Following Ease Of Lockdown

[tiggerblue10]

How will you feel when lockdown is eventually eased?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52495201

Personally, I'm within the %ages that will feel uncomfortable going out, sending my child to school and using public transport.

[AuntPollyGrey]

//No, but I know plenty of older people that are.
Are you telling me no one does? //

I don't know youngmafbog. Some will be some won't. But then I wouldn't make sweeping statements that the old and vulnerable have all been scared witless by the media

[fiction-factory]

>The MSM have gone way over the top.
Sort of thing Eammon Holmes says.

I think this meaningless MSM phrase is trotted out when people are on auto pilot.

[tiggerblue10]

I won't feel fully comfortable until a vaccine is available either.

[Peter Pedant]

I will go out and hoolie
but I am such an ugly type I doubt if anyhone will want to kiss me
the odd dog I suppose

[Togo]

Looking forward to being able to nip out for a pint or a bit of lunch but on one condition. That there are not herds of kids running wild all over the place......whether inside or outside. Super spreaders they are indeed. Send them all back to school and cancel the 8 week break they have......that includes the stew dents. I will be checking before I go anywhere as to what the establishment policy is regarding minors and social distancing.

[iluvmargie]

I can't wait for lockdown to be eased, but am happy to wait as it's no good doing it too early. I am looking forward to going out as normal again and won't be frightened in large crowds or pubs and will have the vaccine as soon as I can. Never been scared.

[Ken4155]

My first port of call will most likely be one of Yorkshire's horseracing courses, where I promise to stay at least 2 meters from any potential winning selection :-))

[fender62]

people forget easily, so life will be as it was..eventually, except for people who have lost loved ones colleagues etc.

[rockyracoon]

I feel similar to iluvmargie.

[cashier]

I agree with iluvmargie, it won't bother me in fact the sooner the better for me.

[iluvmargie]

Glad I'm not the only one.

[TheWholeTruth]

15:55
Spot on fender...with each passing week it will fade away and things will get back to "normal"...doesnt matter if its a new new normal or not...but apart from those who will insist on wearing face masks and gloves after a while you wont notice any difference.

Even those who lost loved ones etc will have to move on and get back to a regular life, just like losing someone in "normal" times you cannot go around in a state of grief all the time, you have to get on with life.

[Buenchico]

Ken4155:
We're all blaming you horsereacing fans for the whole ruddy thing anyway ;-)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-52485584

To respond to other points above though, I'm in the 'highly vulnerable' group (ongoing chemotherapy) but I'm certainly not 'scared witless'. I still do my own shopping but exercising considerable caution, only going out once every few weeks and then only when I know that the shop I'm going to will probably be all but empty of other customers.

I recognise that I'll probably have to exercise such caution for much longer than 'fully fit' people, so rather than 'feeling uncomfortable going out' once the restrictions start to be eased, I simply won't be going out much anyway.

[jourdain2]

I will just be very pleased to resume normal life. No, it won't bother me and I will not feel uncomfortable. I will probably stop kissing friends when I meet (hangover from living in France)but I've lived my whole life at risk of various infections; from T.B. (when it came back in the 70's and none of us had been vaccinated because it had been eradicated in this country) to the 1968 'flu epidemic, through to the H2N1 virus in 2009 - when we caught it because Mr.J2 romantically took me to Paris for my 60th birthday.

You can't spend your life worrying. I shan't.

[New Judge]

//You can't spend your life worrying. I shan't.//

Indeed not, jourdain. I shall be resuming my usual lifestyle just as soon as I'm allowed to. It is fast approaching the point for many where the certain effects of the cure are becoming far worse than the possible effects of the disease. Comparatively very few people are at risk of serious illness from this disease. The vast majority will experience trivial or no symptoms. The world will have to learn to live with it (as it does with many other diseases). Yes, sadly some will succumb to it (as they do with many other diseases). But to consider keeping the population locked down for a lengthy period is simply not a viable proposition. Many people are not living at the moment. Mrs NJ and I most certainly are not - we're simply existing. We haven't been anywhere other than the shops for six weeks. The highlight for us this week was to give the kitchen a good bottoming. We're lucky - we have a spacious house and garden. But there's only so much you can do for entertainment without going out. God knows what it must be like for people who live in small flats. We shall be out and about as soon as we can because it's becoming a choice between possibly dying of the virus or certainly dying of boredom.

[fiction-factory]

Weren't you be able to take lovely walks every day, NJ, while the weather was so nice? I've really enjoyed my walks.

[NickorWan]

I shall feel a bit relieved but very cautious. I will be watching what happens and shan't be dining out, for example, until I am happy it is safe to do so.

[barnaclebill58]

Will be in the pub as soon as possible and at crowded race meetings . If I'm the one in x , well better to go out as a lion rather than a lamb. Roads aren't closed for weeks on end because someone dies in a road accident and airports don't close after an aircrash . Anyone of a like mind can be joyed by https://lockdownsceptics.org/ and anyone dissenting horrified.

[bednobs]

"The highlight for us this week was to give the kitchen a good bottoming"
i hope you closed the curtains

[NickorWan]

//Roads aren't closed for weeks on end because someone dies in a road accident and airports don't close after an aircrash .

Are they supposed to be similes?