I Love Christmas, I've Said As Much Several Times But......i'm Not Sure This Is A Good Move

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-pm-set-to-announce-relaxation-of-uk-rules-over-christmas-but-englands-tier-system-will-be-strengthened-when-lockdown-ends-12138733

For the sake of a few days would it not be better to stay in your own home for the Christmas period? I realise shops and businesses are struggling but this I fear will cause even a longer lockdown in January at the behest of people's mental health

[pixie374]

My granddaughter's birthday is Christmas day too. So I was always going to see her, anyway.

[gulliver1]

It will all end in tiers.

[Canary42]

As I've said before, I missed a family Xmas in 1942, 1943, and 1944 because Dad was away fighting the Nazis in the Western Desert and Italy all that time. If we don't have the guts to face this new enemy with equal self-denial then we deserve all the pandemic's worst, and we'll certainly be getting it, thanks to Boris wanting to be seen as Mr Popular.

[Bobbisox1]

ILM , I think it shook our very foundations seeing our young friend die from Covid, funeral this Wednesday, I don't think I'm so much a scaremonger more a scared person with an near 80 yr old husband with a few health problems

[Milo2]

I’m not a scaremonger either. I think it is up to each individual do their own risk assessment based on their personal circumstances, regardless of what the government says.

[New Judge]

I think the situation at Christmas will be very much like it is now. People will do whatever they want to do. Most people are doing that now if you look around. Some people are staying in as much as possible; others are getting out and about as they usually do, except they cannot visit the places they otherwise might because they have been closed by diktat. As mentioned, this cannot possibly be policed effectively and it’s obvious that making something “illegal” does not prevent it happening so I wonder whether the PM is simply being pragmatic. The problem is that those who break this particular law are labelled "granny killers" or something else equally ridiculous. If granny wants to avoid being murdered she can stay indoors and have no visitors. Her would-be murderers can have some friends round for a beer and murder them instead.

[douglas9401]

'The pandemic's worst' seems to be a creation of the politicians, Canary, and having made our collective bed based on what is increasingly apparent as being dodgy science, are scrabbling for a face-saving way to back away from their worst excesses.

Christmastide is a hook to hang some of that on with further easing into the new year.

Revisionist rewrites of history and the decisions made are already with those who edit such stuff.

[agchristie]

"Her would-be murderers can have some friends round for a beer and murder them instead"

Yep,they will come to a bitter end...

[Barsel]

I certainly don't want to stay in my own home at Christmas.It's ok if you live with someone, but if you live on your own as I do and don't have access to Zoom or Skype so you can at least see your loved ones, then no, I don't want to spend it on my own as it will just seem like any other boring day of the week.

[Bobbisox1]

Barsel I'm feeling a bit more upbeat after yesterday's news re a vaccine ( no so scared)

[grumpy01]

How can it be sensible to allow families to meet up when in all likelihood we are going to be in one tier higher everywhere than before lockdown.We either want to beat this or we don’t.