Will disruption over the October half term be the final straw?

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Just that - will it be the point that people say enough is enough with this? Summer plans already disrupted, millions have planned for UK breaks through the October half term just to face potential disruption again. ow long will people patience last with this?

Oh, I do hope everyone that has commented negatively about this won’t be moaning in a couple of months time when Christmas is here. Same principle everyone should stay at home and not visit or have visitors. Won’t that be wonderful

I’ve booked two nights away with my son. Every holiday and nice thing I’ve had booked for the last 18 months has been cancelled first due to my cancer then to Covid. This might well be too. But we also shielded for five months and been through sheer hell. I know it might be cancelled but at least it’s there if not.

I’m not stupid. Sad and desperate and wondering how long I might have left on earth and yearning for a new view, yes.

I would imagine the entire world is like this.

Both DH and I work for the NHS so have had an actual Christmas once in the last 8 years together. Is it crap that it might affect it? Absolutely but it isn’t the be all and end all. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that everyone gets the Christmas they want though!

@Tessabelle1 well restricted movement within an area is by definition a restriction.

Which area has the restriction that you can leave for whatever you want?

@niugboo a little bit of google isn't hard is it? Basically a local lockdown means you can't have people round for a barneci6and not much else.
www.gov.uk/guidance/leicester-lockdown-what-you-can-and-cannot-do

*When you say "the final straw", what do you mean? What do you expect will happen when/if that point is reached?
Riots?
The government rolls over and says we can all go back to normal?
The virus will throw its hands up and say "ok, you win"?

I honestly don't know what you mean.*

I didnt understand that either....

@Summerdayshaze I hope you get your break, goodness knows you deserve it

@Tessabelle1 a google would be easy if you actually stated what you meant. That’s not a lockdown, it’s an area with additional local restrictions to try and limit increased spread. In the case of Leicester that means no hosting people. That by definition is an additional restriction for that area. Just because that’s the only additional restriction deemed necessary at this point doesn’t mean there’s no need to have it. You are making no sense at all.

To be honest people need to write this year off, stay home, go to work, the basic things and keep themselves and their families safe. Hopefully by early spring 2021 we'll start to see some improvement in movement. Its 1 year from your life, it's not difficult.

We’ve got a UK break booked for October half term. It was originally supposed to happen at Easter. The holiday company gave me the options of August or October. I didn’t think there’d be much back to normal by August so I plumped for October. I’ll be bloody disappointed if it doesn’t go ahead but hopefully we can rebook it. I am desperate for a break but it will have to wait. I’m lucky that Dh worked all through lockdown; I didn’t, but at least we had an income.

For all those saying how stupid people must be to book holidays during the pandemic - I look after holiday lets. Since people were allowed to travel again at the beginning of July we have been rushed off our feet. Everything has been fully booked. Clearly it’s important to a lot of people.

I really, really don't get what is so incredibly special about holidays. A break from work, a lie in, time with your family doing different things, of course that's great and necessary but there really isn't anything magical about going to another place to do that, especially during a pandemic.

For some reason I find this incredibly sad. What a blinkered little existence.

Everyone knows the message,this Virus is going to rule out proper holidays for quite some time.Stay at home,stay in as much as possible.If this rule had been obeyed then we would all be in a better position now.People who trail their children abroad with them need start thinking more about the future and not their own selfish needs.

Stay at home,stay in as much as possible.If this rule had been obeyed then we would all be in a better position now

No we wouldn't, because the virus wouldn't have gone anywhere meanwhile. Unless you would suggest we all stay in solitary confinement for ever.

Stay at home,stay in as much as possible.If this rule had been obeyed then we would all be in a better position now

This was obeyed when it was the rule. Approx 90% compliance according to the government.

@iamtheoneandonlyyy

I think about people in developing countries that have suffered beyond any of this and for much longer. And to read about people over here talking about 'the last straw' because of a bloody holiday is shameful. It's not even a permanent ban. Maybe soon there will be sponsorship ads. 'Sponsor Mavis and her husband to go to ingoldmells for a week. They haven't been away for almost a year'

People in developing countries are suffering most because their income from tourism was shut down overnight by people not being able to take holidays.

