Should Christmas be cancelled?

[Janey879]

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

No, like fuck will I cancel my Christmas

There's only so long you can miss out on your life. How many years of everyone's lives are we going to waste? Time is precious, its not unlimited.

I have completely followed the rules and requested my family do the same. But my eldest DD is coming for Christmas, pandemic or not. After what others in authority have done, I'd be arrested before that was cancelled.

I also won't be following 'the rules' if there's a lockdown. My family have been triple vaccinated so our Christmas and post Christmas plans won't change. I'm a teacher and will be going back to school in January stuck in a small, unventilated room with 30 young unvaccinated children. So my personal risk assessment is to see my fully vaccinated family and avoid my covid ravaged workplace

If you mean the Christian festival to celebrate the birth of Christ, then don’t be an utter melter, it can’t be cancelled. If you mean socialising and parties, should be up to the individuals:)

Isn't that ultimately down to the Pope?

It should be. At least some people won't break the rules, and those that do can fuck off and get ill

@Lacedwithgrace

It should be. At least some people won't break the rules, and those that do can fuck off and get ill

And a merry Christmas to you too!😅

@Lacedwithgrace

It should be. At least some people won't break the rules, and those that do can fuck off and get ill

Why bother having a rule then?

Maybe, just maybe, they could just provide advice and leave people to use their own, you know, judgment and free will?

All the churches near us have cancelled their Christmas day services.

We are planning to meet family indoors on 24th and then different family members outdoors between Christmas and New year. Really hoping they can still go ahead. Literally all our family members are double vaxxed and boosted.

Not at all!

The reality is lots of people’s Christmas plans have already been scuppered by positive tests. I know of so many people who are in isolation and many people who have reduced social contact to try and be able to safely see older relatives. For all the people saying they won’t be following the rules, there are more who are modifying their behaviour ahead of restrictions.

Seriously not another load of I don’t care, I’m not complying, won’t adhere to rules toddlers in the echo chamber AGAIN? This must be the twenty millionth today. 😳

Lockdown must definitely be coming because this is another level, someone’s working overtime aren’t they. Which organisation are you all from?

I couldn't care less if the goverment put restrictions in place for Christmas. I am still doing everything as planned.

Whether it would be a good idea or not is immaterial at this point. The government has exhausted all goodwill and trust, so people are just going to please themselves now.

My town was heaving today - if that's an indication of what peoples intentions are, nobody is cancelling Christmas!

Which organisation are you all from?

Gosh your really struggle with people who have different opinions to you, don't you?

You

Anyway, there's no point, very few will ge listening.

Well no! But both my DDs live and work in London. Having just heard the announcement about the critical incident I'm preparing myself for the fact they may not be able to come home for whatever reason (main one being that they'll test positive before Xmas). I'm feeling sad as we had a miserable Xmas last year but somewhat resigned.

@Bunnycat101

The reality is lots of people’s Christmas plans have already been scuppered by positive tests. I know of so many people who are in isolation and many people who have reduced social contact to try and be able to safely see older relatives. For all the people saying they won’t be following the rules, there are more who are modifying their behaviour ahead of restrictions.

Exactly. We don't need lockdown/further restrictions imposed as, although we are well and testing negative on LFT, we are restricting ourselves at the moment.

Plenty of people who are testing positive and/or ill now and over the next few days will be in isolation at Christmas so may want to hold a postponed Christmas day a few days later. Or people working over Xmas may have arranged a NY get-together. Why should they miss out if 2 or 3 households aren't allowed to come together?

Hell no.

people didnt adhere to it last year, well not 100% of people,
very unlikely to do this now!

I don't have an opinion on whether anyone else should cancel their Christmas celebrations. I probably will be though- not because I'm scared of Covid necessarily, but because I'm scared of the financial impact of another self-isolation in the new year if we catch it over Christmas. Our finances were absolutely shot by the last lockdowns, and my husband's business that had previously been our main income was no longer viable. I'm so stressed all the time and I would rather miss out on Christmas with extended family than risk another 10 days of massively reduced income.

If I didn't have to prioritise my income, I would probably have the big family Christmas. If it was mandated then we would probably cancel in any event because my parents prefer to follow the rules, which I understand. It's all just a horrible situation and I feel sorry for everyone who won't get the Christmas they'd hoped for.

I'd love to see the hypocritical lying idiot Boris telling us to lockdown again and only for the journalists questions asking him why the fuck we should do a single thing he says.

@Elfonthesofa - the point is that those who don't give a fuck could end up in hospital in large numbers & the NHS may collapse. What is there to understand? I'm at the end of my rope with selfish fuckers honestly.

i still wear a mask and wash my hands, but what more can i do, i am not going to pubs