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#ImDone trending on Twitter

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Workyticket · 14/06/2021 09:37

Not sure how Boris can stand up tonight and ask us to wait 'just another few weeks' after his antics this weekend.

Nor after seeing the scenes at countless pubs where people were celebrating the footy results

I'm 100% done now

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LoudestCat14 · 14/06/2021 11:46

Thewiseoneincognito Kids don't need to watch MSM to know the horrors of what's been going on – it's been right in their faces from the start, from the clapping for carers to the masks in shops, not seeing their grandparents and friends for months on end, going back to school in bubbles and being separated in the classrooms and corridors. Even parents who've done their absolute best not to project won't have been able to shield their DCs entirely, so maybe go easy on LysistrataVickers, who is clearly struggling herself, and don't assume she's not tried.

TheLovelinessOfDemons · 14/06/2021 11:47

@poppycat10

I bet there are still people washing their shopping and quarantining their post, despite being vaccinated. You were never going to catch it from your shopping or post!

Personally I think people are overreacting unless it's their livelihood at stake. Do you really need to be able to prop up a bar rather than wait for someone to bring your drinks to your table?

I just want my son to be able to leave his house for the first time in over a year.
Grellbunt · 14/06/2021 11:50

They make the kids watch bloody Newsround in school so it is quite difficult to protect them from the MSM

BingBangBong1 · 14/06/2021 11:51

There were 4 massive house parties in my street between Friday and yesterday. Loads of noise, no attempt to even hide it and I know via the local area gossip page that calls were made to the police from multiple Karens people.
No police showed up.

You cannot tell people one thing, then visibly do another. Not after this long. You may get away with it after a few months as with Cummings. Not now.
Especially when we know his inept behaviour has led to so many avoidable deaths. Not when time and again he has acted far too late.
We were doing so well as a country until the Delta variant was allowed ample opportunity to hitch a ride here.

I feel so sorry for nightclubs, and the wedding industry. They're kind of the only things paying for Boris' mistakes now. I saw a couple on GMB today and my heart went out to them and others. It can't be easy.

HelgaDownUnder · 14/06/2021 11:53

@Thewiseoneincognito

Rule of 30 outdoors is allowed right? All will be vaxxed and tested.

Little bit different to 300+ in a nightclub with poor ventilation isn’t it.

Covid deniers heads are going to spin off when they realise we’ll be in lockdown before end of the year because of Delta variant. 📈

You sound like you can't wait!

What is it that excites you - closure of family owned business, social isolation, job-losses, the increasing sense of despair?

And why are the people dealing with all these things covid-deniers, is covid a religion now?

Ostara212 · 14/06/2021 11:55

@Funfortheroad

I get why people are fed up with it all, but I don't get the G7 connection. They didn't do anything that we're not allowed to do?
How can you look at the G7 pictures and say that?
BingBangBong1 · 14/06/2021 11:58

I really feel for those who this is exciting and you cannot wait to be locked down.
You should be angry. If you're not angry, you're not paying attention

We have been massively, hugely, let down by our government. Kier Starmer has been useless at bringing them to task.

We didn't have to have the death rate, nor the long Covid rate, nor the deaths from preventable and treatable illness that has been ignored and sidelined because we didn't close our border in February 2020. There was no justification for it.
If we'd have had that, with the success of the vaccine program, we may not have been at zero Covid but we wouldn't be in the shit like now.

This is horrible. Whether you suffer with mental illness or not, it's soul destroying. DD is a bit of a mess right now. My nephew doesn't like to leave the house and hates school right now as he is petrified.

So many jobs lost. So many people lost.
It's diabolical

Faffinator · 14/06/2021 12:02

It's fine to say wait a few more weeks if you don't have plans that this delay is going to lay to ruins.....again. Or if the delay isn't going to cost you money that you don't have.....again. There is a disregard for the actual stuff of people's lives that I begin to find unbearable.

DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat · 14/06/2021 12:03

@Workyticket

I have selfish reasons for being invested - my wedding is re-arranged for July.
Yes, ‘selfish’ reason here too. Followed all the rules and guidelines to the letter (the letter! Wink), no complaint but, but - DD year13 has had minimal teaching in year 12 of A Levels, massively disrupted year 13 from October last year onwards - so many bubbles bursting - not able to sit the actual exams and will instead get an assessed set of A Levels, no socialising to speak during one of the most important periods of growing up and what should have been developing independence, had her driving lessons stopped/started three times, won’t get to do her test until the end of this year now, and has had to defer Uni because, at her chosen uni, lectures will still be online til at least December. The one thing that her and her friends (who will be going off all over the country to different unis) had to look forward to was their year 13 prom, booked for the only date they could get - June 29th. And now that won’t go ahead, and I would still be on board with that, apart from the fact that the Government has thought it entirely appropriate that (all secondary school pupils) her and her year group have been squeezed in to classrooms, where no social distancing is possible, and for the last few weeks, mostly maskless and , of course, unvaccinated. So what, exactly, would be the issue with them having this one last chance at a gathering before they all leave school? (The only teachers involved would be the ones who’ve been crammed in the classrooms with them)
HazeyJaneII · 14/06/2021 12:03

I really feel for those who this is exciting and you cannot wait to be locked down.

