ADs shelter in The Sleeping Swans and have a group hug

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Another installment in the saga.

Maybe following up with an Indian, Korma please, but protect the naans...

I can go visit my family!!!!

Im so happy I cried.

Anyway, sorry....just wanted to scream that out

Yay @LivinLaVidaLoki So pleased for you

order-order.com/2021/07/08/piers-morgans-performative-fake-covid-fears-ignored-by-him-at-wembley/

@Lostinacloud @Worldgonecrazy Yep

twitter.com/mattholehouse/status/1413155464632836100?s=20

NEW:
@ipsosmori
polling for The Economist shows some Brits support anti-covid restrictions permanently, regardless of covid risk. Inc:

• 19% for nighttime curfews
• 26% for closing casinos and clubs
• 35% for travel quarantine
• 40% for masks

www.economist.com/britain/2021/07/10/some-britons-crave-permanent-pandemic-lockdown

Oh LivinLaVidaLoki that is such wonderful news! They've stopped being such malakas!! I hope you have a wonderful time in the Greek sun seeing people you love. Up and down the country people must be so pleased at being able to reunite with their families without having to quarantine for 10 days afterwards...not many jobs would allow you that!

polling for The Economist shows some Brits support anti-covid restrictions permanently, regardless of covid risk. Inc:

- 19% for nighttime curfews
- 26% for closing casinos and clubs
- 35% for travel quarantine
- 40% for masks

@MercyBooth Christ on a fucking bike (pardon my French)

That's terrifying.

@LivinLaVidaLoki That's wonderful news, I'm so happy for you!

That's brilliant Livin.

@MercyBooth that’s depressing! I just can’t understand it. 18 months later, after we’ve now had the chance to learn who it affects worse and have a vaccine to protect them and I can’t believe that every single last citizen isn’t ready to never speak about covid ever again!

People may think most of life is accessible again but until I don’t have to think about whether I have a mask in my bag or prove I am negative or vaccinated to get into a sports ground then it’s still too evident for my liking and I just don’t want to live like that long term!

And what’s more, I don’t think that’s unreasonable! Why do we have to pay such attention to this virus when it acts just like a multitude of other respiratory viruses that we’ve co-existed with for millennia?

fantastic @Livin

Agree its bloody frightening. They walk amongst us. People could not do all that long term Its completely unsustainable.

Unfortunately the minute the government went from issuing advisory guidance about a public health matter to taking complete state control of the whole population, too many people lost the ability to think critically and be confident in their own risk taking decisions.

For me, I’ve never been scared and would have carried on happily using shops and pubs and public transport without masks or reduced capacity. For others I acknowledge and accept that they had different circumstances to consider and different levels of acceptable risk and have no problem with that. But I am highly aggrieved that my own choice was taken away from me and actually that it’s still the case today and will be the case well beyond July 19th. I feel I’ve lived my life according to the permanently terrified’s ideal for 18 months, surely it’s the turn of the rational thinking to be able to live life again as normal and the terrified will just have to bloody put up with it like we have.

@Lostinacloud that’s so well put and sums up my own thoughts nicely

@IRanSoFarAway1

Lost "I feel I’ve lived my life according to the permanently terrified’s ideal for 18 months, surely it’s the turn of the rational thinking to be able to live life again as normal and the terrified will just have to bloody put up with it like we have."

Yes. Today I was on the Tube wearing my lanyard. A masked man looked at me very carefully for a while. Then he said to me... "excuse me, are you all right?"

I said "yes" in a suspicious tone. And he said "i'm just asking because you're wearing a lanyard..my wife wears one too".

WTAF was that about.

It's been 15 months of this crap. I stay at home because of this crap. Surely it's the turn of the not terrified to go out?

I think he may have been wondering if you get hassled for wearing the lanyard. Possibly his wife had been bothered by people who want to act like the mask police? That's how I am reading it but obviously I wasn't there so it is just my theory!

@LivinLaVidaLoki brilliant!!!

@Lostinacloud to paraphrase a tweet on a thread by Zuby (not zuby but someone responding, ‘the panicked rapidly become furious when meeting the Unpanicked’. It really does annoy a lot of people that some people are genuinely completely Unafraid of covid.

