Is There Anyone Else That Wont Be Celebrating Tonight?

[IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls]

There is a lockdown party over the road ... think loud music , whoops , cheering etc . People obviously very happy and i don't begrudge them that at all.

Sadly we have little to celebrate as lockdown has been very traumatic for us , with my mum becoming hospitalised with pneumonia. She then contracted Covid in hospital which was terrifying ( 2 months in hospital) and now she needs cancer treatment which is being delayed because of Covid . Again extremely frightening and my mind is preoccupied with this every minute of the day .

We have also , and will continue to suffer financially.

Is there anyone else that doesn't feel part of the excitement tonight ?

I'm in Scotland so it's a bit different - we had 14 new cases and sadly 4 deaths in the last 24 hours. I'm dreading what the tourist season may do to these figures tbh. I won't be celebrating anytime soon and am reserving judgement about the schools returning full time.

I am glad restrictions are starting to ease but no parties here OP. Very selfish to have a party midweek. Not much to celebrate at the moment surely? Most are back working round me.

I'm going to be sticking to the guidelines, just because other people are being dicks doesn't mean I have too as well."

@LemonadeAndDaisyChains - definitely this!

No celerbration here (Wales is behind England though)
My Dc could return endof june, to school but Im waiting till sept, My partners pub, our income, is still closed and rightly so.
We are continuing with the guidelines, even when Wales, has lifted a bit more.

Sorry to hear about your Mum OP, such a worry x

@ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia i despair with them , they are of the ilk that the worst thing that has happened to them in 3 months is not being able to go to the pub .

While others have literally been drowning in trauma .

I'm not feeling the excitement either OP, just trepidation really. I understand that lockdown couldn't continue forever and that the economy needs to get moving again, but I'm concerned that once people start socialising again in pubs etc, with alcohol flowing freely, people will forget social distancing completely and by the autumn things will get bad again. However, maybe it's better to have the second wave before the winter, as the NHS might be better equipped to cope with it during the summer. By winter perhaps we'll have more effective treatments, maybe even a vaccine, but if not maybe we'll be well on the way to developing herd immunity.

There are no easy solutions here. Personally I will be carrying on with the 2 metre rule, and avoiding crowded places. I might go on a short shopping trip, as I need some new clothes, but I'll be wearing a mask and will not dither inside the shop. I might risk buying a take away as a treat, but won't go into a restaurant or pub, I'll leave that to the youngsters, who have better chances of surviving the virus than me and DH (we're in our 50s).

@Lollypop4 thats so kind of you , thankyou

@IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls

I don’t believe this for one minute.

All the medics and hospital staff I know are frustrated they cannot get on with their jobs and are sitting about in empty hospitals.

@thaegumathteth also in Scotland.

More people will have died from sepsis today.

4 deaths in a population of over 5 million is minuscule.

I feel like that too@Defenbaker .

It will be slowly slowly for me.

Tens of thousands dead, millions of people struggling mentally and financially from being locked down but the pubs are going to open again. Yay. Oh and while you can’t hug your nan when you see her, you can go on nemesis at Alton towers together.

To answer your question, no I’m not in the mood to celebrate right now.

Im glad im not on my own @CelestialSpanking

Not celebrating here either. Nothing is changing for us anyway and my 7 year old still can't have his hospital appointment that he needs.

I wasn't celebrating because as far as I know, C-19 restrictions aren't over, just relaxed more.

And the thing is, the Government are looking at this from a statistical point of view, whereas I can only see it from a personal one. It's no good the number of cases or deaths being right down to only 10 people a day if my frail DH is one of them. We're lucky that we don't work, so we'll just carry on staying in and having most of our shopping delivered, and social distancing as much as we can.

No. No celebrating yet. Still can't do the only thing I want to do, so no way.

I'm not at all excited by this. I'm glad to have a bit more freedom, particularly to see people, but none of it means the virus has gone away.

What I find really depressing is the graph for Covid 19 worldwide - www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. Whatever is happening here, that graph keeps rising, and figure for Covid related deaths is not a lot more encouraging. So that means that, until we have a vaccine, this virus is going to carry on circulating around the world, and we just have to carry on being cautious or we will be straight back into full lockdown.

I’m not celebrating either but then again I’m in Scotland and while I think we need to get everything going I think it seems rushed in England.

I’ve lost my job and my dad can’t get his chemo. Nowt to celebrate here.

I think pulling the rug on the shielded is terrible. I think they should have the right to remain on furlough. If I was shielded I’d be wondering wtf was the point.

I can't understand why people would want to be celebrating I'm glad I don't live in England .

@FizzFan @elliejjtiny thats what we are waiting for too . Hospital treatment

They are delaying my mums because 8 weeks later and the crappy covid test still keeps coming back positive.

The dead virus cells are in her lungs ... but until her test is negative they wont do surgery or any treatment.

They really need to change the test so that it isnt just looking for the genetic material of the virus - because the way it is now people will get positive test results just from having the dead virus cells in their body .

@THEDEACON part of me feels happy they are happy... the other part of me thinks it is a bit insensitive.

@Floella4

I don’t see an issue with it personally. Where I am at LEAST 90% of people are breaking lockdown and have been for weeks and weeks and weeks and the numbers have continued to fall. If people are going to continue to not stick to the rules, why not open the economy back up a bit to and at least get some sort of benefit for the country from it ?

Totally with you

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut you are not meant to

You have to be scared. It's not as though 1700 people don't die every day of other causes - including infectious ones.

Wash your hands WELL - Don't get any closer to people than you have to and get on with life.

And Germany isn't 'backtrackin'. They've had a localised break out (in a meat factory) and they're handling it. The same as we will handle any local break out.

Why do I feel some people WANT there to be a second wave - just so they can be proved right

@IAintentDead hmmm come and work in the frontline for a month on the wards and see it for yourself. Covid is like no other . It ravages people , suffocates them & rampages through the body affecting every single organ .

You wouldn't have the same blase attitude.

Doctors & nurses are despairing with BoJo.

But as long as you are blissfully ignorant & happy , good for you .

I think its economy over health. I do not feel
excited...more like lambs to the slaughter. I'm hoping that the second wave doesnt come but actually think it will and with a vengeance. I'm sorry about your mim OP.

Mum obvs

@TheMurk I agree . That's why I don't want it to be fucked up now by people going too fast.