Is this really the end

[Beatinghearts]

It look like. It’s finally the end of this and everyone will be getting back to normal.

Nearly though. Supposed to be announced as variant of concern this afternoon.

Just to prove we optimist types aren't just Pollyannas. But what Prof Peacock says still stands.

Glad to see the thread has deteriorated into a lockdown lovers v selfish for doing anything , slanging match

@TheKeatingFive

Ooooh we have a ‘sadly’.

Any advances on that? What about an ‘I’m afraid’?

C’mon now gloomers, don’t let me down.

@TheKeatingFive

I’m afraid that, sadly, Covid restrictions must stay in place. It doesn’t matter if we decimate industries, livelihoods and parts of society, we must prevent Covid. You don’t need to see your elderly parents or hold your new grandchild! What matters is that you are safe within your own home (if you’re fortunate enough to remain employed and can afford that roof over your head) because you are alive. You’re so fortunate to be not dead from Covid because sadly, if we don’t lockdown until 2047, you might risk not being alive. :( I’m afraid, not seeing your own closest relatives is just one of those things that we all must accept.

P.S. Stay the fuck at home!

Sadly we will be back in lockdown from July until at least 2024 I'm afraid.

@tobee

Nearly though. Supposed to be announced as variant of concern this afternoon.

Just to prove we optimist types aren't just Pollyannas. But what Prof Peacock says still stands.

Is there a press conference?

I have reached the end of my tether this week for some reason. I just want this over (like everyone does!).

@ringboobs

Sadly we will be back in lockdown from July until at least 2024 I'm afraid.

We'll never have a vaccine against Covid, I'm afraid.

My 3rd cousin twice removed met someone who's ex-husband is high up in the NHS and that's where they heard this. Sorry.

Oh, hang on. That's all a bit last season.

Wow this really is like being in the play ground with all the name calling
Do you behave like this in real life?

@sleepwouldbenice

Wow this really is like being in the play ground with all the name calling Do you behave like this in real life?

Have you got anything of substance to contribute yourself?

Seems like you're the one doing the name calling here.

I did earlier thanks. As if there is much substance in all the name calling.

Ideological blinkers and laziness are why our government don't seem to be planning to beat covid, to end it, but instead to let it linger for generations @Tealightsandd.

But the Far Right are targeting ethnic groups with vaccine misinformation to discourage them from getting protected, so there's your eugenics angle.

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I wouldn't say there's been a huge amount of name calling. Calling people "gloomers" and "arrogant" is pretty mild. I think, considering how some Mumsnetters have been fostering a sense of fear and blame for over 12 months, people have been restrained

Seriously don't think you can accuse the government of planning to let Covid linger. They can be accused of many things abhorrent; but not that. It's not as of Covid has vanished from the rest of the world. And it's just us that has cases. We're still way ahead of most of the rest of the world with, not only vaccine purchases and roll outs, but also fantastic sequencing.

why our government don't seem to be planning to beat covid, to end it

That’s not in their power to do though. It would take massive global co-ordination to even try to eradicate Covid forever, and even then would be incredibly difficult. We’ve been trying to end polio since the 1980s…

I am not at all a fan of our current incompetent muppets in the shape of a government, but it doesn’t mean that every single thing about their Covid response needs to be viewed a “produced by Tories therefore evil and wrong.”

It really isn't.

Hospitals have been told to prepare for another wave in the Autumn. Schools are still closing entire year groups because of infection.

Anyone thinking it's over is potty.

I like the name calling when directed at me.

I consider it conceding the point.

There's nothing in the governments current plans to end covid in this country.

Indeed the government has just allowed a new Covid variant to move in and get itself comfortably settled all over the country in time for us to open up over the next 6 weeks.

Even delaying designating it a Variant of Concern until after the elections to give it plenty of time to get situated and allowing Indian trade envoys in without having to quarantine.

If B16172 comes to nothing it won't be because of anything the government does. It will be because once we open up B117 kicks it's arse

@GoldenOmber

why our government don't seem to be planning to beat covid, to end it

That’s not in their power to do though. It would take massive global co-ordination to even try to eradicate Covid forever, and even then would be incredibly difficult. We’ve been trying to end polio since the 1980s…

I am not at all a fan of our current incompetent muppets in the shape of a government, but it doesn’t mean that every single thing about their Covid response needs to be viewed a “produced by Tories therefore evil and wrong.”

Do you don't think this is the end as per the thread title?

@CarrieAntoinette

Ideological blinkers and laziness are why our government don't seem to be planning to beat covid, to end it, but instead to let it linger for generations *@Tealightsandd*.

But the Far Right are targeting ethnic groups with vaccine misinformation to discourage them from getting protected, so there's your eugenics angle.

How can one single govt 'end' Covid? It's an endemic virus which has spread around the world and is going to be around indefinitely.

The one with the 'ideological blinkers' here is clearly yourself.

Agreed @IcedPurple.

People seem to be getting very confused.

Hospitals have been told to prepare for another wave in the Autumn

Of course they have. Hospitals always have contingency plans in place for all sorts of scenarios. It would be pretty remiss of them not to do so.

Do you don't think this is the end as per the thread title?

The end of Covid existing as a virus, no. The end of pandemic emergency measures in our rich well-vaccinated country, roughly yes.

@tobee

People seem to be getting very confused.

I think at least one poster here is more motivated by their extreme antipathy to this government than by any of the actual facts surrounding the virus and they see everything through this lens. I have no time for this government either, but I'm not pretending that Covid is entirely within their control and that unnamed 'other countries' have done swimmingly.

This is a great sentence:-

"Do you don't think this is the end as per the thread title?"

Who says covid has become endemic in the U.K. @IcedPurple? Or globally?

It's not endemic in New Zealand is it?

(But I am enjoying you all now telling me it's not the end. Weren't you insisting it was earlier in the thread?)

Are you all confused between eradicated (global) and eliminated (local)?

After all, none of us know any children with polio, which is eliminated in the U.K., but not eradicated globally because it was allowed to become endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan.