What's the longest you will put up with restrictions?

[Papatron]

I'm just wondering where people think their breaking point will be with the virus restrictions. If the government extends the furlough scheme beyond April and says we all have to stay locked down, will you obey?
If we're still not free in June or July?
Personally I feel like I could just about take another 3 months maximum.

As long as it takes.

I'm as long as it takes too. Hospitals are being hammered here, and the more hammered they are the longer people will be waiting for important surgery. So tedious, and flaming difficult as it is, as long as it takes its the only option I think. :/

I think it’s tougher currently with the cold weather and shorter days. Didn’t find it as difficult in the warmer months so I’m looking forward to spring/summer.
I suspect restrictions will begin to ease then, I don’t know how well I’ll be coping if things are the same after the summer.

As long as necessary and as short as possible

Until the vaccine starts reducing the levels of illness.

I don’t have a choice- I want DD in school and I want to be able to go to the theatre, sing and perform again. I can’t decide to make those things happen unilaterally.

Hospitals are always hammered at this time of year, it would be really interesting to know how bad it is compared with a normal year once you strip out all the staff self-isolating (but not ill) because of Covid.

@DrRamsesEmerson

I don’t have a choice- I want DD in school and I want to be able to go to the theatre, sing and perform again. I can’t decide to make those things happen unilaterally.

I know what you mean. That's why I am trying to gauge opinion. It seems like the majority are in favour of continuing to lock down pretty much ad infinitum, so being democratic about it, this could go on for a very long time. Although if the furlough money comes to an end then attitudes might change pretty quickly.

@DrRamsesEmerson this graph shows hospital admissions. A normal 'bad' December would be around 1000. So even without isolation and covid illness, things are stuffed.

Easter. By then the gov will have had all the options to sort things, if they don't, then stuff it - they'll never manage it and we'll have to get on with things.

I can’t go to Alton towers and start up the coasters and I can’t break into Wetherspoons and make dinner and gin so I guess I have to put up with it as long as it takes! The things we miss are things we can’t just break the rules and do anyway so we are stuck without them until the government say otherwise!

I'm fed up, but we need to take it seriously. I'm hoping things will start easing before Easter. Someone I know recently caught covid in hospital and had tested negative when went in, tested negative again, tested before released and then called by hospital the day after to say he had it. His wife who had been isolating to protect him when he came out is now ill with covid.

As regards the "as long as it takes" posters. Does this actually mean a blank lockdown cheque to the government (& future governments) or "as long as it takes up to the amount of time I envisage but will not name as the maximum?" What if it takes a year? 2 years? 5 years locked down?

I don't want to accept it much beyond Easter as I think that will have been plenty of time for the government to get their act together with regard to the vaccine rollout etc.

In reality, there won't be much choice until shops and pubs etc. are allowed to open again. I hate the feeling of that though.

As Long As It Takes

I am done with it now.

'As long as it takes,' wow. You'd actually spend the rest of your lives like this without question? Well, obviously my social life is virtually non existent now but I still see a couple of people. Yes, yes I know I'm an evil murderer but tbh, the vast majority of people I know irl are nowhere near as obedient as they appear to be on MN.

We wait and then we wait some more. We need to think in terms of months and years not days and weeks. We need to think about reimagining the way things are done, not going back to the way things were.

Personally I feel like I could just about take another 3 months maximum

And then what would you do?

Stop complying.

@Outseyeder

As regards the "as long as it takes" posters. Does this actually mean a blank lockdown cheque to the government (& future governments) or "as long as it takes up to the amount of time I envisage but will not name as the maximum?" What if it takes a year? 2 years? 5 years locked down?

I'm convinced these types are in the minority in the real world. I think, if this were the case, compliance levels would be extremely low, mental ill health levels would be extremely high and people would actually protest in some form.

What choice do we have?

I don't live in the UK but we are pretty much in the same situation here in Mexico City, except that schools never opened up this year.

So what can one do to rebel? Go without a face mask and travel on public transport? Have a party?

When what I really would like is for schools to be back and to be able to eat out again.

"We need to think in terms of months and years not days and weeks"

Ok so let's look at this post. First there is the vagueness, "think in terms of". Does that mean "expect and respect a lockdown lasting in.." Then there is the months and years statement. One year and one month is months and years. So is 4 years and 6months, ir 306 years and 8 months. Plus there is no mention of what Level of restrictions there are during the whole of this imagined future. Tier 4 for the rest of the 2020s, alternating tiers 2 and 3 through the 2030s with a 20.year spike to tier 5 from 2040 to 2060.

My concern is that people have become so afraid and compliant that actually they will never ever protest no matter what the government does.

@Outseyeder

My concern is that people have become so afraid and compliant that actually they will never ever protest no matter what the government does.

Honestly, if I went by what I read on here, I'd think the same. But people I actually associate with aren't like that. They're not all massive rebels, just applying common sense. I don't know a single person irl who would consider reporting someone for rule breaking.