AD's off to Confession

[TheGreatWave]

Started a new one.

Need to adhere to guidelines this time though.

Well that went well once I found you after all that time.

Yes, i am struggling with the uncertainty of it all. And feeling quite overwhelmed. I checked and it is only 2 weeks left of this term (3 for other DC bit they can do a week early) homeschooling which helped a bit. I need to see an end to that.

@DominaShantotto

I feel very frightened the twit brigade will manage to get us locked down again. I couldn’t do it.

Same here. I worry that the loudest get listened to. In my case the twit brigade are the in laws. The only sane person in that family is dh at the moment

I think with the pub thing from what I've gathered from the snippets I've heard it's a case of each group has their own table and must not qdeviate from said table. If it's outside and it rains then they have to leave or come in through the one way system and be checked in again. So let's say we have tables 1-5 and table 3 rings up and says they are positive. We may have to ring table 2 and table 4 but not tables 1 and 5. However if they are the correct spacing I don't know if we do still have to ring tables 2 and 4...

I will know more when I've been to the meeting.

Thank you @mightbealittlebitmad
The pubs thing I find so confusing. We are looking at booking some nice weekends in the uk this summer (mostly to nice market towns or something, dont want to go to a seaside resort that's been screaming at out of towners like we are lepers for the last 3 months) but if eating out puts us at risk of seeing my family then I may not....its so confusing.

@mightbealittlebitmad

I think with the pub thing from what I've gathered from the snippets I've heard it's a case of each group has their own table and must not qdeviate from said table. If it's outside and it rains then they have to leave or come in through the one way system and be checked in again. So let's say we have tables 1-5 and table 3 rings up and says they are positive. We may have to ring table 2 and table 4 but not tables 1 and 5. However if they are the correct spacing I don't know if we do still have to ring tables 2 and 4...

I will know more when I've been to the meeting.

Wonder if you have to do all that contacting if you stay outside?

Well, I’m both glad and sorry that it’s not just me struggling IYSWIM. @DominaShantotto I definitely agree about the twit brigade, I know it appears that a second spike is looking less and less likely (Easter, VE Day, protests etc) but I have that little niggle of doubt too! And it would be so hard, going backwards again.

The thought of 14 days of home lockdown without even being able to go out for a run, a dog walk or to buy food makes me feel sick and a bit tearful, silly as that is. I dread it.

I go to Aldi and come back and you're gone! What happened?

Taat indeed

As a pub we don't want to call people to tell them to isolate because it will damage business so we have to put measures in place to make sure this isn't going to happen.

If someone is called to isolate because they were near someone with a positive test can they then get a test and be proved negative or do they have to wait it out regardless?

If someone is called to isolate because they were near someone with a positive test can they then get a test and be proved negative or do they have to wait it out regardless?

They have to wait it out. Because it can take 2 weeks to display symptoms, a negative test earlier than that could be false.

Gawd, I just had my tea, come back to find you'd all moved. Was it something I said?

Facebook dementors going mad as one council has now said that council tax could go up and services get cut.

There is proper outrage.

Seriously, what did people think would happen when the WHOLE COUNTRY SHUT DOWN for months......

Hope it wasn’t me who got the last thread deleted. Apologies if so.

book we are pretty much all in the queue for confession. Adhering, obviously, to strict social distancing rules.

From the Beeb.

150 (at least) councils are in trouble.

At least five English councils warned they may meet the criteria to issue a section 114 notice at some point without more government support, declaring themselves effectively bankrupt.

They include some of the UK's largest unitary authorities - Leeds, Wiltshire, Trafford, Tameside and Barnet.

Yes there is a lot of debt!

Bookworm it was all of us and therefore none of us.

I'm Spartacus!

God, the cuts to come are going to make austerity look like a picnic.

I'm Spartacus too!

(Wanted to join this club please let me in!)

Oh blimey... I was panicking I'd lost you all!

I'm with you @DominaShantotto and @Spudlet. My big worry is another lockdown over the winter. I live by myself and work from home most of the time, and in the winter I hate that moment where you look outside at 4.00pm and its getting dark, and you're all by yourself and its just so bloody gloomy. And what keeps me going at that point is the thought of things to look forward to: weekends away, theatre trips, meetings in London combined with a mooch around a gallery, or just meeting up with friends for supper around a kitchen table, or in a snug pub. I can probably manage without some of those over the winter, but if none of them are allowed, its going to be pretty grim and lonely.

I am Spartacus!

I really doubt they will do another country-wide lockdown. The cost to the government and the effect on the economy would be irreparable. Localised lockdowns will happen, but hopefully these will not be as long as testing will be more widespread.

@MaudesMum

I'm with you *@DominaShantotto and @Spudlet*. My big worry is another lockdown over the winter. I live by myself and work from home most of the time, and in the winter I hate that moment where you look outside at 4.00pm and its getting dark, and you're all by yourself and its just so bloody gloomy. And what keeps me going at that point is the thought of things to look forward to: weekends away, theatre trips, meetings in London combined with a mooch around a gallery, or just meeting up with friends for supper around a kitchen table, or in a snug pub. I can probably manage without some of those over the winter, but if none of them are allowed, its going to be pretty grim and lonely.

I do worry about that but realistically this has to be a one time only deal.

found you!

Actually I think we’ve done pretty well to only have one thread deleted.

I hope / think that:

Between track and trace (not working that badly and will only get better).

Better treatments.

And maybe a vaccine.

There will only be short term local lockdowns.