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I can now see a way out of covid!

114 replies

Icanseegreenshoots · 07/01/2021 12:02

I can see the route out this spring and summer.

Those in the vulnerable groups and the elderly will be vaccinated soon, and whilst the rest of the country is being vaccinated - which will take some time the following could happen -

Schools will introduce bi weekly mass testing to stay open. Teachers will be vaccinated which means they will never close again.

Restaurants will ask for on the spot 15 minute tests before seating people, ditto all public venues. Mass testing will become part and parcel of our lives everything from music festivals to theatre shows will include a test regardless if you have had a vaccine or not.

The testing will become so common place we will not blink as we wait in careful lines to be admitted into places. Every company that works away from home will adopt their own policies.

Travel will be replicated by many tests and careful procedures allowing people to travel once again.

Masks will eventually be replaced with testing and vaccines, but they will still be used on public transport and other areas. We will largely be in control of all infection by this point, and drive it down to very very low numbers allowing for society to hug, dance and enjoy life once again.

This is the best case scenario in my view - and one I hope will be our reality soon enough.

OP posts:
MiaMarshmallows · 07/01/2021 12:10

I'm not so sure it will be as straightforward as that but like you,I like to be optimistic.

ripples101 · 07/01/2021 12:13

These lines we all wait in, to have a test before being allowed to enter restaurants, festivals, theatres, “ditto all public places”...

What happens when someone tests positive?

FoxyTheFox · 07/01/2021 12:18

It will eventually end up being treated in the same way we treat the flu. Those who are vulnerable will be offered a yearly vaccine, possibly bundled into the same syringe as the flu one so you have one jab instead of two. Those who want the jab but don't qualify to get it free can pay to have it done at Tesco/Boots/the pharmacy/wherever. Everyone else will just get on with it. There will eventually be no isolation, no testing (unless hospitalised where they'd test to guide diagnosis and treatment), and no quarantining, winter will be known as flu and covid season.

SoupDragon · 07/01/2021 12:19

Shame you can't see your way to the coronavirus topic.

Scbchl · 07/01/2021 12:19

If only it worked that simplistically. We can only hope.

ivfbabymomma1 · 07/01/2021 12:19

My favourite post since March 2020 thank you x

Xmasgrump · 07/01/2021 12:24

And who is going to pay for all this testing?

MrsMomoa · 07/01/2021 12:26

But then what will happen to all the curtain twitchers and mask police???
Won't anyone think of them!!! 😥

Lifeinaonesie · 07/01/2021 12:27

I don't think there will be any theatres or music festivals sadly.

Lifeinaonesie · 07/01/2021 12:28

@MrsMomoa

But then what will happen to all the curtain twitchers and mask police??? Won't anyone think of them!!! 😥
Just have to pretend you've seen an asylum seeker and ask them to keep a watch out Wink
Chipsahoy · 07/01/2021 12:29

Fuck no, not a normality I want. Instead maybe government starts dumping money into nhs so we don’t have this shit show again and we get on with life

zigaziga · 07/01/2021 12:32

@FoxyTheFox yes this.
There will probably be a period of more testing but I don’t think it will be the future, at least not for very long.

I don't think there will be any theatres or music festivals sadly.
Why? Because they’ll have gone busy before they open again or..?

sunsetorange · 07/01/2021 12:32

I think foxy is right.

It will become like flu, there will be an acceptable death rate and the rest of us will take our chances like we do with everything else.

sunsetorange · 07/01/2021 12:33

of course there will be festivals and theatres. why wouldn't there be?

zigaziga · 07/01/2021 12:33

*gone bust that should say.

Cheeserton · 07/01/2021 12:36

Go read the thread about how many people don't want to have the vaccine. the light at the end of the tunnel will get significantly dimmer when you do.

Godimabitch · 07/01/2021 12:40

@FoxyTheFox

It will eventually end up being treated in the same way we treat the flu. Those who are vulnerable will be offered a yearly vaccine, possibly bundled into the same syringe as the flu one so you have one jab instead of two. Those who want the jab but don't qualify to get it free can pay to have it done at Tesco/Boots/the pharmacy/wherever. Everyone else will just get on with it. There will eventually be no isolation, no testing (unless hospitalised where they'd test to guide diagnosis and treatment), and no quarantining, winter will be known as flu and covid season.
This is exactly what I think will happen too
ToadsThePeanutButterSnob · 07/01/2021 12:43

Yes to vaccines...no to testing to get in everywhere. Why would we constantly need to be tested to get in everywhere?

ToadsThePeanutButterSnob · 07/01/2021 12:43

If we have had the vaccine I mean.

SillyUnMurphy · 07/01/2021 12:46

It will definitely go the way of the flu and an annual vaccine for that.
Although the OP is nice in theory, it would be way to expensive and clunky to deliver. I also don't want to see testing for absolutely every event/outing as any kind of 'new normal!'

HappyNewYear2021 · 07/01/2021 12:48

@Cheeserton

Go read the thread about how many people don't want to have the vaccine. the light at the end of the tunnel will get significantly dimmer when you do.
This is what I think too. So much crap written about vaccines.
IdblowJonSnow · 07/01/2021 12:49

I like your style OP! Let's hope so! This is what I would like to see happen too. With regard to festivals etc, maybe they'll need to be smaller? They do enormous damage to the land they're held on anyway.

DisappearingGirl · 07/01/2021 12:50

Yep I agree Ican and Foxy, now we have the vaccines I can definitely see a way out.

It will just be a bit rubbish for the next few months - but hopefully progressively less rubbish as the year goes on!

frasersmummy · 07/01/2021 12:50

well nicola sturgeon has just said .. we dont know if the vaccine stops trasmission so vaccination might not mean we can get everything open..

well then whats the fn point??

ihatefacemasks · 07/01/2021 12:56

@Cheeserton

Go read the thread about how many people don't want to have the vaccine. the light at the end of the tunnel will get significantly dimmer when you do.
I am as bleak as anyone about Covid and lockdowns. However, I would never, ever take a MN thread to represent the views of the huge majority of the population. MN represents a minuscule sliver of society. IRL, I don't know a single person who wouldn't have the vaccination (including me - I err on the side of minimal vaccination, but if it makes lockdown go away more quickly, I'd gladly do it).