Possible Covid restrictions over the next five winters

[MercyBooth]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9747351/amp/Freedom-Boris-Johnson-set-lift-Covid-rules-July-19.html?__twitter_impression=true

And?

Last night it was claimed that health officials have drawn up contingency plans for the next five winters that could see restrictions rolled back at the drop of a hat.

These could include making face masks and social distancing mandatory, asking people to work from home and putting limits on indoor gatherings.

Absolute catnip for those who hate their relatives and havent got the guts to tell them they dont want to see them at Christmas.

It’s called contingency planning. Presumably they have a plan for what happens if someone nukes London. It doesn’t mean it’s likely to happen.

We don't know, do we?

It all depends on how the virus spreads and mutates and so on. If a vaccine resistant variant turns up, then I suppose we'll have to go back to restrictions. No one wants them, but no one can actually foresee the future.

Realistically once people are vaccinated I can't see them bothering with it. My 3 year old is now anxious in indoor public places I can't imagine what another five years would do to her.

Yeah, cos people will comply to that 🙄😬 shut pubs if they want but no way in hell will be people be spending a second miserable winter away from family and friends.

@MercyBooth

Absolute catnip for those who hate their relatives and havent got the guts to tell them they dont want to see them at Christmas.

I expect last Christmas showed a lot of people how nice it is to spend the day at home so they won’t need the government’s permission to do it again.

They can try but other than shutting businesses and further ruining the economy, a large amount of people will not keep away from their friends and family again. And they can fuck off if they try to shut schools again - kids have been bottom of the pile during this and they should not be made to suffer any more for an illness that barely affects thwm

"Is the NHS on the verge of collapse" The newsreader on an episode of 1970s sitcom Man About The House on ITV3 earlier today.

Seems sensible to have a contingency plan in place. Hopefully things will be more normal, but nobody really knows what will happen.

I'm not sure what else you would expect?!

I think having contingency plans is generally a good idea.

I won't ever comply again to any restrictions that are reintroduced regarding distancing from family and friends.

OP, you should see my business continuity plans and their contingency plans! It doesn’t mean it going to happen!

Catnip indeed...

Covid has been a wonderful shield for some people!

Anne its not the government's permission people need, we've had pushy in laws come around and knock endlessly, call, email, barrage us...short of calling the police and have Xmas turn really nasty there isn't much more we can do.

So yes it's been great from that aspect

Contingency plans are always a good idea. Let’s not let the nhs get to the state it was in previously. I’m a nurse!!! We (the hospital) have always got plans in place for major incidents/breakouts of flu etc.

If we’d had a decent contingency plan in March 2020 things might have been very different. I’m sure you probably complained about the lack of preparedness OP, so I don’t think you can also complain about the opposite.

Lots of "could"s and "may"s in that article.

Maybe if the UK these kind of contingency plans in place before the pandemic, it wouldn't have hit us so badly.

I think when people mean preparedness they dont mean the plebs making all the sacrifices.

Seems a good idea to have a plan

It is a shame their contingency plan doesn't include better funding and support for the nhs and addressing the issue of the huge number of medical staff who are leaving or taking early retirement.

@Waxonwaxoff0

I won't ever comply again to any restrictions that are reintroduced regarding distancing from family and friends.

I won’t be either. I think most people will ignore any restrictions like this.

Contingency planning is a good thing. As @Username7521ssys above, you should see the contingency planning I’ve done for my business! And that goes way beyond the COVID pandemic. You should see the planning we have for nuclear war…

The reality is, if we have another virulent mutation hit us, then we would be daft to ignore any advice issued.

Take my Dad’s care home for example. Out of 120 beds, they now have around 40 beds filled. Even with Sanctuary Care’s excellent decision to shut their homes 3 weeks before the first UK lockdown, the first wave was brutal on the residents. It’s no fun to have calls every other day to advise there are cases on Dad’s floor, and as a resident with COPD, confined to a wheelchair with very limited movement & amputations due to blood clots, if he caught the virus & had a serious reaction, it’d be goodnight Vienna. As his daughter, it’s terrifying when you get that notification call.

I also have an elderly Mum who has recently had cancer.

I don’t care if people think their ‘rights’ are being eroded by these guidelines.

We need to work as a team here. This is not the time for stamping your feet & declaring you’re not going to do x, y or z because it doesn’t fit your views or plans.

I wonder if the anti vax & anti mask supporters have the balls to spout their rights to families who have lost someone in the past 18 months to COVID?