Covexit - how would YOU manage it?

rowanflower0,i know it matters,but the bloody government focused too much on just how it would effect 'the economy' and kept everything open when there was only 33 deaths- and now look where we are?!!!

I quite agree with notanan2 and yorkie20.

This isn't an easy one because I think we'll all want to get all the personal contact and hugs we've been missing out on and
I worry that it might bring about another peak and subsequently cause another lockdown.

I am new to posting and may not have chosen the right topic area, but here goes - why I wonder are we encouraged to pray for/think about/support etc. our Friends and Family, in that order, rather than our Family and Friends ?

Plan plan plan

Test test test

Trace trace trace

The government has completely failed.

Don’t hold your breath that exiting will be anything more than a shambles

As someone with other health conditions I think I would like a risk assessment consultation with my medical team. QualIty of life matters to everyone and I’m not sure that I want to stay locked down to protect me when I may only have limited time anyway. I want to live that time, know my grandchildren, see my DS married.

Split the days up and have one day a week for us oldies out.

I too believe if you just remove all restrictions people will “self ration” what they feel comfortable with doing and when. Our Government made all the wrong decisions up front, I read today that Boris didn’t even attend the first 5 Cobra meetings, what makes us think they’ll decide any better now about opening up again? I’m for people doing what they feel when it’s right for them. My husband works at a school but without PPE he won’t be returning (he’s over 65 so I won’t let him risk it) my son is under 30 and hasn’t set foot outside since lock down began. He will probably continue working from home because he can.

Gran52,how is it non existant if so many have already died from it??Indeed our own PM has been quite ill with it!

The less vulnerable (young and fit) should be allowed back to work first. Then if any of them succumb to the virus we should have a strategy of test, trace and treat.

I am one of the vulnerable stuck at home for my own good but I long to go for a walk and see family and friends etc. But one scientist said people like me should not go out until there is a vaccine. I will be frightened when the government says I can go out. You can't see this virus - it could be anywhere. Not everyone keeps to distancing and hand washing etc. I long to do things, but I think I will be afraid.
I do wonder if life will ever go back to normal.

Looks like those classed as vulnerable (like me) will be the last to be let out. To be honest, I don’t mind at all. I’d rather stay in isolation than go rushing out into the unknown! ?

Don't think I've heard Bette Midler sing it, but will look on YouTube - I and my local over 55s' choir found Nanci Griffith's version and use that as a guideline.

We have tickets for the theatre in October. I will be very surprised if theatres are allowed to be open by then.
I’ll do whatever it takes to be able to hug my family again.

Without the full facts it is difficult to say but I would implement it on a regional basis starting with the least affected areas first,(the lowest on their graph) eg. Devon and Cornwall or Lake District. London will find it very difficult until the transport system is sorted. Those of us who catch the tube at 7 am on a normal day know how packed it is. It simply can't carry all those workers when it is running at 30% fewer trains.

As a child of the 50s, we were allowed to go and play in the garden and make mud pies(earth and water) especially Sundays because that was bath night. Yes, one bath a week! We never had hot water so the morning wash before school was always cold water. No central heating just a coal fire. The list is endless to how organic we were.
I look at society now and young moms so preoccupied with keeping little Johnny clean that playing and getting mucky in the garden just doesn't seem to happen anymore.

My Theory and not everyone will agree is in the 'old' days we built up an immunity, and now we have something which we cannot control until we have the vaccanation for it. If you know what a mean?

Nanniejc1

I think most people who are over 70 or have health issues will be very nervous when lockdown ends & will probably still do ‘social distancing’ for months or until a vaccine /cure is found for this dreadful Chinese Virus.It will be a very long time before the over 70s or anyone with health problems feels safe .

I will not go out for meals, I won't fly until safe to do so and I won't be going to crowded shopping centres or sports events or concerts etc. I'll continue washing hands, using disinfectant on door handles, bells, doors, handles, light switches etc if I travel on public transport I'll wear a mask. Etc etc. This pandemic has changed my behaviour forever

No idea how it will end,it’s quite obvious that many more people will catch it & die but I don’t think anyone knows how to get out of lockdown because the elderly & people with health problems are always going to be at risk.

I do think at the moment this is tomorrow's problem, nothing is going to happen for another three weeks at least. Speaking to family and friends (on the phone) there seems a growing reluctance to get out and about again, I reckon the Government is going to have a job getting parents to send children back to school and as Ellianne says workers to travel on the tube, buses etc. Once we have managed to see the family and a very few close friends I am not sure we will be bothered about restaurants, theatres, etc.

Open garden centres so people can grow something,even
if it is a tomato plant in a pot. Very therapeutic!
Open recycling centres on a carefully planned access.
It would stop fly tipping, our local school playing fields
have been used!

Surely the whole point of social distancing was to keep people safe until the NHS is in a position to cope with a steady, ongoing influx of people who have contracted Covid19.
So ...
The most vulnerable - ie those over 70 and/or with underlying health issues are know to be more at risk, so they should isolate for a further period. Fortunately, many these people are generally retired and so not needed with quite the same urgency to restart the economy although they may wish to socialise with others who have been in total isolation to keep themselves sane!
Others need to get back to normal asap (but still taking care - ie working from home where possible etc). A proportion of these people will, no doubt, contract Covid, but the hospitals will be better able to cope and once a significant proportion of the population has had it and recovered we will be into the herd immunity stages.
As we have all (mostly) been isolating it will also become easier to trace the source of the infection and ensure all contacts are then isolated as far as possible.
There is no easy solution, but I believe the above is what the government has been aiming for and largely I can see the sense in this strategy. For now we can only be careful and stay safe.

There is a possibility that this will continue for some time yet. We will start getting back to work, school etc and there will be peaks and troughs of infection. CV is not just going to disappear.

You cannot really trust the ministers to do anything right look at the current state we are in. However in the allocated time for exercise etc I find that if we meet others doing same thing common sense prevails and keeping your distance has not curtailed my enjoyment of nature in its truest form. If we all adopt common sense and reasonable care towards ourselves and others we can gain some form of normality but as others have said things will never be the same we have to learn to adapt.

I have seen pictures of a Florida beach that has been opened...ok tgey are not allowed to sit down...but it was crowded with people walking. I dread to think what the outcome of this will be in 3 weeks time. I hope us British will be more sensible. It has to be done little by little. Then the consequences can be measured.