I had a long conversation with my friend this morning. She says that people are starting to treat her as if she is ill. She finds it confusing because she feels perfectly normal. It must be odd. To be diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness and yet feel fine. It must be hard to take it in. She's still heard nothing back about her full body scan. So she's going to make some phone calls tomorrow to see if she can set something in motion.
Her son's youngest daughter will be 1 year old at the beginning of July. They are having a picnic at a recreation ground near to their home. My friend won't be going as she will be in quarantine with her partner and daughter from Portugal. I've been invited but I would have to take a chair and a picnic and get there on public transport as well as a walk to the venue. So I don't wanna go. Am I wrong, paranoid? Even if my friends were going I don't think that going in people's cars is a sensible thing to do at the moment. More paranoia? I actually think I'm going to research the lockdown protocol regarding car travel.
There will now be a short intermission. ♫♬🎶♫♬
This is what I've found -
'You should avoid sharing a private vehicle with anyone outside of your household or, from 13 June, support bubble as you will not be able to keep to strict social distancing guidelines. The Department for Transport has provided specific guidance on using private vehicles. Please see their guidance on private cars and vehicles for more information on car sharing and traveling with people outside your household group.
If you do have to travel with people outside your household or support bubble try to:
- share the transport with the same people each time
- keep to small groups of people at any one time
- open windows for ventilation
- face away from each other
- consider seating arrangements to maximise distance between people in the vehicle
- clean your car between journeys using standard cleaning products - make sure you clean door handles and other areas that people may touch
- ask the driver and passengers to wear a face covering'
So I suppose I could travel with my friend and her partner if I follow the above guidelines. I would have to think about it very carefully. Interestingly my friend was saying this morning that one of her surgeons, who she works for, has the virus. And she's seen him relatively recently up at the hospital. Looking at the timeline from when he started to feel ill she thinks she's okay but it just shows this thing has not gone away at all. And if you start to extrapolate backwards I've seen my friend recently too. Yes, we maintained the social distance I would say 99.9% of the time but there is still the potential, isn't there?
Speaking of social distancing. There was a poll on social media asking people if they thought that the social distance should be reduced from 2 m to 1 m. 81% of people said no it shouldn't. I'm one of that 81%!
I've just spoken with my brother on the phone. I felt sorry for him. It's Father's Day today but he won't be seeing his children. I know it's a small thing and he wouldn't see his daughter anyway, she's in Bristol. But he probably would've gone out for a meal with his son. I missed my dad a lot today. That's not to say I don't miss him a lot at other times but your consciousness is heightened on days like these. I wouldn't do flowers for him because it wasn't his thing. I should've gone and bought a box of liquorice all-sorts He loved them. Like mum loved flowers.
Apparently Spain has now waived quarantine for British visitors travelling to Spain. They say it's to acknowledge the hundreds of expats living in Spain. They hope that the same courtesy will be extended to Spanish people wanting to come to the UK. I'm wondering if courtesy is the right word here. This quarantine thing has only just started in the UK, I really don't think it should be ended yet for people travelling into the UK. Just because one country does it doesn't mean another should. All over the world there are outbreaks occurring in places that maybe thought they were over the worst. There are fears that Italy will see a second wave as there's been a major outbreak in Rome. Beijing reckon they're in the midst of a second wave. We have to remain cautious.
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