COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

Many will have been working in the hundreds of car valeting services we have in the UK most owned and managed by eastern europeans, and most of them are heading back home because they have had to close the valeting services down due to covid-19. A raid not that long ago in our area found 4 that had been rough sleeping on a mattress in the back of a transit and working 10 hour shifts in the car washowner was driving around in a top of the range Audi

The overall effects of Covid have been very 'mixed'.  We all know the devestation it has caused and the 'bad' things.... including the aweful number of folk who have sadly lost their lives.  However, there have been positives too.

The first lockdown certainly gave us the opportunity to sort out our back garden and to build a new garden shed.  Those of us who deal in the arts have acquired new skills.  As we have been unable to meet together in person to sing in choirs, we have learned how to use software to enable us to construct audio and video productions of these who have been brave enough to sing into their own phones at home.

We have learnt how to use Zoom, and have relied even more on social media.  Traditionally, and because of distance of miles, we have only very occasionally met together as a family.  Now, I speak to my sister on Zoom virtually every week.... pre-Covid, that was a couple of times a year!!

We have still managed to get out in the caravan (around the lockdowns).... but overall, less travel and less pollution perhaps??

Although Covid cases are escalating, I have a feeling that the yearly flu virus will be a lot less this year, as folk are taking extra precautions.

It has truly been an awful year, but perhaps there have been some positives.

However, overall, the sooner we can get on top of the Covid epidemic, the better..  Hopefully a brighter 2021.

David

Yes +1

Covid up date from our neigbours who were going the Edinborough in motor caravan , Now staying at home with huge turkey (butcher has halved it for them so half in freezer for easter)  Brother coming up from Southamton and taking dad back from Gloucestershire ,ok so far as both in tier 2 until latest announcement, Hampshire into tier 4 and Gloustershire into tier 3 on Boxing day so Dad could be in Hampshire for a while

Oh well, yet another tier just after bedtime on Friday.