By a geographical misfortune, my village is in Tier 3 but we live less than a mile from the border with a T2 area. My kids go to school in the T2 area. I teach and study at a university in the T2 area. My ward rates are very slightly above average for England but in line with the T2 areas.
Am I really expected to only travel into T2 for work/school and not use any of the shops (or hospitality) there? I would normally do my food shopping, my Christmas shopping, everything pretty much in the T2 town. We are in the T2 town travel to work area. My bank is there. Most of my and my children's friends are there.
Surely it is more risk to us to travel to the next T3 city, which is further away and high rates (in next county too) than it is to go to the T2 city. So we are being expected to put ourselves at risk or stay locked down in our village and get deliveries basically.
I'm not planning on mass gatherings or parties. We have followed the rules so far. I just want to be able to shop where I usually do and for my kids to be able to go for a hot chocolate in a cafe or to the cinema with one or two school friends.
Feeling so dejected and just like giving up frankly. Life like this doesn't feel worth living and I had to chuck my old medication away last night as I was tempted to OD just for the oblivion.