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Normal life is back

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ExmoorValley · 10/08/2021 13:26

I don't know about you but life where I am is pretty much back to normal, masks in shops falling rapidly. People having a good time. Covid barely gets mentioned now. (and yes I know people are still catching it and a tiny proportion will die)

It feels great. So what happened to the 200,000 cases a day doom scenario peddlers on here? They seem rather quiet.......

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FloFlower · 10/08/2021 18:10

Normal life is back? Not for me it isn't. I’m still WFH not seeing my colleagues in person. I’m also trying to go abroad and my plans keep getting cancelled. The places I like to go to are booked up weeks in advance around here and there’s no ability for spontaneity of plans.

Maybe the basic things are more open but I wish I could say that things are normal. Seeing the faces of random people doesn’t really fill me with the joy that it seems to with others.

I’d much rather be able to do the things I want to do when I want to do them than wander round the shops seeing people without masks on. Then I might think things are getting back to normal.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 10/08/2021 18:15

I haven't minded wearing a mask for things like shopping trips etc, I'll continue doing so for a little while, and probably always when I have a cold in future. I've enjoyed not spelling people's halitosis, must be said.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 10/08/2021 18:19

I’d much rather be able to do the things I want to do when I want to do them

Yes, that is frustrating. And feeling more frustrating now that other things are feeling more normal. Having to book museums, not being able to pop in to restaurants (ones that pre-covid wouldn't have had pre booking only) - bit annoying, even though I of course 'get it'.

Last summer felt normal to me too though.

lannistunut · 10/08/2021 18:19

I am posting in part because I like to look back on these very certain threads when time has moved on!

I do hope cases stay lower than was feared.

I don't think life is normal at all, most friends are still meeting outside, spontaneity has gone and no one feels as they did pre-covid.

Rabblesthecat · 10/08/2021 18:22

We have never stopped life for the clinically vulnerable / they are vulnerable to flu, pneumonia and god knows how many other viruses

It’s sad and frankly it’s grim but it’s part of life.

We can’t put off life for 97% to protect maybe 2 million which is 3% of the population

IcedPurple · 10/08/2021 18:27

@Delatron

It’s the small things.. I was so happy that the breakfast buffet was back on at a hotel we recently stayed in. Love a buffet! You can keep your nightclubs (though happy for the youngsters).
A good breakfast buffet is absolutely not a small thing! It's one of the things I most look forward to when travelling, and I was worried that they might not be back. I remember a friend telling me that she had her breakfast brought to her in a little cardboard box in a well-known hotel chain last year, and that sounded so grim. You can't beat a good breakfast buffet!
Delatron · 10/08/2021 18:37

Pleased I’m not alone @IcedPurple with my love for a breakfast buffet!
Breakfast in a box sounds very disappointing!

clarkkentsglasses · 10/08/2021 18:46

@shivermetimbers77

I work for the nhs and currently have more colleagues and patients sick with covid than at any point in the pandemic: and pretty unwell despite being double jabbed. I can completely see why people want to return to normality , but we really aren’t out of the woods yet.

Nice to the vaccine is working so well

Foliageeverywhere122 · 10/08/2021 18:53

Nice to the vaccine is working so well

What a wholesome comment @clarkkentsglasses Hmm

The vaccine is working very well given the high prevalence of coronavirus right now. We wouldn't be out of lockdown without it.

ICUDoc · 10/08/2021 18:55

Sorry to another killjoy and definitely don’t want to scaremonger, but we are seeing exponential growth of admissions to ITU with Covid from the community. The majority of admissions are mostly young (

WingingItSince1973 · 10/08/2021 19:46

Quite a few people I know have covid. A few of them stopped wearing masks and were socialising big time in the days leading upto their positive test. Others are a family of 4, 2 children one which is a baby. Also have a local shop which has had to close as the family who run it have all come down with covid. Not trying to be doom mongering but it seems to be on the increase here. Majority of people today without masks in 2 shops I went to. National Trust house today still had covid restrictions and most of the house out of bounds. Almost 100% mask wearing there though so maybe it's an age thing there 🤣

LionGiraffe · 10/08/2021 20:03

Went to a couple of bars in our local town on Friday night and it was completely back to normal. Just like Friday nights used to be - the only suggestion anything was happening was people masking up in taxis. It was great, really really refreshing.

