Sunday night blues (185/365)
Jul. 4th, 2021 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartCurrent state of the me: very much wishing I didn't have to go back to work tomorrow. I'm not sure I actually feel appreciably less tired than I did a week and a bit ago (not helped by being woken up at 6am by a peculiar flapping noise and having to get out of bed to check whether a pigeon had somehow got trapped inside the window, though I think it was just flapping very loudly outside), and none of the things that were difficult and stressful the week before last will be any less difficult or stressful now.
I'm also feeling very apprehensive about the suggestion that, despite rapidly rising case numbers (cases in central Oxford rose by nearly 1000% in the week to 29 June) the government will go ahead and lift all restrictions in two weeks' time, leaving it up to people's common sense whether they continue to wear face coverings, maintain social distancing etc. Apart from the fact that I have very little faith in people's common sense, that ignores the whole point that wearing a mask primarily protects other people from any germs the wearer might be carrying, so essentially non-mask-wearers will be able to completely exclude people who are still worried about the virus from public spaces. I really hope the university will continue to require face coverings indoors, or I'm going to feel a lot less comfortable about being in the office, and I'm also wondering whether my plan to start using the bus again soon is really a sensible one.
I'm also feeling very apprehensive about the suggestion that, despite rapidly rising case numbers (cases in central Oxford rose by nearly 1000% in the week to 29 June) the government will go ahead and lift all restrictions in two weeks' time, leaving it up to people's common sense whether they continue to wear face coverings, maintain social distancing etc. Apart from the fact that I have very little faith in people's common sense, that ignores the whole point that wearing a mask primarily protects other people from any germs the wearer might be carrying, so essentially non-mask-wearers will be able to completely exclude people who are still worried about the virus from public spaces. I really hope the university will continue to require face coverings indoors, or I'm going to feel a lot less comfortable about being in the office, and I'm also wondering whether my plan to start using the bus again soon is really a sensible one.
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Date: 2021-07-05 05:49 pm (UTC)