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.

I can cope without the pubs and cinemas or whatever but I won't go past Easter without seeing my sister and nieces, or my best friend who lives too far away to meet for a walk. Limiting the places we can mix is one thing, but denying us contact with the people we love is something I will put up with for 2-3 more months max. Shoot me.

@Drramsesemerson yes, hospitals always are. But usually they are hammered whilst still maintaining usual services. Our hospitals are currently being hammered when all routine and elective surgery is cancelled, most routine clinics are csncelled/scaled down. If you added these normal routine things on top of what they are currently doing that would give you the most accurate picture.

With vaccination underway, it would take something very serious to justify measures beyond the summer.

Like most responsible people, I'll look at the facts when they arise.

I can't see furlough being extended any longer. It will have been paid for 13 months by the time it is due to end. At some point we need to look at how the cost of the pandemic is going to be paid for. Rishi's credit card is nearing its limit.

I would struggle to do another winter. I'm very lucky I have a small garden for my two preschoolers to play in. Spring and summer is easier

@FancySomeChips

As long as it takes.

This.

For as long as I perceive there to be a real threat to my health and the health of my friends and family. So I wasn't really scared before but I am now. When I've been vaccinated try stopping me!

As long as it takes also.

If ever I knew this was all some bizarre world wide conspiracy then I would stop complying immediately obvs. Otherwise and unless that happens I understand why we are restricted and am ‘happy’ to comply - can’t see we have a choice.

The "long as it takes" people... Are you also going to say the same thing when society collapses on an economic scale years down the line and people are stripped of their property in order to pay for the blank cheque? Foreclosures, reposessions, job market dead. The public narrative could change and force people to give up what they own. How will society redistribute what is coming? Never in history has there been such a financial catastrophe occured concurrently with a pandemic that it is now. The vast vast majority of all demographics recover so take a step back before you say "as long as it takes" and think of the destination of a worst case scenario.

tinselBut if we are in that scenario what is the point in making it worse by overwhelming our health service on top of all of that and people staggering around with broken limbs and left to die for perfectly treatable common conditions because our doctors and hospitals have sunk ?? (Sorry for grim scenario this New Year’s Eve!)

I think I could until they declare all the most vulnerable vaccinated which is hopefully by March!

@FancySomeChips

As long as it takes.

Same here. If everyone would've voluntarily locked down nine months ago we'd be past this now.

@HeronLanyon

An indefinite situation will lead to us unable to pay for an extra month or two of life of the people who are in hospital already dying. The flu could have killed them at that stage in their life if it was 2019. An indefinite time period will also mean radicals could change the narrative as there's no money left, just unless debt. Do people want to risk losing their homes for this "as long as it takes" as well?

I’m done.

I’ve totally complied worked at home, not seen friends and family. This last week our local councils and police have watched people blatantly break the rules, no breaking up of crowds, no arrests, no fines, no closing down of pubs selling takeaway alcohol.

I can work in a school, I can dawdle around a packed supermarket, yet I can’t have a haircut or drive to coast or country for some fresh air.

It’s a total farce.

‘As long as it takes’. What if it takes years? Who will pay for that? The Magical Money Tree?

March. It will be have been a year, the vaccine rollout will be underway, it will be spring. I can’t make shops and pubs open up but I can choose to mix freely with friends and family who also choose to do the same. Which by the sounds of it will be most of them by that time. We aren’t vulnerable, it’s not fair to keep us locked down longer than that. If it hasn’t be sorted by then, a year, then it won’t be and everyone will need to learn to live with it and take your own chances.

I think the 'as long as it takes' brigade would swiftly change its tune if personally negatively affected by lockdown.

What restrictions do you mean? Here in New Zealand there aren't any. Am curious.

@Mintjulia

With vaccination underway, it would take something very serious to justify measures beyond the summer.

Like most responsible people, I'll look at the facts when they arise.

^ this

born I think that will be totally wrong ? Many who say ‘as long as it takes’ (what you call a ‘brigade’) will have been personally affected just as will many who say ‘shorter than it takes’.

Are some misreading ‘as long as it takes’ to be ‘longer than it takes just so we have an even more shit time?’ - that’s not what I mean !

@Mintjulia

The vaccine doesn't mean you won't catch or spread it, that's why people still have to wear masks. A lot could still happen at this point.

I’m mightily passed off now, but:

My parents are elderly and by their choice don’t want anyone visiting

My daughter is in a bubble with us due to four month old grandson so can see whenever anyway.

I have never been one for visiting friends, in fact I actively avoid it

I can’t visit pubs or restaurants that are closed

Same goes fir hairdressers etc

I can’t go to shops that are closed.

I can’t go on holiday to countries that won’t accept uk visitors

I suppose the only thing I could do is go on holiday somewhere that is accepting uk visitors and refuse to quarantine afterwards, but my work wouldn’t accept that, so with the best will in the world, what exactly can I do to not comply?

@HeronLanyon

"As long as it takes" means there is no limit so it could be years of restrictions.

@Papatron

I think the rules are laws. So it’s breaking the law if you stop.

[quote Justa47]@Papatron

I think the rules are laws. So it’s breaking the law if you stop.[/quote]
By this point I don’t think a lot of us care if they are laws or not. They aren’t going to put everyone in prison for daring to see family and friends.