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Post date: 06-May-2020 20:23:18
I'm glad we don't have a paid-for subscription to Zoom! If we weren't restricted to 40 minutes at a time, we'd never be offline, now that we have so many different groups of people to keep in touch with. Today we had our regular session with Lucy and her friends in the evening, one with Stan and Sylvia in the afternoon and another home-schooling lesson with Carl and Harry in the morning. Father Damien called us up just after lunch to check that we were OK and I think to unberden himself a bit over the number of dying people he's had to sit with in his role as a hospital chaplain. He's had loads of funerals to conduct too, because so many clergy are over seventy and so not allowed to do them. He said that the last few weeks have been very stressful for funeral directors too. I can imagine! Quite apart from the larger number of deaths, it must be very difficult trying to support grieving families when you have to keep telling them that they can't have the sort of funeral that they want - and possibly that the deceased asked for when they were still alive. That's the down-side of encouraging people to think about death and plan ahead.
The Downing Street briefing today said that Boris will be announcing plans for the gradual lifting of the lockdown this weekend. Typica that he's leaving the daily briefings to his minions until the first piece of good news comes along! I just hope that whatever the government decides will be set out clearly so that everyone knows exactly what they can and can't do. It's been hard enough for the police enforcing the current regulations. It will be far worse if everyone is unsure what the new rules actually are.