Covid 19

Not in RL

Sorry Susie what does RL mean?

On my walks I tend to get into conversations about dogs. My dog is the reason for the walks.

However, I don't know anyone who has had covid but I do know lots who have had the vaccination or will jump at the chance to have it. Not experienced that negative attitude with anyone.

I don't understand your comment about schools. Children are back at school so parents and grandparents will be at the school gates as before.

Sorry - I’m always doing that Real Life. I read the views you mention on various platforms like Twitter, Facebook but I’ve never met a person actually say those things to my face. I don’t know how I’d cope ?

We’re not back at the school gates and I know quite a few other gps who haven’t picked up childcare duties again.. However, I know of lots of childcare bubbles which have operated throughout anyway so that’s made no difference.

Thanks for explaining RL! Comment about school gates was to demonstrate, I think, that there’s no one missing-all parents, grandparents etc all present and correct as before therefore they seem to conclude that virus hasn’t affected anyone there and if the situation is as bad as the stats say you would expect a lot of folk to be missing ?

One of my neighbours said the same in December, until he caught Covid over Xmas after having his friend to stay.
Perhaps the people you met are shut in to their own little belief bubble, and nothing has popped it yet. This may be their way of coping.
'None so queer as folk ' as my old granny used to say.

Do they believe in Australia? Or Thailand? Ir other places they may not have been. I dont know anyone who has coeliac disease, I still believe it exists. It must be quite difficult for them to operate in the world

Yes, one person I know (and her entire family, it seems) has this weird way of thinking.

She's on Facebook a lot, so has easily fallen victim to the Covid deniers, the anti-vaccination brigade, the conspiracy theory idiots.

It all stems from her strong dislike of conforming, obeying, being told what to do - and ever being treated as one of the crowd. (She believes that she's very special indeed, you see.)

It lines up nicely, too, with her reluctance to even take a Paracetamol, her obsession with healthy living (so called) natural food etc. - and belief that she's 'independent' and will make her own decisions.

Finally, I think she's scared of needles, also very scared of making a 'wrong' decision that she might later regret.

It just goes to show that, if you close your mind, you can believe absolutely anything - quite incredible!