Northern Ireland: are you for or against the extension of the current restrictions?

[Whenismumhome]

Obviously as you all know about the chaos that Stormont caused last week, mainly for hospitality business owners and staff.

I know that the CMO has said that restrictions needed to be extended by 2 weeks or else there will be “excess deaths” but the DUP has gone against this and now they’ve all decided that this Friday hospitality will reopen along with hairdressing/beauty and other close contact services such as driving lessons, except for bars/pubs which will reopen the following Friday.

I’m kind of in between. I didn’t want the restrictions to be extended because

1. they said they would be for four weeks and four weeks only

2. it hasn’t really lowered the infection rate - we are still seeing positive cases in triple figures so what difference has this circuit breaker made?

3. we can’t keep locking down and businesses need to be open for the sake of people’s income and the economy

But the fact that the CMO has said that not extending them was a bad idea is making me feel a bit paranoid.

What do you all think?

Thank you @PrivateD00r that would be great.

I had wondered if this would happen seeing as they’ve said the message will be “stay at home”

It will be interesting to see what it's like for the next two weeks. I was out at the weekend and nowhere was that busy apart from a queue for the barbershop.

I was at Boucher about 11 and it was very quiet. I was expecting it to be busy.

@hopeishere

It will be interesting to see what it's like for the next two weeks. I was out at the weekend and nowhere was that busy apart from a queue for the barbershop.

I was at Boucher about 11 and it was very quiet. I was expecting it to be busy.

I’m just hoping that whatever happens in the next 2 weeks that they end this lockdown on 11 December like they say they will.

Please tell me they won’t extend it

I don't think they will extend it. But I still think there will be some sort of restrictions. It's hospitality where they seem to be struggling to work out what to do. Plus more restrictions after Christmas.