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Roger Kettle:
I hope that all of you and your families and friends are safe and well. It would appear that there is a glimmer of welcome light at the end of a long and horrible tunnel. (Forgive the cliche---these are not creative times). Anyway, it looks like the first vaccines will roll out in Britain next week. Of course, there are conspiracy theorists around who insist that these inoculations will include mind-control microchips from either Martians or Bill Gates. They're probably right but I'm going to go ahead when the opportunity comes my way. In fact, the chances are I'll punch a path through the queue of elderly ladies in front of me.
Okay, I'm being flippant about all this and I apologise. I genuinely hope that none of you has been affected by this awful virus. I was one of those who, naively, believed that a couple of months shutdown back in March would sort everything out. I was hopelessly wrong and the ongoing awfulness has been difficult to deal with. These have been very dark days for all of us and, like everyone, I yearn for the return of happier days. On the plus side, my wife says I look better in a mask.
Be safe.

Diane CBPFC:
Diane reporting in from the C.B.P.F.C. all our members are listed at "fair to middling" 

Tarquin Thunderthighs lll:
I shan't gloat because it's anything but a proud boast, but reading between many lines at the start of this year, I always thought we'd be where we are now, if not worse. That said, I see your "glimmer of welcome light" as a massive great beacon, Roger, and am striding towards it as fast as I can. I shan't be barging anyone out of the way (nor would you), unless they are the nay-sayers, conspiracy theorists and morons who are so frightened of a little prick that they're prepared to swallow absolute drivel instead. They'll be telling us that prominent people are drinking the blood of babies next. Oh, wait...they already are.  >:( >:( >:(  Make it compulsory, I say!

Gawd, I hate this fence I'm sitting on.  :(

Mince:
My family and I have been quite fine with the lockdown. That's not to say we don't want it to be over.

We have taken as many precautions as humanly possible not to catch Covid. We were slightly more lax when the cases were low, and I occasionally shopped in town with masks and gloves, but since then we have just stayed at home. Anything that comes to the house gets quarantined for seven days in the loft. If it's fruit and vegetables, it gets quarantined for two days in some large Really Useful boxes and then washed. If it's for the fridge or freezer, the plastic packaging gets washed thoroughly in the bath with soap and then rinsed, or if it's in cardboard packaging, the food is tipped into a baking tray and packaging is chucked in the bin, never coming into the house.

Despite the precautions, I have in the last month or so twice briefly thought I had caught Covid, with tests both times showing I am negative, and that has not been pleasant. Covid is insidious and pervasive, and I will have no problem taking the vaccine when it's available. I'll also be happier once I know my parents and wider family have had the vaccine.

Roger Kettle:
Well, I can't claim to have been anything like as conscientious as you, Mince, but I'd like to think I've been both careful and sensible. The problem I have is with the conflicting information and advice that is thrown at us. Because the world is dealing with a new virus, this is understandable but deeply confusing. Here in Scotland, between the months of November 2017 and April 2018, over 23 thousand people died from flu or pneumonia. This is more than five times the amount of people who have died during the nine months of the current pandemic. Nobody I have spoken to can recall any Government intervention at that time. No advice, no warnings and certainly no business closures. Look, I'm not saying that they're getting things wrong now or that they got things wrong THEN but it's all, as I said previously, deeply confusing. In terms of lost lives, we aren't even close to the horrible statistics of three years ago. Not for a second am I underestimating the impact of this dreadful virus or promoting any kind of conspiracy theory.
I will continue to wear a mask, socially distance, wash my hands regularly and clean surfaces.
It's just, well, deeply confusing.

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