When is this gong to End !!

[Lardlizard]

starting to get to me today !

[LivinLaVidaLoki]

I personally am feeling disillusioned with the whole thing. Whilst I can agree it was needed, it was supposed to be a short term thing to stop the NHS being overwhelmed and flatten the curve. We did that. So restrictions could have been lifted sooner.
However, given the narrative changed from save the nhs to beat the virus, lo, we are still here. 3 months on.
When the govt are asked questions about lifting restrictions we are told "when it is safe to do so" with no indication of what metric they are using for "safe". New infection? Transmission? Whats the metric? Cant just be the r number as that becomes less reliable as infections decrease.
Our govt has fucked it from day 1 with no lockdown at the right time, track and trace and testing delayed and now we are all paying the price.

[byvirtue]

I’ve been over it for weeks, my work is manic I will be working to midnight tonight because it’s near on impossible to do any work with a toddler about during the day. I want to go out and have some fun, I want to eat in a restaurant and drink cocktails someone else has made, there is nothing to look forward to, my holiday was cancelled and I desperately want an alone trip to the spa for a couple of nights to recover from weeks of wfh with a toddler.

[PeanutButterKid]

I don't know anyone habitually breaking the current rules. I barely know of anyone who has broken them at all during the whole Lockdown period.

[PhilCornwall1]

I am wondering if anyone is actually complying with the restrictions still in place tbh!

Nobody I know is, both inside and outside of work. I'm certainly not shielding anymore. I can't stay in forever, its no life and I'm more than happy to take the risk.

[marmitelover13]

I am wondering if anyone is actually complying with the restrictions still in place tbh! It feels like nearly everyone I know is having indoor playdates, planning birthday parties... Feel like I'm going a bit mad to still be sticking to it!

[girlcrushonvillanelle]

There seems to be no recent current cases where young/healthy people have died. 6/7 weeks ago bus drivers and health care workers were dying.

I'm so so hoping that the virus is less dangerous than it was and all of this is precautionary.

If so, the case numbers and deaths will start to drop dramatically and we will return to normal.

[Mummypig2020]

Having a breakdown every few days. My psychiatrist has prescribed me really strong anti anxiety tablets and I’m terrified of taking them due
To the risks but it’s got to be better than feeling like I want to run away every day.

The Dc are driving me mad. I’m not a good mum, I don’t suit this.

[Dreamingofprosecco]

Feel the same, really struggling now with 1 year old who squeals / high pitch screams for most of the day and 3 older siblings trying to do schoolwork. 😩

[PhilCornwall1]

We need to be patient for a bit longer.

That's wearing thin for people though, not least because of their jobs and the redundancies that are now happening.

We have heard from an affected person a competitor company to the one I work for today has just told 153 people they are going. That's a very stable company too.

We have had a full section meeting called tomorrow by our Divisional Director with no agenda provided (never happens), so the word on the street is "restructure". That's 260+ people thinking the worst.

How patient do we remain whilst jobs are now starting to be lost at an increasing rate.

[YeOldeTrout]

New Zealand got down to zero cases before they stopped SD measures. I think this is what many posters want -- zero cases before SD stops.

[Fairenuff]

Those countries went into lockdown before we did. And it was serious lockdown too, needing permission papers to visit the shop and not allowed more than a few metres from their homes.

They had it really hard. We need to be patient for a bit longer.

[PhilCornwall1]

If they ever get any further guidance that is.

Let's just say, the NHS Coronavirus texts have gone extremely quiet on this since the idiot in No. 10 changed the advice on it.

[Sparklingbrook]

Let's not forget those who are shielding, when will it end for them if they follow guidance? If they ever get any further guidance that is.

Chris Whitty has just said on the briefing that we are not near the end we are in the middle of this, and he should know.

[PhilCornwall1]

Today they said we could have saved half the lives lost by locking down a week earlier.

If that's the same thing I've read, that's Ferguson saying that. The person who changed the death figures more times than his trousers, based on his peer reviewed computer model that was shown to be flawed on many levels.

He's highly suspect to say the least and has form for getting things spectacularly wrong.

[ACautionaryTale]

When people stop being coronacowards* and work out it’s just one more risk to the vast majority Of people and go back to living rather than existing

*if people think it’s ok to call people who can properly assess risk covidiots then I can call them coronacowards

[MarshaBradyo]

Chloemol yes they did, also some locked down earlier in curve (Aus &NZ). Still hard to watch the education shambles here in comparison.

[Sparklingbrook]

Well said @duffeldaisy.

[Chloemol]

@MarshaBradyo

Other countries are moving on as they are ahead of us. But also many of them had a much stricter lockdown.

It will end

[duffeldaisy]

People don't want lockdowns for the fun of it. It's depressing, and I think the wet weather's not helping.
The reason some people wanted an earlier, proper, full, lockdown was because if we'd had one we would have come out of all of this quicker. Today they said we could have saved half the lives lost by locking down a week earlier.

I don't want things to open too fast for exactly that same reason - if it lifts too fast or the guidance is too vague (both of which seem to be happening) then the R number will stay too high even longer.
The reasons that some other countries are able to get schools back to a slightly more normal state is that those countries have been run better than this one.

[PhilCornwall1]

@Waxonwaxoff0 same here, never wanted this and it seems now the government don't have the ability to end it. No surprise there.

[Notejode]

Hopefully soon.

Apparently France will not go into lockdown even if they have a second wave. At least they know where they stand.

[Waxonwaxoff0]

Phil not me. I would have happily carried on as normal and sent DS to school if lockdown hadn't happened.

[PhilCornwall1]

But this is what a large amount of people wanted? Locked down, schools out. Looking at a few threads on here, a large amount think we should be locked down (if you could ever say it was that) still and schools not back at all.

[Sparklingbrook]

When the R rate is better.

[Delatron]

Just because some countries are worse than us doesn’t mean that people aren’t finding it difficult here. Strange come back!