@HeretoThereandBackAgain
" I would. Because it’s all the selfish fuckers who couldn’t follow the rules at the beginning who've put us in this position now."
No it isn't. The rules at the start was to ease the pressure off our health service. We were never going to get rid of the virus. Those of us who were trying to explain that we were going to have to learn to live with it, was being shouted down by those who thought we were eliminating it. We never were and getting our numbers down and then opening up holidays, was pointless.
This is a contagious virus that does well in cold weather. We let it in, in big numbers and our government allowed it to circulate. We all then had to get on with it. Unfortunately it kills the elderly and is a threat to other vulnerable categories. So that's what's happening. We are trying to cut transmission routes, but a level of personal risk assessment should be allowed.
I'm in Liverpool, we can't mix, but we can fly to countries that have no restrictions. So we can't spend a few hours together on Christmas day, with seven family members, but we can sit on a plane for as many hours as we choose with at least a hundred other people, after sitting in the airport with hundreds, for at least two hours. It's quite reasonable to ask why Students have returned to our city, to not physically attend University, but to shop, mix etc in our city.
My neighbour works with her two daughters in a local Care home. Combined they are a gathering of 11, but there's no increase in transmission risk.
Thanks to fall outs and deaths, our family Christmas day will be less than six, but I wouldn't report anyone else. There's enough pressure on Merseyside Police, without this nonsense.
Those saying 'lets see were we are at Christmas', do you think it isn't going to get worse? Are you one of the ones that thought we could eliminate it first time around?