@punkdoc She is part of a homeopathic / yoga community and many people in that bubble often believe that if you have a "strong enough" immune system you will never get ill. If you have positive thoughts and eat kale, you will be fine. They place blame at the door of medications, wifi, air pollution and junk food etc. Their theory is that without these everyone would live without so much as a cold until the age of 95.
The flip side is that if you are 'at one with god' and treat your body as a temple, you will never get ill, so if you are ill (disability, cancer, infant diseases) it means you are clearly not in tune with the universe; and are harbouring "toxins" either in your body or your soul - which are pretty much the same thing. The answer always turns out to be - more yoga, more God, more kale, no TV, more homeopathy, waking up at 4am, more 'purity', no sugar.
I think that @fidgetbones problem is that her COVID pass is not accurately showing what vaccinations she's had, which makes it useless for the purpose for which it is intended.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Correct. Not that we are going anywhere much. I haven't been for a mooch around Nottingham/Derby/Meadowhell shops for two years. I am on first name terms with the delivery drivers. I shop in supermarkets at quiet times, and we go to hospital appointments and the gym/pool my husband has joined to strengthen his much weakened muscles. The blue badge has finally arrived to make life a bit easier, I don't have to push a wheelchair quite so far.
"many people in that bubble often believe that if you have a "strong enough" immune system you will never get ill."
There's a girl who regularly posts on the walking site I use. You'd be hard pushed to find a fitter, healthier woman. She's less than half my age, and is well on her way to compleating, having only started Munro bagging a few years ago. She thinks nothing of cycling huge distances, doing multi hill days [on consecutive days] and does that all year round. She contracted Covid early last year and is still struggling with long Covid https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/long-covid-a-hillwalkers-experience/
Anyone who thinks it's all a dawdle if you're young and fit is a total idiot.
I hope things improve for you both @fidgetbones. Deeply stressful. Re the blue badge - I become unreasonably furious when I see people park in disabled spaces when they have no badge. Saw one last weekend. No excuse for it either - plenty of spaces near the door. Lazy git.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I understand your frustration @Fairygirl, but we're in the situation that my OH finds it very painful to walk at all because of a bad hip. We have applied for a Blue Badge but have been told it can take up to 3 months to be processed. I have once or twice parked in a Disabled place if I can't drop him off. The RHS at Wisley in particular were fine about that.
It has taken eight weeks to get a badge. During that time hospital parking is a nightmare, Tesco and Asda have blue badge only bays, and parking enforcement pratts prepared to ticket you even if you are wheeling in someone in a wheelchair. I had to park at Asda to get in the local health centre as all the spaces in the health centre were full anyway. Thankfully the gym just has "disabled use only" bays as opposed to blue badge only. It seems I am allowed to park on double yellow lines, however, having never had a parking ticket in my life, it seems really unreasonable to do so. Consequently we both got soaked when we had to go to the post office to get certified copies of his passport. I fetched the car and left him in the post office and then parked on double yellows long enough to pick him up.
Our next door neighbour is in for a rough xmas. His mum died two years ago on xmas day. He found her on the floor when he went for xmas dinner. Last year he was still affected so didn't join in his fathers get together. His uncle got covid at that party and died two weeks later. He is now jabbed. He didn't believe it was serious before. Some people get it very mild. Others are very fit, get a bad dose, and die. I'd rather risk the side effects from the vaccine, than the risk from the virus. I've seen more than enough of hospitals this year.
I appreciate that there can be exceptions @Lizzie27, but this was an able bodied young man who jumped out and jogged off into the centre. No excuses for him, especially when there were loads of standard spaces available, with hardly any difference in distance from the doors. My Dad struggled badly with walking in his later years, and he had a badge. However, the problem here is also because many of the disabled parking spaces are actually quite a long way from the entrance, while there are spaces for 'parents and children' within fifty feet. That's ridiculous.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just did a SM run and I must say I felt a tad uncomfortable hearing coughing children and seeing minimal distancing etc. I haven’t felt this way since the first wave. The few people who went in before and after me didn’t spray their trolley/basket and there were quite a few ‘chin masks’. Some staff were also gathered around together, which sets a poor example.
I was supposed to be going out for dinner with my work team tonight but I, and 4 others out of about 15, have cancelled.
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There's a girl who regularly posts on the walking site I use. You'd be hard pushed to find a fitter, healthier woman. She's less than half my age, and is well on her way to compleating, having only started Munro bagging a few years ago. She thinks nothing of cycling huge distances, doing multi hill days [on consecutive days] and does that all year round.
She contracted Covid early last year and is still struggling with long Covid
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/long-covid-a-hillwalkers-experience/
Anyone who thinks it's all a dawdle if you're young and fit is a total idiot.
I hope things improve for you both @fidgetbones. Deeply stressful.
Re the blue badge - I become unreasonably furious when I see people park in disabled spaces when they have no badge. Saw one last weekend. No excuse for it either - plenty of spaces near the door. Lazy git.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My Dad struggled badly with walking in his later years, and he had a badge. However, the problem here is also because many of the disabled parking spaces are actually quite a long way from the entrance, while there are spaces for 'parents and children' within fifty feet. That's ridiculous.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...