Would you comply.. Yes or no? Circuit breaker or whatever they'll decide to turn it into.

[MarmitesMyMate]

No explanation needed. Just a yes or no.

For me it's a hard NO.

No

@mincepiesallround

Not depressing at all userxx, just chatting with friends earlier this week and they mentioned that they were cancelling lots of plans at the moment, we had a good laugh about the shortage of LF tests and having to use them sparingly according to how much you want to attend a social event… weirdly enough there are lots of us that can talk about covid without it being about deaths or misery

*not depressing at all*

To be cancelling plans to get together with family and friends after a tumultuous few years?

You can’t really be that bothered about getting together then!

No

@Lacedwithgrace

Yes, I'm not a selfish asshole

Are you calling those who were in MH crisis or attempted suicide in past lockdowns, and who can feel themselves backsliding again now, 'selfish assholes'?

I keep asking this but nobody seems to want to answer.

No

100% yes and seriously pissed off with the people who don't

@oftenbaffled It was them cancelling plans not me, but it was a jolly conversation. We have had to cancel a ski holiday this winter which was disappointing but there will be future ski holidays and future winters. I don’t really recognise it having been a tumultuous few years, it has been less than two years since covid hit the UK and in that time restrictions haven’t been constant. There have been lots of opportunities to see family and friends.
I guess I was just saying to the previous poster that not everyone who is discussing covid is in the depths of misery.

You disagree that last few years have been tumultuous?

Do you have school / uni aged children?
Work? Good forbid run a business
Not lost anyone to COVID?
All your holidays, tips and plans gone ahead?

How odd.

Odd that you started a thread where you mention how terrible work is for your DH, fact you lost someone very close to COVID, the fact your young daughter got it and was “very ill”, that your holiday to see family you’d not seen in ages was in jeopardy of being cancelled

And yet you don’t think the last few years have been tumultuous? Interesting

Yes

Absolutely not

NO.

Obviously I can't go to places that are closed, but I'll never be stopped from seeing friends or family again.

Yes

@zafferana
Everyone over the age of 18 has been able to get a third dose for several days now. And those most vulnerable through age or health, have been able to get one for weeks

My chemo starts in the next week. I only managed to get a 3rd jab on Friday, and my chemo will mean I don’t get the full (or probably much) benefit. And more than that, I’d probably survive Covid, but it would delay my treatment which would probably kill me.

So you’re wrong.

Im not saying everyone should lock down for everything, mental health is important and it’s a trade off between sensible restrictions that still allow people to work whilst reducing risk.

But all those saying stuff everyone else I’m having a party with lots of people? Nice attitude…

Yes, if it's short.

I know quite a few people who work in the NHS as well, my best friend is a nurse (worked on a Covid ward last year) and another is a midwife and even they do not want nor will they abide by, another lockdown. I know poster's like to tell us all that NHS staff are all traumatised foot soldiers (I'm sure some are) who are desperate for another lockdown but every single one I know will also be sticking two fingers up at being told not to see friends/family again.

@oftenbaffled

You disagree that last few years have been tumultuous?

Do you have school / uni aged children?
Work? Good forbid run a business
Not lost anyone to COVID?
All your holidays, tips and plans gone ahead?

How odd.

It's less than two years.

I have one university-aged son who lost out on most of his sicth form.

I work but work from home and like working from home.

Haven't lost anyone to covid, barely know anyone who's even had it.

Haven't booked trips because it always seemed unlikely they would go ahead, but did book one which did happen. Cancelled one in the early weeks which should have been in May 2020.

So no, not odd that I don't perceive it as tumultuous. The only thing annoying me is that I have a big 0 birthday coming up and it doesn't look like I'll be able to do anything for it. But I'll just have to do it when I can.

Covid won't go on forever. The implications of Brexit sadly will, and ultimately Brexit will have a much larger impact on me.

No

i have one university-aged son who lost out on most of his sicth form.
And the only thing that’s annoyed you is potentially missing out on celebrating your birthday?

Do you think your son would also share your stance re last couple of years not being tumultuous ?

@oftenbaffled No, I don’t think the last few years have been tumultuous! The last few months certainly have though.

I'm pregnant and want my husband to be able to be at the birth of our baby in February.

How any parent of school / uni age children can say that the last couple of years hasn’t been tumultuous… is confusing

To start school, stop school, star school, stop school
Be put into bubbles as a child
No play dates, parties, extra curricular sports, hobbies

Strange

@OrangeBananaFish

No fuck that shit.

My mental health is very important to me and its slipping away from me again. Really don't fancy the suicidal thoughts again (they're coming, I can feel them), this time they may get worse as they seem to develop further each time as the growing supply of sleeping pills shows.

Oh and 2 weeks my arse. As if its only 2 weeks. Pull the other one.

Mine too. I'm sitting on a knife edge here and I'm terrified how far it will go. I don't want to put anyone at risk but I'm trying to stay alive. So as I said before I'll do my best.

OrangeBananaFish

Same here. I will do whatever is best for me staying alive and well including for my mental health not just covid.

No