#ImDone trending on Twitter

[Workyticket]

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

I agree

@ErykahBaddy

What is the "I'm done" thing to? I don't live in the UK and I thought there weren't many restrictions in place any more? What is the thing everyone is actually saying they're done with? Masks indoors?

Things I can’t do at present under current restrictions:

• have more than 6 adults at a social gathering in my house
• go out to my local pub without pre-booking and staying at my table, and staying physically distanced at that table from non-household members I’m meeting up with
• take my kids to soft play
• go to my office
• go shopping with another adult, unless it’s essential I accompany them
• take off my mask in shops or at church or on buses and trains
• attend school sports days (explicitly not permitted) or nursery graduation/goodbye celebrations for the preschool kids going to start school (also explicitly not permitted).
• dance at a wedding
• etc, etc, etc.

These might be all things that wouldn’t bother you much. And I will continue to do them, because I am a bit worried about what delta could do to hospitalisation levels and I think these measures work. But they’re pretty unprecedented levels of government intrusion in our normal lives, and they are hard and grinding and really getting people down.

How does it place others at risk? If the ones wanting to wear masks are wearing masks - with the absolute belief that they work and will protect them - and people are distancing anyway...how does Joe Bloggs not wearing a mask directly affect a mask wearer?

The mask does not protect the person who is wearing it. If I am wearing a mask, it stops me passing on covid (if I had it). Other people wearing masks stops them passing on covid (if they have it)
Can't believe, after over a year this is still having to be explained.

@shewalkslikerihanna wrote:

"Everyone has the right to be exempt, they gave no right to ask for proof, you do not need to supply proof, you do not need to wear a lanyard and your Gp will not supply you with a letter."

Spot on! And that means that anyone and everyone can claim to be exempt just because, for example, the mask restricts their breathing and that makes they feel panicky; or it restricts their breathing because they have sinus problems, or asthma, or hay fever, or claustrophobia, or it makes their glasses steam up, so they can't see where they are walking, which is a healthy and safety hazard, or it makes them feel alienated and psychologically weird... and so on.

@Bhappy12

BoJo and Co haven't actually broken any rules, though. You can meet in groups larger than 30 if it's work related (including meal breaks). It's really horrible that you can't do the exact same thing for a wedding, but, ultimately, weddings aren't as much of a priority as allowing people to work.

I hope that the 30 people rule will be scrapped for weddings (have heard it might be), but ultimately with hospitalisation up 15%, a few more weeks is not the worst thing that could happen when the restrictions are currently so few. I'd rather a few more weeks now than another full lockdown later.
Given that there are many vulnerable people who are unvaccinated (including children), great swathes of people who haven't been able to get a vaccine yet (including children who are more affected by this variant), and uncertainty about how effective this vaccine is against the Delta strain, I think BoJo has (for once) made the right decision to delay lifting all restrictions just yet.

I wish we were done with this, but, sadly, we're not. Everyone should make a choice about their own risks re: vaccines, family/friends social distancing etc, but you have to remeber that you're also making the choice for those around you when you break some of the rules (social distancing in public, not wearing a mask etc) and by doing so, you're risking their lives, health and livelihood with no idea of the concequences.

I agree.

shewalkslikerihanna just blurting "Rot!" is not an argument.

I have explained why falsely claiming an exemption is selfish and cowardly. You haven't explained why it isn't.

Don't wear a mask if you want to. But at least have the courage of your convictions.

@placemats

What amuses me is this them vs us divide - the general public would be shocked at the amount of NHS workers & key workers that haven't had the vax, don't see the need for the masks etc.

The key workers I know wear full PPE and have had the vaccination.

Same here Funny that

@ErykahBaddy

What is the "I'm done" thing to? I don't live in the UK and I thought there weren't many restrictions in place any more? What is the thing everyone is actually saying they're done with? Masks indoors?

Pubs, restaurants, theatres, events not near fully open, close to going bust, protest outside Downing Street as I type

Tracing in all those places - who will risk a 10 day quarantine for the pub? Many. But many not!

Masks in a museum, gallery as well as not full capacity

Masks in shops, banks, on buses, trains. Some poor workers wearing them all day - hellish.

Restrictions on outdoor events.

Compulsory testing in many jobs.

@NameyNameyNameChangey

How does it place others at risk? If the ones wanting to wear masks are wearing masks - with the absolute belief that they work and will protect them - and people are distancing anyway...how does Joe Bloggs not wearing a mask directly affect a mask wearer?

The mask does not protect the person who is wearing it. If I am wearing a mask, it stops me passing on covid (if I had it). Other people wearing masks stops them passing on covid (if they have it)
Can't believe, after over a year this is still having to be explained.

Same here, Namey. As others have said, a toddler can be toilet-trained quicker than some people can be trained as to how a mask works.

@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. 📈

I'm not seeing any 'covid deniers' on this thread. What I am seeing however is a lot of people who have followed the rules/lost their jobs/whose MH is in the toilet/have had to postpone weddings several times and so on, and who are now quite understandably at the end of their tether. Particularly when over half the population (including the most vulnerable) are fully vaccinated, hospital admissions are low and those who are being admitted are not as severely ill as previously, 22,000-strong crowds are filling sports venues and BJ and pals are having their jollies while the rest of us are told we can't. Being pissed off at the hypocrisy and lies is not the same as being a covid denier.

