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Originally Posted by Garfie
I am sure it’s not your intention, but I’m beginning to feel you are treating me like a fool, who has no knowledge of anything outside that of my immediate environment.
I know a lot of people in different parts of the UK, I travel across the country a lot and I follow current affairs closely. There was also an immense amount of television and news coverage, and I can honestly say that I have never heard any other person suggest that any part of the country seemed as if it was in lockdown during the pandemic, in the days following the Queen’s passing.
Perhaps you selected the wrong choice of wording in saying it was as if the whole country was in ‘lockdown’ as that suggests people being very isolated, unable to leave their homes, unable to socialise with others and everything being closed, and it wasn’t anything like that. You also suggested it was the whole country, when perhaps it was just a small, rural area where you live, rather than the reality of the country in general.
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I'm not treating you like a fool, I try to treat every member with respect.
I'm just saying that when you can't access your local shops, go to Restaurants (because they're shut to pay their respects) and even if you choose to stay at home and try to watch TV, and again there's nothing really on because the Channels are either closed for the day, or again are covering the Queen's death, it doesn't exactly feel like you can escape the topic very easily if you don't want to think about it 24/7, which is similar to lockdown (whether anyone else wants to see it that way is up to them obviously, but it's how I saw it.)
And just to clarify, I do not object to paying my respects to any Royal passing away, but it's the borderline forcing people into a 24-48 hour mourning that bothered me about it.
And I know that I am not on my own in that thinking.