There is three of us shielding and only the wife's father has had his second jab.
We don't have the confidence to do anything except walk around the block as part of our exercise, I do go the shop on the corner, but today it has been so busy and even though the kids are off school the amount of traffic going past my house is the highest I've seen since before covid. We have said that we can't trust anyone until we have all had the second jab, but even then, we have to be careful for a couple of weeks after that.
Someone who said that we have to take steps back to trying to live our lives slowly has let the floodgates open, and the evidence of what is happening in France and the continent means that a fourth wave is not far off.
We have seen the grandkids, using social distancing but not all of them, I still haven't seen my daughter for about nine months. I have no faith in the way that our government has handled the pandemic. I know from our local hospital, that they are making preparations for a fourth wave and the usual winter months of flu and covid.
They are provisioning on the flu jab and the covid booster jab. This is as well as trying to get all the different departments open for the backlog of patients.
But have our leaders learned the lessons from the previous decision on lockdown. Even though the previous lockdown has seen the country still open for trade and the amount of flights in and out of the country is still high. The ferries haven't stopped and a thousand lorries every day cross the channel, Irish sea, and of course the Atlantic. Despite the ban on going abroad on holidays.
When is a lockdown not a lockdown?
I'm waiting till I feel more comfortable, having anxiety and feeling vulnerable, it is the only sensible approach, let the kids have their fun, they have been brilliant and deserve to let some steam off, just like the protest marches or gathering for a vigil, this should be controlled by police to keep our freedoms and our sanity.