AD's say "well open the playgrounds and swimming pools then you Malaka"

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It took us an hour to get there once we’d examined the barn, the fertiliser tank, the big stones in the farm track, the wind turbine, the footpath arrows, the bridge over the stream and assorted butterflies, ladybirds and bees... I don’t think we’ll be walking to school in the mornings any time soon grin Got DH to come and pick up up for the home journey or we might still be out there now!

Aww, Spudlet your post made me remember mine being smaller - lovely.

Hmm, wonder if the rest of UK will follow.

on masks I mean.

@mascotte - no mention of quarantine. Just a plea to the people in Annan/Gretna not to cross the border while they try to deal with the outbreak there.

It's the power and control I think. Creepy fuckers. They practically masturbate themselves into a frenzy over the thought of getting to live in a Dictatorship.

Well there are risks to masks as we know, fiddling with them and making people feel they don't need to do the other stuff as much.

It's totally political as well, trying to seem different and more careful etc

@mocha78 Oh don't worry, I might be a touch touchy I think the lockdown strategy has backfired in a "shit we didn't think it would work this well!" kind of way and the shielding strategy is very much the same. Well I say "strategy" I think that's actually a generous word for what it is...

Agree some extremely vulnerable people have been terrified by this and I feel for them. But how long can you live like that and at some point the risk of damaging your mental health far outweighs the physical risk. I actually did stay in my wardrobe my house for the first months before I realised I couldn't do that forever (wish I had realised it earlier tbh ) and now I feel anger that I "wasted" those months. I didn't even live separately to my household as advised which some people have been doing so I imagine that feeling of anger would be much stronger in these people when the guidelines actually change and they are told they're not actually at that much risk, so off you go! (or they realise this anyway)

I don't mean to go on just about shielding people as again, because I think this is representative of what will happen in the wider population when they think (especially when the economic impacts become more apparently) what the fuck?

I actually think a lot more deaths could have been avoided if some measures had been taken earlier and proper PPE for frontline etc. I agree lockdown prevented more deaths after this but at what cost and this cost is disproportionate as earlier measures would have been more effective. Even now the government are still fannying about over what happens in September - they knew this was coming from March and even earlier!

I feel so much anger especially for our children who have had their futures mortgaged, their education damaged (especially DC with exams next year - all my own secondary/college DC are of course in this group!) and missed so many milestones they can't get back - graduation, 18th birthdays, even exams, driving lessons, etc etc, and had their mental health damaged. Family incomes gone, jobs lost, etc etc etc and this is from the government "strategy" not necessarily CV.

Ranty McRanterson. No one is about to take me for cat food. I am impatient and annoyed

To be fair to Nippy, she didn't say masks. She said face coverings. I shall be using a thin scarf. DS will be using his Stormtrooper helmet.

Why do I need a mask I have not been anywhere except supermarket, seen grandkids who are locked down hard have been for 101 days plus. I have not been on a BLM protest sat on a beach in the heatwave, I have not got bloody covid unless the supermarket is a dangerous place.

My grandsons are into the Avengers, masks galore so I need to borrow one and scare the bejasus into folk when I venture out. We all need to get hold of Captain America, Iron Man, Darth Vader masks and terrorise the neighbourhood.

I know a farmer who was found dead and naked in a field years ago he had set up a bicycle which when you pedalled would flagellate you with leather straps, he beat himself to death.

I now have a vision of Drakeford on his allotment doing the same.

I have decided Drakeford and Sturgeon are not getting sex so are miserable, Boris is getting plenty so is more lax.

Apologies for the ranting. I'm too upset and angry to be coherent.

I find this cult of worship around Nicola incredibly disturbing. No one should slavishly follow any politician so unthinkingly like that. The same applies to any politician be it Boris or the sainted Jacinda.

Because Saint Nicola has decreed it shall be so, @justasking111. Isn't she wonderful for keeping us safe from your manky, germy, breath.

Hopefully she will abandon this soon when she realises what a crock of shit it is.

My biggest issue on the mask thing (apart from the fact that I have severe claustrophobia and can’t wear one without a panic attack) is... why now? So at the peak of the epidemic, when 1 in 100 people were infected, they could freely wander round the supermarket. Now an infected person is rarer than rocking horse shit, everyone has to wear masks. I just don’t get it.

Will Scotland be the same with the list of face covering exemptions? (I've attached the English ones)

Embarrassingly I am shooting myself in the foot there as I would (I'm sorry! I'm sorry!) like everyone to wear masks all the time as it makes me feel better I do realise the total fuckwittedness of this especially in situations where my DC would wear them on the bus to school and then take them off in school

I can't help it. It just makes me feel safer, especially I live in an area where people do stuff like spit on the pavement I do realise there is a good long list of reasons why people can't wear masks so I definitely DO NOT JUDGE people not wearing them.

I'd go in the shop with tights over my head bank robber style just for the hell of it.

I think the issue with the list of exemptions is that it’s not going to stop dementors loudly shaming people in shops etc for not wearing one.

I saw someone wearing a literal gas mask in Asda the other day. WTAF has happened to people's sanity?

I tell ya Nicola and Mark are not getting nooky tis the only rational explanation for this

@DesmondTheMoonbear you're in my neck of the woods, shall we head to Milngavie Waitrose next Friday morning without face coverings and see what happens?

Balaclavas or motorcycle helmets maybe?

I'm having a friend and her daughter over for dinner tomorrow night.....indoors and we're in wales!!!! There will be wine! I will tell my self off loudly afterwards.

Am I weird? I feel so out of step. This seems madness and all of it a massive overreaction, I'm feeling really panicky about the world, it just never fucking stops

All this panicking about cases being tested are they reet poorly folk or folk who feel a bit off who are being tested?