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Another 6 months?

114 replies

Moonme · 25/03/2021 18:55

I have stuck to the rules and some but if the vaccines start working and lockdown is due to end (allegedly) in June then why do they need this?

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QueenZoopla · 25/03/2021 20:55

Acorn, Fly, Sally - I'm so with you. I too have been getting more & more worried about this government. People said in 2016 that brexit was just the beginning, and I now believe they were right.

Layladylay234 · 25/03/2021 21:15

"Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

Margaret Atwood says it best.

AcornAutumn · 25/03/2021 22:04

@Layladylay234

"Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

Margaret Atwood says it best.

Yes but some of us knew the bathtub was boiling pot at the start, but somehow we got told we were crazy.
kittensarecute · 26/03/2021 00:06

@HalzTangz

I don't think every restriction will be lifted in June. I think masks and social distancing will be in play for a long time yet
No thanks. I need social distancing gone, it's affecting my mental health.
kittensarecute · 26/03/2021 00:09

@dingit

The case numbers were up today ( from schools). They will use this to extend the lockdown ( roadmap cancelled)
No no no 😢😢
kittensarecute · 26/03/2021 00:15

If anything delays the roadmap, I will be seriously considering taking my own life. I mean it. I can't live with these restrictions anymore.

XenoBitch · 26/03/2021 00:32

@kittensarecute

If anything delays the roadmap, I will be seriously considering taking my own life. I mean it. I can't live with these restrictions anymore.
Flowers Am feeling exactly the same here. Fed up with people saying see your GP and get on anti-depressants. I am on the highest dose. I need normal life to resume, not chemicals.
Kokeshi123 · 26/03/2021 00:33

Just want to say, I hate this government, and everyone baying for restrictions, for taking away my dwindling fertile years

Sunny, if this were my only chance to have a baby and if there was a way of making this happen---I'd be quietly breaking rules at this point, honestly. Do what you need to do.

StarCat2020 · 26/03/2021 00:48

"Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
Like the stress frog in the saucepan

SunnySideAndMarmite · 26/03/2021 01:53

@Kokeshi123

Just want to say, I hate this government, and everyone baying for restrictions, for taking away my dwindling fertile years

Sunny, if this were my only chance to have a baby and if there was a way of making this happen---I'd be quietly breaking rules at this point, honestly. Do what you need to do.

I am. But its going to involve single parenthood by choice, which is pretty big. I really hoped I'd meet someone in time.

Don't worry, if there was a man waiting in the wings for social distancing to be over I wouldn't be abstaining for rules' sake!

cryh · 26/03/2021 05:09

If deaths are down and hospital admissions are down there has to be a point where we live with the risk surely?

Deaths and admissions are down for two reasons:

  • lockdown
  • vaccinations
With lockdown currently keeping transmissions down as most transmission was and is in age groups not yet vaccinated.

I know people want to believe Johnson every time he says some jolly positive nonsense, but it was always going to be a slog.

Stop listening to Johnson, start listening to scientists. UK is preparing for significant deaths even with the vaccine. If that goes wrong, with variants etc, we would need the legislation again.

firstimemamma · 26/03/2021 05:58

Ugh awful and how pointless!

Literally the only positive I can think of is I'm so glad we didn't postpone our early June wedding to try to steer clear of this crap. It would've been upsetting to have moved it to August or something only to find it was all for nothing.

nonono1 · 26/03/2021 06:11

I don't think every restriction will be lifted in June. I think masks and social distancing will be in play for a long time yet

There’s no way on earth I will comply with these rules once everyone has been vaccinated. What is the point?!

AnnaForbes · 26/03/2021 06:25

Happy to find more people here asking important questions. Many of us have feared where this would lead a long time ago and were called conspiracy theorists. I feel vindicated

This will continue while a majority of people remain supine in the belief its for our safety. I thought masking or vaxxing our children might be the tipping point but now I think not. People have lost all sense of proportion.

Bluntness100 · 26/03/2021 06:35

It’s just common sense, the government has the power under this legislation should it be needed. This is the quickest and simplest way.

Think of it like insurance, you hope not to need it, but would be stupid to not have it.

RedMarauder · 26/03/2021 06:41

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair

I've taken part in the flu survey for about 7 years.

You and anyone else who lives in England is welcome to as well - flusurvey.net

British universities do a lot more health research than people realise using normal people. Some of it is later sponsored by a government body if it finds the data useful on an ongoing basis.

Quartz2208 · 26/03/2021 06:46

The roadmap and restrictions though are separate legislation. The Coronavirus Act is pretty dry legislation if you read it! But as I said was always designed to be 2 years and yesterday was a built in review. It wasn’t extended at all (just kept going) even though media outlets reported it as such

Which is why there was less of revolt. It’s not even the piece of legislation lockdown is actually done under that is a 1984 Public Health Act!

RedMarauder · 26/03/2021 06:48

@nonono1 not all adults will be vaccinated by June. The government is to offer everyone a vaccine by mid-July.

Due to how they sent out the Covid tests to hit their target, it means some of those offered it near that date will not be vaccinated with their first dose until end August.

The Labour party supported the government because they were in power when Swine Flu hit. Some of the former ministers in power at the time have spoken about their own response to it, and have refused to openly criticise this government.

Quartz2208 · 26/03/2021 06:50

That said having just watched some MPs in the commons not entirely sure they have read the whole Act either!

Lostinacloud · 26/03/2021 06:51

I think the summer holidays saga will be the telling point. If they expect/want to continue with this slow roll into total social control then they will PR continued restrictions to the hilt in early April under the guise that we all still need “protecting” by them. Variants, vaccine resistant strains, younger deaths - whatever they can think of. Restrictions to our private lives must continue through and past the magic June date to avoid any major public pushback or protest when they start once again with autumn and winter time restrictions.
If they were to let everyone travel as normal then I predict there would be a much higher chance of serious public disobedience come Autumn time with any further talk of re-introducing restrictions or business closures etc. People will be too used to normal life again more will ‘see the light’ at that point and disagree. Holding the wider public under restriction through the summer, together with their gold standard PR machine and alternative viewpoint blocking would make it easier to continue on this path as soon people will be too broken to care and many will be convinced they need protecting. The sad thing is, there is little to no alternative political party to help stop us on this path so it will be up to the people and I believe the end of this summer is the crucial turning point where it must either turn or we will be locked into this system of control for years.

RedMarauder · 26/03/2021 07:08

@Moonme The UK government has been slow to act in closing down our borders.

Other countries including the US and India have different variants. They are being continually monitored to see how infectious they are and if the vaccines work against them.

Even with the "Kent" strain circulating in Europe the government is still not acting properly. On the Liaison Select Committee a day ago Yvonne Cooper questioned Boris Johnson why we weren't testing lorry drivers from France. He also showed he didn't know that trailers could be left at ports so lorry drivers didn't have to enter further into the UK.

cryh · 26/03/2021 07:41

@RedMarauder agree government too slow on this (as with everything).

Lack of border controls is becoming a big talking point now, real fears that imported variants are the UK's big risk.

mobile.twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1375207603412865033

Sick of the UK government, and Johnson, being so lackadaisical.

Villanelle17 · 26/03/2021 15:48

I feel the same way.

MercyBooth · 26/03/2021 16:28

@AnnaForbes YY and they cant say they wernt told.

Hairwizard · 26/03/2021 17:37

Glad to see more people questioning things. About fucking time. This summer should/needs to be the turning point. If people arent resisting and objecting then we are fucked. My dp has his own gym and really wont survive through another winter closed. Its time all businesses opened their doors and got on with making a living before its too late.