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Originally Posted by Discombobulated
As lockdown is released I am finding it is throwing up new issues.
The thing is I live with a clinically vulnerable person and am therefore being extra cautious. My parents (who do not live with me) are also elderly and vulnerable by the government guidelines.
If you read the UK advice nothing has changed for vulnerable groups, they are still advised to minimise contact. But this is never mentioned in government releases - it is like they are forgotten about.
So some people are celebrating mixing more with others ( and tbh many have been doing this before the announcement about 6 people meeting from Monday). But the infection is not gone, the R rate has not dropped to less than high risk even by their own measure.
It makes me nervous. Nervous for my loved ones. We go outdoors and get exercise and I work out of the home but I feel we've been opened up to extra risk by these easings. People are still dying daily I the 100s. And UK had highest death rate in Europe - go figure.
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You know why this isn’t strange to me?
At the beginning of the virus spread, the UK’s president was contemplating a lockdown only for risky population. Here, in Spain, the news from there were that one of the solution could be a confinement for these people at risk for 6 months. I can’t believe it my eyes.
Then, common sense won and the lockdown was general in the UK. Thanks god.
I understand your fears. It will take us still a time to do a normal life, especially people who have a common sense. I guess in these difficult times we depend on this kind of people because there are others who are not giving the best example.