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I'm consoling myself with the thought that everyone will be mad for it when we get back out there properly.
Ive maybe got a different view to some though - Ive worked right though Covid - in fact my workload went up (Im a field engineer but support supermarkets, food production, transport and medical - amongst others). My wife works night shifts in a care home, an shes been doing 5 a week to cover others as well. Shes had 14 Covid + patients (all in their 80s/90s and all with dementia) but no staff are pos - 1 death....from cancer. All those tested pos were neg when the went to hospital (non Covid related) - they get tested weekly, and pos when they came back...having not been tested prior to discharge from Hospital (dont get me started on that one.....) Weve both been tested every week or 2 and always neg.
Given she has a face mask and gloves only, and those didnt come in the early days - I have got no mask/gloves/sanitiser or anything - except on 2 occasions where the customer provided (Toyota and Vision Labs.....)
Given where she works, what I do - how we have both mixed (believe me - once you go "backstage" at supermarkets a 20 cm rule is rare let along 2 meters - similar in food production/packing), it puts a rather different complexion on how you view the risk....
Like @paulmapp8306 I’m dying to get back into the rehearsal room.
I am also frustrated that unable to gig, we haven't achieved as much as I wanted writing or recording wise. Could have put the enforced time off to better use!
And back of the shop, it's very rare that there's the room to be socially distancing. They're sort of doing it in the staff cafe, and there are signs everywhere, and some people wear masks constantly, but most of us just don't bother because too much of the stuff we handle is touched by too many people throughout the day to make any form of self-protection worth it, tbh. I always wash my hands before I eat, I always wipe down everything I touch in the van both before and after my runs, as does everyone else, and we never touch anything at the homes we go to.
Thing is, one of the other drivers went down with it early, and hard, but since he's recovered and come back to work, so far no one else has.
Anyway, back to the original topic.
I'm not in a band, and the only thing I used to go to was a monthly singaround, and I miss that like anything. After playing in front of people (even if most of them weren't listening because they were too busy concentrating on what they were going to do next/had just done) strumming along on your own at home just isn't the same.