A few posts back I commented on my walk. Can you bluntly tell me if you think I was foolhardy and broke the rules?
As allowed, though I do it rarely, I took a little half mile walk around the village, en route delivering a birthday card. During the walk I met three sets of friends and neighbours who were working in their front gardens. Rather than just nodding a hello I stopped to chat - 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 20 minutes. In all cases we were between four and six yards apart.
Reading between the lines I sense that what I did was inappropriate. Was it? Was there any risk of transference of the virus? I did not touch the metal gates but during the 20 minute chat I sat on a flattish boulder in the garden while my friends sat on their front step.
Ben Do what pleases you and your friends, if they didn’t want to talk they could have gone inside, if the rest of the neighbours didn’t like it, they can stay in as well. As lockdown is going to end soon and people get back to work, why worry about what you did.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@debs64 I really don’t see what is frightening people about staying at home (unless they already have mental health conditions)
Itll be a darn sight more frightening when folk are wandering about not keeping the rules.
The thing about ‘protecting the vulnerable’ is that we don’t yet know enough to know just who is vulnerable. Young fit people are dying of Covid.
So we have to do all that we can to protect everyone/each other until we have more information.
If the virus becomes more widespread in the community and we don’t know who to protect then the hospitals will be overloaded .., then cancer, heart and hip ops etc wont happen etc etc etc. Heaven help us when we get to next winter and the other severe chest bugs increase again. Then we’ll have to go through Lockdown all over again, and if this one is costing the economy dear just imagine what another one will cost 😱 Property prices and the value of shares will crash and no ones pensions will be worth anything.
If the elderly are scared having to stay at home and having Sainsbugs deliver they should think how frightening it’ll be when they can’t pay for that delivery.
That’s what is being risked when people decide that it’s not really necessary for them to follow the rules because they’re not worried about it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The only solution will be, if a vaccine is found that gives long term protection, otherwise the world is going to be very different from the one we know now. We have to be very careful until this hopefully occurs.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Most older people I speak to are frightened, many young children are frightened. Any young person is absolutely right to be frightened because they are the ones paying for this ad infinitum. People who will lose their business are frightened and people who have lost their jobs and people on low incomes who cannot afford to lose 20% of their income and people who will lose their homes are frightened., people in abusive relationships are frightened.
I'm worried that they start to change the rules too early. I'm more worried about going out when the time comes, we haven't left our house/ garden since March. What also worries me is my OH has cancer and he can't have any check ups. Thankfully all his chemotherapy and radiotherapy had been completed.
So am I @Dovefromabove It worries me that people are going to go rushing out in groups when lockdown is finished. I really hope things don't change much next week.
I read online pets are being dumped at the rate of 2 an hour due to the mistaken belief they can pass on the virus.as the rescue centres are not allowed to be open and people are not donating this will only get worse.i want to rescue a westie after having mine die in january.but I'm not allowed to travel and they're not allowed to be open.
Me too Dove and Pansy, but I just can’t keep thinking about what others are doing, it’s wearing me down. my thoughts are let the herd immunity followers go, well must take care of our selves, whatever happens, it won’t be as bad as some of the things that had to be faced in the past, Wars, flu’s, .....
My dad had said for a few years that the world needs plague, far too many people to sustain, this isn’t it.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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As allowed, though I do it rarely, I took a little half mile walk around the village, en route delivering a birthday card. During the walk I met three sets of friends and neighbours who were working in their front gardens. Rather than just nodding a hello I stopped to chat - 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 20 minutes. In all cases we were between four and six yards apart.
Reading between the lines I sense that what I did was inappropriate. Was it? Was there any risk of transference of the virus? I did not touch the metal gates but during the 20 minute chat I sat on a flattish boulder in the garden while my friends sat on their front step.
As lockdown is going to end soon and people get back to work, why worry about what you did.
Itll be a darn sight more frightening when folk are wandering about not keeping the rules.
Property prices and the value of shares will crash and no ones pensions will be worth anything.
If the elderly are scared having to stay at home and having Sainsbugs deliver they should think how frightening it’ll be when they can’t pay for that delivery.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have to be very careful until this hopefully occurs.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It worries me that people are going to go rushing out in groups when lockdown is finished. I really hope things don't change much next week.
my thoughts are let the herd immunity followers go, well must take care of our selves, whatever happens, it won’t be as bad as some of the things that had to be faced in the past, Wars, flu’s, .....
My dad had said for a few years that the world needs plague, far too many people to sustain, this isn’t it.