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New announcement this afternoon

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Dodie66 · 19/12/2020 13:07

Just heard on sky news. Boris is doing an emergency news conference later this afternoon returned virus

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Dodie66 · 19/12/2020 13:08

re the virus

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Mizydoscape · 19/12/2020 13:12

What time please?

Carpetflowers · 19/12/2020 13:14

Is he finally going to say that mixing over Christmas is madness and must not be allowed or just tell people to be sensible which pushes the blame onto us.

StCharlotte · 19/12/2020 13:16

It might be the travel restrictions to/from London and S.E. which has been mooted on the news and in the papers.

AuntieStella · 19/12/2020 13:18

Press conference is scheduled for 4pm, so given his recent timekeeping about 15 minutes after that!

SKY trailing it as likely to be 'grim'

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Dodie66 · 19/12/2020 13:20

4 pm

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EvilPea · 19/12/2020 13:22

If you’ve all been isolating for Christmas (pulled the kids out etc) this could be a real kick in the teeth.

dreamingofsun · 19/12/2020 13:27

we have following rules all year and were looking forward to seeing our son who bar a couple of hours we havent seen since last christmas. Rates are low here.....less than when cornwall was put into tier 1 and its starting to really grate that we keep having lockdowns when we dont have many covid cases.

blue25 · 19/12/2020 13:35

Good-people need to just stay where they at Xmas and not travel around to see others. Common sense really.

rc22 · 19/12/2020 13:36

He best be prompt. Won't be happy if he messes with Strictly like he did on Halloween. It's the final tonight. The only bright spot in this nightmarish covid/brexit world!

StCharlotte · 19/12/2020 13:38

@rc22

He best be prompt. Won't be happy if he messes with Strictly like he did on Halloween. It's the final tonight. The only bright spot in this nightmarish covid/brexit world!
Absolutely.

This is all I'm worried about in what has become my tiny tiny world.

Barmyfarmy · 19/12/2020 13:45

Fingers crossed he's clamping down on Christmas rules-particularly in high-rate areas. We live in a very low-rate area but our 3 most local hospitals are running out of space on the covid wards and all specialists have been deployed to covid wards. If that's what it's like in low-rate areas I hate to think how badly the high-rate areas are doing.

Absolutely sick of people whinging about not seeing their family for Christmas. Don't see them this year and you'll have a chance of seeing them next year.

DianaOfTheLakes · 19/12/2020 13:48

As others have said, my guess is that they are closing off London.

Am prepared for another lockdown, starting early to mid Jan, once those who catch it at Christmas start showing symptoms.

Nowombattheinn · 19/12/2020 13:50

Rc22-ha ha! Agree

I wish they'd never changed 'the rules' for Christmas, its contradictory and has raised hopes and is a bit mad but understand completely why people want it. The oldies in our family are looking forward to it so much and say they don't care if it's risky or kills them but we do! wish it wasn't an option.
it's been a rubbish year so might as well have yourselves a crappy little Christmas too! Winecheers!Xmas Smile

PumpkinQueen · 19/12/2020 14:02

@barmyfarmy But some people won’t have the luxury of seeing family next year. Our relative is dying and everyone would like to see them before they pass away. It’s been possibly the worst year to have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and if they want to see visitors at Christmas (hopefully before the inevitable happens) we will make that happen for them.

IntermittentParps · 19/12/2020 14:05

Is he finally going to say that mixing over Christmas is madness and must not be allowed
I hope it's this and not lockdown/travel ban. DP and I are not mixing with any other households but we are booked to go away (within the UK) and desperately need the break/change of scene.

TableFlowerss · 19/12/2020 14:15

Good - bludy madness to allow 8 people to mix for 5 days across 8 households.....

It’s annoying that they’re going to say we’re not allowed now- they shouldn’t have okayed it in the first place.

We can’t be expected to suffer the after affects for the next 3 months for allowing 5 days of ‘madness mixing’!

TableFlowerss · 19/12/2020 14:16

3 households

LivinLaVidaLoki · 19/12/2020 14:23

@IntermittentParps

Is he finally going to say that mixing over Christmas is madness and must not be allowed I hope it's this and not lockdown/travel ban. DP and I are not mixing with any other households but we are booked to go away (within the UK) and desperately need the break/change of scene.
Right, so everyone else can be fucked over as long as you can still go away.
Keep1984fiction · 19/12/2020 14:28

Well whatever he's announcing he wasn't busy this week as he wandered up to bolton over 200 miles from London which is in tier 3 for a photo opportunity with BT open reach vans.
We are not supposed to travel for unnecessary reasons so it must have been really really important.
Perhaps covid or brexit are sorted now

IntermittentParps · 19/12/2020 14:32

Sorry but I will not feel guilty about this. I've spent months seeing people hugging/handshaking/sharing cafe tables who clearly don't live together (asking each other how they've been etc); looking at pics on social media of people indoors with elderly/vulnerable others; watching people waltzing into shops with no mask on and hearing them scoff at those of us wearing them.

DP and I work at home and barely go out, and always wear masks and keep a distance in public. I haven't been in a room with my (higher-risk) parents through this whole thing and never had any intention of seeing them for Christmas for the same reason.
We'll spend Christmas in a flat on our own and go out only for walks on the beach, again keeping a distance from anyone we come across.

We are considerably less irresponsible than people seeing other households including kids from school and uni, indoors, with shared food etc.

LastTrainEast · 19/12/2020 14:47

"....tell people to be sensible which pushes the blame onto us" Don't people think they have a responsibility to think for themselves?

And everyone had the option to be sensible if they wanted to. No one was being forced to get together with lots of other households.

Right at the start they could have said "You know your own situation. As individuals avoid every contact and take every precaution you possibly can. Stay in unless it's vital" they could have been the only rule, but no one would have taken any notice would they.

MessAllOver · 19/12/2020 14:52

Quite a lot of people are going to die (and not necessarily of Covid) before we are allowed to see our families again. For many people, there will be no "next year". Not only the terminally ill, but car crashes/accidents/unexpected deaths.

I've often thought that "Carpe Diem" is a good motto for living - none of us know what tomorrow will bring or, indeed, how many tomorrows we have. Therefore, we should make the most of each day because it could be our last.

Life is for living as fully as possible. At present, we're existing and that's all. People will die having spent many months existing and not living.

I'm not sure what the answer is. Some will say that, with the vaccine in sight, we just need to suck it up for a little bit longer. For others, they have already lost far too much.

What is clear is that "suck it up, you selfish buggers" is an overly simplistic narrative that ignores the reality of many people's situations. It's quite offensive, really.

LivinLaVidaLoki · 19/12/2020 14:56

@IntermittentParps sorry I'm not trying to make you feel guilty. You should be able to go away and I really hope you get to.

Apologies if I misread the tone of your post.

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