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.

[fiction-factory]

Err, we don't get 5000 deaths a week in Uk or 50000 deaths worldwide from aircrashes- if we did I think you'd find that flights would be grounded

[douglas9401]

I'll feel better when the fashion for the masked doing the boggle-eyed Covid fandango as I round the corner of the aisle in Morrisons has passed.

[CrapAtCryptics]

i`ll settle for a nice walk with the dog along the beach at Hunstanton and a nice snack at the beach cafe where you can sit outside.

[Prudie]

I may be foolhardy but I'd just get out there, I'd get on a plane tomorrow if I could.

[jourdain2]

We went today to get Mr.J2's leg dressed by the local Practice nurse (remains of a wound after a bit of cancer surgery, nearly healed) and she was creating about younger people who turn up because their child has a cut finger (she points them to a sink, antiseptic cream and plaster - seriously it's as bad as that). She also (quite rightly) had a bit of a rant about how the A&E Deps. were now almost deserted - extrapolating that people could not deal with the smallest thing themselves. When I sprained my ankle the other year I strapped it up myself. I thought that was normal.

What has happened to our people? We have gone on about the 'nanny state' for years and it turns out that people have been frightened and brainwashed. Wake up!

This is a very nasty virus, not arguing about that by any means, but the death rate is (on the last figures I read today) about 0.01%. More likely to have a mental health epidemic if we carry on as we are. Shaking head sadly…...

[douglas9401]

Your next drink's on me, Jourdain.

Two thumbs up. :-)

[jourdain2]

^^Cheers Douglas - double Laphroaigh?

[douglas9401]

Whatever your pleasure, cheers.

[jourdain2]

^^ Sorry if I spelled that wrong - it's just so lovely to drink that I never notice the bottle!

[Canary42]

/// Personally, I'm within the %ages that will feel uncomfortable going out, ... using public transport.///

So am I.

[tamborine]

Methinks someones painted a black cross on my gate as post is now delivered 30metres from my front door - no chance of getting it in these monsoons.

[pastafreak]

NJ, count yourself lucky that you've been to the shops. Some of us haven't even done that.
I'm still not certain I'll just jump back into being "normal"...I'm still too worried.

[royfromaus]

double Laphroaigh was good in Rocky

[diddlydo]

I'm with NJ and 1 or 2 others. Although I was all in favour of the lockdown and people respecting it for the first 3 weeks and even the current 3 weeks, enough is enough - or actually too much. As soon as it is eased I shall max out as much as possible. I haven't been bored and have had plenty to do but this sort of existence is untenable for much longer. I'm over 70 and therefore classed as vulnerable but I'm prepared to take my chance.

[fiction-factory]

In UK it's actually now four times higher than your figure, jourdain- 405 per million (0.04%) have died so far, and the figure will keep growing of course.

Yes, it's still low overall but if you take the older age group of over 65s for example, they account for around three quarters of deaths and the death rate per million in that age group is nearly 2000 per million or 0.2%. You may feel it's still not much of a risk but for the over 75s it gets far higher again to around 0.4%. Then higher again for over 80s.

And these figures are during lockdown. The figures could easily double over the rest of the year if the unlocking is done too quickly.

But I can see why some would want to take their chances and live their lives rather than hide away

[teacake44]

I've already taken myself out of the so called lockdown, if they think I'm putting the rest of my life on hold to watch Hancock perform. Not sure what his target is for deaths, put its the only area were he's been highly successful.

[fiction-factory]

Let's hope you don't catch anything and then infect too many others Teacake and put pressure on the NHS

[teacake44]

All the pressure on the NHS as come from Hancocks inability to provide PPE. a nurse interviewed today, and she's not the only one waited 2 hours at a testing station today for a so called priority test, after a 2 hour wait someone came up to her car and told her she will have to come back the next day, out of tests. sheeesh

[New Judge]

//NJ, count yourself lucky that you've been to the shops.//

Let's put it like this, pasta. If we hadn't been to the shops we'd have probably starved to death by now. At the very least our diet would have become very unhealthy, living on what we happened to have stored before the madness set in. There is absolutely no chance of an online delivery slot or a "click & collect" slot. We have accounts with three of the four big supermarkets but none are available with any of them. At the start of the lockdown we tried all sorts of strategies to obtain a slot - we tried at midnight when the extra day was rolled out, in the small hours, all to no avail. That said, it's a bit much when the highlight of your life - second only to bottoming the kitchen, of course - is a trip to Tesco's especially when you have to ponce about queuing to get in. It's stupid to simply say "stay in". Some of us can't.

[fiction-factory]

That's a different story to the one I heard where she turned up before the designated 30 minute slot then complained that the whole think took her an hour, but maybe it's a different case. It's a shame if she missed out, Teacake because taking it would have pushed the figure up to 122,348.