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[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

New Thread. - Hello.

@NothingIsWrong dh’s office is reopening at the end of August and they have been canvassing staff this week to see who wants to go back. Currently only 20% do - which I guess will make social distancing easier! - not because they particularly enjoy WFH but because they are scared. I was not shocked to learn that the ones who want to go back are mainly women - if they can get childcare. WFH for women just means doing two jobs - the men are happy to leave domestic stuff to their wives & piss around on the computer all day. Dh isn’t particularly bothered though he does not want to be based at home permanently - career-wise it is limiting ... no networking no contact with other teams etc.

More scared of my mental health decline if I have to stay at home than the virus to be honest.

DH had to go into the office, today (oh, it was bliss without his grumpiness) and they're talking about wfh unless they have big meetings on, from now on.

More scared of my mental health decline if I have to stay at home than the virus to be honest.

^ I really sympathise (& feel the same - I’m desperate most days now). I feel complete panic at the thought of another lockdown or even just this life indefinitely. I want to run away but can’t go anywhere.

Is that what would happen if they rang you up from a pub or cafe (if there was a case) can I just check...what happens does it definitely mean you have to stay home then for 14 days (?) get tested or what? I'm a bit confused by it all.

A German court found that their local lockdown was disproportionate & ordered it lifted www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53319435

@incognitomum
Looking to join the fb group if I haven’t left it too late
I kept the metro cool link and couldn’t see what to do with it.

I have sent you a pm
Many thanks.

Those people at the bottom of the article seem to have socks over their mouths.

But not over their noses ... maybe the chin hammock is a long standing issue!

I found the guidance form the gov on the track and trace in cafes etc, might not have to isolate after all..it says

If you receive a request for information from NHS Test and Trace this does not mean that you must close your establishment. NHS Test and Trace will, if necessary, undertake an assessment and work with you to understand what actions need to be taken.

Depending on the circumstances and the length of time that has elapsed, this could include arranging for people to be tested, asking them to take extra care with social distancing and/or – in some circumstances – asking them to self-isolate. NHS Test and Trace will give you the necessary public health support and guidance. Your staff will be included in any risk assessment and NHS Test and Trace will advise them what they should do.

www.gov.uk/guidance/maintaining-records-of-staff-customers-and-visitors-to-support-nhs-test-and-trace

Bit vague though

I am assuming if you are sitting at one end of the pub etc and the person with a positive test was at the other (assuming a reasonably large establishment not just a place with 2 tables!) then you wouldn't have to self isolate. But if you were sitting at a table close by and they haven't been able to make it 1 - 2m apart then you might

Must admit, unless they bring in more and more measures to keep us well punished..it’s starting to feel a bit morE normal

There was a queue outside the barbers shop, while I was waiting outside the dentist.
Yeah..that didn’t feel very normal. In fact, not that I was ever in Russia, but I understand that it was quite the norm in the 70s , to see a queue and join it , in case there was something worth having when you got to the front of it...so it made me feel quite sad.

The dentist was armed to the teeth with PPE..like I was going to be carved up by DR Frankenfurter 😱

Then he sees us to the door when it’s all over..very weird and a strange feeling that we are all in it together ..them a bit worse than us.
So yes ..back to flying up and down the A19 for caravan visits..might postpone tomorrow’s visit as the weather doesn’t look too clever..and what can you do in the rain..when there’s no cinema.

It’s made me realise we didn’t do an awful lot before lockdown apart from seeing family, shopping, eating out occasionally, cinema and caravan and holidays

We haven’t been to a proper pub yet..again something we didn’t do a lot of before

Passed the school at the end of the road and there were a few kids milling around ..probably in bubbles..being closely guarded by staff
A bit too closely I thought.

Just from chatting to people you meet outside ..everyone is sick of it.

Cinemas can open, our local independent one is opening shortly

Oh that's good because we're off out next weekend (on what was our bloody wedding day ) and I don't right fancy having to isolate because someone at the other end of the restaurant was a bit warm.

FFS. Just found out that DD2’s new teacher (who I didn’t warm to anyway) is a school dementor.

Thanks you lot. My bloody earworm for the night.

Haven’t seen anything for Vue cinema York and there’s a new one at vanguarde but I don’t kNow it’s name.

It’s strange with things being kind of normal but not really normal. From a distance it’s normal there’s shops, cafes, hairdressers and other businesses back open, cars are on the road, people are out and about, but look closer and the details are wrong. There’s the queues, masks, everywhere marked out to keep us 2m apart, the businesses which are still shuttered or gone under for good and the the plexiglass screens. It’s like we’ve gone through the looking glass to a slightly crappier version of our lives.

My local indie cinema is due to open by month end. Cannot wait, we have a membership.
@dowser icognito out tonight. I'll send you a link

@Ibake

My local indie cinema is due to open by month end. Cannot wait, we have a membership. *@dowser* icognito out tonight. I'll send you a link

I already sent it. Hope you got it @Dowser.

I must admit I slipped briefly into Dementor-level anxiety today (but only inside my own head).

We're supposed to fly to Crete 3 weeks from today. It seem the flight is going ahead, and I've established that the accommodation is open for business. I've been trying to remain fairly zen about it all, but I made the mistake of dropping in to the Tripadvisor Crete forum (LOTS of Ds hanging out there) and discovered that if someone on our flight tests positive on arrival, we could be forced to self-isolate in a government-designated hotel if we happened to be sitting within 2 rows of the +ive person!

Fucksake.

@LivinLaVidaLoki what's your take on this? I know you're hoping to head over there.

I do find this enthusiasm for permanent WFH quite weird. I’m retired but when I was working one of the things I liked about it was getting out of the house. Not that I hate my home, far from it, but it was good to be somewhere different, talking to other people, discussing last night’s TV, whatever. I can understand the appeal of more flexibility, but a permanent option? Wouldn’t be what I would want.

I have just been sent this absolute gem. There's a few of us who are 70's kids. Am tempted to post on the D boards, they'll think it's real.