DJ
Moderator
But much of that is just agreeing to our regular lives being eroded bit by bit and too many meekly accepting it. I have seen far too many people on social media asking what freedoms people are asking for, as we can now leave the door. Staggering they should ask when none of us can do freely what we did before March 2020 still.
I disagree there HAS to be compromises at all because the data shows we could all live quite normally if we were 'allowed' to. I know to many, masks are nothing but to millions, they ARE a big deal on many levels. It's a simple and safe thing to make these a personal choice, not a mandated one and would ease mental stress for so many people.
Working from home - agree with that one.....if it suits those involved.
I think the worry now is that IF things are delayed now, when hardly anyone is dying from this and hospital levels remain below the SAGE best case scenario lines - even with this allegedly super scary Indian variant and with no sign whatsoever that the vaccines will be defeated by any version of the virus and its thousands of variants - they are still thinking of being cautious. And then you wonder if they can't be brave now, will they ever be? We have been way ahead of other countries with vaccinations but are now going to be left behind. We all mocked America last year but look at them now, getting back on with normal life in more places every day and no rise in levels at all.
And 'just another couple of weeks to be sure'....this isn't a simple chill out they can take.....every day we lose huge sums of money....whole industries are worse off....jobs are lost....mental health drops yet again. Every single day, there is a huge amount of damage being caused by this.
I am in Somerset and yesterday, the report for deaths across the whole county was.....wait for it....MINUS ONE DEATH!! Yes. Due to a previous death being incorrectly labelled as with covid and readjusted....we had minus one deaths. So let's keep us locked down just in case the inevitable Bognor Regis super mutant kills us all shall we.
People are getting angrier by the day as the whole country has done everything asked of us with the promise of a normal life at the end of it. When politicians outright lie to us and change the rules later on and you can see no justification whatsoever for doing so.....you do start to wonder if the conspiracy theorists have a point.
I think it’s rather disingenuous to claim people just meekly accept things purely because they hold a different stance to someone who opposes it.
At the end of the day, the UK is only in the position it’s in currently because of the restrictions, if some additional compromises were made last Autumn then perhaps lesser restrictions would have been needed and schools would have stayed open.
The UK, isn’t looking at a situation identical to that now, but why not hold off on a few bits and pieces and get the second doses for 40+ done and protected, which doesn’t just help them but helps push down on the spread? Seems a fair risk verses reward thing when reading the views of those who understand these things far better than I.
I have sympathies to anyone who struggles with all aspects of mask wearing, but for one example, on the tube, no one is interacting with each other on the tube, it’s either usually a complete sweat box or everyone is on their phones, so wearing a mask in a confined space like that at the moment is just common sense. Outside, of course the risks dramatically reduce so tweaks are there to be made.