@BogRollBOGOF
I think at this point there's a real gulf between people who by and large have got their little lives back and aren't seeing how wrong things are still. Businesses/ events not being able to plan or run profitably. Culture (music, choirs, theatre, clubs), residentials, community and sporting events. It's the additional measures driving me mad at the moment, school A can do this but school B won't type thing.
Even in our house, DH is nearly back to normal other than needing a face rag in his pocket. He's crept back to work. Most of what he does is viable. My volunteering is still compromised, and I do more events like races and residentials and miss them in my diary, and it doesn't seem to register that my life is much further from normal than his!
Exactly. Life pretty back to normal my fucking arse.
Can't spontaneously go out for tea, you've to book. Everything. Ages in advance.
You have to scan an app or give your details everywhere you go.
Ordering on apps, restricted menus due to reduced staff
Queuing to get in and around anywhere
Can't dance at a wedding
I've a brother in a care home that if I visit I I sit with him in a "bubble" I can't take him out, he is effectively a prisoner in his own fucking home.
Half my gym classes aren't running and I've to book a slot I can't just decide to go
Colleagues I've not seen in over a year
Constantly living under the fear of state mandated isolation and testing myself twice a week in order that I can go to work
That's all before I get into having to wear a mask all the time. I've even to wear one to fucking sports day next week. Sports day. Outside.
It's like life is a bit normal, but all the stuff that makes it fun is gone.