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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 14:11

The place to vent, moan, rail, cheer: whatever you’re feeling about Covid, and the rules, and life and the universe.

I’ve started this as I’m feeling scared and fed up with increasing restrictions despite vaccines. I feel that what should be a more positive time is instead bringing more and more doom.

I want the simple pleasures of life back, as well as all the big stuff.

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NearWildHeaven · 14/02/2021 13:33

@WouldBeGood if that is what you're offering can I also put my name forward?! After @WaxOnFeckOff, of course Grin

That would be like a holiday in itself

NearWildHeaven · 14/02/2021 13:35

On the jury duty, 2 people I know have been called up recently. One is a nurse so got an exemption but I don't know how easy or difficult that was.

The other is going....quite looking forward to the change of scenery.

Chasingamy · 14/02/2021 13:37

@WaxOnFeckOff I got called for jury duty in my final year of university. I wrote to them to say it would impact on my studies (which was true) and they let me off

Lidlfix · 14/02/2021 13:38

Slim sadly Wax, if DD's flatmate's experience is anything to go by. She supports her DPs caring for a sibling, has health issues herself and had endured prolonged isolation spells which impacted on her ability to take part in labs and online teaching. High Court and also quite distant from home and uni addresses. I was really surprised at an 18 year old being called and the lack of flexibility regarding her circumstances.

WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 13:40

Just looked more at the jury citation. He's meant to go to a cinema in Dunfermline as part of Falkirk sheriff court but we live in Stirling. If he was to go by public transport then it's over two hours and means changing buses in Cumbernauld or could be an hours drive if I loaned him my car or they'd have to taxi him?

They surely don't expect that of people do they?

ssd · 14/02/2021 13:41

@anon444877

Sometimes there's a benefit to not understanding the full range of consequences when you're young. I'm contemplating whether it's safe enough underfoot to put the bins out.
Absolutely. When I went to work abroad I had to change planes and I remember asking someone on the second plane where it was going, just to check I had it right. Jeezo!!

Now when mine go on holiday I cant help but try to get involved with all the arrangements, although the eldest doesn't let me now. I dont let them make mistakes really, which I know is silly. I'm getting better with time though.

WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 13:42

Being a nurse looks like it is an automatic exemption so would be easy. If it was in Stirling or actually in Falkirk I think i would be encouraging him. But he genuinely has classes and it's the last week before break up for easter hols and exams so likely to be fairly pressured to get everything completed.

ssd · 14/02/2021 13:43

Wax, that sounds a load of hassle for him. Hed probably get off if he said he had lectures I'm sure.

WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 13:44

@Lidlfix

Slim sadly Wax, if DD's flatmate's experience is anything to go by. She supports her DPs caring for a sibling, has health issues herself and had endured prolonged isolation spells which impacted on her ability to take part in labs and online teaching. High Court and also quite distant from home and uni addresses. I was really surprised at an 18 year old being called and the lack of flexibility regarding her circumstances.
That's such a shame @Lidlfix, this isn't even in the town, it seems to be in the leisure park in Dunfermline.
WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 13:45

@ssd

Wax, that sounds a load of hassle for him. Hed probably get off if he said he had lectures I'm sure.
So i guess he needs something from Uni to confirm he has lectures to at least try?
ssd · 14/02/2021 13:49

Yes probably

NearWildHeaven · 14/02/2021 13:49

Is that in the cinema? I think I heard they are using cinemas for some juries?

I would think he should try to get something from the uni to confirm his lectures etc / impact if he's going to try for exemption.

WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 14:03

Thanks folks, he needs to respond within 7 days and it was brought through from a neighbour on Saturday (put through the wrong door) so I'm assuming it arrived with them on Saturday.

WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 14:04

pressed too soon. So will get him on the case today to see if he can get something emailed from Uni.

rookiemere · 14/02/2021 14:32

Our Fish-market chips outing was less exciting than imagined. Got there walked on sheet ice to the shop front and it was closed. Ended up getting nice paninis in Stockbridge and eating them by the lake in the cold. Still much cheaper than original option and it was nice seeing all the young people in Stockbridge out and about.

Thank goodness we were unsuccessful in prizing DS out from his cocoon.

WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 14:47

That's a shame re your fish and chips but it now means you can look forward to them again when it is open Grin

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WouldBeGood · 14/02/2021 16:34

I would love to clear out other people’s houses!

I feel so much better for it. I hired a skip and was ruthless

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WouldBeGood · 14/02/2021 16:42

The CRG are campaigning for complete lifting of regs by May and have written to Boris. Hospitality open properly by Easter. It’s a long way off still, but I’d take that now.

The reasoning is that as the vaccine gives immunity from Covid it should also give immunity from these restrictions, which seems to me to make sense.

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MaxNormal · 14/02/2021 17:11

Is that in the cinema? I think I heard they are using cinemas for some juries?

They are indeed using cinemas for juries. It's actually provided some much-needed employment for out-of-work event techs!

ssd · 14/02/2021 17:28

I think the CRG are mad. I dont agree with just opening up, I think the need the over 50s all vaccinated with 2 vaccines before lifting everything. And I dont think the vaccines are great with the new SA mutation. I'm better wary about opening up too soon. I think we need to see how schools go when they open first. I'm just very cautious.

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WouldBeGood · 14/02/2021 17:59

They are talking about opening up fully when the people who are vulnerable to Covid are vaccinated which makes perfect sense as that is the whole point of the vaccine.
my mood may be coloured by byte fact that I’ve been caught in icy rain in the dog walk and am sick and fed up of this existence.

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WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 18:01

Most "cases" are in the working age population now, so if we are waiting on that figure to drop then we'll be waiting a while as the aren't in the priority group.

So we've taken one route for the vaccination programme and another for the measure to decide if we get freedoms, it's just bizarre.

ssd · 14/02/2021 18:12

I'm just shit scared of everything. I'd walk about in a hazmat suit if I knew I wouldn't be locked up. I'm working in a supermarket now and it's just scary.

NotAnActualSheep · 14/02/2021 18:20

I'd love to do jury duty! Especially now. Was called once years ago but never got inside the court as things kept being delayed and then we were discharged. But I don't have the issues your DS has wax and it does sound a pain to get to, so hope he can be exempted.

Wonder if they are allowed popcorn if they're in a cinema? Grin

Would also like the hope of at least some date for things (anything frankly, but obviously schools first) reopening. I don't think it's sensible to do everything at once, but bit by bit, having the aim of most things back to how they were (ish) last summer by this summer would give us some hope. Maybe that's ridiculously and dangerously naive of me, but I'm really struggling with the vaccine not giving us any hope...

I don't really want to catch covid (or anything else frankly) but I don't think it's the government's responsibility to stop me from catching it while I wait to be vaccinated. Obviously there has been the risk of passing it unknowingly to others more vulnerable, but now that risk has been mitigated through vaccinating those most likely to suffer, I think there should really be more of an element of personal risk acceptability (with protections for those who still want to wfh etc). Yes there are variants, but these will be addressed by future vaccine iterations and the restrictions on foreign travel that seem to be accepted UK-wide this summer should avoid imported strains. It just seems disproportionate to be in this state of nothingness for much longer given we are so much further forward than we were last march/ april. Sad

WaxOnFeckOff · 14/02/2021 18:25

@ssd

I'm just shit scared of everything. I'd walk about in a hazmat suit if I knew I wouldn't be locked up. I'm working in a supermarket now and it's just scary.
It's horrible to be feeling like that @ssd but it's the anxiety that is probably worse than having it would likely be.