To find all this COVID chat reprisal in the news so depressing

[Pavementworrier]

The phrase "social distancing" just chills my bones

If it had happened thirty years earlier things would have been sensibly managed without the apocalyptic horror and uselessness

I don't know how they can talk about collective bomb shelters for ww3 planning with a straight face - who in London would march into the dark to spend time with a random selection of strangers now! You'd be safer above ground

TBF the thing about dog walking once a day wasn't a rule at all, not in England anyway. That would have been arbitrary, because there was never any reason to think that was going to be a problem. Additionally, the benefit to greater exercise would need to have been factored in.

The covid scientific briefings reminded me of a thing I was told decades ago .

I think it was late 60's or early 70's, the boffins done public awareness things to help pensioners keep warm in the winter. But the boffins were saying how to keep heat in the house, because in science of course, it is heat that is the thing. There is no such thing as cold.

But the campaign was not as effective as they hoped. Then someone had a great idea. Lets give advice on how to keep the cold out. And that worked a lot better. Because to a lot of old folk, it was the cold that was the real thing, not the heat.

I think the same could have applied to the covid briefings Not everyone understands probability, statistics and graphs.

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I take it that you don't agree with my point of view.

Tbf it’s from someone who wanted a ‘proper’ lockdown whatever that is.

In what way do you think the children you work with are still affected by lockdown?