Anyone think we will be able to mix households by December?!

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Just that really! I understand schools and pubs etc I just want to get an inkling when we will be able to mix with our parents or partners we don't live with ?
As even if lockdown finishes, will mixing with family and a partner in the house be allowed ?! Will we be allowed to hug eachother etc ? I'm praying June really as I can't wait another 6 months !!
Does it all depend on immunity tests and the tracing app is that the only way until vaccine ?

“No, we will never be able to mix households AGAIN!”

I bet someone comes along and says that in all seriousness.

100% by December. And if it gets to July and we still not "allowed" I guarantee most people will be doing it anyway

Honesty I think people would have started mixing households well before December even if not allowed to.
We have to be realistic. Lockdown measures are not supposed to be permanent.

IMO Lock down will be pretty much finished by September. There may be social distancing guidelines but mixing households travelling around the U.K. etc will all be allowed.

I know I was joking 🙃 as by December I should be in prison by having broken so many rules by having my boyfriend stay over and having my mum n dad over go see dc! I think a lot of people are starting to mags their own rules and own judgements and we simply don't have the man power to chase everyone ! Xx

It’ll be interesting to see if we are still in lockdown in a year. Allowed to go to work and mix with colleagues and customers. No family or friends. No cinemas, theatre, art galleries, holidays, formal education, eating out, high street shopping, days out etc.

Just going to work, paying a higher tax rate and going home to watch endless repeats on the television

I wonder how long people would put up with that for.

I would imagine that we woulf only not be able to do that by December if there is a second wave. I don't imagine people would be willing to go from March to December and beyond like we are (except for the stay inside until there is a vaccine people). We might see restrictions being put in place again on winter though so can only wait and see.

If they insist that people go back to work and kids go back to school on one hand then tell us on the other that we can't visit family then they can go fuck themselves quite frankly.

Well according to Nicola sturgeon Christmas isn’t cancelled in Scotland but it will be unlike any we have had before 🙄 no way am I not spending Christmas with my family/friends

I think now they are saying nannies can work in peoples homes and we can start returning back to work it’s going to end unofficially anyway.
It doesn’t make any sense that you can have a nanny in your home but not your own family.
Mixing with co workers is more risky as they are more likely to go in with symptoms to avoid losing pay.
I hope by dec everything is back to normal but by then it’s flu season so I think it will all go backwards again

All bets are off anything can happen
That's what I think

I don't know. Probably not if a second wave hits.
Anyway, I'm not sure I fancy risking my families health.

People will be making very different calculations when they weigh up the costs and benefits of various decisions

If you have older relatives, even if they seem to be in good health, would you really want to risk it?

Some people will never see relatives again anyway. Not because of Coronavirus but because the relatives die from other things.

I would imagine.families mixing before that.Christmas will be very different anyway.No staff.parties in pubs and I imagine people will majorly shop online.No one wants.to queue in the freezing cold.A lot depends on whether we get a second peak in the winter.I guess.

There is just one person I want to see, he lives alone, has minimal contact with anyone. Yet because we haven't made the leap to live together I've not seen him since 23rd March.
I don't have my own space, I live with people that let me know constantly they don't want me around. (Who have had visitors to the house without a 2nd thought I might add)
I need for this to change soon. I'm almost at breaking point.
I was alone before I met him, 2 years after an emotionally abusive relationship ended. He makes me so happy.
I'm getting angrier and angrier at other people doing what the hell they want, or happily spending their lockdown with family.
If this goes beyond June I'm not going to observe it any more.
I can't cope with it.

I have been mixing households since lockdown began, OP. I don't live with my partner, but I have seen him most days. He is WFH and not going out. We have assessed our own risk, and have deemed it to be minimal. We are both in our 50s.

I think the lockdown was imposed just as a way to ensure social distancing in large enclosed spaces.

MrMee, that sounds like an extremely stressful situation😥
I really hope you can find someway to ease things for both of you🙏

@GinNotGym19 nannies have always been able to work in their employers houses!

Did NS mention Christmas @TheCountessatHotelCortez? Surely she's not talking about not seeing family then? I will be absolutely gutted.

Quite sad that it’s unlikely staff parties will go ahead this year, I work in frontline nhs and our yearly night out is our chance to let off steam after the year, need it more than ever this year!