I am completely with you on this. My mother is also 88 and has been in poor health for some years. She lives alone, as do I, and there is absolutely nothing will prevent us spending Christmas together. I will cycle on the trail if there is any road restriction.
My Mother is 88 and she has decided that she is staying at home on Christmas Day. I will visit her and deliver her present on the day. But I will not go into her house. I have been looking at the latest figures of new Covid cases and it is truly horrifying. I just wish that people would just do what they are told to do. Yes it is no fun, yes it is sad that we can't see all our love ones, but we have to do it. We can't have a year in 2021 that is the same as 2020.
I take your point. But we had a serious chat about this yesterday. This will be the first Christmas we have had together since I was young.. She is not in good health and doesn't know how much longer she has. We have both been careful during the lockdowns and what this day will mean to her outweighs any slight risk that may exist.
It's very sad that people like you, me and @Smudger603 are having to make such difficult decisions about how to balance the big picture with important personal issues.
To be fair I haven’t discussed it with my mum and it’ll be her decision but I’m confident I won’t be putting her or anyone else at risk by what I’m doing
Unfortunately the large crowds seen at St Pancras fleeing London last night had no such worries about other people’s safety, surely Boris should of predicted this type of reaction ?
Approximately 1 in 100 people in the London area has Coronavirus. I don't know how many people decided to leave London during the last 8 hours of Saturday. If the stations were busy it has to be several thousand. If we call it 10,000 (for example) then it's probable that 100 of those people getting on a train were already infected. With no social distancing, it's probable that by the time those passengers got off at their destinations, around 1,000 were infected. They will share Christmas Day with their familes. By Boxing day around 5,000 will be infected. And 62% of those 5,000 will have the new variant COVID19 in parts of the country where it may not have established itself yet. That's around 3,100 infections of the new variant. If the number of fleeing rail passengers was actually 20,000 all the other numbers will double accordingly. All based on an announcement allowing an 8 hour window of escape from the tier 4 zone.
I agree with your post, and particularly sorry to hear about your depression. I possibly suffered a bit with my troubles recently. Fair enough with back posting wirh the apologists, BUT I don't think Ivor will change. Why do you think Kojak and me continually get the boot.
I have been told the reason was because of me not starting a Tiddler's Travels thread, I call it jealousy.
