December 2nd....thoughts?

[randomer]

What do you think will happen on December 2nd? back to the tiers or something else?

[Eesha]

It's so frustrating. My friends wedding is mid December so they are unsure whether it will go ahead. Plus selfishly I can hardly see my partner whom I don't live with other than the occasional walk in the rain. He's quite a stickler for rules.

[kittensarecute]

@userxx

Umm no...no one's said anything about lockdown in January.

Havent they ? I'm beyond giving a shit anyway.

Same here.

[userxx]

Umm no...no one's said anything about lockdown in January.

Havent they ? I'm beyond giving a shit anyway.

[userxx]

Think outside is ok up to 6 though.

Wrong.

You cannot meet people in a private garden, unless you live with them or have formed a support bubble with them.

^ That's taken from my local authority website.

[kittensarecute]

[quote userxx]@Noidea2114 That's a given isn't it, lockdown in January. Been in tier 3 since summer so it's not really that different, am sure we'll be straight back into tier 3 on 3rd December. [/quote]
Umm no...no one's said anything about lockdown in January.

[Frazzled2207]

apols that is not correct. Pubs are closed in tier 3, but they can stay open if they serve 'substantial' food - which most of them were doing in some way or another.

[Frazzled2207]

everything is open in tier 3. Or it was anyway. You're just only allowed to go anywhere with people from your household. Any kind of meeting indoors with other households is banned. Think outside is ok up to 6 though.

[Viv0321]

Are zoos open in tier 3?

[ILookAtTheFloor]

Tier 3 zoos, theme Parks etc can open. Also non essential retail and out of school activities.

I'd take tier 3, personally. Even though I burn with anger that more businesses are forced to remain closed.

Being a lockdown sceptic I'd rather have none but I can dream.

[Eesha]

Sorry for sounding dim but is the country currently in a Tier 3 lockdown? I'm just trying to anticipate what will happen in London. Surely Tier 3 is no different to what we are in now.

[userxx]

@Noidea2114 That's a given isn't it, lockdown in January. Been in tier 3 since summer so it's not really that different, am sure we'll be straight back into tier 3 on 3rd December.

[Cornishpasty23]

Does anyone think hotels and b&bs might re-open?

[Noidea2114]

I personally think that they should have shut the senior schools and universities.
I just hope that the government don't open everything up on 3rd Dec for us to go into
lockdown in January as I don't think everyone would adhere to a 3rd.

[sleepwouldbenice]

@WhentheDealGoesDown

Well, It's DH's birthday on the 2nd but I doubt we will be going to the pub but hopefully he will be able to go into his outdoors type shops again.

I hate to say it but the second is actually the last day of restrictions at present. Any changes if they do happen are on the 3rd. Sorry

[randomer]

@BarbaraofSeville, God sad faces in the tabloids and don't forget those scantily cald revellers.

" One lady has her pants on her head, her friend is carried away by a young man"

[BarbaraofSeville]

Shops open again 3rd December.

Pubs and restaurants open a week or two later.

Schools closed for 3-4 weeks between mid Dec and early Jan.

Restrictions eased completely from Christmas Eve to NY Day with the warning 'be careful'. Everyone spends the entire Christmas period as if covid doesn't exist.

Huge spike in cases early January, back to full lockdown and sad face stories in the tabloids in late January about families with multiple bereavements because they had mass gatherings at Christmas 'because they were allowed to'.

[MercyBooth]

Well if shops open and im told i cant see family i will be spending...............ZILCH!!!

[kittensarecute]

@Hairbrush123

I personally believe lockdown will continue into January 2021, until the vaccine is available for distribution. Once the government start the vaccination programme - the country will have a different system and restrictions will start to lift slowly.

I'm no longer complying with all these stupid rules. I shall continue to see who I want to see. Am putting my mental health first. I can't cope anymore, I'm on antidepressants and have come close to attempting suicide on several occasions.

[WhentheDealGoesDown]

Well, It's DH's birthday on the 2nd but I doubt we will be going to the pub but hopefully he will be able to go into his outdoors type shops again.

[HelloMissus]

I doubt very much that schools will close.
Terrible headlines and all that.

[MarjorytheTrashHeap]

I think shops, pubs, restaurants open to make some money before Christmas but no mixing of households in any location. I think mixing with one other household Neill be allowed over the Christmas period (which they will have to specify).

Selfishly I don't want schools to close for longer as my primary class has already missed nearly 4 weeks due to Covid isolation this term. I have resigned myself to far fewer Christmas fun activities this year than normal though, because of all the time we've already missed which is very sad because I teach a KS1 class.

[toomanypillows]

By last two weeks in December, I mean the last two weeks of term.
Mocks start the first week of December and run right up until the last day of term on the 18th

[toomanypillows]

As a 6th form teacher I genuinely hope schools don't close. We have all of our year 12 and 13 mocks the last 2 weeks in December, and some actual final assessment exams. Given what happened last year to Yr 13, we genuinely need these results in case exams are adapted next year.

Also, the students who are already revising solidly out of worry and fear about their final exams would no doubt rather sit their mocks (they didn't get the chance to sit their AS levels) than arbitrarily have their schools close two weeks early 🤷‍♀️

[MercyBooth]

Hairdressers have spent £££££ on PPE. Closing them was just tokenism.

[Fizbosshoes]

Having just been to London where it was really busy despite shops being shut it doesn't at all feel like we are in lockdown. I think they open shops at least. With precautions it's very low risk.

I've been working a few days a week in London (near the city) and it's like a ghost town.the other day I got a train (admittedly off peak) and there were less than 10 people on an 8 carriage train when it arrived in London