Keep smiling, stay safe

#94 Mike Keep smiling, stay safe

Mike

There is light at the end of the tunnel! I can now start to feel cautiously optimistic about our future. It is not expected to be long before restrictions on shopping will be lifted, and so we have ordered our masks. Why, if things are easing? Masks are needed now more than ever: one – to stop us possibly spreading the disease, if we are unwitting carriers, and two – to help prevent the selfish people without masks from passing the virus onto us. We have had an unwanted glimpse into what the Great Plague must have been like in 1665. And that must have been a hundred times worse. So, keep smiling, stay safe – and wear that mask!

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From the beginning of May 2020, the UK government began easing the restrictions around lockdown, and people began cautiously opening their doors and venturing back out onto the streets and into open spaces. There was still much confusion about how safe it was to do this, with wildly differing views from both government spokespeople, the scientists – and the people themselves. In some ways, this was a more stressful time than the previous lockdown. In the following extracts, company members reflect on these changing days, with 31 days recorded, spanning May and June. Edited by Barney Bardsley

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#94 Mike Keep smiling, stay safe

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