

[Cousin Jack]

how do you think my parents generation coped with 5 years of war? Grow a pair!

They went down the pub for a good knees up, a sing-song 'round the old Joanna and a bit of how's yer father in a doorway on the way home. Good for keeping the spirits lifted. Maybe we could try that.

Oh, hang on a minute....

Some did. Some waved goodbye to husbands/boyfriends/sons and didn't see them again for years, often not knowing if they were alive or dead.

By comparison, cancelling Xmas for 1 year is a walk in the park.

[Yorick]

how do you think my parents generation coped with 5 years of war? Grow a pair!

They went down the pub for a good knees up, a sing-song 'round the old Joanna and a bit of how's yer father in a doorway on the way home. Good for keeping the spirits lifted. Maybe we could try that.

Oh, hang on a minute....

Do you need the Bumming Hat?

[DefTrap]

They were long gone pre covid. Unsustainable financial and environmental practices had left the young with a broken planet and diminished financial opportunities and security.

Most of the post apocalyptic fillums I've seen, the future looks great. A bit sexy, lots of skirt, you can go swaggering about mad Max style. All you have to do is make sure you're not the runty one that gets eaten before it really gets started.

[Horse]

With a son with no immune system after chemo still at home I'm simply not prepared to take the risks.

Is he high up the queue for the vaccine?

It appears not. They seem to be focusing on age - rather bizarrely - as opposed to vulnerability*. Perhaps it's because old people vote Tory

*in the first instance.

BBC reported:
Some people - such as those with a weak immune system - will not be able to have the vaccine.

[Asian Boss]

I heard it gives you Bell's Palsy and giantism and doesn't actually stop you getting Covid.

[derek badger]

Well that's fucked things. Just had a message from child #2's school. Confirmed case in her year group. Both classes excluded, isolate for 10 days. It's her birthday tomorrow and it is Christmas lunch at her school today. Need to tell the 70yr old diabetic FIL that they might want to rethink coming to our for Christmas day. Fuck you Rona.

[weeksy]

Well that's fucked things. Just had a message from child #2's school. Confirmed case in her year group. Both classes excluded, isolate for 10 days. It's her birthday tomorrow and it is Christmas lunch at her school today. Need to tell the 70yr old diabetic FIL that they might want to rethink coming to our for Christmas day. Fuck you Rona.

Awwww man, that's a shit show in terms of timing. Damn.

[derek badger]

Well that's fucked things. Just had a message from child #2's school. Confirmed case in her year group. Both classes excluded, isolate for 10 days. It's her birthday tomorrow and it is Christmas lunch at her school today. Need to tell the 70yr old diabetic FIL that they might want to rethink coming to our for Christmas day. Fuck you Rona.

Awwww man, that's a shit show in terms of timing. Damn.

Yes, but at least she can help me make her birthday cake today.