AD's! Rishi needs you to Go Down For Your Town

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New thread. Do your civic duty.

Yes we have the pedestrianised city centre too, it's weird, closed the main shopping street and big orange bollards at the top

Totally in keeping with Georgian Bath looks awful

Got the hangover from hell today. Drank far too much wine watching the live Aid documentary and I ❤️1985.

I loathe being told to do something for my own protection/safety/comfort.
I get this childish urge to say Oh No it's Not. A la pantomime. I feel like a child being told Well it's for your own good. I would not give my details in a shop for track and trace. That's got nothing to do with my protection. That's because officious busybodies want to enforce their arbitrary made up Roolz.
I've been in and out of very many shops here, wearing a mask and keeping well apart from others. It's shitty having to wear a mask when it's 35 degrees and rising. But needs must.
Track and trace in a shop, ffs.

I tend to get lost in department stores, sometimes to the point of starting to panic, so a one way system might actually help me. Our town centre has been pedestrianised for decades but the council have slapped one way stickers all over the place, which no one takes a blind bit of notice of.

Tbh if a shop wanted my details for track and trace unless I absolutely had to go in for some reason I’d decline and pass by. Nothing about a shop doing that makes sense, it’s about finding people who have been sharing space for longer than fifteen minutes, so pubs and restaurants, not a a quick browse.

Just had minor snafoo again with Morrison/Amazon prime order - and now have kicken roll we didn't order but can't give back and caused the poor efficent very polite driver few worried moments thinking rest of order was wrong.

I'm glad the service expanded to here a month into the lockdown - made life easier but nearly evertime there some issue.

Local corner shop hasn't the range we need, tesco metro we used to use a lot is a pain to queue and get around and the much longer walks down to Aldi and sainsburys we haven't even tried - I think DH was hoping we wouldn't need to go back to them at all.

How long will all this go on for? Will schools stay open properly when they do? It all feels so uncertain. I'm trying to just kind of adapt but still feel quite trapped. Although when i do go out people seem more smily and happy. Until they get zapped with masks I guess. I wonder about a kind of bollywood style floaty spangly scarf affair.

Normal is slower in Wales.

I'm hoping to hear next week what the secondary school is planning for next year - it will be all three kids affected by that - and DH work is still arguging about what's happening in september but likely he'll be WFH till 2021.

Shopping wise - we already did fair bit on-line so doing more isn't huge leap though woudl like to do clothes shopping IRL.

More generally I think things will peter out slowly depending on how numbers are in Winter.

Have PHE widened their criteria for death/positive tests to anyone who can spell 'Covid'?

The deaths are bollocks, I am only paying any attention at all to the hospital figure.

The cases I think are higher because they are testing people in hotspots/ around outbreaks in quite a targeted way, so it isn’t exclusively Wayne who had a bit of a temperature anymore. It stands to reason that this will lead to higher numbers of cases. It isn’t just a straight equation between number of tests and number of positives. Interestingly the testing rate in Scotland is much lower, as Trump pointed out the more you test the more cases you have.....

But of course it would be helpful if the figures were given proper context and explanation. But no....

I just cant get my head around the figures and the wild jumps they seem to do. I really feel announcing these figures is counterproductive now, not without a massive caveat that even the perpetually despairing can understand that explains that a large proportion of the figures are from weeks ago.

I want to feel like we're getting back to some "normal" life, but it feels like every time we regain something and feel positive, its yanked out from under our feet with a sudden figure explosion.

Does that make sense?

I agree it’s utterly pointless announcing that someone who once coughed died in a care home in April. No one even has any idea whether they died of covid or not. I don’t think we can get back to normal life until this macabre daily ritual finishes.

Agree with posters who have said everything needs planning. There is no more nipping to the shops in the middle of cooking dinner to get the thing you thought you had but have run out of. Not unless you can guarantee you won't be kept waiting in a queue, which will mess up your cooking times.

"Nipped" to ASDA last night ie could've gone early afternoon when we were in the area but wasn't prepared to queue on the only nice afternoon we've had for days. So I went at 6.30pm, no queue.

ASDA have got new signs on the door about social distancing rules having "changed" (assume they mean to 1m). But they are asking customers to still be respectful and mindful of other customers, & they are keeping their arrows and floor markings "to help with this".

