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Wanted to make the new thread quickly to get the link onto the last page of the previous one!

I’m going to generalise about my friends so definitely not saying all Welsh people. I know quite a lot of teachers/drs/policy people and they are in the sunshine, no commutes and lots of time with family, really believe in a second peak and also live within easy walking distance of lovely parks and countryside. My private sector/small business friends are more fed up and also more nuanced about the whole thing.

I have a decent sized garden, have been walking every day for hours with dd, spent lots of time doing crafts etc. I’m worried about dd but lockdown for us is ok. I’m genuinely worried about the removal of rights, levels if nastiness in society and people who are struggling/being abused/going undiagnosed and think that trumps my right to basically an extended bank holiday. On a personal level I expect dd will be ok once she can play with friends but many people won’t and despite people thinking I want to murder their grannies (it’s never grandpas who are far more prone) I want the doors reopened because I believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant and the best weapon we have to help spot and prevent abuse.

From what Johnson said yesterday and what people I know in retail have told me, I expect shops that can allow for social distancing to start opening on 1st June.

A behavioural scientist whose advice informs the government’s coronavirus strategy said the prime minister’s decision to back Dominic Cummings would cost lives.

Stephen Reicher said that “in a few short minutes Boris Johnson has trashed all the advice we have given on how to build trust and secure adherence to the measures necessary to control Covid-19”.

The professor of social psychology at St Andrews University is a member of the SPI-B subcommittee, which provides behavioural science advice to the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/loyalty-to-dominic-cummings-will-cost-lives-says-scientist-lpxncb0ld

Yes shops are definitely next part of the plan aren't they, maybe that was wrong earlier from the Times.

I don;t understand why Cummings couldn't have looked after his child himself. It seems he had recovered but the wife not.

Christ, our toddler does not sleep in. So we're up and dressed, ready for another day of absolute nothingness.
I'm feeling teary already and it's not even 8am!
If anyone has any suggestions on where we can go today, we're in the West Midlands, I would love to hear them. Bonus points if the suggestions include an open tearoom so I can enjoy a coffee and cake that I haven't made.

Hello... Can I join please... I can do a secret handshake and probably have murdered half of Anglesey with my house of six people needing multiple weekly trips to supermarket and at least three people leave house separately to go running.
I also don't make banana bread, and never want to eat chickpea curry...

Yes Orange, my family have shops. They are set to open from 1 June

They are set to open from 1 June

SO happy to hear this!

A behavioural scientist whose advice informs the government’s coronavirus strategy said the prime minister’s decision to back Dominic Cummings would cost lives.

I'm so over the "will cost lives" rhetoric.

It's well past time for lockdown to be eased. We know far more about the risks of this disease than we did in March and outside hospitals are care homes it barely exists at this point.

Arguably lives will be saved if people recognise that if Covid was Ebola or the Black Death, rather than something approximately as serious as the 'flu, that DC would not have been so cavalier with the rules.

He wasn't afraid, because there is no reason for most people to be afraid.

And the thing that is going to cost most lives at this point is ongoing lockdown and damage to the economy.

I blame Cummings, the government, and SAGE far more for deliberately ramping up fear than for DC going to Durham.

That fear game was a risky and stupid strategy that is making restoring our basic freedoms to us tricky due to ridiculous hysteria that people living their lives are all murderers.

@theredjellybean

Oh multiple trips to multiple supermarkets here! Definitely massacring people left right and centre.

And shops... general any old shops! I have been absolutely craving a pointless trip to our local, tired old shopping centre, spending ages trying to park in a tiny space, humphing all the pram crap out of the car, wrestling the kids into the place and then aimlessly wandering round a bunch of terrible shops with nothing to buy and then having vile overpriced food. Oh how I can’t wait to do that again!!

I actually believe most of the neighbour reporting threads still. Mention of a police dispersement order for our area on the local FB pages has brought cries of "good, my neighbour's been having parties and people aren't socially distancing at the local Tesco."

Oh the fear thing... Yes so real.
My 21 Yr old dsd had a full on panic hissy fit yesterday when we went on a walk and there were loads of families on "our" beach... She had to go home... Yet she is telling me how she is going back to her London flat next week as being stuck in Cornwall for last 10 weeks has been awful... I lmao...

These families were socially distanced.. And the anxiety amongst the millenials in my house when a police car drove round the beach carpark as were leaving was palatable... These are intelligent young women.. Now conditioned to be scared of "breaking" a rule... We hadn't actually broken anything.. Except I snagged a nail trying to prize a mussel off a rock...

Morning all

I am so hoping shops can open from June 1st

Feeling quite blue today. It’s a lovely day, I want to have a wander round our local town and buy shit from all our pretty gift/home type shops. Get a cream tea and go out to the pub for dinner tonight.

I’m fed up with the ground hog day-ness of it all.

We made cocktails and got pissed in the garden last night. It was fun, but I want to invite friends round or go to the pub.

I bought scones and clotted cream yesterday so we can have a cream tea in the garden later, but I want to go to my favourite tea shop and eat scones the size of my head with their homemade jam.

I just feel fucked off now, suspect hangover isn’t helping my mood.

@Sadie789

I am Considering a trip to town - there is a wilko, boots, Superdrug, pound shop and a few supermarkets (with close sections) that will all be open. And marks food hall!

I just want different scenery.

I know. Some words I never ever wan5 to hear again

Social distancing

The rules

Save a live

Blended fucking learning

duckme i had a day out yesterday. We packed camp stove and inflatable boat and went swimming in and boating on a river, followed by camp stove spag bol and hot chocolate. It was AMAZING! And other people swam by and engaged in cheery conversation, even though i broke lockdown and let my 4 year old stand next to her 3 year old cousin and stir the river with long sticks, which kept them gloriously happy for ages. Ps had to drive over an hour for this, selfishly taking my plague ridden London self beyond the M25, but now researching spots closer to home. There's a wild swimming website.

longest - that sounds heavenly

I will be back to swimming soon.

@longestlurkerever
That's sounds just fabulous!

@Springersrock I hear you! I want pubs, restaurants and my friends. That's it.

Nihiloxica I agree completely. I have said before that one of the things I find hardest is the clash of general continuing insane reaction with the actual facts.

It seems to be accepted that we all have to continue to talk of Covid as though it is the new Black Death,even when it is very clear it is no such thing.

I’m very jealous. If we can’t see a friend without breaking the law soon I’m going to blow. I want to watch dd playing in the park with a friend then go to a pub for Sunday dinner and delete my zoom account! But we’re stuck here waiting for a second spike. It’s not coming and that’s good news surely?

@userxx I'm the same as you. I understand they want to get the economy going again but I couldn't care less about shops. I hate shopping with a passion. I just want to have my friends round for a BBQ without the risk of the neighbours peering over the fence and sending round narky notes. I could also murder a pint in a pub garden.

Fucking Zoom. I don’t want to see my face on the screen every time I talk to my friends. I don’t want to do bloody pub quiz’s from my dining table. I want to sit in the garden with my friends drinking wine. Go to restaurants and bars (without fucking Perspex screens). Go away for a weekend.