Covid and Christmas.

[Pasithea]

Why oh why are the papers and people getting so excited that Christmas has been saved.

Covid does not take a holiday. It is obvious that people won’t comply with the rules and there will be a huge rise after Christmas.

Respect our NHS. Try to do your bit for them and don’t make it worse. Respect the guidelines. The police don’t want to break up your Christmas but they should if your taking the piss

People have gone through years of worse times than this just bloody behave. We spend alternate years with grandchildren . Won’t have seen them except for FaceTime for nearly two years due to other health issues.

FFS it’s one Christmas out of your life.

those saying its likely to be grandma's last christmas.....so what? why behave in a way it may take away another ten grandma's christmases who would otherwise still be here if not for selfish actions?

Interesting excerpt from an opinion piece in the Guardian today - on Americans wanting to get together for Thanksgiving but on point re the UK and Xmas:

“Most of us know it: that the least we’ll pay for spending Thanksgiving or Christmas together will be another month of lockdown; and many would agree that, on paper anyway, it’s a price not worth paying. And yet we can’t do it.

Or rather, we can’t do it emphatically enough. It’s like the fantasy maths you do to launder an extravagance – I won’t take a $7 cab ride, ergo I can justify those $200 Apple AirPods. Or, in this case: I’ve been really good since March, the vaccines are coming … and goddammit, I deserve a day off. Relative to other parts of the US and the world, New York is a model of compliance – we wear our masks in the street, we don’t throw big dinner parties and, save for the odd super-spreader wedding or funeral, by and large we do as we’re told. Surely there’s enough good behaviour in the bank to sneak in a quick gathering at Thanksgiving?

Obviously, no is the only answer to this. That’s not how viruses work. Movement and socialising guarantees viral spread, and you can’t bargain your way out of it. Since the pandemic began, it has served as an odd thought experiment to consider that if everyone in the entire world had been able to stay home for two weeks, the whole disaster would have ground to a halt. As in almost every other areas of life, we remain our own worst enemies.”

This is easily the 9th identical post about Christmas on this board. Why did you feel this needed another thread? What was wrong with just agreeing with one of the myriad others saying the same thing?