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I almost can’t stand it. What the hell will they be announcing now?

@Puzzledandpissedoff 🤣🤣. Exactly, let's just play along shall we.

She has SN and has lost both grandparents and her Dad in the last year. I fucking hate Boris. If he had decided to ban Christmas visits then this should already have been done

@JacobReesMogadishu

I don’t think he can just put London and the south east into tier 4 . If this new variant is there it’s already spread further north and I’m sure that will become apparent in the next few days.

He needs to take advantage of the schools being closed and do another lock down.

It’s already been detected in Glasgow so I imagine it’s pretty much everywhere in between already.

How can that bbc bloke say we still have surge capacity with the nightingale hospitals....hasn’t he realised they have no staff!

Maybe now that we’ve vaccinated HCPs there won’t be such a shortage of staff due to having to isolate.

@bumbleymummy

How can that bbc bloke say we still have surge capacity with the nightingale hospitals....hasn’t he realised they have no staff!

Maybe now that we’ve vaccinated HCPs there won’t be such a shortage of staff due to having to isolate.

We haven’t vaccinated HCPs, I’m one(frontline) and none of us have been done. The organisation of the vaccine programme is a shambles.

@bumbleymummy

How can that bbc bloke say we still have surge capacity with the nightingale hospitals....hasn’t he realised they have no staff!

Maybe now that we’ve vaccinated HCPs there won’t be such a shortage of staff due to having to isolate.

Very few HCPs have been vaccinated though. And even still, if vaccinated HCPs fall ill with covid symptoms, they still have to isolate.

@SophieB100

Sturgeon holding a press conference at 5.25 today, for those of you North of the border!

Love how it was “we’re going to have a single approach for the UK” all this time and the second something goes wrong “f**k it, we’re all holding our own bloody press conferences” haha

Can I wave a slightly nervous hand and say - actually I think Boris is a pretty good leader? The tier system at least allows some freedom. I do think Labour would have just a full lockdown. And earlier. ‘Bumbling’ may actually equate to considering both sides of an argument?

@Unsure33

If your children spoke like a lot of you do they would be accused of bullying. Some of you are sanctimonious hypocrites.

Not what I expected from mumsnet.

Alright Carrie

BJ is a flip flopping failure
What a bloody mess of it he’s making

I have no idea how he thinks he can enforce locking down the capital and large parts of the south-east unless he brings the army in however nothing would surprise me this year at this point

@Wrecktal

Can I wave a slightly nervous hand and say - actually I think Boris is a pretty good leader? The tier system at least allows some freedom. I do think Labour would have just a full lockdown. And earlier. ‘Bumbling’ may actually equate to considering both sides of an argument?

wow

So they got everyone to comply with the rules to allow us to see our families for Xmas then just as that is about to come into play, they take it away.

I'm getting seriously pissed off with this now.

@Wrecktal

Can I wave a slightly nervous hand and say - actually I think Boris is a pretty good leader? The tier system at least allows some freedom. I do think Labour would have just a full lockdown. And earlier. ‘Bumbling’ may actually equate to considering both sides of an argument?

I may not agree, but I gotta admire your balls

Very grim tone on bbc lead up

Think they expect wide restrictions

Do we refuse life-saving treatments to people who might have lung cancer from smoking or alcohol-related illness ? Ermm no and rightly so. Saying people should be refused Covid treatment because they want to see their family after months ?!

Actually listen to yourself, you sound sick in the head

Agreed

I fear what its turned people into more than I fear covid tbh

The problem is that it only takes a few families being selfish to make it worse for everyone! I am prepared to potentially only mix with one bubble outside, or not at all if required. We have followed all the rules and will continue to do what's required.

We are grown-ups, not children. Now is the time to act like it collectively!

@Frostythesnowwoman

Very grim tone on bbc lead up

Think they expect wide restrictions

That's because the majority at the BBC live in London...

Not leaking further but preparing us for ‘much bleaker picture’

@bumbleymummy

How can that bbc bloke say we still have surge capacity with the nightingale hospitals....hasn’t he realised they have no staff!

Maybe now that we’ve vaccinated HCPs there won’t be such a shortage of staff due to having to isolate.

It takes at least 5 weeks from the first vaccine until immunity is acquired.

@Wrecktal I know hindsight is a great thing and its a pandemic, but no I cant agree in the round including brexit that he's been a good leader, no.

@Wrecktal

Can I wave a slightly nervous hand and say - actually I think Boris is a pretty good leader? The tier system at least allows some freedom. I do think Labour would have just a full lockdown. And earlier. ‘Bumbling’ may actually equate to considering both sides of an argument?

Brave.

But I agree with you.

She’s a nurse so had proper testing in hospital. She wasn’t very ill the first time and isn’t really this second time. She is very tired - that is her main symptom. The first time she had a temperature and lost all sense of taste and smell.

@Wrecktal

Can I wave a slightly nervous hand and say - actually I think Boris is a pretty good leader? The tier system at least allows some freedom. I do think Labour would have just a full lockdown. And earlier. ‘Bumbling’ may actually equate to considering both sides of an argument?

I must ask the traditional MN question here.

Are you on glue?

I’m also really, really, really embarrassed to say that I had a naughty dream about Boris...and it was good.

Oh what a surprise the press conference has been delayed. Is Boris still in bed?