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AIBU but isn't it a bit daft to end all Covid restrictions so soon.....

254 replies

Diamondsareforever123 · 22/02/2022 19:50

I'm pretty worried TBH, particularly the move from people not having to isolate if they have Covid. Let's face it a lot of people won't be able to afford to isolate! Surely this will simply allow the virus to circulate more widely - so more people with Covid, and more vulnerable people with Covid. What happens when the vaccine immunity starts to wane? What happens if we get a really dodgy variant? Why can't the government impose mandatory mask wearing on transport and shops? This would stop spread, I'd really like to hear views on this please.

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userxx · 22/02/2022 20:34

So soon ? You're kidding right ?

TinaYouFatLard · 22/02/2022 20:35

It has to stop at some point and it’s not sudden. We have slowly been coming out of restrictions for two bloody years.

If it wasn’t for the obsession with testing we would be celebrating the vaccine as a much greater success than we are.

Samcro · 22/02/2022 20:39

I want it over, i want normal.
But what will happen with care homes, at the moment it would be easier to visit someone in prison.

Lazypuppy · 22/02/2022 20:43

Soon...its been 2 years!

GirlInACountrySong · 22/02/2022 20:44

only on mumsnet do people want restrictions to stay....forever it seems!!

bloody hell.....we have sacrificed enough now

Fairislefandango · 22/02/2022 20:45

Why can't the government impose mandatory mask wearing on transport and shops? This would stop spread.

No it wouldn't. What is your justification for that statement? There was tons of spread at times when masks were compulsory in shops and on transport. And cases have not gone up since masks became non-compulsory.

DeckTheHallsWithGin · 22/02/2022 20:45

It’s ridiculous to anyone with any common sense, medical knowledge or scientific knowledge but sadly all of those are rather lacking in the UK and the politicians actively ignore the sensible advice for their own gain.

Rosebel · 22/02/2022 20:46

I'm so relieved. Two years isn't exactly soon.
Wearing masks for hours on end at work was uncomfortable and pointless as they don't do anything anyway. I was thrilled when they got rid of masks.
We have got to learn to live with the virus now. We don't isolate for colds and for most it's no worse than that.
I'm vulnerable but even if I have had enough of living like this. About time we went back to normal.

ilovesooty · 22/02/2022 20:47

@SexyLittleNosferatu

It has happened gradually.

Nobody, literally nobody is stopping you staying indoors all day, wearing 5 masks at a time and bleaching your shopping, you crack on. But the time for expecting other people to pander to your anxieties is over.

Is there any need for that kind of hyperbole and mocking people whose opinions are different to yours?
Ironfloor269 · 22/02/2022 20:50

Thank GOD this whole farce is ending. This day couldn't come fast enough. Off with the bloody masks!

ilovesooty · 22/02/2022 20:50

@grafittiartist

I would feel ok about it if I thought that it was following the science. But it's not- it's just the government trying to please/ distract us. So I can see why you are concerned.
Or Johnson pandering to his backbenchers.

Of course restrictions can't last forever but I'm suspicious about the motivation behind the decision at this point.

MarshaBradyo · 22/02/2022 20:51

@SexyLittleNosferatu

It has happened gradually.

Nobody, literally nobody is stopping you staying indoors all day, wearing 5 masks at a time and bleaching your shopping, you crack on. But the time for expecting other people to pander to your anxieties is over.

Even CMO says it’s steady

Plus two years already. Gradually getting to this stage.

GirlInACountrySong · 22/02/2022 20:51

@SexyLittleNosferatu

It has happened gradually.

Nobody, literally nobody is stopping you staying indoors all day, wearing 5 masks at a time and bleaching your shopping, you crack on. But the time for expecting other people to pander to your anxieties is over.

absolutely this!!! the hysteria on here at times was laughable....while the rest of us had to go out to work amongst it all

washing the shopping!

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bellac11 · 22/02/2022 20:55

I know others have made similar points but I really cant get my head around people saying 'but we should have done this gradually'..... what is not gradual about it? It is gradual

People who are ill and entitled to sick pay will be able to take time off. People who are ill and not entitled to sick pay are exactly where they were pre covid

I thought one of the things that society needed to happen was a mild variant that spreads easily to increase transmission which also boosts immunity and people have done nothing but complain that it will be spreading!!!

Armadeus · 22/02/2022 20:59

Hope we all remember to vote for Boris and the tories at the next election. No one else could have got the country through it with such a minimal loss of life or economic damage. Now it's over we can crack on with getting brexit done.

Emmaaa1990 · 22/02/2022 20:59

Me and 5 other colleagues have just been taken down with covid! Avoided it this whole time until now. I know everyone is different but all of us have been really ill with it. I was still wearing my mask, sanitising & im triple jabbed. I'm still going to be wary as I know how terrible it's made me and others feel and I wouldn't want that on anyone else. Not saying all restrictions are needed but we should still be cautious at least

ilovesooty · 22/02/2022 21:01

@Armadeus

Hope we all remember to vote for Boris and the tories at the next election. No one else could have got the country through it with such a minimal loss of life or economic damage. Now it's over we can crack on with getting brexit done.
That's sarcasm I assume.
HootOwl · 22/02/2022 21:02

@Armadeus

Hope we all remember to vote for Boris and the tories at the next election. No one else could have got the country through it with such a minimal loss of life or economic damage. Now it's over we can crack on with getting brexit done.
🤣🤣🤣
Thewiseoneincognito · 22/02/2022 21:05

Ridiculously daft.

Then again you only have to read the responses on this thread to see he has a following and an electorate who approve of this madness.

🤐

MarshaBradyo · 22/02/2022 21:06

…And the group who will always want them

Even after two years still more

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Diamondsareforever123 · 22/02/2022 21:08

i apologise for putting this topic on the wrong thread. I'm a bit surprised by the reaction, I thought people would be more concerned about scientific data and contagion - but I'm obviously in the minority. I think Johnson is making a popularist move....and I think it's scary.

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user1471453601 · 22/02/2022 21:15

@Girlinacountrysong, and others.

How do I feel that my potential death is a price you are willing to pay so you don't have to cover for infectious colleagues? Guess!

All clinically vulnerable people have been thrown under the bus. Or, in Johnson's words, left to other people's sense of responsibility. If they posses such a thing.

user1487194234 · 22/02/2022 21:16

It is certainly time to move on,in fact sooner would have been better
If you want to stay home wearing a mask and washing your shopping,feel free to crack on,nobody is going to stop you