The majority has to go back to normal at some point. We’re at the tail end of the pandemic with 90% vaccination rate. If not now, when?
We have to go back to normal at some stage, I don’t think it’s ever going to get much better than now.
Sorry, articles like this are doing little more than actively searching for reason to be upset. Restrictions have to come to an end one day. They cannot continue forever. I empathise with someone picking the short straw here but there was never ever a scenario where restrictions would continue on the majority because it made them feel a bit better.
Amazing, the number of commenters who seem to think the virus is just going to vanish, or that a decision made today has to last forever. “Learn to live with the virus” means some things have to change.
It’s like when people (most people; I’m sure there were some edgelords crying about e-coli only killing the elderly) learned that washing their hands after taking a dump was a good idea. Should we mandate it? We do, in situations where there’s a high risk to someone else’s health.
The government didn’t care about clinically vulnerable people before Covid. Why would it suddenly start caring now?
Interesting just email from uber which basically says ‘from tomorrow if you’re clinically vulnerable – fuck you!’
No option to specify that the driver will wear a mask. get in the back of a car that has been coughed in by a non isolating infection vector. If you ask them to put a mask on and they say no and you cancel – you’ll get charged. Bye Uber, nice knowing you.
so nowhere to go and no way to get there. and tbh not much out there worth going to anyway. shitty chain restaurants screwing us all over. shopping centres looking like every other shopping centre. aggressive beggars, smell of dope even if you’re just going to the park.
nothing out there i see is worth playing russian roulette with a horrible death with.
None of these outrage articles ever discuss in detail what the alternative should be.
Can anyone who wants to get back to normal please tell me what we can do about long covid???
Its OK, the clinically vulnerable will be protected be the “fantastic common sense” and “personal responsibility” of the Great British public.
[removed]
Meh.. I’m clinically extremely vulnerable and have been pretty much living as normal since I got my booster
I think it’s time we learned to live with crime and start not locking our front doors. Crime is here to stay, sheeple. Deal with it.
I don’t think people should have to isolate forever when positive, but providing a proper support so they don’t have to go to work if they don’t want to and are positive would be nice.
Pretending the pandemic is over is the smelliest, deadliest dead cat Johnson has thrown out, all in an effort to save his job!
If you’re clinically vulnerable, you probably were before and will be after the pandemic too. Life goes on
What is new about this normal? A handful of people still wearing masks? There’s still a pointless push to go back to offices. Doesn’t seem like we learned anything
“New New normal” as in….the way things have been for centuries?
My issue with ending isolation is that some employers will not let employees _choose_ to stay at home if they have covid, they’ll just make them come in anyway, or not pay them. I saw today that you have to isolate for 5 days and if you have a negative test on the 5th/6th day then you’re OK. That doesn’t seem unachievable?
Like I think some employers will make their own decisions around it, they’ll know if you bring it in the office that you probably expose everyone to it, so if people can WFH then they will. I just think of the folks working retail who will likely be told to come in anyway.
Also why are anti maskers so desperate to see our mouths. Kind of creepy.
18 comments
The majority has to go back to normal at some point. We’re at the tail end of the pandemic with 90% vaccination rate. If not now, when?
We have to go back to normal at some stage, I don’t think it’s ever going to get much better than now.
Sorry, articles like this are doing little more than actively searching for reason to be upset. Restrictions have to come to an end one day. They cannot continue forever. I empathise with someone picking the short straw here but there was never ever a scenario where restrictions would continue on the majority because it made them feel a bit better.
Amazing, the number of commenters who seem to think the virus is just going to vanish, or that a decision made today has to last forever. “Learn to live with the virus” means some things have to change.
It’s like when people (most people; I’m sure there were some edgelords crying about e-coli only killing the elderly) learned that washing their hands after taking a dump was a good idea. Should we mandate it? We do, in situations where there’s a high risk to someone else’s health.
The government didn’t care about clinically vulnerable people before Covid. Why would it suddenly start caring now?
Interesting just email from uber which basically says ‘from tomorrow if you’re clinically vulnerable – fuck you!’
No option to specify that the driver will wear a mask. get in the back of a car that has been coughed in by a non isolating infection vector. If you ask them to put a mask on and they say no and you cancel – you’ll get charged. Bye Uber, nice knowing you.
so nowhere to go and no way to get there. and tbh not much out there worth going to anyway. shitty chain restaurants screwing us all over. shopping centres looking like every other shopping centre. aggressive beggars, smell of dope even if you’re just going to the park.
nothing out there i see is worth playing russian roulette with a horrible death with.
None of these outrage articles ever discuss in detail what the alternative should be.
Can anyone who wants to get back to normal please tell me what we can do about long covid???
Its OK, the clinically vulnerable will be protected be the “fantastic common sense” and “personal responsibility” of the Great British public.
[removed]
Meh.. I’m clinically extremely vulnerable and have been pretty much living as normal since I got my booster
I think it’s time we learned to live with crime and start not locking our front doors. Crime is here to stay, sheeple. Deal with it.
I don’t think people should have to isolate forever when positive, but providing a proper support so they don’t have to go to work if they don’t want to and are positive would be nice.
Pretending the pandemic is over is the smelliest, deadliest dead cat Johnson has thrown out, all in an effort to save his job!
If you’re clinically vulnerable, you probably were before and will be after the pandemic too. Life goes on
What is new about this normal? A handful of people still wearing masks? There’s still a pointless push to go back to offices. Doesn’t seem like we learned anything
“New New normal” as in….the way things have been for centuries?
My issue with ending isolation is that some employers will not let employees _choose_ to stay at home if they have covid, they’ll just make them come in anyway, or not pay them. I saw today that you have to isolate for 5 days and if you have a negative test on the 5th/6th day then you’re OK. That doesn’t seem unachievable?
Like I think some employers will make their own decisions around it, they’ll know if you bring it in the office that you probably expose everyone to it, so if people can WFH then they will. I just think of the folks working retail who will likely be told to come in anyway.
Also why are anti maskers so desperate to see our mouths. Kind of creepy.