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Mar. 29th, 2020 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyThe clocks went forward last night, so that's one less hour in lockdown, but time means nothing so who cares?
My mum got some sort of message from her NHS friends yesterday that now was the time for the serious lockdown, 'don't even go out for a loaf of bread', and the news briefing yesterday seemed to be saying a similar thing, so we went out for a walk in the cold thinking it would be the last one for a while. But things don't particularly seem to have stepped up in the news or anywhere - it's hard to tell. The companies I buy things online from certainly haven't emailed me to say they can't deliver anymore, and selfishly, I still want to buy a couple of perfumes while I can in case the companies go bust during lockdown. Perfume seems to be the one thing I can't get over, I think because I spent so long going round testing different ones, trying to find out what I really liked before spending money, so I have a couple of particular ones in mind - and I know the perfume industry, generally, will continue on after this and probably I will too, and I just feel like I'll spend the rest of my life trying to find something similar to the scents that got lost, which I can't even remember properly anymore because it was so long ago. It's a minor problem, I know - I'm blessed with a situation where I only really have minor problems to worry about - but it's bothering me. It's only little businesses that I'm thinking about, and if I knew they were all run from home or something, I'd be a lot more tempted - the recent stories about how things were in the Next distribution warehouses were very unpleasant. But even if they were, it's nowhere near essential, and if I think Royal Mail workers shouldn't even go out to buy a loaf of bread if they don't need to, I wouldn't ask them to go out delivering me perfume. So I will probably not buy perfume. I sort of wish I could place an order and just say 'please don't deliver this until lockdown is over, you can have the money but don't make anyone go out to deliver it'. But that wouldn't actually help me if the companies went bust during the lockdown either. It's a real shame to think of all the companies that might go bust. I don't know enough about finances and the economy to know how much the government's care package will actually help people.
On the other hand, a BBC article about receiving packages said that if you're really worried about contamination, just leave your parcels for 72 hours before opening them (or wash them with personally prepared weak bleach, but I ain't doing that). So from today I can start opening the packages that have come for me this week. It'll be like very slow Christmas.
My mum got some sort of message from her NHS friends yesterday that now was the time for the serious lockdown, 'don't even go out for a loaf of bread', and the news briefing yesterday seemed to be saying a similar thing, so we went out for a walk in the cold thinking it would be the last one for a while. But things don't particularly seem to have stepped up in the news or anywhere - it's hard to tell. The companies I buy things online from certainly haven't emailed me to say they can't deliver anymore, and selfishly, I still want to buy a couple of perfumes while I can in case the companies go bust during lockdown. Perfume seems to be the one thing I can't get over, I think because I spent so long going round testing different ones, trying to find out what I really liked before spending money, so I have a couple of particular ones in mind - and I know the perfume industry, generally, will continue on after this and probably I will too, and I just feel like I'll spend the rest of my life trying to find something similar to the scents that got lost, which I can't even remember properly anymore because it was so long ago. It's a minor problem, I know - I'm blessed with a situation where I only really have minor problems to worry about - but it's bothering me. It's only little businesses that I'm thinking about, and if I knew they were all run from home or something, I'd be a lot more tempted - the recent stories about how things were in the Next distribution warehouses were very unpleasant. But even if they were, it's nowhere near essential, and if I think Royal Mail workers shouldn't even go out to buy a loaf of bread if they don't need to, I wouldn't ask them to go out delivering me perfume. So I will probably not buy perfume. I sort of wish I could place an order and just say 'please don't deliver this until lockdown is over, you can have the money but don't make anyone go out to deliver it'. But that wouldn't actually help me if the companies went bust during the lockdown either. It's a real shame to think of all the companies that might go bust. I don't know enough about finances and the economy to know how much the government's care package will actually help people.
On the other hand, a BBC article about receiving packages said that if you're really worried about contamination, just leave your parcels for 72 hours before opening them (or wash them with personally prepared weak bleach, but I ain't doing that). So from today I can start opening the packages that have come for me this week. It'll be like very slow Christmas.
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Date: 2020-03-29 07:11 pm (UTC)