They should still really be following lockdown guidance irrespective of whether they had the vaccine or not to be honest. Today we've had confirmation that the AZ vaccine confers good protection against transmitting the virus to others, but until today there was no certainty about that, and there's currently no way of differentiating between vaccinated/unvaccinated people in terms of enforcing the rules.
Glad she had a good time though, I'm sure she'll be absolutely fine.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
When garden centres are open as ‘essential’ what’s the message being given?
Being open for phone orders or click and collect compost, seed potatoes and rhubarb crowns etc is one thing, but being open to browse shrubs, perennials, footwear, quilted waistcoats, relaxing CDs, scented candles and birthday cards is something else entirely. 🤨
At least the restaurants aren’t open ... 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I looked on the government website and if you do sit in a car you have to wear a mask sit behind wipe everything down etc.and Yes,why are they open?? I have been wanting to see her myself but cant
My mum is 90 and three quarters. Sharp as a tack. She will canvass opinion until she finds one that broadly equates with her own views and will then do precisely what she pleases. There's not a lot you can do about it.
I think it is a sad mistake to treat our elderly parents like children and tell them what they can and can't do (even if they sometimes act like one!). Most of them treasure their independence and having lived so long with much more experience of life , they are entitled to do what they think is best. I bitterly regret trying to force my own wishes on my mother in the last few months of her life in a nursing home, convinced I knew best and it wasn't until after she died that I realized I was wrong. She absolutely hated being confined in a wheelchair indoors and wanted to be taken out for trips. That winter and spring was bitterly cold, I couldn't manage to lift her or the wheelchair as I had fractured my back the year before, so she only had two trips out in 2 or 3 months. She was not happy.
I know exactly what you mean @Lizzie27, my mother hated being in a nursing home, but she was in Devon and we are in London. We tried to get her to live with us some time before but she didn't want to leave her own home. Then a few years later her doctors decided she was too vulnerable on her own, and she went into the home. There was nothing wrong with the home as such but she was never happy there. She was only there about 10 months if we had any idea her time was so short we would have found a way of her staying in her own house.
'...I think it is a sad mistake to treat our elderly parents like children
and tell them what they can and can't do (even if they sometimes act
like one!). Most of them treasure their independence and having lived so
long with much more experience of life , they are entitled to do what
they think is best....'
If you're referring to Covid and the rules, Isn't that attitude just wrong? Please watch Chris Witty talking about how, even after being vaccinated, people still have to be cautious or else they potentially act as a link in the chain. I know the emphasis has been on protecting the older and more vulnerable people - but those people themselves can and do form parts of chains. Just because they are older and have more life experience, it doesn't make it 'right' to do something that puts 'others' at risk. Anybody could and should be treated as a child until they fully understand that anyone can become part of a chain if they ignore the rules - and maybe they won't get ill and die - but somebody in the chain most likely will. No one is 'entitled' to gamble with someone else's life.
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Glad she had a good time though, I'm sure she'll be absolutely fine.
At least the restaurants aren’t open ... 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I bitterly regret trying to force my own wishes on my mother in the last few months of her life in a nursing home, convinced I knew best and it wasn't until after she died that I realized I was wrong. She absolutely hated being confined in a wheelchair indoors and wanted to be taken out for trips. That winter and spring was bitterly cold, I couldn't manage to lift her or the wheelchair as I had fractured my back the year before, so she only had two trips out in 2 or 3 months. She was not happy.