When is this gong to End !!

[Lardlizard]

starting to get to me today !

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.