I've had a ridiculously sociable weekend

[LegendaryReady]

I seem to have well and truly got back to usual, without even considering the risks. That's quite a change for me and now, in the cold light of day seems quite reckless.

Saturday - I shared a car with 4 others to a sports event that I competed in with numerous others (albeit outdoors). Lunch in a cafe. We started outdoors but then it rained.

• Then I went to a museum, which was fairly quiet and people were wearing masks and distancing.

• Then 20 of us went for a curry. Very busy restaurant

Sunday - long bike ride with half a dozen friends. Coffee and cake stop. All outdoors except for toilet and ordering.

Monday - Group of six (different people to previous 2 days) train journey (masks worn) to busy seaside town to see a band play at a pub. It was outdoors but indoors for the bar and toilet. Then on to a restaurant for dinner and home on the train.

It's been a great weekend and was good to see places buzzing again. Writing it all down I also just realised how much I must have spent! It was good to "live" a bit, finally, before going back to work in school tomorrow.

I am a bit nervous about the LFT I will do tonight ahead of the return though. And also horrified at the number of contacts I will have had, if I did test positive.

I've really been very "good" until the last couple of weeks. No wonder the numbers are increasing so much I'm fully vaccinated and so are the vast majority of people I know, but despite that I think I known more currently positive people now than I have at any point in the pandemic. Thankfully though, they don't seem to be getting very ill and people are testing regularly and doing the right thing as soon as they test positive.

Have others suddenly found themselves relaxing? There were certainly lots of others doing similar to me this weekend.

Good for you, OP!

I relaxed as soon as I was legally allowed to really. Next week I’m going to the biggest social engagement / party that I’ve been to in about 15 years. I’m pretty anxious about it, not because of Covid at all but because I find things with so many people quite difficult but I know I’ll regret it if I don’t go.

I’ve had a very busy summer really with the DC, I feel like I’ve barely sat still which is what I wanted from the summer.

@MrsScrubbithatescleaning

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have.

Yep,

But it will be school children going back to school will be the cause of the massive rise in cases which will now happen.

That sounds like a lovely weekend! Hope you had fun regardless as of course you can't do anything about it now!

I understand the worry though, we took my daughter to the beach a couple weeks ago and it was MUCH busier than I expected and have only just stopped worrying about catching something!

This thread does a good job of explaining why cases are sky high

People aren’t prepared to curtail their lives for a disease that’s very unlikely to affect them badly.

Surely even you can understand that.

@MrsScrubbithatescleaning

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have.

How would you know?! You think teachers should have stayed at home all summer? I promise you a load of teachers heading intonthe Autumn term feeling that they hadn't had a proper summer would not be good for your child

@MrsScrubbithatescleaning

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have.

Are teachers not allowed a life?

@MrsScrubbithatescleaning

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have.

I hope my children’s teachers have managed to socialise and have fun over the holidays, they deserve it!

I can see why it feels odd to be doing so much after all the restrictions OP, but we can’t live a half life forever. Vaccinations will protect most from serious illness, just like other illnesses.
We’ve just got back from 2 weeks in Spain, visiting our family for the first time in 20 months. Negative PCR tests on day 2 and have consistently tested negative on LFT’s since. Glad to get a bit of normality back.

@NannyAndJohn

This thread does a good job of explaining why cases are sky high.

And why deaths and serious illness remain low - ie, that most people are double vaxxed.

It's a brilliant, optimistic yet realistic thread.

Oh and cases are nowhere near as high as you predicted, @NannyAndJohn. Nowhere near.

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have

So teachers can't have social lives? Get over yourself.

@MrsScrubbithatescleaning

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have.

As others have said, how the hell would you know what your ds's teacher has been up to!

@MrsScrubbithatescleaning

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have.

You know that for sure do you? Are you going to ask him for a list of where he's been and who with when the school term starts? What a ridiculous comment!!

@TheKeatingFive

This thread does a good job of explaining why cases are sky high

People aren’t prepared to curtail their lives for a disease that’s very unlikely to affect them badly.

Surely even you can understand that.

Maybe it won't affect them so much, but they could pass it on to the CEV or give someone Long Covid.

@QueenofKattegat

Thank god you’re not my DS’s teacher. He’s got more common sense than you clearly have

So teachers can't have social lives? Get over yourself.

No one said that, but it is rather reckless to be doing all these things when schools go back in only a few days.

A positive test and you're up the shitter.

Good for you OP, I hope you had a brilliant time.

Life is for living. Life is not for cowering in your house, afraid to leave because of Covid.

Maybe it won't affect them so much, but they could pass it on to the CEV or give someone Long Covid.

That’s infectious viral diseases for you. Expecting people to give up normal life was never going to be a viable long term solution.

Maybe it won't affect them so much, but they could pass it on to the CEV or give someone Long Covid.

This has long been the case for numerous viruses that can harm some people much more than others. That never meant we all needed to stay at home.

Almost 40000 a day and rising is the very definition of sky high, @Overthebow. And schools haven't even gone back yet.

@NannyAndJohn

Almost 40000 a day and rising is the very definition of sky high, *@Overthebow*. And schools haven't even gone back yet.

Yet hospitalisations and deaths remain low.

At what point in the pandemic do you think you might give over with the pessimism and the doom and gloom? Will you still be popping up on threads in a decade, criticising people for spending time with family and trotting out graphs and calculations?

@NannyAndJohn what would 100k a day have been then?

Amazing that this has become a teacher bashing thread, but when exactly are teachers supposed to have a social life if it's not at in their holiday (and therefore due back at work)?.

Is it reckless for others to go out on their time off? Have all your children been staying at home in preparation for the return to school?

@NannyAndJohn

Almost 40000 a day and rising is the very definition of sky high, *@Overthebow*. And schools haven't even gone back yet.

‘Carnage’, isn’t it, @NannyAndJohn?

They were relatively low this time last year.

And then they shot up when schools went back, partly due to people continuing to socialise like Covid never existed.

@NannyAndJohn

They were relatively low this time last year.

And then they shot up when schools went back, partly due to people continuing to socialise like Covid never existed.

No one was vaccinated this time last year. A tiny little detail, I appreciate.

*No one said that, but it is rather reckless to be doing all these things when schools go back in only a few days.

A positive test and you're up the shitter.*

Meh, if my son’s teacher is isolating when we go back so be it. It’s not great but I wouldn’t begrudge anyone a perfectly legal social life. She’s simply not paid enough for me to ask her to give up her life just so she can teach my child. Besides, why do I specifically care about her isolating for the first week and a half and not at any point over the coming school year?