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Should Christmas be cancelled?

86 replies

Janey879 · 16/12/2021 18:59

I’m in the No camp. By Christmas I mean gatherings inside with people not your household. What are you thinking?

YABU - Christmas should be cancelled
YANBU - Christmas shout not be cancelled

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Offmyfence · 16/12/2021 19:48

@Bluebell878275

I wish this stupid phrase would piss off. No body has the ability/power to 'cancel' Christmas. Christmas happens every year on the same date COVID or not. You can celebrate in your own way on another date if you wish but Christmas still happens from the 24th.
Someone on another thread is asking why it can't be moved until later in the year!

To avoid covid issues 🙄

Angel2702 · 16/12/2021 19:48

No if fully boosted adults and kids that have had vaccine or had COVID recently can’t meet with LFT before then this will be life every winter. After last year unless one of us has COVID we will carry on as normal. We have cancelled plans for this weekend and next week to limit contacts before but that’s as much as I’m prepared to do.

RowanAlong · 16/12/2021 19:56

I’d be happy to ‘cancel’ Christmas and just stay at home the four of us, if that meant that schools would go back near normally afterwards. Can’t do homeschooling again.

slashlover · 16/12/2021 20:04

How many of these threads do we need on AIBU when there's a covid board I've hidden?

ilovesooty · 16/12/2021 20:22

People who are going to limit their contacts will do so. Those who aren't, won't. It makes no difference to me personally but no one will take any notice if they don't want to.

MarshaBradyo · 16/12/2021 20:23

No people should know the info and choose

Do LFT etc

DockOTheBay · 16/12/2021 20:26

People who are anxious about covid will cancel their plans anyway.
People who aren't anxious about covid won't listen to lockdown rules anyway.

I'm in the latter camp.

Abraxan · 16/12/2021 20:27

Of course not.
Besides, what's the point - the Government have lost the goodwill of the general public I think. Even lifelong Tory supporters are saying they wouldn't follow guidelines based in this current lot.

I think the government know that the compliance of the general public wouldn't be there for another Christmas lockdown or strict restrictions.

Whammyyammy · 16/12/2021 20:30

I shall ignore it if they do.

BenjiMcSchmenzie · 16/12/2021 20:30

No, Oliver Cromwell managed to cancel it for a few years - but as the Grinch discovered, you can't stop Christmas from coming ...

Terminallysleepdeprived · 16/12/2021 20:34

Shirt of posting police on every street corner (and keys face it labour and the tories have destroyed the police force so no way there are enough) they couldn't enforce it even if they wanted to.

They can try and stop me seeing my family but I will be going regardless

StoneofDestiny · 16/12/2021 21:08

Do t understand this. Christmas can't be cancelled - it's a Christian feast day. However, you personally can modify how you celebrate it and who you mix with.

landofgiants · 16/12/2021 21:27

Agree with @RowanAlong. I'd cancel multiple Christmases if it ensured schools staying open.

BettyfromBristol · 16/12/2021 21:33

As a non-Christian I'm not fussed either way but I imagine people will make their own judgements depending on the health of people they want to meet with. I'm not changing my plans for the solstice.

SLH2003 · 16/12/2021 21:36

What about the elves and father Christmas! You want to put them out of a job 😱😱

Offmyfence · 16/12/2021 21:37

@SLH2003

What about the elves and father Christmas! You want to put them out of a job 😱😱
Exactly, they won't get furloughed this year!
JuneOsborne · 16/12/2021 21:41

Well, do you mean there should be a lockdown now, so the pubs, restaurants and shops shut? So people can't go on works do's, can't go Christmas shopping and can't eat out as a family? No one can ignore that.

Should household mixing be banned on Christmas day? That's the bit people are going to ignore.

To be honest, Christmas day looks like it could be a wash out with so many people ill and isolating there may be no need to cancel, it'll just end up cancelled.

Dippydinosaurus · 16/12/2021 21:42

All my family have been triple vaccinated so we'll be having our Christmas. Otherwise what's the point of the vaccines

Pixxie7 · 16/12/2021 21:43

I don’t think Christmas should be cancelled we aren’t kids and can make our own minds up. However I do think that household mixing should be limited.

TempsPerdu · 16/12/2021 21:50

Nope. And at the rate Omicron is currently spreading it won’t make the blindest bit of difference whether Christmas is ‘cancelled’ or not.

What I find hard is that there’s so much made of protecting Christmas Day itself

The reality is I love the run up to Christmas much more than the day - and that’s what I feel we are missing out on this year with all the cancelled events, guidance to avoid mixing etc

Same - this is the bit I’ve always loved. Drinks with friends and theatre trips and carol services. Christmas Day itself is always a damp squib in comparison.

invinoveritass · 16/12/2021 21:54

Nope.

I've just stopped reading the news, the rules, the guidelines, the testing. They can all go fuck themselves.

Pinkfluffyunicornsandrainbows · 16/12/2021 21:59

I don't think many people would pay attention now if Boris tried to say we can't see family and friends. Those who don't feel safe meeting up won't, those who do will. It's personal choice and unless Boris gets police out knocking on doors on Christmas day then there's really nothing he can do about it.

Pinetreesfall · 16/12/2021 22:05

Christmas isn't going to be cancelled in this house!

I do a lot of driving for work / study and am way more likely to die in a car accident....or be murdered by my ex husband....than get killed by covid so am going to carry on living my life!

Im CEV but not worried, there are far scarier things out there!

Largethighsbadeyes · 16/12/2021 22:27

All the faux "what do you mean?! No one can cancel Christmas! It's a religious fesitval that happens every year" posts are starting to piss me off

In the context of covid everyone knows what cancelling Christmas means. It means it being against the law to spend the Christmas period with friends and extended family...as in last year.

So can we stop all that bollocks now please?

For what it's worth I think a lot of people will cancel things themselves out of fear, or will be isolating

An equal or greater number of people will continue with their plans regardless of what rules the government bring in.

Because honestly, what's to say delaying it to January, March, June will be any better. There are new variants all the time.

We are vaccinated as much as we can be in my family. We have followed the rules thus far. Its time to live life because not everyone has that long left and not because of covid.

Largethighsbadeyes · 16/12/2021 22:29

@Pixxie7

I don’t think Christmas should be cancelled we aren’t kids and can make our own minds up. However I do think that household mixing should be limited.
That amounts to the same thing for many people.

Christmas is a time when extended families gather, so limiting it (that's what happened last year for anywhere that wasn't locked down) effectively cancels Christmas for some people