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Lockdown is over

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Onedaysomedaynowadays · 10/03/2021 15:31

So I have spent most of the last few months sitting in my tiny loft room working away on my laptop all week and then the weekends trying to entertain a bored toddler in the house or parks in our vicinity.
Today I had a day off and thought I'd go wild now case numbers are down and drive 7 miles to meet my friend for coffee near hers. I encountered really heavy traffic both there and back and loads of people around generally. Stopped at the garden centre and everyone was just milling around like the olden days.

Everyone has quit lockdown and nobody told me! 😂 feel like a bit of a mug

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ItsMarch · 10/03/2021 18:13

Driving to exercise has always been allowed.

Locally. There is still a ‘stay local’ instruction in place.

ItsMarch · 10/03/2021 18:26

People who’ve been sat at home for months are indeed the definition of mugs

Such a nasty thing to say. Our household has followed all the guidance. My DC got covid last year and is still suffering the effects. Despite our household having been exposed we still follow the guidance.

@Pastanred you may not have had a positive test yourself but there’s no denying you are part of the problem.

islockdownoveryet · 10/03/2021 18:29

@Lotusmonster

It was never government policy for you to stay in a loft room 11 hrs a day!

This

MarshaBradyo · 10/03/2021 18:32

People who’ve been sat at home for months are indeed the definition of mugs

Silly thing to say. No issue with following rules. There will always be a few like pp

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Onedaysomedaynowadays · 10/03/2021 19:12

@Lotusmonster

It was never government policy for you to stay in a loft room 11 hrs a day!

I get what you're saying but the government have mandated that really by saying I can't go to my office! And my co working space is closed, as is the cafes I have worked in in the past. I've been confined to home for work because I'm not allowed to work anywhere else! It's really draining too because in theory my job is something that can be done from home but after a year confined to our homes things are getting really disjointed and we're struggling to communicate effectively. My diary has now got to the stage where my 9-6 is almost entirely Zoom calls and then I have to do my actual work at other times

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SpnBaby1967 · 10/03/2021 19:17

Oh good another "did lockdown end without telling me thread" it's been at least a week and a half since the last one so I suppose we were due.

StellaKowalski · 10/03/2021 19:25

@SpnBaby1967

Oh good another "did lockdown end without telling me thread" it's been at least a week and a half since the last one so I suppose we were due.

Yep.

Such goady bullshit.

RosieLemonade · 10/03/2021 19:39

@MsFogi

This lockdown never really happed - everyone has just got on with their lives but without the shops etc open as far as I can see.

I am sure people who have lost their jobs and not seen family in months appreciate you being so blasé about what they have lost because a few people have met friends in the park for coffee.

Newpotplants · 10/03/2021 20:09

AmelieTaylor

Just trying to upset all of the people who are still doing the right thing, good for you

ChocOrange1 · 10/03/2021 20:26

Lockdown is over? Great! I'll go to the pub and book a haircut for tomorrow. Can't wait to take my kids swimming at the weekend and go for a night in a hotel. Best of all I can go back to my job in hospitality.

Oh wait...

RedRiverShore · 11/03/2021 06:22

The garden centre is open so why wouldn't people be there, there are so few shops open that the ones that are will be busy, our M&S is quite busy, probably because it's is one of the few places you can go and buy a Mother's Day gift, likewise the garden centre, doesn't mean that lockdown is over

WanderingFruitWonderer · 11/03/2021 06:59

I'm still very much following lockdown! I probably will till we're given the all-clear. I've not been vaccinated yet, and even if I had, there's still a good chance I could be a carrier. But maybe my view is a minority one? I don't know...

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Onedaysomedaynowadays · 11/03/2021 10:51

@RedRiverShore

Just seems weird that there is still the 'stay at home' instruction like lockdown 1 but it's nothing like lockdown 1 out there in the real world

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poppycat10 · 11/03/2021 11:02

The roads have been busy throughout this lockdown. I am not sure what everyone is doing as everything is closed, but it's been very different to the March-May lockdown.

MoonBaby1 · 11/03/2021 11:03

I think people have made more common sense decisions based on their location, risk and life.

For example we live very rurally:

I have regularly had sleepovers with my kids at the same two households.

Always met any friends outside for a walk.

But my children have stayed off school and I continue to stay away from towns and shops getting things online.

Bythemillpond · 11/03/2021 11:06

I am out of the house at different times of day for work and this has been the case since the first lockdown finished.

The traffic has been horrendous. I really don’t think people have taken much notice of this lockdown. It has been a case of business as usual just with no shops or hospitality

Acesulfame · 11/03/2021 11:09

Yeah the genie is out of the lamp and it’s not ever getting back in.

poppycat10 · 11/03/2021 11:11

[quote peak2021]@lljkk Spain where you could not leave the house, Italy perhaps when the military enforced restrictions, and possibly France where you needed a permit to go almost anywhere.

At no time in the UK could you not go out to get food, and there was once a day exercise.[/quote]
Oh no, not another one who thinks that we don't have lockdown if we can go out for a walk. The UK was not an outlier here, the other countries had stupid administrations that just wanted to control their populations.

yearinyearout · 11/03/2021 11:11

Well my neighbour has her mobile hairdresser there today doing her hair so I’m guessing it is now 🤣

frozendaisy · 11/03/2021 12:22

If lockdown is over why can't we go swimming?

RedRiverShore · 11/03/2021 12:48

I am doing up the house a bit so am getting lots of C&C and deliveries so that would be contributing to the traffic, in fact my new kitchen light is arriving at Waitrose later on so I will be popping out to collect it, I might buy an essential tasty titbit from there at the same time.

OddsNSodsBitsNBobs · 11/03/2021 21:16

@Wellbythebloodyhell

DS had a positive LFT at school, followed by a Negative PCR taken 2 hours later. Apparently as the LFT test was taken in school its result still stands. So whole covid free household forced by a very apologetic contact tracing into isolation.

pourmeanotherglass · 11/03/2021 21:33

Traffic here is a lot busier this week now some of the kids have gone back to school. Conversely, the footpath i use to go for a run was a lot quieter on my day off this week than it has been.

Dwigvk · 11/03/2021 21:42

@Pastanred

Like how am I contributing when I’ve been tested 2/3 times a week on pcr since November and never been positive 🧐 that’s some virus if that’s the case

If you haven't caught covid, it's not least because of the efforts of all the people who are being careful. If all those 'mugs' as you call them had been doing what you've been doing, then a lot more of you and your colleagues' negative tests would have been positive.

You're behaving like a parasite, getting all the benefits of other people's efforts to avoid social contact and keep infection rates low, while making no such efforts yourself.

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