Fair enough at peak times maybe. But I ignored the "no entry" signs to get down some aisles that were empty.

@Teateaandmoretea

I agree it’s utterly pointless announcing that someone who once coughed died in a care home in April. No one even has any idea whether they died of covid or not. I don’t think we can get back to normal life until this macabre daily ritual finishes.

I sadly agree with that, as there will be screams of "but, but, 4 people died of covid yesterday...the virus is still out there!"

Unless this constant stream of death and infection stops being spoon fed into the public consciousness we are fooked.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

You will be needing that extra kitchen roll for when there is a 10th wave and toilet roll disappears from the shops again! Be more grateful, some poor keyworker has risked their life to mess up your shopping order for you!

(I feel your pain. This is why I hate online food shopping).

@LivinLaVidaLoki There needs to be a loud decree of “get a fucking grip”.

Dementor central on the FB group for my county today complete with ventilator memes and rending of cloth at the young people drinking outside pubs.

We’ve had 2 positive tests in the last week out of a population of 400,000.

The hysteria is WAY out of control.

I know of at least 2 kids under 10 who’ve drowned within an hour’s drive of me - who in “normal” times would’ve been in leisure centre pools.

[quote InsaneInTheViralMembrane]@LivinLaVidaLoki There needs to be a loud decree of “get a fucking grip”.

Dementor central on the FB group for my county today complete with ventilator memes and rending of cloth at the young people drinking outside pubs.

We’ve had 2 positive tests in the last week out of a population of 400,000.

The hysteria is WAY out of control.

I know of at least 2 kids under 10 who’ve drowned within an hour’s drive of me - who in “normal” times would’ve been in leisure centre pools.[/quote]
God yes, maybe the govt should hand out grips.....

As an aside....has giant judgy doctor made an appearance yet?

I am noticing a certain leniency in other stuff such as in the botanical gardens you are not meant to picnic, take bikes and climb trees. I was told off years ago about some of these by park wardens. Now all that seems fine. Maybe a recognition things are tricky in other areas right now, not sure. Maybe they have just given up on those things.

But the play park is quite strict. I walked past and quite a few families in the queue. They have two marshals, and all the children get hands squirted with sanitiser and there are big rule boards. The cafe is shut off and have to go right round another way for that.

Lots of happy families out blowing huge bubbles, stringing flowery garlands in the trees, picnicking etc. the park is still the place to be here it seems. waiting for the rest to come back from the car boot sale.

@SpnBaby1967

I just cant get my head around the figures and the wild jumps they seem to do. I really feel announcing these figures is counterproductive now, not without a massive caveat that even the perpetually despairing can understand that explains that a large proportion of the figures are from weeks ago.

I want to feel like we're getting back to some "normal" life, but it feels like every time we regain something and feel positive, its yanked out from under our feet with a sudden figure explosion.

Does that make sense?

Yes, it makes sense. That's why yesterdays figures got to me I think.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53381000

interesting

The comments in that make me think they might save this as a measure to bring in if cases rise, perhaps

We've been out for lunch! Was lovely! I didn't vomit from the hangover!

Am now lying on my bed just existing for a while...

Glad you have a good time out NothingisWrong

Orangeblossom78

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53381000

I just read that too Orangeblossom. So Gove says we should all be trusted to use common sense ( yes!) but he seems to be saying we should wear masks in shops out of politeness. To be fair, I've noticed a decline in politeness over the past 4 months but I'd rather have people say, "Excuse me please," when they need to get to the cheese in Sainsburys rather than be glared at over a mask, as tends to happen now.

The Labour spokesperson says they will back the Govt if they make masks mandatory, but they want the Govt to be very clear on the guidance. So basically, Labour want us all masked too.

Hmm, Michael Gove, the man who said that he thought "about an hour" was roughly how long a walk outside might take. And then loads of people took that as gospel to mean you could only go out for an hour maximum. Can't wait for his latest appearance on the Andrew Marr Show to be misinterpreted...

@KaronAVyrus

Got the hangover from hell today. Drank far too much wine watching the live Aid documentary and I ❤️1985.

Watched that with my sister too. God it was so long ago.

I just “nipped” to Pets at Home. Queue outside, fair enough, they’re only letting ten people in the shop at once. Except a family of five, two adults and three children, are ahead of me so everyone has to wait for five people to come out before this family can go in.