Is it really worth all this?

[Dustballs]

What are we shutting down for? What are we trying to save?

I don't understand what the purpose of this is anymore.

The few weeks of summer where people crowded into restaurants and hugged all their friends in bars (both of which happened frequently where I live) weren't worth it.
Eat Out to Help Out
Sunak wanted us to do it.

This Government are corrupt.

No good outcomes. True fact.

@Eskarina1

We're getting more restrictions because "we" confused learning to live with it, with pretending it had gone away. We could have some normality back if people continued working from home, if social distancing in pubs and restaurants had been taken seriously, if people hadn't gone on clubbing holidays etc. But we can't let the virus infect huge swathes of the population at once - that would be the worst of both worlds, tanking the economy, overwhelming the NHS and raising the death rate.

The few weeks of summer where people crowded into restaurants and hugged all their friends in bars (both of which happened frequently where I live) weren't worth it. The school run catch ups are not worth it.

We could have something like normality but we won't because we'll keep going too far and having to draw back.

This is what the government want you to believe. That this is our fault. It isn’t. It’s theirs. They haven’t managed it properly so here we are again. Doing the same again and somehow expecting it to turn out different this time. Totally hopeless.

according to lots of MNers their lives were pretty much normal in mid-late August. Lots insisted that was true.

I'm not sure any lifestyle should be called 'normal' if it doesn't let you hug your friends.

The government do have a lot to answer for with the encouraging messaging around getting and and about over summer without a doubt but sadly some have just used that to shy away from individual responsibility. I seems that a lack of integrity and not thinking about the impact on the wider community is common place among certain people right now, people looking on how to bend the rules and how much they can rebel. Juvenile would be a great way to describe these folk

@ListeningQuietly

The few weeks of summer where people crowded into restaurants and hugged all their friends in bars (both of which happened frequently where I live) weren't worth it. Eat Out to Help Out Sunak wanted us to do it.

This Government are corrupt.

'eat out to help out' was just a version of 'bread & circus'