It's been interesting to read this thread. I'm a pretty rational, level - headed sort. I've taken lockdown seriously, we've had frequent walks but no meeting up with anyone. Husband or I go to the supermarket at the weekend, don't bring the kids. That's been it since mid March. Desperately wish CV would just fuck off, magically disappear somehow.
I'm really apprehensive about the speed restrictions are being loosened. I am not a scientist, and definitely not an armchair epidemiologist. I wish so much that I could listen to the government and go 'great, I know they are taking good advice and acting with the best interests of my family and the nation at the forefront of their mind'. But I don't think that, not at all.
I find it interesting, the talk in this thread of risk and perception of risk. I think over 350 deaths were reported today, more than on the first day of lockdown. I can't easily make sense of the loosening of restrictions in light of that, when we have not been told that the plan has changed, or the overall strategy. I don't see how that makes sense.
If the govt was saying 'to save the economy and stop you all going mad were loosening things up', then I could see the logic, but I struggle to see how if the original Lockdown decision was right, the loosening now, when transmission and death rates are still so high, is also right.
I am also quite scared of catching it. I am so worried I will die and leave my little boys without me. I understand that I might get hit by a car, we can't live in fear, the economy etc etc, I understand that the risks for a healthy 40 yr old woman are low. But they aren't nothing. Some people like me have died from it. They were all somebody important.
I wish things had been done differently, quicker, firmer lockdown , better consistent messaging , proper track and trace in place. I don't trust the government and it stresses me out a lot.