I agree L.M.and Caroline , The Government can’t win whatever they do!
Some people seem to be developing the attitude that regulations are in place to inconvenience them , so will kick against any restrictions .
Then people like Brickwall are left worrying when there are the inevitable results which mean much worse than just inconvenience for some.
Wonder how they would have coped if they had to leave their parents’ home to go miles away in service.Maidservants etc .
Lads in the Navy ,years at sea.
Just had a phone call from a long time friend, she was married for nine weeks and her husband went back to sea.Royal Navy.
They were in Arctic waters, then the Med ,then in the Atlantic.
It was two and a half years before he came home .
That was a long “ furlough “ for them.
No one is really saying it is not hard ,but by comparison it is not so bad.
The danger is from within ,and with hard common sense can be controlled somewhat.
It is boring ,but as Norah Batty said :- “ Boring! There ‘s nowt wrong with boring! You know where you are with boring!”
Viktoria.