Jobs education are higher up mynlost than holidays.
I worked in Aviation so want to support those trying to support the industry as I'm now jobless but anyone making plans since this spring has been a bit too optomistic.

Christ, we all.are fed up. No one is content with 2020 covid life but no matter how much we desperately want normal, going ahead and.planning for normal.wont make it happen. The situation is you can't book dinner down your local pub for tomorrow night with any certainty, let alone anything more exciting adventurous.
People need to start realising this. There are higher problems about living in a society with high unemployment and few jobs. I'm running out if sympathy for people that have frankly buried their head in the sand about this pandemic and just seem to think if they just book xyz then HAS to go ahead. We all want that but its not the reality and sadly unlikely to be any time soon.
It's shit buts that What it is no matter what we want.

@Bouledeneige

I can't imagine why anyone with half a brain would have booked a holiday in half term. Everyone knew there was likely to be a second wave during the autumn-winter and that travel is likely to be deeply restricted - who would risk having to quarantine for a further 2 weeks after the break?

As far, there have been no restrictions that require you to quarantine when travelling from one part of the UK to another. Why would it be assumed that this would start now?

For people fed up with the rules and restrictions, unhappy with the disruption and blaming the government; you may not agree with all thier decisions but as other posters have said, the virus doesn't care if you want to see your friends or go on holiday. We could shut this down and go in to full lockdown again (and risk another wave when we open up again) or we can try to keep more people in work and our children in school.... there are no easy decisions, no right decisions, everything is a compromise and everyone is fed up. But here we are with a virus that does not care and we must all stay strong and do our best.

I don't understand when a holiday became a necessity. I love a holiday as much as anyone - usually two weeks in the Far East. But it's a pandemic, we have to survive, get through it, come out alive & hopefully solvent on the other side. Nobody has to have a foreign holiday.

To be honest people need to write this year off, stay home, go to work, the basic things and keep themselves and their families safe.
go to work
Ah yes, bit of a problem there for millions of people
And no money makes
stay home
increasingly tricky

And come the end of the year when the price of everything goes up by 20% ....

I have done what pp suggests and just written this year off apart from work and my Dc schooling.
(aware if you can't work due to restrictions this is not relevant, but even my work in a non-hospitality, non-tourism, non-aviation sector has been severely reduced by the pandemic).
Not seen family, been to shops, on holiday since before March.
I think it is just easier for me personally to avoid the stress of what is/isn't allowed and stay at home as much as possible. Plus the world is full of idiots who don't think the restrictions apply to them, who I'd rather avoid.
I just hope the government/scientists can get on with vaccines asap.

@ElleMac44

To be honest people need to write this year off, stay home, go to work, the basic things and keep themselves and their families safe. Hopefully by early spring 2021 we'll start to see some improvement in movement. Its 1 year from your life, it's not difficult.

A very sensible view, and probably the sanest☺

Must admit that I don't like the way these discussion get personalised.
As many say often on MN : they are following all the rules & still the virus spreads.
The people who follow the rules will end up frustrated while the people who break the rules won't notice or realise.

And lots of spread happens silently even when people followed rules perfectly to best of their ability. I hate the divisiveness of this situation.

The trouble with some of the arguments here - that everyone should just ‘stay home’ in October half term - is that more of the businesses that would traditionally count on half term for their last hurrah - seaside, tourist businesses - will suffer. Plus all the places that would usually benefit from children being off - local farm parks, cafes etc.

We’ve booked to go away for a weekend in the UK. A large part of our motivation was to spend money at places that need our money. If that doesn’t go ahead, the things we’ve booked get cancelled, we don’t eat out - the economy takes another hit. Multiply this by everyone who would have had breaks or days out...

I’m as concerned about COVID as the next person - probably more, I’ve been very anxious about it. But I’m also very anxious about the idea of living in a country where the economy is in tatters.

We were originally planning to go to see family in Europe and half term but aren't going now, not because I think it is particularly dangerous as the incidence is low both in our area and theirs, but its a country where we would have to quarantine on return and I can't justify any more time of school for the children.
We haven't booked an alternative UK holiday, we will just have local days out if circumstances allow. Its disappointing of course, but in the great scheme of things, not a huge issue. There's a lot that I am much more concerned about.