Who?! Who is this referring to?? I keep seeing posts like this, people who love having 'half lives'....'lockdown lovers'...supposedly 'excited' at the prospect of lockdowns....
Is it people who think we are probably right to be cautious and not relax all restrictions on the 21st??

RightOnTheEdge · 14/06/2021 12:05

The posters who say they are not wearing a mask anymore how will that work in places like shops and pubs where its required.
Will you just say you are exemptif the staff ask you?

TheClaws · 14/06/2021 12:06

The most vulnerable have been double vaccinated now it they wanted to be. Sod the ones who can't be bothered.

June2021 Not all of them, no. Some haven't received both yet; some haven't wanted them, as you've noted, and some cannot be vaccinated at all. It isn't such a simple binary "Right, lets stop all the isolating this instant." I would think we would need an acceptable level of vaccination across the country (or even globally) and/or herd immunity in the population.

CrunchyCarrot · 14/06/2021 12:08

Personally I'm sick and tired of seeing graphs with extrapolated, scary looking lines going exponentially upwards. We've been there, done that before, folks. There's no reason whatsoever for that cases line to keep going exponentially, and there's no evidence that hospital admissions and deaths will go up exponentially. Over 55% of the population are fully vaccinated now. More have at least one vaccination. Others are immune from previous Covid infections. We simply will not see another big third wave, I have no idea why this is being pushed at us. Things are very different from last year, many more people are protected.

Faffinator · 14/06/2021 12:09

@DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat couldn't agree more. We face year 11 prom now being cancelled even though they were all together in a massive year 11 bubble together. Even though they could easily test before and after the event, just as the crowd events have been able to do. It is grotesquely unfair.

yassss · 14/06/2021 12:09

@Workyticket

I have selfish reasons for being invested - my wedding is re-arranged for July.
Why have you started yet another thread?

Especially when the wedding cap of 30 is going to be scrapped?

BingBangBong1 · 14/06/2021 12:11

@HazeyJaneII

I really feel for those who this is exciting and you cannot wait to be locked down.

Who?! Who is this referring to?? I keep seeing posts like this, people who love having 'half lives'....'lockdown lovers'...supposedly 'excited' at the prospect of lockdowns....
Is it people who think we are probably right to be cautious and not relax all restrictions on the 21st??

I certainly thought @Thewiseoneincognito sounded positively thrilled about it
CookieClub · 14/06/2021 12:11

@StacysMomMandyJessiesEx

I’m worried those all saying ‘I’m done’ are going to refuse to comply in shops where we are bound by tight covid guidelines/rules/regs and face disciplinary if we allow customers to behave in an ‘I’m done’ way in our stores?

Covid audits check our cctv for all kinds of compliance. We are shamed on social media, complete with a photo, if seen to be slipping with covid regs

You need to educate your employers then.

Legally anyone can say they are exempt from wearing a mask, and that is to be the end of the conversation. Legally there is no proof required, no card, no letter, no sunflower lanyard..the words I AM EXEMPT suffice.

IF an employee continues to interrogate another person on their reasons, they face being sued for discrimination [personally, not the actual company]

IMO this is about seeing how far they can get people to comply..how much can they get away with. They've done well so far, illegal to hug family members, must wear face nappy in shops etc. If they were setting an example that would be different, but they're at the G7 summit having a great unmasked/undistanced time.

This goes deeper than regulations. This is about conformity... people need to be asking WHY we need to continue conforming and to what cost.

BingBangBong1 · 14/06/2021 12:12

That's not guaranteed though @yassss.
Just because the MSM says it "might" another source suggested they are seen as super spreader events so who knows.

Fortyfifty · 14/06/2021 12:12

[quote Faffinator]@DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat couldn't agree more. We face year 11 prom now being cancelled even though they were all together in a massive year 11 bubble together. Even though they could easily test before and after the event, just as the crowd events have been able to do. It is grotesquely unfair.[/quote]
Aw - I'd forgotten about the proms. Such a shame for the pupils - and as you say - they have been in a year group bubble at school and could easily test beforehand.

EvilPea · 14/06/2021 12:12

It’s already over where I am, masks and social distancing out the window. Which really annnoys me, you know your situation but you don’t know mine, or the next person, or the next person.
Make and take your risks, but don’t push them onto strangers.

June2021 · 14/06/2021 12:14

@TheLovelinessOfDemons

I just want my son to be able to leave his house for the first time in over a year.

Why have you kept your son in your house for over a year?

TheDevils · 14/06/2021 12:14

Covid deniers heads are going to spin off when they realise we’ll be in lockdown before end of the year because of Delta variant. 📈

You sound positively excited at the prospect....

June2021 · 14/06/2021 12:15

or his house for over a year?

Walking is allowed, going out is allowed?

CookieClub · 14/06/2021 12:15

@RightOnTheEdge

The posters who say they are not wearing a mask anymore how will that work in places like shops and pubs where its required. Will you just say you are exemptif the staff ask you?
Yes this exactly what people do. As they are legally entitled to do so.
newnortherner111 · 14/06/2021 12:17

Don't complain if you were a Tory member and voted for Mr Johnson as leader.
Don't complain if you did not vote in the 2019 general election and could have done.

Mr Johnson's behaviour this weekend was not good, but mild compared to many of the things he has done or not done over the last 15 months.

My lifelong opposition to the death penalty is the sole reason why I do not think Mr Johnson should hang.