No none here. Has already started huge levels of conflict and resentment within the family becsuse they are seeing news reports that BoJo says it’s ok to mix, yet we are saying no.
I feel like making the choice to do your own assessment and decide it’s not worth potentially contributing to a surge of cases for the nhs in January, is very much going to make you a villain this year now that the blustering idiot is announcing all is well and fine. He’s unlikely to bother addressing that we are doing this in spite of the substantial risk it imposes and the inevitable increase in cases/deaths.
He owes that to the country so that people cannot do what they did in summer and pretend to be naive so they can fulfil their own preferences. People will assume because the government ‘allow’ it, it must be ‘safe’.
I’m not saying no one should mix as many have all kinds of different circumstances and reasonings. But by implying it’s ‘fine’ to have families come together, and just brushing over the consequences, many who would have avoided mixing and been ok with it, will instead meet up because family pressure them to , or because there seems no tangible reason to put yourself out when it’s being encouraged now to do the opposite (EOTHO again)
Our normal family Xmas would involve people travelling from Wales, France and Portugal into scotland a few days before Xmas eve and all staying in one house for around a week. Lots of shopping required for food and gifts and alcohol so four sets of people in many, many, MANY shops as well as all those airports and taxis and restaurants and pubs along the way.
Am aware that’s great for the economy but it’s also hugely impactful regarding spread compared to us refusing and therefore everyone else staying put where they are, (although sulking).
Every headline makes me wince because I just know there is shrieking somewhere about how unreasonable and callous I’m being ‘ruining everyone’s Christmas’ when they see all this crap from Boris implying it’s going to be fine to mix.
None of our family would entertain the idea of quarantine on arrival to the country. They would all assume that if he says it’s fine to do Xmas, and they don’t feel extremely unwell, and no one is going to come and force them, they won’t be putting themselves out in any way. This was a main factor in my decision.