Here in the UK, restrictions have been eased and shops, museums, leisure centres, restaurants and so on have all been open now for a few months and yet I'm still preferring to stay at home when I am off work and still not really going back out to places I used to enjoy when I can just use my common sense to wear a mask and sanitise my hands. I've offered to come down several times by my dad and step-mum to a restaurant and several times I've turned the offer down because I don't feel comfortable when its likely they'll be a lot of people in there and I do feel partly bad about it like I'm going to keep turning it down although I did see my grandparents with my dad and step-mum on Fathers Day and I was fine because I knew they were all fully vaccinated and I've only had one dose. I've visited my local town a couple times only to get something I want and then leave and not hang around. I know from next week I may announce that people will choose to not wear a face mask which I am not comfortable with and I am going to continue wearing masks and social distancing at work and I don't like the idea of screens being taken off the counters, and social distancing spots taken away, I feel like its going to dissuade me from going back out again because people will not be wearing masks and socially distancing like they used to and they'll be more crowding and more people about and seemed as though it was more comfortable before. If I was in charge, I would have kept the restrictions in place until September because according to the vaccine calculator, herd immunity in the UK is estimated to be achieved then as most adults over 18 will have had two doses.
13 Jul 2021, 12:08 pm
