Cemetery closure

My daughter &I do that sometimes MaggieTulliver it's peaceful and interesting to think about the lives of the people buried there. Of course a lot of relatives go to think about their loved ones and keep them in their memory.
Not all strange in my opinion.

Hetty58 What do you suggest happens to those who have died? I find it a great comfort that some day my earthly remains will be reunited with those of my DH

I see nothing wrong in visiting cemeteries. I like reading the inscriptions on headstones, and just the general peace and quiet.

Our library is accepting returned books, and doing a click and collect for reserved items. It did this when the first lockdown eased off, and progressed to allowing limited numbers of people in to choose books, all returned books having been quarantined for 72 hours.

I’ve taken out a number of books before this second lockdown started, to keep me going.

My library is the same as Calendargirls, open for click and collect. They also quarantine books for 72 hours. Keeps people working. An interesting thing is that London transport have been stabbing tube trains and found no evidence of the virus. I have been travelling on trains tubes and buses with a mask for quite a while now, sanitizing when I get on and when I get off and by and large they are not busy.

None of the rules as what can open and what has to close make sense

i think thats why they shut in ,due to lots of people coming for remembrance day, surely you can remember them the whole year through and not just on this day..

I too find cemeteries peaceful places.
I am interested in the history of old graves and churches, although I don't have a religious bone in my body!
Shutting them due to Covid is a step too far.
If libraries can remain open with a rigorous quarantine for the books and a booking system then they definitely should. We are already in danger of losing our libraries, I would hate to see any more permanently close.

I think you've missed the point about the plague comment. All sorts of nasties might lurk on paper etc but what was said was there is no known case in history of books being the source of an outbreak of disease. Just because something is possible doesn't mean it will happen or that it has happened in the past.

Viruses can live on paper and card and books. When I was a child we used to get second hand books and comics from the local market. My mother used to put them in the oven “to kill the germs.” Library books were wiped over with a disinfectant cloth .
The post and parcels have passed through many hands so one has to be careful.

agrees! there are so many inappropriate and contradictory moments (in these conditions).

Flothecrow,
There is often a peaceful feel in a cemetery,a way to remember in a quiet way.

In the 1970s I worked in public libraries and the date label asked people to report any infectious diseases while the books were in their care. These books were then sent to the local hospital to be autoclaved and sterilised we were told. Then around 1976 this all stopped and we were told infection couldn’t live on books. Now I wonder which information was correct? ?

Well there would be expected to be a lot of people visiting the graves this week, and the risks of people gathering there, especially among those who know each other,or each others families, must be taken into consideration.Also there's always large gatherings of asian families in the cemeteries when they have a burial, and they still shake hands & theres 'backslapping' /hugs indulged in, particularly at times like ramadan. This has been witnessed when visiting a family grave, thankfully not nearby though. (so not hard to see why its spreading more in asian communities?) Its hard when you cannot even visit the graves of loved ones of course, but if it makes us all a little bit safer then its to be understood. Same with libraries, i can't see how they will survive in the future, the books will have to be 'set aside' 72 hours when they are returned, then if a borrower does this too the libraries will have to extend lengths of loan time too allow for this.Plus many will be still fearful of borrowing anyway.