@Lostinacloud

Unfortunately the minute the government went from issuing advisory guidance about a public health matter to taking complete state control of the whole population, too many people lost the ability to think critically and be confident in their own risk taking decisions.

For me, I’ve never been scared and would have carried on happily using shops and pubs and public transport without masks or reduced capacity. For others I acknowledge and accept that they had different circumstances to consider and different levels of acceptable risk and have no problem with that. But I am highly aggrieved that my own choice was taken away from me and actually that it’s still the case today and will be the case well beyond July 19th. I feel I’ve lived my life according to the permanently terrified’s ideal for 18 months, surely it’s the turn of the rational thinking to be able to live life again as normal and the terrified will just have to bloody put up with it like we have.

Extremely well said. Agree with every word.

@LivinLaVidaLoki, so glad you get to see your family. 🎉🍾

With DCs in the mix, we're still unclear about the logistics of getting to the ILs.
IL (UK) has made arrangements to visit that are viable but it's a solo trip not their original family holiday booking. It's where we're at with the DCs that is still unclear and it will all be very late notice. MiL is in a care home now so the DCs and I don't have chance to see her, but it's important for DH to get his best chance, and there are family members that I'm happy to see although there is a bit of an AD/ D split in different households.

@Lostinacloud

Unfortunately the minute the government went from issuing advisory guidance about a public health matter to taking complete state control of the whole population, too many people lost the ability to think critically and be confident in their own risk taking decisions.

For me, I’ve never been scared and would have carried on happily using shops and pubs and public transport without masks or reduced capacity. For others I acknowledge and accept that they had different circumstances to consider and different levels of acceptable risk and have no problem with that. But I am highly aggrieved that my own choice was taken away from me and actually that it’s still the case today and will be the case well beyond July 19th. I feel I’ve lived my life according to the permanently terrified’s ideal for 18 months, surely it’s the turn of the rational thinking to be able to live life again as normal and the terrified will just have to bloody put up with it like we have.

Excellent post and sums up my feelings too.

@Lostinacloud

Unfortunately the minute the government went from issuing advisory guidance about a public health matter to taking complete state control of the whole population, too many people lost the ability to think critically and be confident in their own risk taking decisions.

For me, I’ve never been scared and would have carried on happily using shops and pubs and public transport without masks or reduced capacity. For others I acknowledge and accept that they had different circumstances to consider and different levels of acceptable risk and have no problem with that. But I am highly aggrieved that my own choice was taken away from me and actually that it’s still the case today and will be the case well beyond July 19th. I feel I’ve lived my life according to the permanently terrified’s ideal for 18 months, surely it’s the turn of the rational thinking to be able to live life again as normal and the terrified will just have to bloody put up with it like we have.

I get so cross when I think of how terrified I was everytime my small DC touched anything outside last year; also how much our parents have deteriorated physically and mentally with feeling so confined to home.

@FatLadySang

I think when there were a lot of unknowns those reactions were understandable. I made my cev mum wipe down shopping

But now we know more there is no excuse.

Perhaps this country is too ashamed of the demographic at greatest risk and diverting attention away from that by keeping everyone scared.

Link here to how little has changed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57730353

As a nation we should hang our heads in shame.

Worldgonecrazy I wiped down my shopping for about 2 weeks I think and practically had panic attacks whenever we came home after having been out. Used to feel so guilty if I had been to a shop too many times in a week and made my children step aside so we didn't come too close to someone. Really offended a jogger who said her and her running partner weren't ill and didn't have a temperature which made me realise how offensive it could be to other people- I think the fact she was East Asian in origin made it look worse tbh. I stopped being so insistent on space after that but the biggest thing for me was when I took my daughters to the park and my then 4 year old completely froze when a little boy came close to pick his ball up. She looked terrified and I thought that I was likely to be scarring my children if I carried on always making there space between us and other people. Plus we live in a busy London suburb, there isn't a huge amount of space!
Good news, my 5 year old is covid negative and has happily gone to school. She has an invitation for her best friends birthday party too!