CTV National News' London Bureau Chief Paul Workman is writing about life under lockdown in the United Kingdom's capital on CTVNews.ca.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures after applauding on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, during the weekly 'Clap for our Carers,' in London, Thursday, May 28, 2020. LONDON, U.K. -- We started out this lockdown 10 weeks ago without a thermometer in the house. Who needs one right, when you don’t have kids to worry about? Adults get a little fever, they tough it out.
You think that’s extreme? We have a friend who won’t allow a parcel into the house until it’s been sitting outside for 48 hours to decontaminate.Another friend, who is 84, treats the lockdown and coronavirus as a big joke. She still goes out shopping and claims she wears a mask, but we all think she’s just saying that.Some of her dearest friends are now refusing to meet her in the park because she’s not being careful. It’s causing a terrible rift that may not heal.
Hundreds of people had to be cleared from a beach called Durdle Door in Dorset after three people were injured jumping off a 60-metre-high sea arch. Crowds below were yelling at them to jump. Many believe he’s trying to divert attention from his toxic chief adviser Dominic Cummings, who flagrantly broke the lockdown rules and refused to apologize.Here’s my favourite part of the story. After recovering from COVID-19,with his four-year-old son strapped in the back seat—to make sure his eyesight was okay for the trip home to London.
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