I'm going in to London tomorrow, for the first time since March 2020. I've just booked the train ticket, which was painful. (I have a GWR smartcard, but no, my ticket cannot be delivered to the card. I must install The App instead. I must have a seat reservation for the outbound journey, which means committing to a specific train. And so on. Some of this is more reasonable than others. At least, now I can truly blame the government.) The current policy is WFH mostly but "we'd like you to visit the office once or twice to get used to it", which sounds reasonable. And I've persuaded a couple of team members to join me, so we'll actually get to meet each other. I am double-vaccinated for just over a month, but they aren't, yet. Though the desk booking system has its flaws, it seems to have worked; it looks like the office will be very sparsely populated when I'm there.
Ironically, the trigger for the trip is social, meeting some former colleagues (outdoors) in the evening, so I end up maximising the number of people I might meet in the time. Shurely some mistake?
I have mixed feelings about going to any Proms this year. It's one thing to wear a face covering on public transport, or visiting a health care setting, but it's something else to be recommended to wear one at a cultural/leisure event. (I'm not disagreeing with the current recommendation, but I don't look positively on it as a medium to long-term normalisation, and it tells you a lot about what you need to know now about crowded spaces; from watching on TV it looks like around 75% compliance - of course there may be some exemptions in the others.)
I share your indecision about whether I have been too risk-averse, and I don't feel entirely comfortable with my proposed course of action, but I think the more compelling argument for me is that, if there is something you want to do, it may be better to do it now than in a few months' time.
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Ironically, the trigger for the trip is social, meeting some former colleagues (outdoors) in the evening, so I end up maximising the number of people I might meet in the time. Shurely some mistake?
I have mixed feelings about going to any Proms this year. It's one thing to wear a face covering on public transport, or visiting a health care setting, but it's something else to be recommended to wear one at a cultural/leisure event. (I'm not disagreeing with the current recommendation, but I don't look positively on it as a medium to long-term normalisation, and it tells you a lot about what you need to know now about crowded spaces; from watching on TV it looks like around 75% compliance - of course there may be some exemptions in the others.)
I share your indecision about whether I have been too risk-averse, and I don't feel entirely comfortable with my proposed course of action, but I think the more compelling argument for me is that, if there is something you want to do, it may be better to do it now than in a few months' time.