Are you ready for another 6 months of restrictions ?

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Does anybody think that this will all be normal by March/April, no more masks or restrictions ?
Ready to 'do your bit' and not see family and friends and have restrictions on your lives until potentially summer ?

People don't realise what a monumental thing it is to have rushed this vaccine (safely) through. It's unprecedented. So just sit tight while everyone gets it! It long now.

I think restrictions will be here for much longer than Easter.
The situation is untenable. Far too stressful for the majority of people. Too much financial damage. Too much emotional damage and social damage. Wilk the public stick to the guidelines? Who knows. I think the more rich or high profile people who ignore the rules and guidelines then the more the general public will too.
Not seeing anyone when you have lost your Job is soul destroying. Not being able to meet up is too.
The politicians cannot be trusted. They do not have anyone else's best interests at heart. The figures are misleading. I'm in tier 3 so can't go anywhere or do anything except to work and the shops. I can't have lunch with my work colleagues or spend any time with them. Can't even be in the staff kitchen together. Yet the infection rate here is no higher than that of London and they have far more freedom. People are getting missed off with this. There is so much more I could go into but wont. I'm fed up. I see gangs of school kids swarming about together without masks and not socially distancing yet I'm stuck in the house, nowhere to go. I can't even go in the garden as it's bashing it down with rain.

I could easily do another 2 years if needed. I’m quite liking it really

I wonder how you’ll feel when the economic impact starts to be properly felt and we see carnage it’s going to bring on public services?

@Megan2018

I could easily do another 2 years if needed. I’m quite liking it really

Please tell me this is a wind up.

@PinkFondantFancy Nope! Working with 15 month old and in tier 3. We live rurally, I’m WFH so no hideous commute, more time to ride my horse. Don’t have to see in-laws.
DH is WFH too but he always has so no change there. We get much more family time, much less stressed though. It’s lovely.

I do miss seeing my family, but otherwise quite content as we are. We are fortunate to have not had our jobs impacted I know, and to live in a beautiful place. We’re also unsociable buggers and quite happy with our own company.

Those who keep baying for a "proper lockdown" like Spain had: are Spain better off than we are now?

Exactly

What difference do people think a “proper lockdown” over and above what we had would have achieved? All we were able to do other than essentials was go out for exercise once a day

[quote Megan2018]@PinkFondantFancy Nope! Working with 15 month old and in tier 3. We live rurally, I’m WFH so no hideous commute, more time to ride my horse. Don’t have to see in-laws.
DH is WFH too but he always has so no change there. We get much more family time, much less stressed though. It’s lovely.

I do miss seeing my family, but otherwise quite content as we are. We are fortunate to have not had our jobs impacted I know, and to live in a beautiful place. We’re also unsociable buggers and quite happy with our own company.[/quote]
And also extremely fortunate your child’s education isn’t being fucked over or having to work and home school them.

I guess @Megan2018 knows how fortunate she is and is speaking purely from a personal perspective. Which, while it is obviously well outside many people's experience, is ok. After all that's what the OP asked.

We are fortunate to have not had our jobs impacted I know

If restrictions were to go on for another 2 years as you hope, everyone's job will be impacted. So enjoy all that blissful horse riding and family time while you can.

Aaaah ok. I think the assumption that 2 years of restrictions won't affect your job is deeply naive. There will be noone unscathed by even what we've had so far, it just doesn't show yet.

Yes. I will do what it takes to protect people's lives. Lives are the most important thing, as if you are dead, that's it - the end.

@HesterShaw1

I guess *@Megan2018* knows how fortunate she is and is speaking purely from a personal perspective. Which, while it is obviously well outside many people's experience, is ok. After all that's what the OP asked.

Yes exactly @HesterShaw1

I am not saying I want it to carry on, I recognise it’s terrible for others. But for me, yes I’m ready to do 6 more months or however many it takes.
If I had lost my income, lived in a city etc I’d have a different perspective. But I don’t and I don’t mind how it is for us.

Stop following the restrictions. Make your own little bubble which includes family, partner, and 1-2 friends, and just stick to these people. Ok, don't go having large gatherings etc. But there is no need at all to go months on end without seeing family.

Do you really think Boris Johnson and co. Are following their own rules to a T ? A serial adulterer like Boris ?

@PinkFondantFancy

Aaaah ok. I think the assumption that 2 years of restrictions won't affect your job is deeply naive. There will be noone unscathed by even what we've had so far, it just doesn't show yet.

Where did I say that? I am well aware it could.

Yes. I will do what it takes to protect people's lives. Lives are the most important thing

Do you drive I wonder? Think how many lives we’d have saved over the years if we banned cars from the roads.

@YellowPostItPad

Yes. I will do what it takes to protect people's lives. Lives are the most important thing, as if you are dead, that's it - the end.

Yes lives are the most important thing. Poverty caused by mass unemployment and the economy tanking due to ongoing restrictions will kill very many people. Not to mention what will happen to the NHS when the tax revenue to pay for it is slashed.

In other words, it’s naive to think that restrictions to stop people dying from Covid won’t lead to many more people dying from other things. Unless you think only Covid deaths are worth preventing.

It’s obvious that many people aren’t engaging with what the restrictions will ultimately do to the funding for the NHS, schools, social care, policing, essential services. There will be huge shocks for people down the line

@YellowPostItPad

Yes. I will do what it takes to protect people's lives. Lives are the most important thing, as if you are dead, that's it - the end.

I agree, in the last 2 weeks in my job I have had to deal with domestic abuse cases which resulted an a 3 week old baby being murdered, a 4 year old being stabbed and a 32 year old mother having her throat slit.

I could go back over the past 10 months and also list the 10 year old boy who had to jump out a first floor window to escape abuse and broke his leg, or the 2 girls aged 11 and 15 who were being sexually abused by their mum and her associates.

Oooooooh, sorry, you meant just COVID deaths didnt you?? All the other deaths caused by lockdowns and restrictions dont matter.

6-months is conservative I fear. Time to get creative with restrictions.

The ban on seeing friends/family is cruel and cannot be sustained.

more time to ride my horse.

This quite neatly encapsulates the gulf between the "more lockdown" and "open up" camps.

I don't agree that no job will be unscathed in 2 years time. That is really silly.
DP's company has done better than ever throughout coronavirus and the foreseeable future looks very bright.
People love to scare. Restrictions will be most likely in place until March/April but then I feel everything will pretty much go back to normal.

@PicsInRed

more time to ride my horse.

This quite neatly encapsulates the gulf between the "more lockdown" and "open up" camps.

Oh ffs, do you really think that everyone who thinks there might have to be on going restrictions, are just wanging about on horses.

@TheKeatingFive I realize that. Im lashing out because im bloody angry. Im lashing out on a keyboard though. Its people who will lash out in other ways the Gov. need to start worrying about.

Oh ffs, do you really think that everyone who thinks there might have to be on going restrictions, are just wanging about on horses

That particular poster said she was happy for it to go on for 2 years because she’s enjoying it. Nothing about the need for ongoing restrictions, she just said she enjoyed them.