Are you following the rules?

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Kenna said:
Yes and I’m tucking sick of my life for it, go to work, go home, go to work, go home, go to work, go home. Didn’t even close at the beginning so all that’s changed for me is I can’t see my mates and family and go for a drink or food.

Seeing our lass basically 24/7 when not working is actually driving me insane, I need time for me and a walk out alone doesn’t cut it.
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I am divorced from my husband and live with my 2 of my 3 kids, my oldest moved out last year. My 21 year old daughter has a chromosome disorder and is totally non verbal, my 12 year old son has autism and all he talks about all day long is computer games. It is soul destroying having no other adults to talk to. If my best friend hadn't continued to come over I honestly think I'd have lost the plot by now.
 
I am, sort of. Wearing mask in shop, not meeting mates or going out to pubs or anything, shopping once a week instead of daily as I used to.
But I've got my granddaughter at the moment and she goes to her cousins most days, I go for my dinner at a friends house on a Sunday, and the other day was painting a house but was with the afore mentioned cousins parents so no real extra risk then. Go out for a few hours on a Friday with another friend, but thats for shopping then we tend to drive somewhere and have some food before heading home. Not much different to when it was the full lockdown tbh.
 
Working from home and going to the shops is all I do. My Mrs parents have our youngest during the day and take my eldest to school for us.

I haven’t been in a pub since August and have been meeting mates for walks and grabbing a coffee outside.

I think I’m doing everything correct.

Not ideal that I haven’t seen my parents since March but they are both NHS workers and my mother is type 1 diabetic but that’s the best I can do.
 
gegsongegsonlegs said:
This is a massive problem imo, for some ( me included) being locked down with only one other person for company can be soul destroying, I love our lass but it's nice to have some time away and different conversation etc and that works both ways..

During the first lockdown I worked all the way through so was able to get out the house but I work alone for the most part so it was a right ball ache just coming home and staying there til it was time to go to work again..

Following most rules, mask, distance and sanitising etc.. use common sense in shops and public spaces etc but I'm still seeing family, went through lockdown not seeing my parents or sister for the entirety but I'm not doing that again.. didn't realise how important my small family were to me until then to be honest.
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THe social thing is a big thing. I feel that sometimes my day is filled with work meeting on Teams, but twice a week we have a scheduled coffee break. Sometimes there is only 3 people, other times there is 20 but it gives a bit of social time around work. Then we also have a pub quiz. That was weekly but is starting to drift to every 2-3 weeks. I think that is helping me a lot.
 
You look at how many people on here ARENT sticking to the rules and it becomes clear how the disease is now rampant and death rates are increasing. :rolleyes:

People are sick of making sacrifices seemingly, so dont expect any normality to return day to day lives anytime soon.
 
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Yes, to the point I'm not going to an 80th birthday for someone who is very important to me. I've tried to tell them that socialising indoors with members of other households outside of your social bubble has been made illegal, it doesn't matter that you're sat on different tables. And there's a good reason for this: it is a source of the spread of the virus.

The illegal part doesn't bother me, it's the concept behind it and that is scientists have deemed such behaviour to be a source of the spread. The reasons I'm not going are that I want no part in putting that 80 years old at risk and because one of us may have it, pass it on to someone else in there who then takes that back to a member of family who is seriously ill with it.

I'm happy to do what scientists are mandating, and even if only some of us are prepared to follow the guidelines that will still save lives.
 
I go to work and am part of a social bubble as sometimes have to get grandkids from school. That’s it for me. Miss a quiet pint in pub but can’t be arsed to go for a full meal to justify going out !!
 
Locke's SAFC said:
Yes, to the point I'm not going to an 80th birthday for someone who is very important to me. I've tried to tell them that socialising indoors with members of other households outside of your social bubble has been made illegal, it doesn't matter that you're sat on different tables. And there's a good reason for this: it is a source of the spread of the virus.

The illegal part doesn't bother me, it's the concept behind it and that is scientists have deemed such behaviour to be a source of the spread. The reasons I'm not going are that I want no part in putting that 80 years old at risk and because one of us may have it, pass it on to someone else in there who then takes that back to a member of family who is seriously ill with it.

