Why do people keep saying this?

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We’re going to keep being in lockdown, how? Why? How would they justify this after vaccines here, and why would they do that?

Because people were desperate to Lord it over people with their "superior knowledge" over the last 12 months and cannot bear the fact they might not be as prescient as other people who they deemed stupid optimists.
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I have seen often on here people being sneered at by the catastrophisers for being ‘glass half/full’ types.

It drives me nuts when people say 'just social distancing' and lump it in with mask wearing as a possible long-term, low impact measure. Do people not realise that neverending social distancing would mean never going to a wedding or party again, never celebrating special occasions with family indoors, never having friends round for a meal or a cuppa. It's unthinkable - there's no 'just' about it!

Yeah I've made the same point several times. People seem to think that social distancing is just about standing on a yellow circle in the Tesco queue, but in fact it makes whole swathes of industries - hospitality, the arts, entertainment, transport, leisure, tourism and more - financially unviable. Long-term social distancing means the loss of milions of jobs. It can't go on much longer.

I'm sick of people saying we aren't stuck in , we can go for a walk each day

I walked over 42 miles between Monday and Thursday. It is not the same as being able to go and have dinner with a friend or sit in my mum's for a coffee

Bloody walking

Yeah I've made the same point several times. People seem to think that social distancing is just about standing on a yellow circle in the Tesco queue, but in fact it makes whole swathes of industries - hospitality, the arts, entertainment, transport, leisure, tourism and more - financially unviable. Long-term social distancing means the loss of milions of jobs. It can't go on much longer.

Yep too many on here casually list SD as if it doesn’t have huge repercussions. Usually from those not in affected private sectors.

Selected moments from the Event 201 pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated the pandemic preparedness efforts needed to diminish the large-scale economic and societal consequences of a severe pandemic.

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It drives me nuts when people say 'just social distancing' and lump it in with mask wearing as a possible long-term, low impact measure. Do people not realise that neverending social distancing would mean never going to a wedding or party again, never celebrating special occasions with family indoors, never having friends round for a meal or a cuppa. It's unthinkable - there's no 'just' about it!

Yeah I've made the same point several times. People seem to think that social distancing is just about standing on a yellow circle in the Tesco queue, but in fact it makes whole swathes of industries - hospitality, the arts, entertainment, transport, leisure, tourism and more - financially unviable. Long-term social distancing means the loss of milions of jobs. It can't go on much longer.

It's not a binary choice of 2 metres or not. There are varying degrees. The 2 metre rule may not stay but there may be other precautions, especially short term until everyone has been offered the vaccine.

Sitting literally touching a random person for 3 hours whilst sitting in an indoor theatre may not be allowed, but leaving an empty seat between parties may be required. But sitting next to strangers at on outdoor stadium watching a football/rugby match may be. We just don't know.

Perhaps weddings and funerals will be more normal but people asked not to shake hands, hug or kiss their more distant relatives? Who knows?

Hand shaking at business meetings may be scrapped forever (hopefully).

There are lots of ways we can keep "more" distance than what was normal pre covid without it having to mean third capacity in events, standing on dots outside Tesco etc. I suspect, like now, it'll be more a matter of people's own comfort zone and personal choice rather than mandated laws.

There will always be Covid, but I think it’ll be like any other virus and vaccines will be developed to deal with different strains etc.
Thank goodness we have the vaccine - it won’t eliminate it completely but for most it’s a mild illness and the nhs can get back to helping everyone who needs it.

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Realistic concerns about too rapid easing causing mutations that evade the vaccine. Concerns we don’t know how well they work especially against variants or cut transmission yet.

I hope they work with no trouble and this doesn’t happen, but I am mentally prepared for it happening if we unlock too soon and realistically I’m ready for what happens to be somewhere in the middle of those two.

I understand some people feel better ignoring the science, some of us feel better paying attention to prepare ourselves.

I respect all opinions. All methods of coping.

Let’s try to get along.

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