Social distancing to last all year

[Santastealer]

The media this morning are reporting on a report given to government saying social distancing will need to be in place all year and rules remain until December.

But what then? What do they expect to be different by September?

Last August I was able to go on holiday with my family as a group of 8, are thy suggesting this year this won’t be possible? If not why was it ok last year when we didn’t have vaccines but this year it’s not ok when we do?

I’m thoroughly fed up of not being able to see my family and I need to feel an end point is in sight.

@DenisetheMenace

I believe the Spanish ‘flu pandemic took many more young lives during the second wave in 1919. Thankfully, we now have vaccines which I’ve heard countless experts saying can be “tweaked” in a matter of weeks.

There’s a really interesting documentary about The Spanish Flu pandemic, narrated by Christopher Ecclestone (BBC 4 maybe?). Those poor doctors were treating people with bovril and morphine, they had no idea what a virus was because their technology wasn’t sophisticated enough to detect one, because if it’s size. Nonetheless, they emerged from it two and a half years later.
I’m so thankful that my family are here now!

I am going to watch that

We are so luckily to have amazing scientists etc

@MadMadaMim

We're all fed up. Not only with lockdown but with people who can't seem to grasp how a virus spreads and why rules (whether advisory or in law) are needed.

The end to this current way of life will come quicker when people stop being selfish and think more 'bigger picture' as opposed to their own 'needs' (what you describe as needs are not) and wants.

How is it selfish for people to have hope and some faith that this year better then then last year? Or are you just so fed up you just want to beat people down to your level of mentality . we can only speculate our point of opinion what might hold for the next six months its not exactly planning a legal rave . maybe you just afraid to hope incase of being disappointed so that you expectation lower in whats going to happen and you expect everyone to be on the same pages you . please don't penalise and blame and call people selfish those who have dreams of having some normality back this year. What did Tom Moore say again always have hope that tomorrow will be better then today or something along those lines . If hoping for better tomorrow makes others practical a scrooge in your eyes when they talk about important key futures in people lives that they choose to be cut off from to follow the science as they too believe this would be the quickest way out makes them no different from you , not selfish.. yeah small majority did bend the rules , its unwise and unfair to tarnish everyone in the uk with the same brush . Its too easy to blame others with some thats really difficult and problem control in our society . Blaming folk for something thats out their own control is not being kind . we still need to work together not against each other so that we can have some form of normality by the summer , hopefully . one thing I do know storms don't last forever till then its about learning to smile and dance in the rain rather then standing there feeling fed up and blaming each other for the ongoing bad weather .