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What are your plans for super Saturday then !

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Lardlizard · 01/07/2020 08:06

We are going to Alton towers
Wish I’d held off booking tickets as the weather is much better on Sunday than Saturday
And we have to wear masks on the rides

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sunshinesupermum · 01/07/2020 10:28

Far more. I'm sick to the back teeth of people wanting everything shut forever. It's a disgrace quite frankly. The shielded can shield. Let us get on with our lives.

It's not just the deaths from Covid. Many covid sufferers continue to have symptoms long after they stop being infectious. This is a long term health worry so don't be so bloody selfish. I suppose you don't wear a mask do you?

onedayinthefuture · 01/07/2020 10:32

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BonnyWeeOne · 01/07/2020 10:34

Heyheyho * "No it won't. There is social distancing in place and precautions*"

😂😂 yeah because when I've been to the supermarket over the last three months I definitely don't get people leaning right into my personal space! Every time. Without fail.

heyheyho · 01/07/2020 10:35

@sunshinesupermum

Far more. I'm sick to the back teeth of people wanting everything shut forever. It's a disgrace quite frankly. The shielded can shield. Let us get on with our lives.

It's not just the deaths from Covid. Many covid sufferers continue to have symptoms long after they stop being infectious. This is a long term health worry so don't be so bloody selfish. I suppose you don't wear a mask do you?

No, I don't. They are useless and no one wears them properly anyway. I worked in a busy warehouse all through lockdown. 100 people, not one person got it or knew anyone who had it. I'm not scared of the virus and no one I know in real life is either. The infection rate is very low. Do you love the job losses that are happening? Will you love the suicides that will happen after a tanked economy? We have to learn to live with this. It's here to stay.
BonnyWeeOne · 01/07/2020 10:39

Hey
Oh so you're one of them! The "I don't know anyone who has has it so I reckon it's all imaginary bollocks" brigade. Great

heartsonacake · 01/07/2020 10:40

heyheyho You think masks are “useless”? How embarrassingly ignorant you are.

Sittinonthefloor · 01/07/2020 10:43

There are social distancing in pubs - and they aren’t going to be popular when people can’t go where they want - result is likely to be loads of pissed people outside the pubs. Grim.

sunshinesupermum · 01/07/2020 10:45

Heyheyho onedayinthefuture no one I know in real life is either.

You must both live in a very strange world then as most people I know are extremely worried - either they know people who have died or suffered from the disease or they do not want to catch it themselves. My OH still suffers from symptoms after contracting it mid March. he is far from the only one to do so. Both DDs in their 30s are WFH full time and will not be socialising like crazy post 4 July.

Stick your bloody head in the sand and hope you and yours never catch it.

onedayinthefuture · 01/07/2020 10:59

No @sunshinesupermum I don't live in a very strange world. I live in a real world where disease and illness has always existed. There are people living with lifelong disease and crippling pain every single day of the week. Children who never leave hospitals due to terminal heart conditions or cancer. Coronavirus for the majority is a minor illness and for those that are vulnerable, the whole world has shut down for them..... some perspective from the likes of you. Serious shit has always happened.

sunshinesupermum · 01/07/2020 11:07

onedayinthefuture

I am not diminishing the serious illnesses that people suffer. at all. You OTOH are completely diminishing this new, very serious disease. You're the one who needs perspective if you don't realise how damaging a new disease is on top of the ones people already have to deal with. My cousin suffers from incurable illness and has been sheltering unable to see any of his family because his immune system is so low. I have friends who have MS, who are pregnant etc all of who have compromised immune systems.

The immune systems of the people you mention are also severely compromised because people like you refuse to acknowledge that we have to get this disease under some semblance of control before mixing in society again.

sunshinesupermum · 01/07/2020 11:07

whom, not who!

LondonJax · 01/07/2020 11:10

I'll be sitting in the garden with a nice bottle of wine.