Polarising and denigrating people isn't going to help anyone. Neither is gleefully insisting there'll be another lockdown when you have about as much insight into that as Trev down the pub does. And if there were to be another lockdown (big, massive, HUGE 'if'), surely now's the time to get the weddings/gigs/fun done while we can. Y'know, if there's going to be a lockdown anyway and all

@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?

They all flew there and did not quarantine.

@LadyPoison

I'm done too.

I am entitled to claim a mask exemption which I haven't taken advantage off but from now on I will be.

The NHS has been "saved" but we are still not being allowed a normal life and I fully expect the July 19th will be pushed back as well. SAGE is having far too much fun being in control.

Claiming mask exemption. That’s the spirit, you little rebel you! Hell, we all should do this so we can let the wave engulf us all and just be done with it right? A big red flag waving for a lockdown if ever there was one.

🙄🤷🏻‍♀️

My kids leave nursery next week. Parents were given an invite for their childs bubble; small groups of kids having their celebration of learning and tie giving. Outdoors, two parents per child for about 15 minutes, socially distanced.

Now we’ve had a letter to say we’re not allowed anymore, but thousands of people can go to football matches?! Where’s the logic?

Power to the people!

Golden "go shopping with another adult, unless it’s essential I accompany them"

That's a guideline. I'm single but see couples, some, with children shopping all the time. Don't worry about that one, there's not a £200 fine waiting unlike the bloody masks.

@Deathgrip

how many of them died 'with covid' rather than 'from covid'.

How are people still spouting this tripe after more than a year?!

It's not tripe though. Someone dying of terminal cancer and in the last weeks gets covid. Person was dying anyway. Covid or not.

How many people are still pushing that only covid matters. Seriously, there are so many contradictory rules and some make no sense at all that more and more people are saying they are done with it.

Average age of death is 82 still with covid which is a bit higher than the average age of death from other causes - go figure.

When have we ever been told to wear masks outdoors?

[quote youshallnotpass9]@JediGnot

And no blame at all towards a government that didn't put India on the red list for 3 weeks? Who keep moving the goal posts?

Its the public thats 100% at fault?[/quote]
Sorry - Obviously the government are massively responsible. Being sick of BJ and his incompetence and lies isn't news though, whereas, in the context of this thread, being sick of people becoming impatient because they believed his lies is relevant.

@Thewiseoneincognito

I realise your hyperbole and hysteria was directed at a different poster (poison)
"Hell, we all should do this so we can let the wave engulf us all and just be done with it right? A big red flag waving for a lockdown if ever there was one.🙄🤷🏻‍♀️"

You really need to sign up to amateur dramatics - you'd be amazing - assuming you every intend to venture out in the next 200 years because of you know 'covid'

[quote shewalkslikerihanna]@CookieClub
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They wore masks pre-covid? Surgeons wear masks so they don't get my internal organs and juice in their airways..nothing to do with covid!

But with regard to covid, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

What amuses me is this them vs us divide - the general public would be shocked at the amount of NHS workers & key workers that haven't had the vax, don't see the need for the masks etc.

I have no care if anyone treating me is vaccinated, or pro-mask - in the same sense I wouldn't care if they're HIV positive. Literally no-one elses business.

My son works in the operating theatres
Loads of surgeons saying they won’t touch the vax with a barge pole
He’s not been vaxed, lots of nhs co workers havent as you said[/quote]
1,227,185 of 1,378,502 = 89%. That's all health care workers in ESR payroll: porters, cleaners, admin staff, nursing, surgical etc.
Hardly a low take-up!
What's your son's actual job?

@Anniegetyourgun

As soon as you see "I'm done", "face nappy" or "sheep" you know what angle they're coming from, and it's not from former 100% compliance despite the fact that is generally claimed in the same sentence.

However, there's no denying that a lot of the restrictions have been pointless or contradictory, that rules they've kept are sometimes less effective than ones that have been lifted, that certain things should have been done months ago but there's precious little point doing them now, and that the present Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is an idle, self-serving, useless twit.

Yes, or MSM. As opposed to...a post they saw on Facebook? A random blog? I'm always terribly curious about what non-mainstream media they are referring to as a true, trusted source.

(Also agree on second paragraph.)

I do think it's the right choice, although I'm not convinced many will be doing more than the bare minimum and even that will mostly be for show. I'm disappointed about masks personally, but that's because in hot spaces, they trigger fainting episodes. It hadn't been a problem till the weather warmed up, but it's happened a few times now. I worry people who know I've been wearing one till now, will assume I'm making a statement.

ODP

@Thewiseoneincognito

Yup - I'm done.

I've put up with the mask for the good of other people but if thousands can meet safely at football matches my paltry sacrifice is no longer significant so I won't be making it.

@MRex - 89%

Wow that's a high take up of health care workers. I'm also suspicious of people claiming that their OP/DS/mate works in health care and saying the surgeons/doctors etc won't touch vaccines with a barge pole - made up to suit their own narrative. Glad the stats show otherwise.