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So, what are you going to do?

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LaMarschallin · 10/02/2021 14:09

To the people who are saying they won't stand this any longer:

What exactly do you plan to do?

March on the streets?

Run out of your house and hug your family?

Not wear masks?

Because you can't go to the cinema, theatre, festivals, shops, libraries, cafes, pubs, send your children to school, see beauticians etc without the government's say so.

I'm just interested to know what the alternative is to trying to keep the infection rate down is.

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Original poster
LaMarschallin · 10/02/2021 14:10

Too many "is"s there Blush

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Cloudsurfing · 10/02/2021 14:11

I don’t care about most of those things. I’m going to see my family and friends though. Starting with my in-laws in March.

ssd · 10/02/2021 14:12

@Cloudsurfing

I don’t care about most of those things. I’m going to see my family and friends though. Starting with my in-laws in March.
Good luck with that.

To answer your op @LaMarschallin...I'm going a walk today.

alwaysplayingplaydoh · 10/02/2021 14:13

I love restaurants and so on but I recognise I can't obviously do any of those things while they're shut.

I will be seeing my family as soon as the priority groups are vaccinated though.

Cloudsurfing · 10/02/2021 14:15

@ssd thanks, I’m looking forward to it Grin

RosieLemonade · 10/02/2021 14:15

Mainly carry on feeling suicidal and hoping to contain my self harm to areas DD can't see.
Oh and lots of walks and key worker duties.

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LaMarschallin · 10/02/2021 14:16

I didn't phrase this well.

I do understand the need to see friends and family (I want to see mine).

What I mean is: once you've seen and hugged them and had a chat...

That may be all you can do for a long time if more and more things are shut down.

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AuntieStella · 10/02/2021 14:16

I'm not sure they do want to keep infections down. They seem quite happy to let it rip through, irrespective of overwhelming NHS and crippling the economy. It's a very right wing Trumpian view, and I'm surprised it's so noisily advocated.

And of course it condemns us to the same thing with each vaccine resistant variant.

Instead of leaning the best ways to use effective restrictions (something that all countries are doing, and we are not outliers by any stretch) and being willing to see a course of action through to desired end state (reduction of restrictions, cases under control) with experience in using restrictions such that we have the ability to reimpose lightly for time taken to update a vaccine)

Cloudsurfing · 10/02/2021 14:17

@LaMarschallin

I didn't phrase this well.

I do understand the need to see friends and family (I want to see mine).

What I mean is: once you've seen and hugged them and had a chat...

That may be all you can do for a long time if more and more things are shut down.

That’s fine with me. I can stick to everything else long term, I’ll be happy with just seeing family and friends this year. My baby needs to meet and bond with her family, so I’m putting her first. I can wait for everything else.
Daisysflowers · 10/02/2021 14:19

I said in a thread yesterday that visits to shops can only happen when they are allowed to open, I can’t protest by going to a closed shopGrin

I will be inviting friends and family into my home from Easter, where of course we shall be hugging.

LucilleTheVampireBat · 10/02/2021 14:19

Do you actually want to know, or is this just another opportunity for the superiority posters to snigger and insult people?

XenoBitch · 10/02/2021 14:19

I am going to see friends and family (if they are happy to). Everything else is out of my control.

RosieLemonade · 10/02/2021 14:20

@LaMarschallin

I didn't phrase this well.

I do understand the need to see friends and family (I want to see mine).

What I mean is: once you've seen and hugged them and had a chat...

That may be all you can do for a long time if more and more things are shut down.

I think seeing family and friends can soothe a lot of things. For example if I could see my twin on our birthday for an hour or so that would give me a lot of strength to carry on ploughing through this.
AuntieStella · 10/02/2021 14:21

Sorry I was a long time in typing my previous post, and the thread had developed in ways I didn't anticipate from my take on the opening post, and so it's probably best ignored

alwaysplayingplaydoh · 10/02/2021 14:22

What I mean is: once you've seen and hugged them and had a chat...

That may be all you can do for a long time if more and more things are shut down.

That's fine with me, although I suspect probably not so fine for my family and friends who work in the theatre. But no one seems to give a single solitary shit about them.

PhilCornwall1 · 10/02/2021 14:22

Run out of your house and hug your family?

I'm certainly not into hugging them, but I will be seeing them.

The rest of those things I'm not interested in.

ChocOrange1 · 10/02/2021 14:22

@LaMarschallin

I didn't phrase this well.

I do understand the need to see friends and family (I want to see mine).

What I mean is: once you've seen and hugged them and had a chat...

That may be all you can do for a long time if more and more things are shut down.

I'm happy with that. I love to see my friends and family and chat, I could do that pretty much all day every day. They can also play with my kids which will be great for everyone. I dont need to go to a restaurant pr cinema to enjoy their company, if that's what you mean?
Hardbackwriter · 10/02/2021 14:24

I never understand this when people phrase it, like you have, as almost a 'gotcha!' - 'well, all you'll be able to do anyway is see your family and friends and sit in their house!'. Yep, and right now that would make me inexpressably happy. Of course I'd rather have my whole real life back but anyone who thinks that breaking the rules would be pointless if it only meant seeing family and friends obviously doesn't want to do that with the urge I do. To me it's like saying to a person who has been forbidden food and is starving hungry 'yeah, but what would you do if you broke the rules anyway? Have a sandwich? We don't even have any butter in'.

To be clear, I am not and have no current intention of breaking the rules, but I find it baffling that anyone wouldn't see why some (most?) people are so desperate too.

Keepyourdistance000 · 10/02/2021 14:24

Carry on just existing probably...

User133847 · 10/02/2021 14:24

People can't go to pubs, concerts, sporting events, shops and restaurants that aren't open, so they're ultimately aware there's not much they can do.

Yes, more people will start to defy the guidance and see their families indoors, but many are doing so anyway, or have thought they're too special to follow the rules throughout.

IsitSummeryet21 · 10/02/2021 14:24

Seeing friends and family now indoors. I'm sick of it as many others.
None of the other things, shops, restaurants etc bother me at all. I'm happy seeing family and friends.

Igglepigglepeppaandgeorge · 10/02/2021 14:26

@LucilleTheVampireBat

Do you actually want to know, or is this just another opportunity for the superiority posters to snigger and insult people?
This. 10000 times this.
Igglepigglepeppaandgeorge · 10/02/2021 14:27

@RosieLemonade

Mainly carry on feeling suicidal and hoping to contain my self harm to areas DD can't see. Oh and lots of walks and key worker duties.
Sending some hugs, wish there was more I could do x
rawalpindithelabrador · 10/02/2021 14:29

See my friends. Drive to see my friends. But carrying on being sneering and smug if it keeps you warm at night.

Some of my friends have really lost the plot and done stuff like engage in risky sex or other risky behaviour.

ChocOrange1 · 10/02/2021 14:30

Have a meal with my family
Play games together
Catch up on the past year
Play with the children
Let the children play together