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’m done. Single mother. SEN child. No respite. I’m absolutely at the end of my Tether and need change fast.

It’s not even about seeing friends or family for me. It’s a desperate change of scenery and actually feeling like I’m a free adult and not having to worry every second that DC is doing something stupid (teen, anxiety, impulsive, adhd like behaviour) and having DC stuck to me every second of the day.

@borntohula

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

Well, it made me laugh if nothing else. Yep, been a complete bed of roses for me, loved every minuteband I couldn't think of a better way to spend 9 months. Haven't struggled financially, socially or with caring responsibilities. Life coming to a complete and utter stop for 9 months has been blissful and just what I always wanted.

Good to start the day with a smile though.

I’m just so utterly done with it all now. Life is so abjectly bad. I see people doing stupid things which increases the risks of spreading it around. There are some people on my street who appear to have more support bubbles than a mint aero.

Literally different people going in every day. Then I’m living this isolated life to try to keep others safe and what for? What is the point?

If this isn’t sorted out soon I don’t think I will be able to stick it out much longer.

@Mousehole10

Well breaking these cumulatively causes spread as per SAGE advice so I would follow them if I were you.

I have successfully managed to stop trying to predict the future and it has helped a lot.

I can't control covid, or my fellow citizens' actions, or government decisions.

I am focussing on the next six weeks and after that I will see where we are. If we need lockdowns I will comply, if we don't we don't.

I'm not expecting much normality in 2021 - for me normality means theatre, big gatherings, work conferences, back in the office, no masks, no SD. I am not even thinking of these things they are not close imo.

@borntohula

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

I have been badly affected by lockdown, it has completely changed our lives in ways that can't be undone.

I was done with this shitshow months ago, and although I cant go to a pub or cafe to meet friends I can and will meet friends in my home or their home.

Bottom line is we don’t really have any choice. If everything is closed there’s not much we can do to overrule it.

I know I don’t want to give it to my mum so I’ll avoid going into her house.

It’s really hard but spring will be here soon. We need to hope for sunshine like last year so we can go back to garden visits a few times a week. I don’t have a garden so I’m really hoping for a summer like last year.

Where I live someone was imprisoned recently for hosting a party. So not obeying covid restrictions isn't an option.

Godness knows. Adult DA had an updated Clinically Extremely Vulneralble email yesterday - basically he is shielding again, which means all of us and hes not to go into college. The letter says it is until 1st Feb - when presumably we will hear what happens next - .hopefully he'll have had the vaccine by then.

@tinselwreath

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.

I've taken a step back...and realised that's got bugger all to do with me. How am I meant to control the economy? That's what Johnson and his idiot pals get paid to do. Naff all to do with me. Whatever the financial outcome, with this govt in power many of us will be screwed anyway.

Brexit will be a huge blow to the economy for generations to come, and people are actively celebrating that.

I'd just rather that we actually keep hospitals as hospitals not covid centres, and like it or not that requires an element of managing this virus.

I'm at the end of my rope with, I had a shit social life/day to day life before and now its unbearable. I've never felt so trapped in my whole entire life. I have zero freedom and every bit of joy has been zapped. I actually couldn't give a shit about Covid tbh.

As long as it takes.

The irony is how long that will be exactly is directly impacted by how much people are willing to comply with the restrictions...

I can’t see myself being in a crowd ever again, I’ll really can’t.

Gradually../m this has affected me so much

So my own behaviour has changed massively

It's extra hard at the minute because of the cold and dark weather, even if the restriction continue spring and summer will be easier to cope with. If it continues round to next autumn I'll definitely struggle, though would probably push through if it was needed.

Any length of time required, I have Covid right now and believe me it's a pretty horrid feeling to think my Mother in Law might have caught it from us, (we've basically lived like hermits, followed the rules entirely, but saw my MIL on Christmas Day as she is in our support bubble (all totally within the rules) we have no idea where we caught it, and it just goes to show how contagious this new variant is, it's whipping through my area which had barely any cases a few weeks ago! If the hospitals are overwhelmed in three months then of course we can't just go back to normal, what choice do we have? That's not to say I wouldn't expect people not to be bending the rules a little bit based on their own risk assessments....

It's not a case of 'putting up with it'. I can't go to my workplace, I can't go to the gym, I can't eat out, I can't go to the pub, I can't go to a concert etc.

It's not like I have a choice.

I wouldn’t normally say as long as it takes, but with the vaccine it feels like there’s an end in sight. Hopefully within the next few months. So we’ll stick it out for the greater good

@borntohula

I have seen friends and their families die, left with long COVID and had family members die through other conditions after hospitals couldn’t see them for treatment due to COVID caused issues.
My kids are in high school- exams are screwed, we can’t look round colleges and all the rest.

But if you want to believe I’ve not been negatively affected, then crack on with your ignorance.
We’ve all suffered.
I don’t want the absolute suffering of lost loved ones from COVID related shit to happen for the rest of my life so I will follow the rules for as long as I have to- in fact o don’t need Boris to tell me to stay home to limit the virus- I will anyway while the crazies “eat out to help out” (my arse) and jet off on holidays they don’t need (but want, there’s a difference).

A couple of shit years is worth it for a longer term outcome.

Also, we’re vegan- a field of cucumbers didn’t cause this. Why is no one talking about that?
My lifestyle didn’t cause it, but it’s been VERY impacted.

[quote Justa47]@Mousehole10

Well breaking these cumulatively causes spread as per SAGE advice so I would follow them if I were you.[/quote]
I honestly don’t care anymore. I don’t care if I catch covid, I don’t care if it spreads. I did at first but not now. I’m sticking it out until March but then that’s it. I don’t care about not going into shops or pubs, but I am going to see my family and friends, the things that matter. I feel loads better knowing there’s an end date to this for me.

@beelzeboris

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

I think you might be on the wrong thread!

Easter. Boris said things should look better by then. If they're not then I don't believe they ever will be and I'm not living like this forever. I don't expect to be going to festivals and the like but if they're still saying we can't see friends and family by Easter then I'm not going to comply.

Well, I want it all to end today but what choice do we have? I feel the restrictions will ease slightly at least by Spring. Just being able to see friends and family indoors would make a massive difference. I miss so many things like cultural events, live music, bars etc but I've accepted they are unlikely to be back anytime soon. :(

April. Or whenever the vulnerable people in my and DH's family have completed their vaccinations, whichever comes sooner. Granted, I will have a newborn and a toddler by then so still won't be able to do much even if we're allowed to!

For now, as long as it takes. I don’t know when my breaking point would be. I think I could manage longer. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I passed covid onto someone unknowingly and it killed them, because I’d broken the rules. Maybe extreme but that’s what keeps me indoors and protecting my loved ones right now.