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

[Cheekypeach]

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@Rosehugger

Ah, Complete Bollocks Hyperbole now, is that page three of the BorisShill textbook?

You're the one who's claimed that encouraging the use of restaurants after the prolonged closure in spring of 2020 led to 50,000 deaths and you have the cheek to have a go at me for hyperbole 😂

Actually, on balance, I would probably have waited until March if I were PM ... but as you can probably judge from my other posts, that's a genuine position, not one that where the goalposts would always get pushed back.

Part of me feels like "A more gradual transition, maybe?" but then I think back to all those creepy little hints that Indie Sage kept dropping about how "wouldn't it be a marvellous idea to do restrictions each year to stop flu?" and I "get" the urge to push back strongly and stroppily.

However, I'm not sticking around here to argue with a load of right wing bots, Tory shills, turkey voting for Christmas, Brexiteers and assorted bridge-dwellers.

Insults and dismissal are always the way to good debate. Well played.

Part of me feels like "A more gradual transition, maybe?" but then I think back to all those creepy little hints that Indie Sage kept dropping about how "wouldn't it be a marvellous idea to do restrictions each year to stop flu?" and I "get" the urge to push back strongly and stroppily.

This is an excellent point

email from the school today saying clubs assemblies and face to face appointments all back to normal after half term

thank goodness!

@greenteafiend

Part of me feels like "A more gradual transition, maybe?" but then I think back to all those creepy little hints that Indie Sage kept dropping about how "wouldn't it be a marvellous idea to do restrictions each year to stop flu?" and I "get" the urge to push back strongly and stroppily.

You're not the only one. And it's their own fault.

@Rosehugger

You'd think we were still in lockdown the way people on this thread are going on about "just a few more weeks" as if they can't possibly bear another few weeks of wearing masks in Sainsbury's.

Few more weeks wearing masks in Sainsburys? You do realise they don't enforce it don't you? A sign another entrance and a silly tannoy message wvery now and again 🤣🤣 I've not wore a mask in there for weeks

Just a bit longer … insults blah blah

Predictable though, wouldn't you say? Shorn of any rational justification now the "just a bit longer ..." has been seen for what it is, those with this position often flounce

Back with your question "Don’t you think people have done a lot for the vulnerable over the last two years?", frankly I'd save your breath. I'd have thought it obvious by now that, whatever anyone sacrifices to this, it will never, ever be enough for some
I'm only surprised that nobody's yet suggested waiting for the next tweaked vaccine, though perhaps that one will be autumn's offering?

Boris getting bored of Covid and having an attention span of a flea is as close as you'll get to rational justification for declaring the pandemic over and done with.

@Rosehugger

Boris getting bored of Covid and having an attention span of a flea is as close as you'll get to rational justification for declaring the pandemic over and done with.

Or just the fact we’ve done 2 years of restrictions, had 3 jabs and now feel it’s time to live our lives as free citizens again, given the virus is now no more deadly than seasonal flu. But yours is overwhelmingly dramatic so I guess you’ll stick with it.

@TheKeatingFive

However, I'm not sticking around here to argue with a load of right wing bots, Tory shills, turkey voting for Christmas, Brexiteers and assorted bridge-dwellers.

Insults and dismissal are always the way to good debate. Well played.

it's the #behind people who are always slinging this abuse about isn't it. I don't understand how people still use the 'you're a bot' line if they don't agree with someone!

But yours is overwhelmingly dramatic

What is dramatic? Asking people to keep wearing masks, isolating when sick and working from home where possible until case numbers are lower?

I hope you don't work in television, as that kind of drama certainly wouldn't have me hooked.

@Rosehugger

But yours is overwhelmingly dramatic

What is dramatic? Asking people to keep wearing masks, isolating when sick and working from home where possible until case numbers are lower?

I hope you don't work in television, as that kind of drama certainly wouldn't have me hooked.

Yes. Exactly that. All a total overreaction.

What's a #behind people? I'm not au fait with the current SPAD lingo.

It's like a slightly dull episode of The Thick of It in this thread today.

@Cheekypeach You're just babbling now.

@Rosehugger

What's a #behind people? I'm not au fait with the current SPAD lingo.

It's like a slightly dull episode of The Thick of It in this thread today.

Well if you don't know I'm not able to share. Soz. Careless talk and all that...🕵‍♀️

I will be interested to see if people stop wearing masks in shops and, quite often, just in the street.

Where I live in the Midlands the majority of people have never stopped wearing masks.

I take it GPs will actually start doing their job again and see patients although I won't hold my breath

The GP surgery here is now seeing people face to face.

Ime it’s councils et al that are refusing to move on from March 2020. My local council is closed - tape across the door. You cannot phone, just email and email centrally and a recorded message tells you that messages are checked and directed to appropriate dept once a day; this is not a small council either!

Public museums are not covering themselves with glory, either. I went with dd to the Bath Fashion Museum. We arrived for our slot ten minutes early, but weren’t allowed in till the appointed time by a most officious person. Upon entering there was no one else in there . There were barricades and ropes cordoning off and separating exhibits as if 10,000 people an hour passed through. It was ridiculous. I am all for covid measures in proportion but for some places I genuinely think it’s like all their birthdays have come at once.

I think the government have also acknowledged that a very large proportion of people are either no longer testing or self isolating - even if positive - so removing restrictions will make little difference now.

The reality is for much of lock down it has been to protect the vulnerable, to ensure the nhs could treat them

No. Initially it was to ensure the NHS could treat everyone else. That was why they introduced shielding which was far tougher than any lockdown

Many of the ECV were encouraged to sign DNRS.

Seems as though some people STILL don't understand what restrictions were for. It wasn't to prevent them or their children or their parents from being infected, no matter how vulnerable they are. It was an attempt to stop the NHS being swamped. And now that's not happening and it's clear that continuing restrictions will cause more health problems than they prevent, restrictions are being lifted. And that's not even taking into consideration the economic and social costs of continuing restrictions.

Not many of the ecvs. I wasn’t! Don’t spread misinformation.