Arizona11 wrote:My wife and I are early 60’s no kids and retired.
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Here is the problem. Lifting all the restrictions recently was the worst thing that could happen as we want to get rid of the virus and also get our lives back again. All we read/hear is “if not now, then when?”
Early 60's with two mid 20's Covid return homers. For us there was no £2.5K/month payments to stay at home and lockdown has pretty much not occurred at all. They've still partied throughout and moved about to work etc. Last couple of weeks there's now also been crowded nightclubs, and now both have throatie type coughs, one is vaccinated the other not, the one vaccinated has a worse throat.
Mum, 89, contracted Covid last January after being admitted to hospital. Nothing came of that, barely even a snivel.
Also lost two distant second removed/whatever cousins partners, one young (30's) the other mid 40's, both were vaccinated.
The PM never followed protocols, should have implemented isolation/quarantine from the start as it could have been something far far deadlier. But his dad wanted to continue travelling to/from the continent. So far that's turned out lucky for him, just 100K of deaths, not millions. Lockdowns and selective funding for some to stay at home, not others ... complete joke and waste of money (more so when you also factor in multi-million contracts handed to mates). There seems to be just as many numbers of younger generation dying from vaccine complications as from Covid, maybe even more so.
Some reassurances would also be well received here, but as-is faith/trust/confidence is very low. As ever the UK parliament just incompetently muddles through, more often managing crises of its own making. If they're lucky they proclaim how great they are, if unlikely they'll divert blame or answering of questions, or hold a investigation just to document and sweep the matter under the carpet. Largely incompetent and IMO sovereignty wasn't returned to it but rather to the people, but it wont step aside to permit something more representative and competent.
Did start out much the same, washing all packaging etc. Predominately towards protecting mum. Family circumstances and her contraction of Covid however blow that all out of the water. Fear at first has faded into more just acceptance of when your numbers up ... and just live as much as possible between as there's no reset/restart button.