IcedPurple · 10/08/2021 20:11

@HotHointheavo

Not sure what happened to them but lets not rattle their cage!
No indeed. It's been so much saner here without them clogging up every single thread with their constant doom mongering, 'modelling', and Warwick graphs of gloom. I did see one of their number here are a few days ago attempting the usual derail but nobody was biting.

I don't think they've name changed (again) as they all have very distinctive writing styles. I expect they're eagerly awaiting the next scariant or jump in cases to leap back on with their 'I told you so's'.

sleepwouldbenice · 10/08/2021 20:28

[quote ICUDoc]Sorry to another killjoy and definitely don’t want to scaremonger, but we are seeing exponential growth of admissions to ITU with Covid from the community. The majority of admissions are mostly young (

sleepwouldbenice · 10/08/2021 20:29

That's not happened yet though. In case you've not noticed

FloFlower · 10/08/2021 21:06

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot I agree last summer felt far more normal!

HalfDutchGirl · 10/08/2021 21:26

Normal? Say that to the thousands of people at the cruise terminals who have to all be double jabbed, tested on arrival, and hang around for ages to await the results, made to fill in countless health questionnaires and then have to wear a mask whilst on their ship. Yes, they’re own choice, but hardly ‘normal’. And, say normal to the people who work at these terminals who (like many other front facing staff) have to work long shifts with a mask on and behind plastic barriers and have to be tested prior to every shift.

I long for totally normal like everyone but as someone who is isolating having tested positive, lost at least two weeks pay and the rest of my family having contacted it too the last I’m feeling is that things are back to the way they were two years ago.

Yes, the vaccines have done a fantastic job and keeping symptoms to a minimum and I get this is supposed to be an uplifting thread, but, as much I’m usually a half full kind of person I have yet to see total normality.

Life a previous poster, I actually know more people with Covid now than I have the past 18 months.

DontDrinkDontSmokeWhatDoIDo · 10/08/2021 21:45

@sleepwouldbenice

That's a very aggressive response to a post that didn't warrant it.

frozendaisy · 10/08/2021 21:49

Normal life is far from back.......

frozendaisy · 10/08/2021 21:51

We have many thousands of pounds waiting to be spent on many holidays that we can't book. Yes oh poor us boo hoo but until we can travel freely we are trapped on this island. What's normal about this?

containsnuts · 10/08/2021 21:52

Firefighters are driving the ambulances so not quite normal here.

sleepwouldbenice · 10/08/2021 22:07

[quote DontDrinkDontSmokeWhatDoIDo]@sleepwouldbenice

That's a very aggressive response to a post that didn't warrant it.[/quote]
Grow up. There are posters on this thread saying we should act to put 2m of the population at risk.
Really can't believe you still don't understand the impact after all this time

lljkk · 10/08/2021 22:08

hm, doesn't feel at all normal here.

I still can't get appointment to renew DC USA passport

Hand sanitiser, plexiglass dividers, Masks everywhere

DD asked to mask up at work again (pub) because someone tested positive

Still not supposed to go in the office

Lots of special rules to follow if I do go into office

People talking about covid lots of the time

Little shops with shouty signs insisting on masks

shinynewapple21 · 10/08/2021 22:21

One thing I will be pleased to see the back of is the phrase 'exponential growth'.

Artdecolover · 10/08/2021 22:21

Hmm.
Doesn't feel normal.
GP refusing to see patients f2f.
A 3.5 hour wait for an ambulance for my frail mum. Not being able to go to a&e with her, no able to visit whilst she was alone and scared on the ward.
Huge stress for kids with their schooling/examd/grades when education has suffered the worst disruption since WW2 and then being told their grades are worthless by the right wing press.
14 million on nhs waiting lists.
But hey, you believe what you want.