You all must be so excited!
Thank you. I think its inevitable, so need to try and find a way to stay positive. Our government has dealt with this incredibly poorly and I feel like there is more risk to my mental health than an actual physical risk of any of us contracting or spreading covid since we have basically all hardly done anything or been anywhere for the past month!
I bet they do lol it's ridiculous. I couldn't tell you how they enforce it, we don't have enough police to do it effectively, we have a track and trace and testing system that is falling apart. If local lockdown happened, you're not allowed to mix with another household but you can still go to a gym/bar/restaurant/children's soft play/swimming. Not exactly sure how thats safer than being able to visit your immediate family with precautions but hey ho.
Yeah well that would be the sensible thing to do. They also gave the OK for students to start up at university and now there are hundreds of covid outbreaks and students isolating in halls of residence across the country. Absolutely shambolic! There are people who refuse to wear masks and nobody is enforcing this rule. There are illegal raves happening, teenagers gathering socially, and nothing happens. But someone like me will be punished and unable to have my mum visit her first grandchild? I have to say I dont blame people in my position breaking the rules to be able to see their family. I cannot see how thats worse than all of the above!
Yeah they have started to introduce fines but this country is on its knees and there are nowhere near enough police. You just don't see them around. I can totally understand why you'd do that - if it happens here I'm not sure how I'll be able to keep the grandparents away. Totally frustrating when you're being careful and everything else seemingly carries on as normal because they don't want the economy to collapse. Understandable but a huge contradiction in my opinion. Meh.
I understand that fully. I've done my bit and followed every rule up to this point. I always wear a mask if I do go out. But by comparison to people who are out and about and spreading covid, I don't feel its fair to be punished (as I feel I have been throughout the whole pregnancy anyway.) As a FTM, planning to breastfeed my baby, I know how vital support is - thats all you ever get told, well prior to covid. So I find it infuriating and terrifying that we potentially would be 'banned' from having that vital support. Time will tell I guess.Unfortunately protecting the economy (and people's livelihoods) is really vital right now. The government is trying to walk a tightrope between keeping enough things open to allow businesses to keep afloat whilst at the same time restricting people's interactions with others. It sucks that the first casualty will always be social interactions but I don't see what else they can do. We can't afford to go into total lockdown again.
There are specific lockdowns going on around the country but where I am we still have the 'Rule of 6' so basically you can only meet in groups no larger than six as long as you follow social distancing rules. The idea is still to avoid mixing with large numbers of people. Last week for example, D and I went to a restaurant for my birthday with some of his friends. We put masks on to go inside and took them off when we were seated at our table. The wait staff all wore PPE to serve us and we put our masks back on if we had to go to the bathroom and when we left. We didn't interact with anyone other than each other and the waiter and the other tables had been spaced two metres apart.
Personally, I feel the blame is firmly placed on people not following the rules. If they did (even if it's just as simple as giving people more space in the street and wearing masks indoors) we might not be in such a mess. I've seen SO many people on Facebook taking photographs practically sitting in each other's laps and I just despair. D is the only person I've hugged since February. I didn't even hug my own father the last time I saw him and now he's undergoing major cancer treatment in hospital. It was really horrible but I did it. I don't see why people find keeping apart from their friends such a challenge.
It's genuinely depressing how little people in this country seem to care about protecting other people
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Yeah :/ I guess it’s different for me as mine and D’s parents live so far away that they couldn’t help even if they were allowed to. Being alone (with D) is just the norm for me I suppose
