I've been golfing but as others have said it is quite different to "normal". Obviously we drive separately rather than share lifts, pay online and no use of club house or changing rooms. We don't tend to stay as far apart as we did first round back but that day we were probably about 50 feet apart!! No rakes in bunkers, no ball washers and various contraptions in the hole so you just lift your ball out easily! When we finish we use the Mr Spock Vulcan salute rather than a hand shake!! The one thing I won't do which I did before is eat a sandwich on the course!!
On the other hand I am still working from home, which was a good decision as within a week or so from the school opening again with more students and staff a teacher tested positive for Covid so the school is back on the virtual timetable and only taking the basic children of key workers and vulnerable.
I've a big decision come September as I am sure they will probably open properly then! I certainly won't however visit pubs, cinemas, theatres etc until the day where hopefully a vaccine or treatment makes it all easier to cope with. Might be in for a long wait!
I think in many ways it's all opening too quickly but at the same time I understand it's all about the economy! What I find bizarre though is queues for Primark or other unessential shops, I mean where at the moment would you wear a new dress?!
If you are feeling safer playing golf, and being at the golf club, what will you do when the clubhouse reopens, and brings back access to changing facilities, loos and hospitality facilities?
It's your job to do whatever you think necessary to keep yourself covid free. And my job to do what I think necessary for myself. It's Boris' job to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed. He doesn't care about any of us as individuals, we are just statistics to him. I shall not be coming out of lockdown until I think it is safe for me. I don't care what the Govt says. We must all look after ourselves. Boris won't be looking after us.I'm lucky that my friends are aware of my "risk" so as I say we pay online and one of our party pops in to the shop to hand over the booking. We aren't members anywhere so rarely in the past went in to the clubhouse anyway bar drinks and loos. Now I take own drink and will have a pee in some secluded bushes if required and wipe hands down with sanitizer when the round has finished.
Indoors I am very wary. Needed a new kettle but Argos won't do a click and collect outside like Sainsbury Groceries do so just ordered one for delivery from Robert Dyas!
As does coming on a forum and stating the blindingly obvious, but if you do not come into contact with the virus at all there is no risk of being infected by it, this would be very difficult but not impossible.
Sending the at risk and older members of society into pubs
I agree completely family meals are always risky.simple concept of relative risk!
Yeah, just not feeling it.Even boiling an egg comes with risk attached.. burning yourself or the house down..
Some ten or 15 years ago (so the details are now a bit vague), I went on a risk assessment course. Basically you assess the likelihood of something happening, giving it a score of 1 to 4 (1 = highly unlikely, 4 = very likely) and similarly to assess the damage that would be done if the event occurred (1 = minor injury, 4 = dead). Multiply the answers to get your risk and consider if something should be done or behaviour altered.
As far as Covid is concerned, I live in a windy area, by the sea, where I would need to meet around 1,000 people to find someone infectious. I would struggle, most days, to meet 10 and almost none of them would be close contact. Likelihood score = 1. I'm female, white, in good metabolic health and in my 60's, so feel that I am unlikely to be in the "Dead" or probably even the "nearly dead" category, so, having multiplied the answers, I feel that I have nothing to get too concerned about.
We should each make our own assessments, depending on health and where and how we live. Nobody has to play golf, walk on the sea front, chat to the neighbours, but those who feel that fresh air and social contact are important to them, should be encouraged and allowed to get on with, after all, these are vital for both physical and mental health.
As a society, we are not doing it too fast, it should be up to the individual.
Sally
Me too!I don't want any risk.
Iv never stopped working right through 'Self Isolation'
March to now must have been the busiest Iv ever been as a bathroom fitter and Iv still got months worth of work booked in. It has been crazy but not been at the footy 3-4 times a week Iv saved loads aswell
'Self Isolation' has definitely been lifted too early. You look at the figures and we have one of the highest death rates. Our government have dealt with it so badly. We needed a full lockdown like other countries but we failed to do that as the government wanted money to still be ticking over in certain sectors.
People like my mate have had it and he didn't even have one symptom but only got tested as his work shut down with others getting it and the factory having to shut for 2 weeks cleaning and staff testing.
On a related topic, I wonder how guide dogs will get on when they start going out again. Will retraining be required?
I read an article about this
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