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Are you ready for another 6 months of restrictions ?

421 replies

Xtfc123 · 10/12/2020 19:33

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 ?

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Againstmachine · 10/12/2020 20:08

I think this is scaremongering to be honest. Yes, there may be restrictions for several more months but they won't be as severe as now. I think we'll be able to do a lot more by April/May

Not really the government has gaslighted, us, contiunly lied to us, kept leading us on with the carrot, whilst hitting us with the stick all way through this.

Nah I think they enjoy restrictions gives them a feeling of power.

myhobbyisouting · 10/12/2020 20:08

All of you saying you can't carry on.

How exactly do you intend on just going back to normal? Everywhere is shut!

Wigisfashion83 · 10/12/2020 20:09

If it isn't over by April then i'm not following it any more. Call me selfish, a murderer, whatever, but one year is more than enough.

kittensarecute · 10/12/2020 20:09

@Wigisfashion83

If it isn't over by April then i'm not following it any more. Call me selfish, a murderer, whatever, but one year is more than enough.
Same here, except im giving up in March.
Wigisfashion83 · 10/12/2020 20:09

Hancock can fuck off telling us 'don't blow it'.

JanetSnakeholeMacklin · 10/12/2020 20:10

Yep.

zafferana · 10/12/2020 20:10

We're all fed of restrictions OP, but I don't want to kill my parents any more than I did in March, so yes I'll stay away from them for a few months more. I wish I could meet a couple of friends for a pre-Christmas drink in the pub at the end of our road and I wish we were going skiing for new year, but no one is doing those things this year, so I'll suck it up.

AlwaysLatte · 10/12/2020 20:11

Nah I think they enjoy restrictions gives them a feeling of power.
Hmm

Wigisfashion83 · 10/12/2020 20:11

The likelihood of people actually having Covid in the first place and then it actually killing their parents is low. People seem to think Covid is a death sentence for people of a certain age.

Crazycatlady83 · 10/12/2020 20:12

@AlwaysLatte

I don't blindly accept the restrictions. I have my eyes wide open and am seeing the devastation this virus is causing. So I'm following the restrictions and will do until it's safer. Years down the line we won't remember so much the lack of nights out at the pub for a year but we'll remember our loved ones' deaths forever.
I’m sorry that you have lost loved ones.

I haven’t heard of anyone who has had the virus, or been sick with it or required hospital treatment.

However I do know that the industry my DH works in has been completely destroyed, my DB and SIL have both been made redundant this month. My BIL hasn’t worked since March and is now suffering very badly with depression. My DS who has ASD hasn’t had any of the therapy that he needs for his development since March, my friend has stage 3 breast cancer after been fobbed off by her GP. Another friend lost her father, who had his cancer treatment stopped in March due to covid (he was given a good prognosis when he was first diagnosed in early 2020)

Surely, people can accept that it’s very difficult for others to accept endless restrictions (which aren’t actually working!!) when so much has been effected?

Returnofthemaccys · 10/12/2020 20:12

Summer this year was pretty normal. Summer next year - with many people vaccinated - should be a lot better.

Wigisfashion83 · 10/12/2020 20:13

I find the whole 'I don't want to kill my parents' is too far, since most very elderly and vulnerable people survive.

itsgettingweird · 10/12/2020 20:13

@Xtfc123

I am like many people fed up with endless restrictions and don't know why more people don't question it. I honestly believe that some people on here would be willing to have years of restrictions if it were to come to that and would blindly accept it all.
I don't need to question it.

I e read many peer reviewed appears on SAR cov 2 and know what and why.

That's not to say I think it's been handled well and do think some mismanagement has led to restrictions for longer.

But the situation we are in leads is to need the restrictions we have.

But I agree about struggling. I'm worried I'll struggle to mix closely in crowds again the more we have to distance and can't.

AntiHop · 10/12/2020 20:14

@AlwaysLatte

I don't blindly accept the restrictions. I have my eyes wide open and am seeing the devastation this virus is causing. So I'm following the restrictions and will do until it's safer. Years down the line we won't remember so much the lack of nights out at the pub for a year but we'll remember our loved ones' deaths forever.
Exactly this
wizzbangfizz · 10/12/2020 20:15

@Crazycatlady83 couldn't agree with you more and I've been very vocal on here about my personal opinion being that the restrictions we are enduring is killing more people that the virus.

Fizbosshoes · 10/12/2020 20:15

I guess it depends what the restrictions are?
I can deal with wearing a mask (I know not everyone can) and queuing (to a degree) and limited number in shops etc.
Im hoping that the elderly in our family will be vaccinated early in the year, and we'll be able to have a delayed Christmas in March but obviously that will depend on restrictions involving mixing households.

itsgettingweird · 10/12/2020 20:15

@AlwaysLatte

I don't blindly accept the restrictions. I have my eyes wide open and am seeing the devastation this virus is causing. So I'm following the restrictions and will do until it's safer. Years down the line we won't remember so much the lack of nights out at the pub for a year but we'll remember our loved ones' deaths forever.
This
borntohula · 10/12/2020 20:15

@myhobbyisouting

All of you saying you can't carry on.

How exactly do you intend on just going back to normal? Everywhere is shut!

No it's not?
Wigisfashion83 · 10/12/2020 20:16

I think the government has manipulated people into thinking, 'if I see my parents, I WILL/very likely kill them.' and that is so wrong.

MarshaBradyo · 10/12/2020 20:17

Wtf can we do though? If I’m home transmission goes up then the rest of good stuff that can be closed gets taken away.

RaspberryCoulis · 10/12/2020 20:17

I'm already breaking the law by leaving my council area for non-essential reasons and having a friend into the house for coffee. And I don't care. We have done the big stuff of working from home, not using public transport, not seeing parents, no parties etc.

If at the moment, with the restrictions of the Pfizer vaccine they are jabbing 5k people a day, that's going to increase when the "easier" vaccines like Oxford come on stream. Even accounting for people getting a booster jab too, across the UK we're looking at vaccinating 10k - 20k people a day easy. There are 113 days until the 31st March. That 1.1 million to 2.2 million people vaccinated by then, as a very conservative estimate.

Once you've vaccinated the people who are actually at risk from this we can ditch the masks and go back to normal.

But I do agree that there is a certain type of person who has revelled in the drama and the awfulness of it all, salivated over the rising death rates, shopped their neighbour for "flouting" the rules, and will be very sad when it's all over.

borntohula · 10/12/2020 20:17

@AlwaysLatte

I don't blindly accept the restrictions. I have my eyes wide open and am seeing the devastation this virus is causing. So I'm following the restrictions and will do until it's safer. Years down the line we won't remember so much the lack of nights out at the pub for a year but we'll remember our loved ones' deaths forever.
Yep, some of us will remember having to stay away from our loved ones who are very ill from much deadlier diseases, not knowing how to make the most of the time they may or may not have left.
lljkk · 10/12/2020 20:19

6 more months of restrictions is the minimum I expected.
I'm not gloomy about it. We have managed so far.
My big issue is wanting schools to stay open (which they have).
So rest I can endure.

I met someone (the first such person) the other day, who lives in UK, and who has had covid. So that's a first crossed off now.

MatildaMainly · 10/12/2020 20:20

I'm willing to do what's required to help with the good health and safety of the majority.

MadameBlobby · 10/12/2020 20:24

I’m done with it by June. Obv if places are closed I can’t go there but the masks will be in the bin.