Good afternoon, I would like to rail about the sheer bloody
endlessness of the remaining restrictions. Sorry sorry, ‘protective measures’.
I have not been into my youngest DC’s nursery since last March. I don’t know what the rooms look like, what’s in them, what the children do, I don’t see DC interacting with other children or staff.
I am increasingly fed up with wearing a mask, of interacting in a mask, of sodding singing in a mask at church (such a delight). And without getting too in-depth about my own medical woes, the same issues that make it harder for me to wear a mask are the ones that mean I can’t drive so rely on public transport, so it’s masks masks masks.
Private baby/toddler group open but only if you sit in a given spot in a mask. Library baby/toddler classes still off. Library itself is still full of one-way stickers and roped-off chairs.
School breakfast club still limited and don’t you dare use it for childcare, kids are to sit in the same spot and eat and that’s it, no playing. No sign of in-person parents’ evenings and getting to see some of their work. No singing ‘out of an abundance of caution’.
Still working from home, still fed up of it.
And no sign of when this might change, no sign indeed that scot gov even plan for lots of it to change ever. Even asking out loud exactly what the exit strategy is gets you tutted at by “covid hasn’t gone away you know, it’s only popping a bit of cloth on your mouth for twenty minutes in Tesco, I like working from home it’s great, what’s the problem” people.