Page 6 | Covid has just been forgotten about then?

99victoria · 05/04/2021 11:03

My friends and I have all been following the rules most of the time - some of us have support bubbles and childcare bubbles so there may be some occasional rule-bending but we haven't seen each other in person for over 3 months apart from the occasional one-to-one walk. Most of us haven't seen some of our children since last summer. We are all in our late 50s, early 60s. We have all had our first jab, some of us have had both (due to NHS working/health conditions etc)

On thursday we decided to get together for a cuppa in a friend's lovely garden. She had just retired that morning so it was a double celebration and we drank prosecco and enjoyed each others company for a couple of hours. At one point there were 8 of us there for about half an hour (it was drop-in so people came and left at different times). None of us felt we were at any greater risk while there were 8 of us than when there were 6 of us. We are all intelligent people and we can make our own risk assessments. We have done our bit.

GiveMeNovocain · 05/04/2021 11:03

@washthem

My in-laws are acting like it's all disappeared over night.

Travelling to london, going out for lunches and dinners in people's houses etc.

They're vaccinated now so I suppose they don't mind.

They've all but invited themselves around to ours in a couple of weeks time!

Yeah. Completely forgotten about except the constant news, adverts, shuttered businesses, masks, announcements, signs...I can't wait for the day we don't have to listen to Covid on repeat.

raincamepouringdown · 05/04/2021 11:04

This is why last year went the way it did with November and Jan-Mar lockdowns.

Also why we can't have nice things. Everyone said prioritise schools, prioritise education, everything else can wait ... especially after last year's loss of education time. So thankfully they did. Which meant people immediately changed their tune with all the 'if children can be a classroom, then I can do x'.

People are selfish.

ineedaholidaynow · 05/04/2021 11:07

Some of the countries where household mixing is allowed aren’t doing very well at the moment where COVID is concerned.

murbblurb · 05/04/2021 11:08

a year is a long time. It is shit. Blubbering and protesting does not change that.

we are not supposed to be inside each other's houses, vaccinated or not. There were a lot of people hospitalised immediately post vaccine because they were stupid and assume that it was instant protection, so dicked about and got covid.

if you are so special that you are above the law, good for you - your shit still stinks.

Bunnyrun5 · 05/04/2021 11:16

Washthem I’m so with you in this, covid has not gone away, daily cases still exist. Scientists admit to not knowing yet, how the disease will transfer between people who’ve had both vaccines, and of course large number of population still not yet had vaccine.
My son is a consultant in a London hospital he told me anyone going into a hairdressers for example is crazy! It’s hot, humid, air movement greater than any other environment perfect to spread between people even with masks. (Remember nurses caught covid wearing ppe) he’s told me to keep away until larger population have had two vaccines especially as lots of hairdressers are young.
Just hope these people you mention don’t dare moan when we are in 3rd lockdown cone September!

Chloemol · 05/04/2021 11:17

Same old same old on here all the posters saying no problems, good for them, I do it as well

No wonder it’s taken so long to get to where we are. Why can’t people just hold off for a few more weeks to allow the vaccination programme to finish?

Don’t forget even with the jab you can still transmit it, and still catch it albeit with a much reduced rate

Why take the chance of being a carrier and passing it onto those who have not been vaccinated

Some selfish people around, it’s all me, me me

Kitkat151 · 05/04/2021 11:21

@raincamepouringdown

This is why last year went the way it did with November and Jan-Mar lockdowns.

Also why we can't have nice things. Everyone said prioritise schools, prioritise education, everything else can wait ... especially after last year's loss of education time. So thankfully they did. Which meant people immediately changed their tune with all the 'if children can be a classroom, then I can do x'.

People are selfish.

Most people have done their bit thru the lockdowns...many are now double vaccinated and wanting to start their lives again.....don’t really think they are selfish.....if you don’t want to mix with them you don’t have to

Kitkat151 · 05/04/2021 11:21

@Chloemol

Same old same old on here all the posters saying no problems, good for them, I do it as well

No wonder it’s taken so long to get to where we are. Why can’t people just hold off for a few more weeks to allow the vaccination programme to finish?

Don’t forget even with the jab you can still transmit it, and still catch it albeit with a much reduced rate

Why take the chance of being a carrier and passing it onto those who have not been vaccinated

Some selfish people around, it’s all me, me me

🙄

GabsAlot · 05/04/2021 11:22

if you dont want to them round thats perfectly fine-what they do with other people is up to them

i went to my sisters this weekend we stayed in the garden but as it got dark we went inside havent seen them for 6 months just had enough of it all

thepeopleversuswork · 05/04/2021 11:22

I understand that there's no guarantee we won't have another wave and we need not to fall into complacency.

But I have to say if you've been vaccinated its a bit ridiculous to be expected to isolate.

I'm vaccinated now and I would really struggle to be able to justify the idea that I should not see other vaccinated people at the moment simply because of the rules. The risk is so low it just doesn't make sense for me to continue to cut myself off from people.

