Lockdown is over

[Onedaysomedaynowadays]

So I have spent most of the last few months sitting in my tiny loft room working away on my laptop all week and then the weekends trying to entertain a bored toddler in the house or parks in our vicinity.
Today I had a day off and thought I'd go wild now case numbers are down and drive 7 miles to meet my friend for coffee near hers. I encountered really heavy traffic both there and back and loads of people around generally. Stopped at the garden centre and everyone was just milling around like the olden days.

Everyone has quit lockdown and nobody told me! 😂 feel like a bit of a mug

We never had lockdown. Please do not misuse the English language in this way. We have had various levels of restrictions which some have adhered to more than others.

More people will be out and about if only to take and collect children from school, and some people who were wfh have now been forced into offices by micro-managers or useless overpromoted bosses.

How do you define "Lockdown: @peak2021 ?

Which countries have ever had Lockdown according to your definition?

Well I don’t know about everyone else but when I can take my ds on a day out, visit my grandparents inside their homes, have my family round for a meal, take my teenager dc to the cinema, and in general do what I want when I want, then, for me that is when lockdown is over.

We need to define lockdown to have this discussion.

@MsFogi

This lockdown never really happed - everyone has just got on with their lives but without the shops etc open as far as I can see.

So why on earth have I been working at home for the last year and my DC have been milling round the house since December?

I don't get how anyone has been carrying on their live as normal. Everything is shut!

IIjkk

I think because I don’t advertise it on Facebook or other social media and obviously most people I know who are doing same don’t either

Mos ae nhs so cant risk being caught socialising

Even my work colleagues - I work with at least 30/40 people who all have to hot desk

We are tested 2/3 per week and none of us have tested positive despite close working and no masks 🤷‍♀️

So people generally are relaxed outside too

I don’t generally go round telling people who I know are anxious

More likely tho I don’t associate with the type of people who would report!

Bollocks did we not have lockdown.

No of course the restrictions aren't over. That's like saying that because lots of drivers ignore the speedlimits we can all legally ignore them now (the speedlimits).

I could do with a haircut and some new pants from Primark, but otherwise my day to day life is normal. Judging by the traffic I keep finding along the M25 you lockdowners are in a small minority.

@lljkk Spain where you could not leave the house, Italy perhaps when the military enforced restrictions, and possibly France where you needed a permit to go almost anywhere.

At no time in the UK could you not go out to get food, and there was once a day exercise.

People could leave the house in Spain. And I think family mixing has been allowed in all those countries you listed. We have had a lockdown, as it was longer than anyone else, that is a "proper" lockdown

@OddsNSodsBitsNBobs

Not In my house, we are caught up in the false positive saga.... the whole household having to self isolate and lose income needlessly. No one has covid, we have nothing to spread.

Have you had a positive LFT followed by negative PCR or is someone LFT and PCR positive without symptoms?

@Pastanred are you kidding me? It is people like you who have kept us in lockdown for longer! How utterly, utterly selfish you are. I’m speechless.

@ZoBo123

People could leave the house in Spain. And I think family mixing has been allowed in all those countries you listed. We have had a lockdown, as it was longer than anyone else, that is a "proper" lockdown

In a very limited way.

That's why it started up a whole business of rent-a-dog. And then there was the guy caught walking a toy dog.

The UK didn't really lockdown at all. At no point during this epidemic was anyone forced to stay home. A lot of people left the home for work. You were allowed to visit as many supermarkets as you like as often as you liked, and while technically you were only supposed to exercise outdoors ONCE a day, that wasn't enforced.

You CAN argue that other nations didn't lockdown either - I think nowhere had a complete stay at home rule.

I could do with a haircut and some new pants from Primark, but otherwise my day to day life is normal - is it really? When did you last have a visitor to your home, or visit someone else in theirs, see elderly relatives, or hug someone outside your immediate family, or go to the gym, or the cinema, or a restaurant, or manage to get a face to face doctor's appointment or visit a store to buy e.g. curtain fabric or a chest of drawers, or plan a holiday or day out with any certainty? Day to day life is nothing like normal for most people!

afaik,
The permits thing in France was really just in some cities.
France never banned all indoor mixing, but limited numbers, had curfews.

The Italians were allowed out for exercise.

Everyone was allowed out for food! But the Chinese did say only once every 3 days to go get food.

I have a feeling that peak2021's definition of Lockdown has existed almost nowhere.

[quote Adirondack]@Pastanred are you kidding me? It is people like you who have kept us in lockdown for longer! How utterly, utterly selfish you are. I’m speechless.[/quote]
Agreed.

9/10 people like that report the same and 1/10 picks up the virus and spreads it across 50 others before being caught and it results in multiple people dying or suffering long term health issues.

I foresee some "accidents" happening to the people I know of who've done the same this last year.

I don’t feel like it’s over

Come to Scotland if you're bothered by it, most kids aren't back at school yet and even the garden centres aren't open.

Some of us have followed the law/guidelines throughout and still are. Walk for exercise with other members of our household (i.e. each other). We see plenty of people who must live in very large households.

We haven't reported them. We also haven't copied them.

Lockdown isn't over. I'm not allowed to visit friends homes, can't go out for lunch with mum. Can't sing in church. Can't hug my friends who have been bereaved because of covid.

It's easing, I'm glad it is and can't wait for it to be all over. Saying lockdown is over or that it never happened is massively dense and indifferent to what a lot of people are going through.

Like how am I contributing when I’ve been tested 2/3 times a week on pcr since November and never been positive 🧐 that’s some virus if that’s the case

@Pastanred

I agree

I’ve worked throughout
Met friends inside and out
Been to family and friends for tea
Kids played out daily since Xmas

So has everyone I know 🤷‍♀️

And no one I know has had covid since the first wave and most people I know are tested in work weekly so can be pretty sure we’ve not been transmitting it

People who’ve been sat at home for months are indeed the definition of mugs

Yeah, we've all read your constant rule breaking posts. You've all been lucky.

I'm not a mug.

I'm not going to say what I think of your behaviour as it's against MN's T&C to do so.

Well if you looked in my sons teams class page, most of the class have been there the last three months, throughout lockdown. I was under the impression the schools were only open to keyworker children? Well not at our school! Sarcasm

@CosyAcorn If I were you I would hug your bereaved friend. Humans need comfort..