To Ask How You Think Lockdown Will Change Tomorrow?

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Some people seem to think "lockdown" will be significantly relaxed tomorrow. Personally I think the message will be that you can exercise outside more than once a day, and go to work as long as you can socially distance in your job. I don't think seeing friends or family will be permitted yet.

I'm hoping it won't be relaxed more than that as worried that we're not over the first peak yet, and that a second peak could be worse than the first. I'm a nurse so can't stay home if the shit hits the fan.

Just wondering what other people think will happen, and/or would like to happen?

YABU - Lockdown needs to be significantly relaxed tomorrow.

YANBU - It's too early to make any major changes to lockdown yet.

So are we going for typing out ‘Boris Johnson’ or ‘The Prime Minister’?
Johnson - as we have with all other PMs. May, Cameron, Thatcher, Churchill etc.

Ben Wright political correspondent has just said on bbc news that no dates for any changes will be released tomorrow

I saw that and it felt shit. I'm happy to be in lockdown a bit longer if I had a bit more of an idea of the end or knew I had something to look forward to. I was hoping for suggested dates obviously expected with clauses of it might not happen etc. Its the not knowing and I'm finding it harder to stick to it all. Obviously I will though.

Gardening centres and refuse sites I think.

Refuse sites are already reopened. I'm guessing garden centres (just plant and food) and parks (as long as people keep a distance from each other) will reopen. I think more nurseries will open for essential workers too, and some other businesses will be asked to plan for reopening in 3 weeks time (if numbers don't go up). Cafes, pubs and restaurants will stay closed.

Anyone else notice that in press conference today that for a while that public transport will only have 10% capacity of before due to social distancing

Our refuse sites aren’t open... decision down to each council

Yes tomorrow. That's something the government are going to have to plan for before secondry schools reopen. Half of the children who attend my kids high school have to use public transport.

Yep, cause it won’t be logistically possible in a high population area to put on x10 the buses

Unfortunately it might mean some children need to change schools to one closer to home which will take choice away.

What’s wrong with saying Boris? Names are meant to enable us to identify people. Everyone knows we are talking about the PM (unless you think you are waiting for an announcement regarding social distancing from Boris Karloff in which case hire a medium).

I’m wondering what will happen to sen and rural kids though where they will have to travel

That's a very important point tomorrow. There's a huge amount for the government to work out before schools can return alongside social distancing goes in schools.

I don’t understand how anyone can argue that individuals can make their own risk assessment when there still isn’t enough PPE to protect healthcare professionals and consequently they are dying from high levels of exposure to the virus. It’s all very well telling everyone they can stay home if they don’t want to catch it - what about frontline NHS staff?

I am desperate for lockdown to ease, I want my children back in school for their sake and mine, I want to be able to work, I want to swim, I want to see my friends and family. Of course I long for all those things. But I don’t get to make decisions that could mean another family lose their daughter/son/parent/sibling who is working on a Covid ward; that a doctor or nurse or other member of hospital staff die young because I am sick of lockdown.

Until they can guarantee proper stocks of PPE and protect hcps along with comprehensive testing, tracking and tracing then I don’t see how lockdown can relax in any meaningful kind of way. We should be holding the government to acccount for their many failures in all of those areas before we push for an end to lockdown. None of us have the right to put NHS frontline staff in danger - or any of the other key workers eg supermarket staff who are regularly exposed to the public and will therefore bear the brunt of any rise in cases.

Apparently you can only call him 'Boris' if he is your friend. And nobody wants to be his friend.

So we need to call him by his full name from now on which is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Can't wait.

"they should lay out the know risks ie the fat, the old, those deficient in Vit D and immunodeficiency have a slightly elevated risk of complications if they catch it. So advise those people to take maximum care." "And teachers - stop endlessly parroting 'social distancing can't work in schools' -'No Shit, Sherlock! No it can't just like it can't in lots of places so stop your whining."

Your compassion really has no bounds @BeltaneBride. What if the teachers are older, or overweight, or Vit D deficient? Are they allowed to 'whine'?

Also, a very large proportion of the U.K. population are overweight and/or deficient in Vitamin D!

Ben Wright political correspondent has just said on bbc news that no dates for any changes will be released tomorrow. The PM will be trying to give us a sense of where this journey goes next. Ministers have stressed that any changes will be small and limited.

The difficult thing is is if they don't give the public anything to aim for, a lot of people will give up....go and see family and friends, drive wherever etc. If we knew when we could think about certain things being lifted, people are more likely to hold on. I'm really worried his big announcement will be a load of wishy washy nonsense with no information.

I'm really worried his big announcement will be a load of wishy washy nonsense with no information

What you mean like every single other announcement?

I'm sure we'll just get told they're following the science. And we need to meet the 5 criteria (with no info on how close we are or even what the actual criteria is)

I'm not sure how they expect us to just keep holding on?

Especially when they send Rishi out to say "were going to cut you off soon"

People do have lockdown fatigue. We did it to protect the NHS and that was achieved. So they cannot move the goalposts and require continuing lockdown

Exactly - they don't even tell us how close we are to meeting the holy 5 points let alone what will happen after it. They know, due to human behaviour, that people will be getting fed up by now and surely that could work against them.

Not much
Probably similar to Wales

I so hope that one of the relaxations of the lockdown will be that picnics and sunbathing will be allowed. I think I'd be so happy, more than if they allowed anything else! I haven't been able to sit down on anything other than my small hard single bed (no bedroom floor space, no chair, no living room, no dining area, no garden, plus I am "lucky" enough to be in an area where police move people on for sitting down outside) for 2 months. I really think I and others would manage so much better if we could just spend a few hours in the park without horrible stares, being told off by busybodies or police persecution. Although I'm seeing less in the media about picnics and sunbathing being allowed now, as opposed to 2 days ago...I hope this isn't something they were either never going to offer or reneged on.

Perhaps we could take a leaf out of Miriam Margolyes' book and call him Blowjob?

We did it to protect the NHS and that was achieved
@BeltaneBride do you really think that protecting the NHS from this is a once and done job? There will be more peaks, we have to be very careful and varying sets of lockdown to do that.

ViciousJackdaw

The same Miriam Margolyes that said she hoped that he would die of coronavirus?

Brb just calling Boris to ask