Changing this up a bit coz it’s RAINING!!!!!!! It’s ok.. I’m already brown enough to have been abroad for a month but it’s changing our whole lockdown routine a bit.
Its my Auntie Jac and Uncle Ewen’s 14th wedding anniversary today and they’ve made cards for each other… we’ve all kind of accepted a make do and mend culture like they did in the war. A Christmas card scrawled over with happy anniversary would have been considered an insult less than 6 weeks ago. I like these new relaxed rules…. I had typed there I like this new relaxed world but then that seems so insensitive given that so many people in the world are working like crazy to keep others safe… the NHS, caters, delivery guys, supermarkets, police, fire brigade etc. These support functions are the heroes in all this. They do not have a new relaxed world.
My friend Ronnie Forsyth sent me this wee funny this morning which I thought summed things up for us just now 😬🤣
UK RULES FOR COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
to clear up any confusion 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🥴 (author unknown)
1. You MUST NOT leave the house for any reason, but if you have a reason, you can leave the house.
2. Masks are useless at protecting you against the virus, but you may have to wear one because it can save lives, but they may not work, but they may be mandatory, but maybe not.
3. Shops are closed, except those shops that are open.
4. You must not go to work but you can get another job and go to work.
5. You should not go to the Doctor’s or to the hospital unless you have to go there, unless you are too poorly to go there.
6. This virus can kill people, but don’t be scared of it. It can only kill those people who are vulnerable or those people who are not vulnerable. It’s possible to contain and control it, sometimes, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.
7. Gloves won’t help, but they can still help so wear them sometimes, or not.
8. STAY HOME, but it’s important to go out.
9. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarkets, but there are many things missing. Sometimes you won’t need loo rolls but you should buy some just in case you need some.
10. The virus has no effect on children except those children it affects.
11. Animals are not affected, but there was a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…
12. Stay 2 metres away from tigers (see point 11).
13. You will have many symptoms if you get the virus, but you can also get symptoms without getting the virus, get the virus without having any symptoms or be contagious without having symptoms, or be non contagious with symptoms…it’s a sort of lucky/unlucky dip.
14. To help protect yourself you should eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand as it’s better not to go to the shops, unless you need toilet roll or a fence panel.
15. It’s important to get fresh air but don’t go to parks but go for a walk. But don’t sit down, except if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant or if you’re not old or pregnant but need to sit down. If you do sit down don’t eat your picnic, unless you’ve had a long walk, which you are/aren’t allowed to do if you’re old or pregnant.
16. Don’t visit old people but you have to take care of the old people and bring them food and medication.
17. If you are sick, you can go out when you are better but anyone else in your household can’t go out when you are better unless they need to go out.
18. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house. These deliveries are safe. But groceries you bring back to your house have to be decontaminated outside for 3 hours including frozen pizza.
19. You can’t see your older mother or grandmother, but they can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.
20. You are safe if you maintain the safe social distance when out but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.
21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours … or four hours…or six hours… I mean days, not hours. But it needs a damp environment. Or a cold environment that is warm and dry… in the air, as long as the air is not plastic.
22. Schools are closed so you need to home educate your children, unless you can send them to school because you’re not at home. If you are at home you can home educate your children using various portals and virtual class rooms, unless you have poor internet, or more than one child and only one computer, or you are working from home. Baking cakes can be considered maths, science or art. If you are home educating you can include household chores within their education. If you are home educating you can start drinking at 10am.
23. If you are not home educating children you can also start drinking at 10am.
24. The number of corona related deaths will be announced daily but we don’t know how many people are infected as they are only testing those who are almost dead to find out if that’s what they will die of. The people who die of corona who aren’t counted, won’t or will be counted but maybe not.
25. We should stay in locked down until the virus stops infecting people but it will only stop infecting people if we all get infected so it’s important we get infected and some don’t get infected.
26. You can join your neighbours for a street party and turn your music up for an outside disco and your neighbours won’t call the police. People in another street are allowed to call the police about your music whilst also having a party which you are allowed to call the police about.
27. No business will go down due to Coronavirus except those businesses that will go down due to Coronavirus.
Eh??????
Tidied the bedroom, long time coming and phoned a repair shop in Johnstone as my screen was cracked really badly and it was getting worse… affecting selfies 😱 I made an appointment for 3.30pm today as they are only allowing one person in the shop at any one time with an appointment so they know exactly what they need to have ready.
It reminded me of what we are actually going through right now. The strangest of times. We can’t mix with other people anymore without fear of catching something. A lot of our normal shops are closed. Starbucks drive thru looked very strange closed. I think with the recent good weather we’ve been on a wee bit of a holiday, out in the sun, getting stuff down, ticking off lists but reality hit me a wee bit being out.
Despite the numbers above sky news is now reporting a total of 26,072 deaths putting UK only behind Italy for number of deaths in Europe. This is with all the care home deaths added in…. Italy is at 26,872 so we are only 700 odd behind them and yet we are weeks behind them from the start of the virus. That’s very, very sad. 💔
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