Anyone fed up with we must save Christmas...

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I just want normality not just for one day 😩

I've had Xmas alone and in the all sorts of utterly strange settings.
I'm fine with a restricted Xmas.. What I think they mean however is that.... Xmas is big ££ business.

So.... Reduce now before the big Xmas ££.

Yes. I'm not remotely religious, but Christmas has always been a time of spending time with family who we don't live near.

But clearly it would be totally nuts to lock everyone down for a month or more, to then encourage them to travel and mix in overheated dining rooms with their elderly relatives.

A month of absolutely screwing over businesses and single adult households and new parents to then completely wipe out any hold on decreasing the spread in one countrywide superspreading event.

Please no.

What is Eid? Christmas is a day of the year, you cannot actually cancel that, it will happen between the 24th and 26th of December, not relegious but feel it is ridiculously commercialised, worse every year, fed up with friends moaning, about the"rule of 6", hand wringers.Agree with you Juancornetto.

It's another sop to the 50-80 year old wealthy grandparents who just want to spend christmas with their grand kids, it's not a message for anyone else, but those are the people a tory government is interested in keeping on side, it doesn't matter what the people without jobs think, they don't matter to keeping this government in power.

Less to do with christmas - he was just throwing that out there for idiots who don't really care about others.

More to do with the fact that current predictions and models show that 4000 people a day will be dying if we don't take action now.

YANBU. Christmas day is fun, but really I wouldn't trade it for the health and wealth of the country.

@Torvean32

No. I will do everything i can to see my dad at Christmas. I've not spoken to anybody all year bar shopassistants and taxi drivers. It may just be another day to you. Its not like that for all of us.

Why is Christmas Day so much more important to you, than any other day you could spend with your Dad.

I think that's what's perplexing some of us.

I find it incredibly difficult to listen to considering how some people in the media, and in real life, reacted to those who wanted to celebrate Eid

Agreed

I am fretting about what Covid will do to our family Christmas - but I know that that doesn’t matter, when set against the needs of the wider community. And it will not be the first major religious festival to be blighted by Covid - and if we expected the Muslim people to accept that the restrictions meant they couldn’t gather for Ramadan (apologies if I am wrong, and it was a different festival - my brain is fried), we must be equally willing to accept the restrictions on Christmas.

What’s sauce for the goose...

I think folks are missing the bigger picture here, so many will be breaking and bending the rules come Christmas that they’ll have to get the numbers down before hand.
This is not to save Christmas, he knows he’s stuffed if he doesn’t do something to prepare.

Argh - if only I had read @Gooseybby’s post, I’d have known it was Eid, not Ramadan. Again, apologies.

But it's not just about us tho is it?

Think about those working on the front line... They are going to be working throughout, no breaks, cancelled days off, insufficient anaesthetists, fraught overburdened medical staff.
NHS staff having daily to make decisions on which life to save and who to leave.
There will not be enough capacity for everyone if we don't do something quickly.

I hate Christmas and couldn't care less about it. I'm working this year anyway.

IDGAF about Christmas, but I don’t have small children so that’s easy for me to say. I do, however, work in aviation, an industry which has been decimated by covid so I’m much more interested in protecting people’s jobs than protecting one overrated day.

Besides, for Christians, Easter is far more important and we've already missed that!

Taking a risk to get together with you whole family just to share a turkey together 😂 ridiculous when you think about it!

Well, guess what? I'm religious, too, and Christmas is all about attending church for me. Plus family.

I still disagree with a "save Christmas" lockdown, because my faith is important to me, but isn't going to house and feed my family.

Terrible assuming the whole country is Christian.
I wont be able to see my adult son, haven’t seen him since March but lives are more important.

@Gooseybby

I find it incredibly difficult to listen to considering how some people in the media, and in real life, reacted to those who wanted to celebrate Eid

Agreed

Yup.

@cuparfull

But it's not just about us tho is it?

Think about those working on the front line... They are going to be working throughout, no breaks, cancelled days off, insufficient anaesthetists, fraught overburdened medical staff.
NHS staff having daily to make decisions on which life to save and who to leave.
There will not be enough capacity for everyone if we don't do something quickly.

Oh, and one of my children is also working on Christmas Day. We have long accepted that. I still just want our normal lives back. So do my teenagers/young adults.

Agree. Sick hearing it

Agree with PJ above. I love Christmas but, as I am an atheist, it's only because it's one of the times when my family gather together. If it's too risky then we will find a different weekend in Jan or Feb or even later to do it. I will be sad but we have to do this properly.

Fucking cancel it, see if I care. Just do it, watch a lot of people’s stress levels drop.

I can eat and drink too much any day if I wanted too it’s not like I have to save it for that day.

When lockdown was interfering with Eid I remember people saying “how would you feel if Christmas was cancelled” my first thought was absolutely fine and I wouldn’t be the only one either.

They just want our cash in the till.

@LostAcre i completely agree with you. We are planning to just have us. I get so worried that my children or I might pass it to our parents I don’t think I would relax having them round. I would rather go for a walk with them and I’ve said I’ll arrange a Christmas zoom/family quiz for us to do. It won’t be the same but it’s just one year.

Christmas is already ruined for me. For most people it's not just a one day event, it is the lead up which most people value. The trip out to Christmas markets, the pantomime, the Christmas shopping etc.

Christmas means nothing this year if we only get one day to spend with our families.