All Covid rules to be scrapped at end of the month!

[Cheekypeach]

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@cheekypeach

I am not asking you to have restrictions through. I am not blocking you from anything. The government made the restrictions and are now removing them.

I have zero influence in this.

I am asking you to consider that while you are celebraring not everyone is and to understnad not everyone will be happy about it.

The driveway anology is nothing like this situation. As i am not personally blocking your use of the driveway.

If the driveway is dangerous and was out of use for a while and is now safe for your family to use but has pot holes on our side. I am in my right to say that our side needs to be safer too ie vaccinations for CEb children. This doesnt impact you but maybe you would u derstand that your neighbour is still stuck and cant get off their drive.

@Covidworries I would believe that much more rational explanation if your side stopped accusing people of wanting to kill kids.

I think this is a goady thread. Op YANBU to be relieved about restrictions lifting. Everyone is fed up and obviously it won't negatively affect you in any way so all great for you.

But all this wooping and champagne popping must be hard for CEV or relatives of CEV people for whom this must be quite scary.

Enjoy your freedom, but no need to gloat...

Sorry but after 2 years of restrictions, cancelling my wedding, not seeing my expat dad for 2 years & spending my maternity leave sat in my living room, I will pop the corks yes.

No one said masks, & isolating if you test positive should stay forever

Maybe not in those words, but that's what it amounts to
Already we've had the "Wait for better treatments / better weather / kids to be jabbed" and much more, and even if we could magic those up overnight it would then become "That treatment doesn't work for all / what about a worse variant / nobody's safe until the whole world's jabbed" and so on

For context I have CEV family, including my own son, and there's not one of them who wants this to continue a day longer - because they know perfectly well that life is never completely safe and they'd rather have the fullest one they can, while they can

@59Ricksteinsfishwife

Sadly I suspect for some people who are not vaccinated through choice this is a terrifying reality.

Sorry but not me. Unvaccinated , not terrified, not even slightly worried. Had covid in my household and still can't seem to get it 🤷‍♀️. Unlike all my triple vaxxed colleagues who have all had it in the last few weeks.
I'm not sure why everyone thinks 2 vaccines will protect their kids. Look at the figures, they don't work for omicron. They were designed to produce antibodies against alpha, omicron is so different it is evading the vaccines.

@Cheekypeach that's fine but don't be surprised when people disagree with you or think you're selfish.

Everyone has suffered, not just you. I lost a parent during covid. I also had to postpone my wedding and cancel multiple holidays as restrictions have changed. I'm glad that restrictions are easing. It doesn't stop me having empathy for those who are still terrified of covid though.

Those who are ‘terrified of covid’ have zero empathy for us and call us selfish so 🤷🏼‍♀️ I guess the feeling is now mutual. It’s just only one side is expecting the other to do something for them.

@Happyfeet45

I think this is a goady thread. Op YANBU to be relieved about restrictions lifting. Everyone is fed up and obviously it won't negatively affect you in any way so all great for you.

But all this wooping and champagne popping must be hard for CEV or relatives of CEV people for whom this must be quite scary.

Enjoy your freedom, but no need to gloat...

I don’t agree actually. I think freedom day deserves a celebration. There’s always some people that this is harder for. Look at valentines day, Mother’s Day, Christmas, there’s people who those days are particularly difficult for but people still celebrate. You don’t have to join in or read these threads if you don’t want to, but people shouldn’t be stopped celebrating if they would like to. People aren’t gloating , they are celebrating the end of what’s been a difficult two years for a lot of people for many different reasons.

I think this is a goady thread

I wonder if you felt the same about the countless excitable threads started with each new variant, the speculation over "how worried Witty looks", the pile-ons over the smallest planned leisure activity, the angst over (often quite wrong) media reports and all the rest?

It's natural for the CEV to worry, and sadly some had plenty to be worried about already, but there's such a thing as worrying too much and unfortunately that's something government encouraged

I wonder if you felt the same about the countless excitable threads started with each new variant, the speculation over "how worried Witty looks", the pile-ons over the smallest planned leisure activity, the angst over (often quite wrong) media reports and all the rest?