It's not the same as last year. 50% of people have been vaccinated now. There may be a need for vigilance again in the future and we need to be alert to that but you can't blame people for whom the risk is minimal in doing very low risk activities.

catspider · 05/04/2021 11:23

Well, according to the news, 8,000 tourists are entering the country every day whilst Britons aren't allowed to leave so presumably the Government and Border force think the pandemic is in decline. You can't really blame people for seeing all the inconsistencies (people being allowed to protest outside schools but not for womens rights) and think fuck it.

sunflowersandbuttercups · 05/04/2021 11:24

covid has not gone away

It's never going to go away. Are you going to live in lockdown forever?

ZiggyBaby · 05/04/2021 11:29

Good for them

ZiggyBaby · 05/04/2021 11:30

@Chloemol

Same old same old on here all the posters saying no problems, good for them, I do it as well

No wonder it’s taken so long to get to where we are. Why can’t people just hold off for a few more weeks to allow the vaccination programme to finish?

Don’t forget even with the jab you can still transmit it, and still catch it albeit with a much reduced rate

Why take the chance of being a carrier and passing it onto those who have not been vaccinated

Some selfish people around, it’s all me, me me

it’s all me, me me

That's life. Humans are selfish.

UrAWizHarry · 05/04/2021 11:31

People are reaching the limit of what they will comply with. The fact is, lockdown has been sold to us as protecting our glorious NHS, and once that danger has past then what justification is there for it to continue.

I've had 1 dose and my parents have had both. In terms of risk, it's really not going to get any 'safer' for me to sit in their living room and have a cup of tea with them.

Alsohuman · 05/04/2021 11:37

@GrubbyGruber

I think some people are worried that there may actually be an end in sight and they will have nothing to occupy themselves or post threads about anymore tbh.

I completely agree. Some people are enjoying this far too much.

Yesterday there were just over 2,000 new cases and ten people died. If those figures were for anything except covid nobody would even notice.

They’re going to have a conniption in 11 weeks time when all bets are off.

Oblomov21 · 05/04/2021 11:49

And? Your anxiety is ungrounded.

Chunkymenrock · 05/04/2021 11:49

The responses on this thread just confirm that many people are thick, selfish and delusional. Coronavirus is still very much present and coming out of lockdown is a gradual step by step process to keep cases as low as possible. Nothing surprises me any more regarding other humans' behaviour, as demonstrated by posters gleefully piling in to say good, let's crack on, everyone's sick of it. Human behaviour like this is vile. I haven't made sacrifices for a year, for this disgusting attitude now to prevail.

ZiggyBaby · 05/04/2021 11:51

@Chunkymenrock

The responses on this thread just confirm that many people are thick, selfish and delusional. Coronavirus is still very much present and coming out of lockdown is a gradual step by step process to keep cases as low as possible. Nothing surprises me any more regarding other humans' behaviour, as demonstrated by posters gleefully piling in to say good, let's crack on, everyone's sick of it. Human behaviour like this is vile. I haven't made sacrifices for a year, for this disgusting attitude now to prevail.

You think you're the only one that's made sacrifices? We all have. For over a year now. And you're surprised people are happy to see others socialising now? Get over yourself.

TristantheTyrannosaurus · 05/04/2021 11:54

@Chunkymenrock

The responses on this thread just confirm that many people are thick, selfish and delusional. Coronavirus is still very much present and coming out of lockdown is a gradual step by step process to keep cases as low as possible. Nothing surprises me any more regarding other humans' behaviour, as demonstrated by posters gleefully piling in to say good, let's crack on, everyone's sick of it. Human behaviour like this is vile. I haven't made sacrifices for a year, for this disgusting attitude now to prevail.

Your sacrifices are no one's lookout but your own.

Good on your ILs, OP! We're doing the same.

Time to get on with living our lives.

dividedwefall · 05/04/2021 11:55

@Chunkymenrock I agree people really are thick and delusional. People that want to keep others locked in their homes despite hardly any cases or illnesses. Lock down was meant to be an extraordinary emergency temporary measure, not a way of life. If you are so scared lock yourself away from human contact, but it is actually selfish of YOU to want others to continue to do the same.

UrAWizHarry · 05/04/2021 11:57

@Chunkymenrock

The responses on this thread just confirm that many people are thick, selfish and delusional. Coronavirus is still very much present and coming out of lockdown is a gradual step by step process to keep cases as low as possible. Nothing surprises me any more regarding other humans' behaviour, as demonstrated by posters gleefully piling in to say good, let's crack on, everyone's sick of it. Human behaviour like this is vile. I haven't made sacrifices for a year, for this disgusting attitude now to prevail.

DFO. We've all made sacrifices.

I'm vaccinated. My folks are vaccinated. Waiting a couple of more weeks to see them makes fuck all difference.

Sansaplans · 05/04/2021 11:58

@Chunkymenrock

The responses on this thread just confirm that many people are thick, selfish and delusional. Coronavirus is still very much present and coming out of lockdown is a gradual step by step process to keep cases as low as possible. Nothing surprises me any more regarding other humans' behaviour, as demonstrated by posters gleefully piling in to say good, let's crack on, everyone's sick of it. Human behaviour like this is vile. I haven't made sacrifices for a year, for this disgusting attitude now to prevail.

Ah yes you're the only one who has made any sacrifices. Sanctimonious AF.

Chunkymenrock · 05/04/2021 11:59

It's not one extreme or the other. That's what the thick seem to think. It's about gradually moving back to normal bit by bit. People never were locked in their homes where I live. Not sure where you are?