Is this good news?

My stepdaughter, aa aneathsatist in a London hospital says that they are getting slightly fewer covid patients, but she says that she sees many more people out and about and is furious about it and says that we could easily get a second wave if people ignore the restrictions. My DS works in food retail and his shop has been told by management to let everyone in! Thankfully my local Tesco are very careful, sanitised trolleys and a sensible one way system

grannysyb
I’m not surprised your stepdaughter is furious about what’s happening. She’s been risking her life whilst other selfish people can’t obey a simple instruction, and shops put profit over people. Is it really not possible for people to just stay at home apart from an hour’s daily exercise or once weekly shopping? Why can’t shops behave responsibly? Don’t people care about the medics on the front line, the key workers in shops, the bus drivers and other key workers who are risking their lives to fight this pandemic?

It looks a lot like they don’t!

Yes. I think all those who can’t do their best to protect our healthcare and front line workers shouldn’t clap the the NHS weekly. Including the families over the road from me who were happily chatting away yesterday. No distancing. Yet they’ll be out there on Thursday. Hypocrites.

I really can’t get worked up about what other people do with regards to how many times they go shopping or go out for a walk or when my neighbours DGC visit to talk through the window and get a tiny bit closer than the regulation 2 metres.

dizzyblonde
Perhaps you’d get a bit more worked up if your adult child was a key worker had small children. Perhaps you’d be a bit more worked up if your key worker adult child contracted the virus and left his/her children without a parent.
That’s the possible situation for us, all I can say is may God keep them safe, because the actions of others certainly won’t.

GagaJo
I agree, it’s sheer hypocrisy when people clap the NHS and key workers if they then flout the rules.

I am a key worker, a paramedic attending COVID patients every single shift and my AC is a nurse. My husband currently has the virus and I still can’t get worked up about what other people are doing. You can’t change what other people are doing, you can only change your reaction to it. Adding pointless stress to my life is just going to make me feel worse.

dizzyblonde
I apologise, obviously I had no idea that you were a paramedic as you didn’t say. I sincerely hope your husband recovers soon. I understand why you feel you can’t get worked up about what others do, when you see Covid patients every day, but I wish the others would care a bit more about you and other medics and key workers.
My daughter and her husband are doctors and consequently I feel very strongly about people following the rules because only when the rules are followed will the numbers reduce.

I'd prefer to stay as we are for another 3 months (or longer) than have hordes of people, all milling about.

It would give people the idea that things are not just back to normal. Of course there will be some (just like the idiots ignoring lockdown) who won't stick to it. But it would provide a reminder for a lot of people.

While I think bubbles of 10 would be unworkable, there are other relaxations that could come in immediately. I have two neighbours, both over 80, totally isolating. They have shopping delivered by the same person, have the same gardener. Neither has any family living nearby. Who would they endanger by resuming their daily chat over a cup of tea? That could be extended to others who are totally isolating, maybe couples or families, two households who agree to only socialise with each other. At the very least it would show the responsible amongst us that there is light at the end of the tunnel. The irresponsible will do their own thing regardless so really shouldn't be the driving force behind decisions.