True. The much loved if you don’t do this it’ll end in lockdown.

There will be many happy and relieved people in rl and as mn is (mostly) reflective there will be threads on here with posters feeling the same. Let people react and express what they feel rather than keep trying to suppress it.

Not to you Puzzled but pp re goady..

Im@cheekypeach

Why do you think i dont have emphy for you?
Its shit you wedding was postponed, its shit your maternity leave was during lockdowns.
The pandemic has been shit for lots of peopel for lots of different reasons.

I am not celebrating your losses

Because you’re so opposed to me taking a little bit of joy from the fact its over

Wouldnt say terified but able to risk assess our situation.
Also not work shy and would love to be able to socialise and go out properly again.

We are moving into spring. Cases naturally go down in spring and summer

Exactly. You are making my point for me. So why not wait a bit? It's still winter! Because politics, that why. Sadly I think some of you are too far up Boris's arse to see daylight on this subject.

Exactly. You are making my point for me. So why not wait a bit?

Yeh wait a bit longer… and so it goes on.

If you like keep going with it but let those who want to be free from it move on.

@MarshaBradyo

Exactly. You are making my point for me. So why not wait a bit?

Yeh wait a bit longer… and so it goes on.

If you like keep going with it but let those who want to be free from it move on.

Exactly Marsha. So they lift the restrictions, come spring, cases surge a little as would be expected - ‘Cases are rising, we need restrictions for a bit longer..’. Cases fade off a bit over the summer, rise a bit as we would expect in autumn ‘We need a circuit breaker else winter will be carnage’… into another winter… here we go again. Enough now.

Ok then I’ll admit it, I don’t give a shit. Or I do, but not enough to want to regularly go out of my way for them

If you or your family or others close to you became vulnerable in some way that, right now, you could not imagine, nor expect, seeing that none of us can predict the future, would you not appreciate if other people, whether strangers or family/friends, were to go out of their way a little for you and yours?

@Skyellaskerry

Ok then I’ll admit it, I don’t give a shit. Or I do, but not enough to want to regularly go out of my way for them

If you or your family or others close to you became vulnerable in some way that, right now, you could not imagine, nor expect, seeing that none of us can predict the future, would you not appreciate if other people, whether strangers or family/friends, were to go out of their way a little for you and yours?

Forcing a toddler to take regular unpleasant tests that aren’t necessary for them, spending cumulatively months sat inside doing nothing ‘isolating’ and losing wages isn’t ‘going out of my way a little’.

I hope to god your child never has anything serious those tests are nothing compared to life support and medical treatment

@Cheekypeach

Sorry but after 2 years of restrictions, cancelling my wedding, not seeing my expat dad for 2 years & spending my maternity leave sat in my living room, I will pop the corks yes.

Totally agree. There probably isn't one person that hasnt suffered in some form or another during 2 years of lockdowns and restrictions etc. Be it emotionally, financially, medicall, mentally..... so yes pop the corks, I certainly shall be doing so.

Holidays booked, masks all in the bin, no more shoving sticks up my nose, no more not seeing family,...🍾🍾

@Covidworries

I hope to god your child never has anything serious those tests are nothing compared to life support and medical treatment

…which is unnecessary for the overwhelmingly huge majority, but don’t let that stand in the way of your theatrics.

@Covidworries

I hope to god your child never has anything serious those tests are nothing compared to life support and medical treatment

Nothing like bit of emotional blackmail.

There's also nothing like seeing children go hungry as their parents have no money due to not being able to work, there's nothing like watching a family being evicted as they couldn't pay their rent or mortgage, there's nothing like an elderly relative dying alone without family in a care home as restrictions didn't permit visitors, there's nothing like someone not seeibg family abroad for 2 years, there's nothing like people committing suicide as their MH has severely diminished, theres nothing like being ill or dying of non covid illnesses as you couldn't get treatment... everyone has a different story.

I've always thought the effects of lockdowns or restrictions will do more harm. I'm.glad that for the majority it's over, feel sad for the ones it's not, but we have to go back to normal.