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

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MarmitesMyMate · 18/12/2021 23:19

No explanation needed. Just a yes or no.

For me it's a hard NO.

OP posts:
Siameasy · 19/12/2021 17:23

No

userxx · 19/12/2021 17:45

@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 Confused

That's fine if you're chatting with like minded boring, depressing people. You chat away about lateral flows. I find it dull as fuck but each to their own. 🙄

Mistymountain · 19/12/2021 17:50

No

Smileyoriley · 19/12/2021 17:51

Yes after Christmas

Itstheprinciple · 19/12/2021 17:54

@CovidCorvid

Sort of.

I wouldn’t stop Dd having her boyfriend over which seeing as it’s my house would put me in the rule breaker camp.

I've already told DD her boyfriend can carry on coming over. He practically lives here half the time anyway! I don't even mind her seeing her friends this time. In Spring 2021 she was having suicidal thoughts (referred to CAMHS, counselling in school). No way am I putting her in that position again.
zafferana · 19/12/2021 17:56

[quote Dammitthisisshit]@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…[/quote]
I'm sorry you have cancer @Dammitthisisshit, but precisely no one on this thread that I have seen has said stuff everyone else I’m having a party with lots of people.

This isn't about partying, it's about being able to see our families and friends in our own homes, about being allowed to go and meet people in a bar or a restaurant when we've done as the government asked and got ourselves fully vaccinated. It's being allowed to make our own judgments about our own personal risk and that of those of our families without the government interfering in our private lives and telling us who we can have in our own living rooms.

I'm stunned by how many of my fellow citizens have welcomed the with open arms the many, varied and onerous restrictions that have been placed on our private lives in the past two years. I studied history and often wondered how repressive regimes got their previously freedom-loving populations to go along with increasingly onerous restrictions on their lives, but now I know. They welcome them if you frame them as 'keeping them safe' from some scary thing out there, waiting to get them.

mincepiesallround · 19/12/2021 18:21

I’d prefer ‘boring and depressing’ to rude and unpleasant, but each to their own Smile

CaMePlaitPas · 19/12/2021 18:21

I've posted further up the thread and said that I would comply reluctantly, I would hate it and fundamentally don't agree with it but I don't think we'll have the choice. I also believe that fines will be enforced to ensure compliance and I wonder how many of you would risk fines of up to £10K. The previous lockdowns have shown us that no one is safe because neighbours will rat report on each other, so there's that to consider too.

But I saw an interesting stat earlier, apparently in the UK 147,000 people have died but this is compared to the figure of over 9 million recorded recoveries. By my maths that's less than 2%, but someone smarter than me can confirm I'm sure! Blush

It makes me wonder whether another lockdown, given people are now vaccinated too, is genuinely for the greater good or whether it's just another exercise in control and coercion. We are now almost two years into trying to "flatten the curve" which we were told would take 3 weeks.

Seahawk80 · 19/12/2021 18:35

No because of my son (4). His mental health really suffered last time and so did ours. It's heartbreaking when he just wants someone to play with. He's already been suspicious when we met friends outside yesterday 😭.

sharkyandme · 19/12/2021 18:37

Yes because I don't want a fine.

VikingOnTheFridge · 19/12/2021 18:47

@CaMePlaitPas

I've posted further up the thread and said that I would comply reluctantly, I would hate it and fundamentally don't agree with it but I don't think we'll have the choice. I also believe that fines will be enforced to ensure compliance and I wonder how many of you would risk fines of up to £10K. The previous lockdowns have shown us that no one is safe because neighbours will rat report on each other, so there's that to consider too.

But I saw an interesting stat earlier, apparently in the UK 147,000 people have died but this is compared to the figure of over 9 million recorded recoveries. By my maths that's less than 2%, but someone smarter than me can confirm I'm sure! Blush

It makes me wonder whether another lockdown, given people are now vaccinated too, is genuinely for the greater good or whether it's just another exercise in control and coercion. We are now almost two years into trying to "flatten the curve" which we were told would take 3 weeks.

The 10k fines have only ever been for hosting large events, and the starting fine for breaching regulations is much lower. The police also didn't have the right of entry to private homes to investigate breaches of the covid regs last time, and you don't have to let them in without a warrant.

I do sympathise with people whose neighbours would grass, that's emphatically not how it is where I am, but also we just don't have that many police in the UK. You'd have to get really unlucky. For most people it isn't a very big risk.

whynotwhatknot · 19/12/2021 18:53

only business or large events have had fines of 10k

and at the moment i think alot of people will contest any fine after the stunt the tories pulled last year

itssquidstella · 19/12/2021 18:55

Nope

GoodbyePorpoiseSpit · 19/12/2021 19:33

Lovely pictures emerging of Downing Street staff including Boris and Carrie having wine and cheese in the sunshine in May 2020. Same month my father's 70th birthday was celebrated over zoom because we couldn't see him. I hate this government and I will absolutely not be following any further restrictions that prevent me from seeing my family.

Benjispruce5 · 19/12/2021 19:35

To be fair, they are able to work together as essential workers, they are outside and distanced.
I cant bear Boris but that latest photo doesn’t bother me.

HesterShaw1 · 19/12/2021 19:36

No.

I live on my own. No way can I do weeks alone in the middle of winter.

blackcurrantjam · 19/12/2021 19:40

No. My parents are triple jabbed and old and they are unlikely to comply either. Enough.

VikingOnTheFridge · 19/12/2021 19:52

@Benjispruce5

To be fair, they are able to work together as essential workers, they are outside and distanced. I cant bear Boris but that latest photo doesn’t bother me.
I wouldn't like to be the press officer having to argue it was a work event with those bottles of wine visible!
Benjispruce5 · 19/12/2021 19:53

Enough of what? Do you want an A&E for your parents if they suffer ill health ? Are you happy for them to wait on a stretcher for hours because the hospitals are stretched with doctors having to transfer to Covid wards? I don’t get how you can not see that this is not about Boris but it’s about the facts, the science, the numbers.

Chanel05 · 19/12/2021 20:03

Nope

Thewiseoneincognito · 19/12/2021 20:08

@Benjispruce5

Enough of what? Do you want an A&E for your parents if they suffer ill health ? Are you happy for them to wait on a stretcher for hours because the hospitals are stretched with doctors having to transfer to Covid wards? I don’t get how you can not see that this is not about Boris but it’s about the facts, the science, the numbers.
Because they’re all foolish that’s why. Critical thinking is way beyond their comprehension. MN is an echo chamber of non compliance. Clearly someone’s worried because they’ve rallied their troops to flood MN with these I won’t comply tantrums.
PrincessButtercupp · 19/12/2021 20:11

No

drawhander · 19/12/2021 20:11

Xmas no. After xmas, yes

FourTeaFallOut · 19/12/2021 20:11

Rallied troops, really? Because I'm seeing lots of longstanding, formerly compliant posters willing to defy new restrictions.

VikingOnTheFridge · 19/12/2021 20:12

Yes, there's clearly no way people could just think differently from you.