Are we approaching another lockdown?

We are definitely not coming out of lockdown on 29th March, Rosie 1959, all that is happening then is that "Stay at home" law is lifted, outdoor socialising allowed for 6 people only or two households, outdoor sports resume. Nothing else changes then. We then have a bit more freedom on 12th April when non essential retail and personal care reopen, gyms reopen, catered holidays allowed for one household only.
Long way to go eat but there is light at the end of the tunnel for sure.

yet not eat

Extended lockdown....please no. I really don't want another summer like last. I understand about the foreign hols though, too soon for that. I've had over a year now living on my own and hoped I could maybe start meeting up with friends again in the summer. One of my closest ones has terminal breast cancer and was given 18 mths/2 yrs last summer. My heart goes out to her as she wants to enjoy the time she has left, do things and she obviously can't. Shes a very sociable person and just wants to see people, it's getting to her so much, so sad.

There weren't even any passenger planes in 1918, people were static but it still killed millions worldwide. Taking into consideration that malnutrition was rife during WWI and hygiene was non-existant

Static? I don’t think so, EllanVanon. In 1918 the war had just ended. People, especially soldiers were being repatriated all over the world from Europe.

Ive checked the latest update on the Government website and it says we are still in a National lockdown.
West Midlands as well other parts of the country have to all intents and purposes been in lockdown since October when it was put in the highest tier at the time even though there were more cases in London. Many people in Leicestershire and some other areas were put in the highest tier in July so have virtually been in Lockdown since March 2020. ?

Sooner or later we will return to a more normal life, and I have no doubt our grandchildren will bore their children with stories of lockdown in their childhood and youth.

Our parents bored us with WW2 stories!

I really don't think so, vaccination roll-out is going well and the numbers of patients in hospital are falling. But I don't think foreign holidays should be allowed this summer - it's just asking for trouble and the possible import of new variants, which I think is a big danger

I don’t think it is wise to lockdown again. These lockdowns are causing economic suicide which in turn will increase annual death rates. If theses vaccines are unable to inoculate against new strains then tbh it’s time we learned to live with Covid. If your elderly and retired then be cautious but let the rest of us get on with our lives and provide the income that pays for pensions and healthcare.

We are still in lockdown in Ireland. So fed up with it.

I believe we just have this one chance to come through and get out of a continuous cycles of lockdowns this coming year, as will be happening in Europe unfortunately. This will only be achieved by continuing the vaccine rollout AND not rushing out of lockdown as we did previously with disastrous results. If people start going abroad again this summer and/or gallivanting all over the place ignoring Covid precautions then, sure as night follows day, we’ll be under lockdown again in Autumn, possibly battling a variant resistant to our vaccines.

All people in the top vulnerable groups should have had the second dose of vaccine before we move to no restrictions, currently stated as not before 21st June I think. As someone who suffers with anxiety, I don't intend mixing in larger groups or going to busy shops or restaurants even when they can open. Just collecting the grandchildren from school twice a week and seeing them and being able to travel further in this country to walk in different surroundings will be fine for me.

My DGC went back to school on the 8th March. On Tuesday afternoon (16th) my DGS was sent home as there was a confirmed case in his year group. Back to home schooling! He is due to go back the day they break up for the Easter holidays. My DD works in a pub/restaurant, and has been told that they will be opening on the 12th April for outdoor service. Her concern is, as Kitchen Manager, that she will not know what stock to have in, and how that stock will last if there is a few concurrent days of bad weather, especially as the restriction of needing to order food to be allowed alcohol will have been lifted.

This is a very divided thread which probably reflects national opinion.
My fear is that we are all becoming institutionalised and actively looking to obey 'rules' rather than using our common sense. And the govt and its advisers prefer to keep it that way. Always jam tomorrow.
I like to hope that warmer weather will help things along. That and agreeing not to talk of other people as 'selfish'.

I met my son outside a coffee shop yesterday, he lives barely 10 miles away and cycled to the coffee shop. It was lovely to see him, sat outside perched on a wall drinking coffee and eating cake. I am getting totally fed up with the restrictions but can bare them as long as I can meet up with someone other than Mr B now and again. I just feel we are heading for another lockdown later this year but I hope I am wrong. I have read somewhere that Boris will be out if he has another lockdown.

The seven day rolling average for new cases in the U.K. is down almost 10% in the past week. Given that the schools are now open, that’s great news. I was expecting a bit of a rise.
If we can all keep following the rules, I am hopeful we can stick to the roadmap of lifting restrictions.

Is Carrie in her right mind? Johnson has had unknown number of liaisons with resultant offspring. He left t his last wife when she was having treatment for cancer! Disposable man!

EllenVallin the Spanish Flu spread from the train marshalling yards in France to the whole world via land and sea. We had an empire and they took it with them. It is thought it came from American Farm Boys in the boats to France to serve in WW1. So no holidays abroad this year. Please no more lockdown.

grandtanteJE65

Sooner or later we will return to a more normal life, and I have no doubt our grandchildren will bore their children with stories of lockdown in their childhood and youth.

Our parents bored us with WW2 stories!

That's exactly what I said to my grandchildren, grandetanteJE65!

I know this will be unpopular, but as somebody already said, the young people are not being asked to go and fight in the trenches. Thank goodness, and we hope they never will. But look what previous generations had to suffer with 2 world wars one after the other. We just have to put up with it and stop wingeing. It will pass. So what if we can't have a holiday this year !

My GGS who will be 4 on Monday will be celebrating his second birthday in lockdown.

Foreign holidays should not be allowed this year! What is wrong with people? I as much as the next person would love a holiday abroad but there is absolutely no way I’ll be going it’s far to dangerous to contemplate. Why risk getting covid or bringing back variants, old or newly discovered ones?! It is how others have described as though lockdown doesn’t exist I see what my neighbours do and despair-daily! Eldest DS and DDIL are now going to stay with her parents, they are both well educated and until now abided by all the government lockdown/restrictions. I’m so disappointed in them but kept it to myself although I’m pretty damned sure they know exactly how I feel. I miss my family dreadfully but seeing others openly flouting the rules makes me very despondent for the future especially now all of Europe has seen such a surge in cases and hospital admissions. Sorry I’m having a bad day today ?.

I fear the prospects of another set of restrictions (I'm not going to call it a "lockdown", but in practice that is what it could be...)

Infection rates are rising in Europe, and it would only take one person to go to Europe for an entirely legitimate reason and come back...remember the fuss there was over the person who didn't leave contact details with his/her swab, and had to be tracked down - in part - by the media? That ended well but it need not have done.

In my more gloomy moments I do find myself wondering if we will ever be free from this - and if not this, when will the next pandemic come along, and will we be any more prepared?

And regarding "Carrie & Boris" and their wedding - she would be well advised to remember that when the mistress marries, she creates a vacancy. And "Boris" has form in this area.

"Confused and sad" that's me, all right.
I can hardly believe 'normal life' will ever be possible.

I am thinking we will stay in lockdown for a while longer depending on what happens in Europe can’t see us being able to travel abroad even here in uk doesn’t look promising as I have noticed from my COVID app in my area cases are increasing again this maybe because more people in school are being tested but it doesn’t look good I’m in south east

Sorry to be doom and gloom. My best friend has been seconded to public health from the NHS. Her contact has been extended to September 2022.... I think we can all do the maths.?