Screw the economy so I (or my child) can see my friends.

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This attitude is gross. I cannot actually believe that people think it is more important for them and their children should be able to meet up socially with their friends and family than it is to keep as much as the economy limping along as physically possible. Children will not die if they don't see any of their friends in person for several weeks but businesses will go bust if they cannot continue to trade.

Its not just been a few weeks for some. Some people have pretty much never come out of restrictions. At some point the need for socialising must be considered in restrictions.

Yeah it isn't going to be weeks.

It's not several weeks though is it? It will soon be a year.....

Please stop with the finger pointing.

A lot of businesses can trade and have carried on as normal - the construction industry and its suppliers have been able to continue throughout. Retail can trade online as well.

Oh you’ve started a whole new thread on this!

Do you have young children? Or even older children/teenagers at home? What are you actually aiming to get out of this post?

So much finger pointing everywhere at the moment.

I genuinely don’t understand how someone going for a walk outside when it is legal impacts the economy? I do understand them not spending money impacts the economy, are you able to explain?

I also think that some children will sadly die from not seeing friends, mental health is important.

Have a word! The government has screwed the economy! They have consistently made bad decision after bad decision...let's dither for two weeks whilst the rest of Europe lock down....let's give £12 billion to our friends to run a shitty track and trace...lets give our vaccine contract to a man who has zero knowledge of medical logistics and is known for fraudulently claiming thousands in public funds via expenses.

people have lost respect amongst their lively hoods whilst suffering with the mental impact of lockdown after lockdown because of a shoddy government.

Take your anger out on the government. It’s not been a few weeks or will be a few weeks. They could of handled things much better but failed.

So many lives ruined and not just directly from Covid. The rules are flawed, unfair to some, and this lockdown affecting many more in different ways.
My own business has all but disappeared now, husbands barely surviving, my kids education disrupted again, seeing friends and family is against the rules and law. people are struggling now.

Businesses are going bust because they are not able to operate due to restrictions imposed by the government, some have had little to no help and some which falls short. Perhaps if so much money hadn’t been wasted on ineffective ppe, track and trace and a multitude of other things we wouldn’t be in such a mess. And let’s not forget the consistent underfunding of the NHS whilst as great as is cannot cope from decades of increasing demand and changes to lifestyle, health and life expectancy.

We’ve been in Lockdown or tier 4 since the beginning of November where I live and my teen is on his knees. Isolation from friends and uncertainty generally and specifically with school and exams is causing him a good deal of stress. I need to keep his head above water and if that can be done by meeting a friend outside and going for a walk then I’ll be encouraging it.

I’m also a business owner with no government support trying to stay afloat and I’m the DD of someone dying of cancer who today got his lifesaving procedure cancelled; he may now die in the next few days, alone, because we won’t be allowed into the hospital.

The thing about simplistic finger pointing is that it assumes that everyone is in one particular camp when in reality it’s much more complicated and we are all victims of this situation one way and another. You don’t know whether the parent letting their DC see a friend is doing so because actually that child is in crisis. You don’t know that the person who drives past you isn’t on an essential journey. All you can do is try and conduct yourself as best you can and stop policing other people when you don’t have all the facts.

And by the way, as someone who works in mental health I can tell you that keeping people isolated from one another, young or old, can prove fatal sadly.