I'm happy to do what scientists are mandating, and even if only some of us are prepared to follow the guidelines that will still save lives.
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This is how I feel about it all too. 👍
 
Im using common sense when out and about, keeping my distance from people, wearing a mask etc. Im still at work but they have social distancing in place on the banks of desks. If anything im more wary since I had it.
 
I have been following the rules, but as I have been working from home for over twelve years, it has been easier for me. My business mileage has dropped from over 20,000 miles a years to zero. It is amazing what can be done with Zoom, people who insisted on face to face meetings are now insisting on virtual meetings, plus being 62, my employer is clear that I should avoid going into schools to meet staff, which is the bulk of my work and schools are not allowing anybody who doesn’t work there on site.

For the rest of it we have been doing the Zoom quiz and zoom bar with the rest of the family and in fact we have seen more of our family from Scotland than we normally do.

i have not used cash since March, the last time I took cash out was on the way to our last home game with fans against Gillingham.

we have kept the support bubble with my 89 year old mum very tight, the only time that changed was when my daughter moved up from Manchester and had to live with us for three months until the purof her new flat was completed, she joined the bubble , but now she is not in the bubble as she is in her flat.

When we are doing this it does get to me when you see people just ignoring the rules.
 
Old Timer said:
I have been following the rules, but as I have been working from home for over twelve years, it has been easier for me. My business mileage has dropped from over 20,000 miles a years to zero. It is amazing what can be done with Zoom, people who insisted on face to face meetings are now insisting on virtual meetings, plus being 62, my employer is clear that I should avoid going into schools to meet staff, which is the bulk of my work and schools are not allowing anybody who doesn’t work there on site.

For the rest of it we have been doing the Zoom quiz and zoom bar with the rest of the family and in fact we have seen more of our family from Scotland than we normally do.

i have not used cash since March, the last time I took cash out was on the way to our last home game with fans against Gillingham.

we have kept the support bubble with my 89 year old mum very tight, the only time that changed was when my daughter moved up from Manchester and had to live with us for three months until the purof her new flat was completed, she joined the bubble , but now she is not in the bubble as she is in her flat.

When we are doing this it does get to me when you see people just ignoring the rules.
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It's hard isn't it? I hate that people either don't realise / care that the more they just do whatever they want then people like ourselves will suffer.
 
Mostly yes.
We moved house last Friday and friends took the kids for the night. Our kids and their kids spent all day together in school anyway. And it was my Dad's birthday yesterday so went over with a present. 1st time kids have been in my parents house for ages. They loved it. My mother was like a new person as she's been very depressed lately. My Dad too. Now he wants to come and work on the new house.
 
We’re being moved to tier 2 from Saturday, we’ll be following the rules with one exception. 4 months ago my partners dad was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour with a prognosis of 3 months. He’s in pretty poor shape now and getting worse pretty rapidly so we’ll still be going to see him regardless of what the rules say.
 
DoctorMick said:
We’re being moved to tier 2 from Saturday, we’ll be following the rules with one exception. 4 months ago my partners dad was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour with a prognosis of 3 months. He’s in pretty poor shape now and getting worse pretty rapidly so we’ll still be going to see him regardless of what the rules say.
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Bless him, that's awful. 😔 Absolutely right to make an exception for him.
 
It’s a nightmare. Our lasses parents just visit willy nilly and I have not seen my mam for months. Worst of it is her dad drinks in a boozer where I can’t imagine many rules being adhered too. Gets me seething every time they come but they are absolutely lovely people, it’s crazy.
 
I am wearing at mask in all the places i should and try and keep my distance at work and in shops, never seen anymore than 6 people in doors ( been 3-4 at max)

My girlfriend is from the north west and i live in the dales, she is a nurse and gets tested before everytime she comes to mine on the train, 20 negative tests so far, she does not see her family or friends in order that she can see me every other week, my "support bubble" without her i would be very down! I think im doing everything right 🤔
 
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