Going back a few months when people were panicking more then they seem to be now apparently, there were some very frightened people on here that didn’t agree with Boris sending a contaminated letter to every household, did anyone actually get a letter because nobody I know got one, or did Devon and Cornwall just get forgotten?
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Going back a few months when people were panicking more then they seem to be now apparently, there were some very frightened people on here that didn’t agree with Boris sending a contaminated letter to every household, did anyone actually get a letter because nobody I know got one, or did Devon and Cornwall just get forgotten?
I got one.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
They made it to the Isle of Wight then must be just us. 🙂 Did you actually touch it and read it? A lot of people were a bit frightened to touch it as it had been handled by lots of people on the way.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Yes, we got the letter and have put it with numerous other documents ranging from the NHS letter saying my wife is extremely vulnerable through to the flier saying the village quiz is cancelled into our ‘COVID-19’ box. We are thinking of adding my wife’s daily diary of life under lockdown to the container and making a time capsule out of it, burying it in the garden. In a generation or two’s time it would be fascinating to read what life was like in our house in the 2020s.
The diary records the daily national death toll as well as the numerous incidences of kindness afforded to us by villagers, the frustrations of isolation, the fears both rational and irrational during the past three months, and the slowly evolving easing of lockdown.
They made it to the Isle of Wight then must be just us. 🙂 Did you actually touch it and read it? A lot of people were a bit frightened to touch it as it had been handled by lots of people on the way.
I did touch and read it and I am still here. Since the process is automated I doubt if a single human being touched it till the postman put it through the door!
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
We got the letter from Boris too, we live in Sussex. We read it and have kept it as well as the letters from the government and my OHs oncologist. I'm worried about a second wave of this virus, as much as I'm going stir crazy because of not going out, I feel it's still too early to be going anywhere yet.
If you are referring to me - I wasn't frightened at all. I pointed out how stupid it was to send 30+ million letters.
What I found, and still find, odd - is that quite a few replies on that topic said something like '...I quarantine all my post...','...I disinfect my door and letter box...'.... implying that the posters thought there was some threat from 'mail' - BUT then said that sending 30+ million letters was ok. Peculiar.
And yes, I got the letter. The letter said what the press had reported and what had been on the TV already. It turned up a couple of weeks or so after it was reported that it was going to be sent. From MY perspective it said nothing I wasn't aware of already - by the time it arrived, what it said was 'old news'.
If I send 1 letter there's a risk, 10 letters more of a risk, 1000 letters ... 100,000 ... 1,000,000 ... To me, sending 30 million letters, was no more than a propaganda exercise that had a stupid unjustified risk element. That's not fear - just pointing out the stupidity of an action.
A friend of mine is in hospital. She managed to send a quick message to few of us yesterday. She said she didn’t have the energy to explain and most likely won’t have the energy to reply. We then heard through someone who is in touch with the daughter that they thought they were going to loose her the day before.
I did my usual thing of denial and watched TV for some escapism. My brain couldn’t cope. I woke up this morning trying to log into work and one of the systems we use wasn’t working. Emailed team leader who replied, it’s not working because it’s Sunday!
I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry. It is weird how things affect you.
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Martin Luther KingDid you actually touch it and read it? A lot of people were a bit frightened to touch it as it had been handled by lots of people on the way.
The diary records the daily national death toll as well as the numerous incidences of kindness afforded to us by villagers, the frustrations of isolation, the fears both rational and irrational during the past three months, and the slowly evolving easing of lockdown.
Since the process is automated I doubt if a single human being touched it till the postman put it through the door!
@BenCotto that will be like our grandparents telling us about the Spanish Flu.