Will you feel more or less confident to 'go back to normal' on the 19th July?

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Take holidays out the equation for the purpose of the thread. It's more in terms of day-to-day life and socialising etc.

Personally, i've enjoyed going to pubs and restaurants etc recently and catching up with friends again. Any socialising will run the risk with the virus, but there's measures in place to mitigate that risk.

Now, I know we need to go back to normal and businesses need to operate properly. However, the way the government have gone about it with letting the variant run riot in the build up. Dropping masks in schools and now altogether from the 19th, an end to social distancing altogether. It's basically eat out to help out on steroids in terms of spreading Covid and could be counter productive for hospitality by autumn.

Basically, are you thinking sod it, i'm going to catch it I might as well get on with things, or 'i'm going to roll back on what i'm doing now' (pubs/restaurants etc)? . We're paying the price for just how badly this whole thing has been handled. Neither are ideal.

My DH is CEV so it’s back to feeling virtually locked down again for us. I’m genuinely glad other people can enjoy some measure of normality but the risk to him, especially as we’re in a real Delta variant hotspot, is simply too great for us to be able to join in.

@NannyAndJohn

It's essentials only for us from now on.

Online supermarket shopping, no indoor mixing, continuing to wear a mask and SD when we need to leave home.

We're doing our bit to keep everyone else safe, are you?

Keeping the person picking your shopping safe then while you sit at home, you are an example of everything that is wrong about this pandemic

Pretty relaxed here. Will have a mask with me for stuffy and crowded areas. Keep washing hands!!!!!! People have forgotten about this in all the mask talk!

I shall just get on without thinking about it.

If I gave a lot of time to thinking about it, I'd see risks are likely increasing, but I'll just crack on anyway. There are risks involved in everything, we don't think about them. I'll have a drink on Fri, that carries risk, I'll get in the car today, I'm using a mobile phone that could well prove to be dangerous.

DH died (nothing to do with Covid) without ever doing all the things we planned for last summer and he was well enough to do them then. I'm honestly dumbfounded how we, as a population, allowed a situation where he spent 3 of his last 6 months in hospital, without a single visitor to happen. Whatever time I have, I'm going to live.

Mellongoose Keep washing hands!
Absolutely agree.

Cooldryplace so sorry to hear about your husband.

I would have preferred masks to remain, most people I know have said they’ll still be wearing them in shops, restaurants etc. I will be as I’m not vaccinated so I can at least try to protect others another way. I also think it would have been better to keep other measures in place. We’ll just see what happens I suppose.

I feel very sorry for vulnerable people, I know some who feel like they just don’t matter. I think there’s a real possibility that this isn’t going to be controlled well enough by vaccines and that we will have to accept a new normal. People aren’t ready for that yet though, they want to try and get back which is understandable. I think the government know that so they’re going to let people see what it’s like if we just let it go. Then people will be more accepting of longer term social distancing, masks etc if it comes to it. I will be very happy to be proven wrong, would love life to be ok for everyone again.

I’ve been ready to get back to normal for a long time, to be honest.

I don’t like the fact that a lot of places are continuing with the measures but it’s their choice, it’s interesting to see whether people will vote with their feet or not.

I will go about my daily life which doesn't tend to involve much socialising anyway. I will wear masks in the unlikely event I'm on public transport and I will assess mask wearing in shops. I don't think I'll be dropping masks immediately in the 19th but it'll be good to have a choice. Sometimes I get very hot bothered and stressed wearing a mask, steaming my glasses up, hair in the way etc

Personally, I can’t see life being much different to now. I think we’re heading for some confusion and conflict regarding mask wearing, and kind of wish the rule had been left as it was there for a bit longer. I’ll deal with invitations to big parties and gatherings as and when they arise!

I just want to be able to sing in church.

My life is fairly boring and so I'm unlikely to do anything I haven't already been doing. The only thing changing for me is I can now use common sense around mask wearing which means I may browse longer in shops and be able to see clearly what I'm looking at than staring through a mist.

I'm double jabbed and there's little point in having them if we can't trust them and it shouldn't be too long before even the youngsters are double jabbed too. I've not been too worried about covid since my children got it very mildly at Xmas.

“Yes because they will be mainly wfh, fairly well off and relying on everyone else running round delivering to them. Keeping everyone safe of course”

Or it’s just as possible that they are posting things that they know will get a rise out of people

@OnlyTheLangOfTheTitberg

My DH is CEV so it’s back to feeling virtually locked down again for us. I’m genuinely glad other people can enjoy some measure of normality but the risk to him, especially as we’re in a real Delta variant hotspot, is simply too great for us to be able to join in.

Same for me (I’m CEV). It’s relentless.

I would if I could but its not normal is it? I'm fed up. Everyone is so scared. Disproportionately so for many.

I shall be going to as many places as possible after being restricted for so long. Myself and all friends and family are fully vaccinated so the only time I'll wear a mask is on the bus/train
I'm looking forward to two milestone parties in august that were supposed to happen last year and eating and drinking in restaurants with family and friends again. My elderly parents feel the same.

I will feel the same, but then I'm double jabbed and have had Covid so I should have a good level of immunity. One of my kids got it too so that's a bit secure for a few months yet. I will carry on going out when the weather is nice and sit outside in pubs and restaurants, and when I have friends around sit outside or open garden doors and windows.

Really worried about MIL who has had cancer, has various illnesses and is on the eternal waiting list for hip surgery.

I feel for people who are vulnerable, will carry on wearing face mask when out in shops and public transport.

No, as my DD is CEV, the number and rise is cases atm is dreadful and going to get much worse.

[quote NannyAndJohn]Oh, I don't think so.

A healthy majority of us are in favour of keeping restrictions.

www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/majority-britons-support-extending-certain-covid-19-restrictions-not-forever[/quote]
The poll actually I think goes to show the impact of how this has been handled has had on our mental health.

19% said that a 10pm curfew should exist permanently. Any poll that has that makes me question it

I agree with some of the blue dots and some of the yellow (masks etc) but the permanently ones

@Whenthedealgoesdown does that apply to me then? I'm CEV. Everyone seems to be saying "sod other people now"
Because if distancing and masks are dropped, some people are choosing to go back to shielding so yes, I will be letting someone pick snd deliver my food

I suspect this article isn't completely balanced and it certainly has no depth, but interesting about what's gone on in other countries as they've relaxed restrictions. Particularly interesting that those countries initially held up as good examples of how to manage the crisis seem to be struggling most with coming out of it.

[[BBC News - Covid-19 rules: How six countries fared after easing Covid rules
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57796133]]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57796133.amp

I'm getting my second jab today so until that's kicked in in two weeks, I'll continue to live very cautiously. After that I'll probably start to relax, but I certainly won't be dining indoors or going to pubs/cinemas/friends' houses indoors yet. Outside is fine.

That said, I have a child in nursery and I'm resigned to catching it via him - I just hope my second vaccine kicks in first. There's a case in the nursery now so it's only a matter of time. I guess once I've had it I'll feel safer to do stuff! (And I suspect this is why so many people don't care now... they've all had it.)

I am CEV but I haven’t ever been able to shield due to my job, my husband’s job, my children needing childcare and various other circumstances.

I am fortunately fairly resigned to the increased risks to me, as I was before covid, and I haven’t had the challenge of shielding so haven’t been as isolated as some