Must admit I'm looking forward to being able to go to dance class without a mask but am not in a hurry to lose the mask habit in other situations, especially mixing with a public whose behaviour and health is beyond my knowledge or control.
Just as they do in bars, cafés, restaurants, public transport and meeting rooms, I shall be having to check everyone's vaccination pass at patch club for some time to come and that's no bad thing.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We are carrying on with wearing face masks. Very few customers without masks in Waitrose this week, and most of the staff also masked. Sadly, I’m probably now guilty of prejudice against the unmasked, suspecting them of being anti vaxxers, non hand washers etc, just because they are following current relaxed protocols. I’m much more comfortable following direct advice from Chris, Patrick and Jonathan, than any politicians interpretation.Am I being unfair and silly?
Still wearing my mask. I had it on to attend a meeting the other evening but none of the other participants were wearing one so I took mine off. I would rather everyone still wore theirs but didn't want to rock the boat. I did mention that two people we all know are currently isolating with covid. The meeting comprised people between the ages of mid 60s to mid 80s. I think the attitude now is that it is inevitable that we will get it at some point, isolate for the duration and then be back out and about again. Like flu. But one of the people we all know, despite being triple jabbed, has underlying health conditions and the other night in hospital having her oxygen levels, which had dropped to 87%, checked.
I'm grateful that Scotland still requires mask wearing just now. The cases numbers are still averaging 8,000 per day, although they are very low in my area. That said, we are only 10 miles or so from the border with England where the rules are different. Lots of people live in one country and work in the other, so our cases numbers could go up quickly.
At some point, when numbers are much lower, I will go back to shopping, eating out, theatre etc..... but not just yet. My view is that I've come this far without catching covid, I don't want to blow it now.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Given that my understanding is that this is an aerosol transmissible virus sitting in a café with closed doors with the heat and humidity that that involves might not be such a good idea.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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Just as they do in bars, cafés, restaurants, public transport and meeting rooms, I shall be having to check everyone's vaccination pass at patch club for some time to come and that's no bad thing.
Sadly, I’m probably now guilty of prejudice against the unmasked, suspecting them of being anti vaxxers, non hand washers etc, just because they are following current relaxed protocols. I’m much more comfortable following direct advice from Chris, Patrick and Jonathan, than any politicians interpretation.Am I being unfair and silly?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I think the attitude now is that it is inevitable that we will get it at some point, isolate for the duration and then be back out and about again. Like flu. But one of the people we all know, despite being triple jabbed, has underlying health conditions and the other night in hospital having her oxygen levels, which had dropped to 87%, checked.
The cases numbers are still averaging 8,000 per day, although they are very low in my area.
That said, we are only 10 miles or so from the border with England where the rules are different. Lots of people live in one country and work in the other, so our cases numbers could go up quickly.
At some point, when numbers are much lower, I will go back to shopping, eating out, theatre etc..... but not just yet. My view is that I've come this far without catching covid, I don't want to blow it now.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'