That way I can use the loo when I need to (lots of places will have a 'one in, one out' policy, nothing to do with the number of cubicles/stalls available). I can get food if I need it when I need it, rather than having to rely on some poor soul who's rushed off their feet trying to get drinks and food for everyone as you can't have groups of people at the bar. I can get up and walk about when I need to rather than being stuck at the table all the time. And I won't have to deal with the 'Covid can't get me' brigade who will probably try to ignore all the rules when the booze takes a hold.

If the announcement before lockdown, about the pubs closing, is anything to go by, it'll be 'celebration' drinks all round. I'll be staying off the streets until 'lockdown stupid and his/her mates' have got their jail fever out of the way and they go back to normal stupid. I can recognise normal stupid.

Personally I feel sorry for the pub staff. They've got great rules, good apps to help but we've all been in pubs when drink takes over and common sense goes out the door. Some of the people heading to the pubs on Saturday want to down as much as they can in the shortest time available like a normal Saturday night but on steroids. It'll be like watching a person in desert hitting the oasis pool. Except no-one's died yet for a few weeks without a beer. Unfortunately a lot of people have a bigger problem with alcohol than they think...

As far as the other things opening are concerned. I'll wait and see with the cinemas. I want to see how they're cleaning, what the rules are as they're a really enclosed space (at least you can sit outside in a pub), hairdresser is booked for a few weeks time (thank goodness, I'm looking like something off a desert island at the moment). I'm happy to take it slowly. The places will still be there when those who need to have got it out of their system.

TimeToGetMeBack · 01/07/2020 11:13

@SecretSquirreI

Oh and the animal crossing update will be out. So I'll be playing that even more than usual. Wink
Oh thank you just had a google and the update looks really good.
Waxonwaxoff0 · 01/07/2020 11:15

Won't be going to the pub as I don't like taking DS to the pub and I'm a single parent.

Probably just go for a walk out, depending on weather.

onedayinthefuture · 01/07/2020 11:16

@sunshinesupermum but the whole world has shut down for coronavirus! Everything is being done. Our whole way of life has changed and the lasting consequences are going to be far worse than a disease which a vast majority of people won't even catch and if they do, it will be a mild illness. Those were Chris Witty's words. If you are scared stay home but don't expect everyone else to live a soulless life.

ChristineH1988 · 01/07/2020 11:21

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BroomHandledMouser · 01/07/2020 11:34

We have have two friends coming over for a BBQ and drinks 😃 fuck going to the pub it’ll be carnage

userxx · 01/07/2020 11:40

This is a long term health worry so don't be so bloody selfish

And a tanked economy isnt ? I'd say you are the selfish one for locking yourself away. It's time to get on with life now.

AHF1975 · 01/07/2020 11:41

Possibly going to supermarket but absolutely won't be doing any of the things that the government has now prescribed as being magically 'safe'. I'd rather sit it out a bit longer so my seven year old can go back to school in sept than go out on the piss tbh...

sunshinesupermum · 01/07/2020 11:43

it will be a mild illness

You really need to keep up with what's happening to post Covid patients then. This is far from a mild illness for them, with irreparable lung damage as one instance.

The disease is considered to be serious enough for countries to be shutting down when necessary. Here in England we aren't even given the precise numbers of people who catch Covid-19 or who have antibodies because there are no reliable tests.

People I most feel for are the NHS staff and other essential workers face the possibility of contracting coronavirus on a daily basis and who bear the brunt of selfish people who think this isn't a serious illness. ICU staff do not need to be overwhelmed both physically and emotionally because some people say 'I don't know anyone who has had it'.

mindutopia · 01/07/2020 11:45

I'm toilet training my youngest, because heck if I'm going out in all of that and it seemed a really good way to use a weekend when I plan on going absolutely nowhere!

sunshinesupermum · 01/07/2020 11:46

userxx

Sure a tanked economy is far from ideal, to say the least. But a few more weeks to ensure that the infection is no longer spreading would be a better idea than opening everything to the public and the possibility of a second wave beginning just as we can send kids back to school.

halcyondays · 01/07/2020 12:02

What’s super about it?

BillywigSting · 01/07/2020 12:04

Avoiding people like the plague.

Because of the, you know, actual plague that is currently ongoing.