I've just been to my parents to change a lightbulb for them.i was worried it wouldn't be considered an essential visit but considering it's in my dad's bathroom and he has dementia I thought it was.they just couldn't change it.i couldn't believe how many cars are in the road!
In a period of just 1 minute starting at 2:20pm on a SUNDAY, I am counting an average of 20 private cars running along the main road near me. The average for commercial vehicles is about 2 per minute and ambulances are about every 3 minutes.
You can't tell me that the occupants of those 1200 private cars per hour are all obeying the lockdown rules (well, you can try, but I won't believe you.)
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I've just been to my parents to change a lightbulb for them.i was worried it wouldn't be considered an essential visit but considering it's in my dad's bathroom and he has dementia I thought it was.they just couldn't change it.i couldn't believe how many cars are in the road!
I would do the same. It is technically allowed, as you are keeping them safe, as long as you are careful (hands, face, space, ventilation).
I have been thinking how awful this pandemic would have been for my dearly departed family members and us too. It would have broken me not to be able to see my dying Mum. I couldn’t have bubbled with her given my high-risk job. This is one of the reasons I make time to update a patient’s family and try to reassure them that they are being cared for, because they are precious and it could be me and mine. Even that is not enough - so sad. The worst part of the pandemic for me. I will never moan about relatives visiting again (well maybe some of them - I have seen things you wouldn’t believe - visitors bringing take away food and letting their kids sit on the floor to eat, people with obvious coughs, obviously drunk, etc).
I found it quiet on the roads recently (particularly this week ??) but when I do see people driving, I do think - you can’t all be going to essential work or shopping?
Maybe some people just want to get out for a bit in their metal bubble and see something besides four walls. it's easier for those of us with gardens to stay banged up in the house. Provided they don't get out of their car or have an accident, what harm?
That’s a fair point B3 - I know people take their children for a drive just for something to do and kill some time and you are isolated in the car. You could only go as far as the fullest/weakest bladder would allow though!
Restroom bathroom . Call a spade a spade and a toilet a toilet. A short round trip to get out of the house could surely be managed without a 'comfort break' for an adult. Children surely can be allowed to pee if necessary.
As @Fairygirl said from the start of the first lockdown back in March there are some extraordinarily incontinent, unthinking people out there who break the rules and don't think about practicalities.
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I have been thinking how awful this pandemic would have been for my dearly departed family members and us too. It would have broken me not to be able to see my dying Mum. I couldn’t have bubbled with her given my high-risk job. This is one of the reasons I make time to update a patient’s family and try to reassure them that they are being cared for, because they are precious and it could be me and mine. Even that is not enough - so sad. The worst part of the pandemic for me. I will never moan about relatives visiting again (well maybe some of them - I have seen things you wouldn’t believe - visitors bringing take away food and letting their kids sit on the floor to eat, people with obvious coughs, obviously drunk, etc).
I found it quiet on the roads recently (particularly this week ??) but when I do see people driving, I do think - you can’t all be going to essential work or shopping?
A short round trip to get out of the house could surely be managed without a 'comfort break' for an adult. Children surely can be allowed to pee if necessary.