Hi Musers, I don’t think any of us believed in February last year that nearly a year in we’d be where we are. 2,037,383 death worldwide so far. 95,356,834 Confirmed cases. 730,000 jobs lost in the UK and the International Labour Organisation predicts 195 million jobs could be lost around the world in total. This begs the question why I still see people who choose to not follow the rules.

It’s About More Than Clapping

Everybody was willing to go outside on a Thursday night to clap for all our NHS workers. At first, it was sweet and everyone appreciated it. As time wore on though, as ICU beds filled, more and more people died and the NHS was pushed to breaking point it became more of a sick joke. That’s because it was a pointless gesture to clap if people weren’t prepared to follow the rules laid out by the government if it inconvenienced them one iota.

Even now 10 months on I still see people without masks in stores. Four people were fined for travelling in a car together to go to McDonald’s to get breakfast. They weren’t in the same bubble. It was an entirely unnecessary trip. Hundreds of students held a snowball fight in a park. This is after 80,000 people have died here. I’m baffled. How can people be such dicks?

You Don’t Have To Like The Rules. Just Follow Them.

Are the rules a drag? Sure. I hate wearing a mask. I’m a mouth-breather and I have asthma. My face is hot and sweaty within 5 minutes and I start to wheeze. I wear it though. I want to protect myself, I want to protect others and goddamn it, I believe in following the rules. It’s also a fact that I miss my friends and family but I don’t meet up with them because it’s not safe. We have to beat this virus. Too many people have lost mothers, father, daughters, sons, husbands, wives and children. We have to do EVERYTHING we can to bring the cases down until we reach a high enough vaccination level. So for the love of the whole human race PLEASE do the following:

Make Things Better

• Wear your mask in public 
• Use hand sanitiser before and after you enter a shop. 
• When you go shopping think about if you really need to go now. That’s need not want. If you do then think ahead. Get everything you need so you don’t need to go out again.
• Do not mix with people outside your bubble. Ever. Not for their birthday. Not because you haven’t seen them for forever. Not because their grandma just died. It’s brutal but it’s the only way.

Get Through The Best You Can

The rules above are ones we all must follow for everyone’s safety. Here are a few more I suggest you follow for your own happiness and welfare though.

• FORGET about weight gain, the “Covid-15” and all that other bullshit. Are you really still worry about your weight after everything I explained above? You shouldn’t be. If the worst thing that happens to you is you gain a little weight then you should be thanking your lucky stars. 
• Make time for yourself. Self-care is even more important now we have so few activities available to us. Home can start to feel like it’s closing in on us. So take a bubble bath, do your nails, get dressed up, read a book, have a glass of wine. Whatever makes you feel a little better.
• Get Outside. No, I’m not going against my advice above. There are ways to do it safely. Sit in the garden. Go to the beach for a walk but only with people from your house. Stay away from others. Go for a walk in nature even if it’s your local park. Do not travel far from home.
• Stay Connected. We are in the best time in history for communication. In the past we only had phones but now we have WhatsApp, Zoom, Instagram, Facebook and a huge number of other platforms. Use them to stay in touch with the people you love. It’ll mean you’re less likely to break and see people. It might also stop you from killing them people you live with, I’m just saying 😉

Stay Safe My Musers

It seems like this has gone on forever but we will get through it. If we all follow the rules though we’ll get through it faster. Look after yourself and your families. Speak again soon.

Love CMoo xx