We are finding it increasingly difficult, and we have tried to take this as seriously as we could, but the cracks are starting to appear.
My OH shielded herself and the boy about a week before lockdown officially started, so it’s been about 11 weeks now. I’ve been WFH and now back in the office with restrictions in place, but not everyone takes it seriously or is fully able to. Masks and goggles and lots of sanitiser available.
2 year old is desperately bored and desperate to see other people and have contact with grandparents, family and other children. Getting hard to keep him away apart from avoiding socialising all together – which isn’t great mentally.
Judging by those I have spoken to, many seem to be in the same position. People are becoming more nonchalant about it, especially seeing the government mess up and confuse everything they do – there is no trust.
Without a real plan to come out of lockdown, without fixes in place for public transport, without a working tracing system, without a logical bubbling of households, without any firm instruction on masks – without these things the GP are losing faith and the lockdown will become impossible to continue. Add into this the sentiment over Cummings and I don’t think this will last much longer, irrespective of R0…which is obviously worrying…