Guilt Free Railing 9

[WouldBeGood]

Nine!!!

Don't need to isolate from amber list countries if double jagged. Need a pcr on day 2 return

Lol, you can provide informal childcare, including for a grandchild

Yes, everyone was waiting for that announcement, as far as school-aged children are concerned.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jesus wept.

in two minds.
I don't need to self isolate when coming back from greece - yay
I don't need to go back to work yet - yay
We need to keep wearing masks and I'm hearing impaired - nay

Hang on... So from August close contacts won't need to isolate as long as they are 2 weeks post second jag, and only as long as they have a negative pcr test. So that's still 3 or so days off work to isolate while they get the PCR test and result, and recently infected people who can't take a pcr test for 90 days after infection will still have to isolate for 10 days as a contact - even though they will have had 3 "boosts" of antibodies?! And doesn't seem to apply to schoolchildren at all. Yup. Can't see any issues with that at all!

And why are there still social distancing requirements between groups of people outside in level zero? And why is there still 2m distancing required between household groups inside in most public places apart from hospitality? (I think). Even when you still have to wear masks and provide contact details. This isn't even vaguely normal. Surely it can't be sold as removing most restrictions?!

Yes not a lot of value for families with kids that the parents might not have to isolate...

Masks stay even in ‘beyond level 0’ don’t they? We’re going to be wearing the sodding things for the next eight hundred years.

Fed up that they still haven’t made any decisions on close contact isolations for kids. Sigh.

Ive said here a million times, i hope they keep masks for a bit longer, working in retail people are in your face all day and if people are still wearing masks it feels a teeny but safer

Wearing them all day in a baking shop is no fun right enough

I'd prefer them to stay too. It does make some things a bit less pleasant on a hot day but on balance it feels like a small sacrifice for people with no mitigating factors to wear them.

I know they are a pita wearing them, I've just been round braehead and its just a pain in a mask. But as a shop worker I'd rather they stayed a but longer. 8 hours 5 days a week is a long time in a poorly ventilated shop where people walk right up to you to ask a question, lean over you to grab something, or lean over you when you are processing something. Never mind being in close contact in fitting rooms. It might be wrong, but when everyone wears a mask an airborne virus just feels safer.

Stay until when, though? I can see the logic in wearing them until so many people have been double jabbed or until cases are down to a certain number or whatever, but at the moment it feels like there’s no end set out.

Stay until the cases arent so high

Yes but, how high? I mean I don’t expect you to be making the rules but I’d quite like the government to have some exit criteria in mind.

Just when I thought I couldn't loathe and detest Queen Nicola and her patronising, infantilising twaddle, I catch her "summary" on the news.

I dont know how high. Right now in Glasgow cases are 435 per 100,000 people. It depends how hospital cases go. I dont suppose the government want to give an exact figure as no one knows how all this will go.
If i wasnt in retail i wouldn't feel so strongly. Or getting the train either.

Personally don't mind mask wearing even if it mostly is for reassurance for others but the vaccines have got us to the freedoms we have, the rest of it bar the full lock downs seems to have had very poor returns.

I was told by the nurse today to take my mask off as she could see how much I was struggling with it on.
I have really struggled with them since having covid but will often try if it's for less than 10 minutes will try as it's easier than the judgement or looks which make me feel self conscious.

For me I suppose I want them to change the rules so people don't judge and don't stare with a mandatory in law requirement people feel justified in being the mask police which often isn't very pleasant.

Can you not get an exemption lanyard ski?

@ssd

Stay until the cases arent so high

Sadly, cases will be high again as soon as winter bugs kick in. So if you still have to wear them in the summer, when is ok not to?

Absolutely keep them on if you work in retail and would prefer to do that, but as a customer I’ll just avoid any shop that refuses me entry without a mask.

The sad reality is, anyone clinically vulnerable is at risk from every illness that impacts an immune system...from a simple stomach bug, through to much worse, that most of us can easily recover from (such as a virus). They need shielding from any situation, not just covid and need access to clinical services which are STILL prioritising covid, despite the vaccine levels. I say this as someone who has a close relative in this category, I just don’t mention it on here as it’s really nobody else’s concern (particularly NS faux concern, a politician ffs, do stop the patronising, guilt-tripping citizenship lectures).
It’s time to keep living, for us all. Day to day life is what keeps us all going, not wearing a pretty, manky cloth mask that’s been hanging around a handbag for weeks. It’s time to start ‘allowing’ us all to behave like responsible adults again, life is too short.

@ssd

Can you not get an exemption lanyard ski?

I do have one but occasionally when I have worn it and had a jacket on I still get the mask police! One lovely lady decided to tell me that I didn't look like I needed exemption and was just making excuses 🙄

I've already become quite self conscious since having long covid so try and minimise people's judgements and comments.

I've got a wedding to go to in a month. Never in all my days did I think I'd be looking for a mask to match my outfit. 😷 I've gone the whole hog and got a sparkly one.

My mum has had someone being vile to her in a supermarket about mask wearing, she had a lanyard I sent her, and is medically exempt as she has a lot of breathing issues.

There are plenty of people willing to have a go sadly.

I'm sorry to hear about posters getting a hard time for not wearing a mask. That's so bad. The shop i work in is a 'niace' shop and most people wear masks and don't harass people who don't. Well, I'm sure it does happen there but i haven't come across it yet. I'm sorry you have had this happen.
@Bytheloch. I totally get what you are saying, it makes sense.

@Justmuddlingalong

I've got a wedding to go to in a month. Never in all my days did I think I'd be looking for a mask to match my outfit. 😷 I've gone the whole hog and got a sparkly one.

Me too! DH will be

Everyone should shut the fuck up about masks, no matter what 'side' they are on. If people can't/don't wear one, be understanding of that, and if you think others should stop wearing them now, well that's really none of anyone else's business.