All restrictions to end?

If we are going to wait for this virus to disappear completely we may have a very very long wait
Now I may lead a quiet life but I cannot think of anything I cannot do now that I couldn’t do back in 2019.

F1Grandma2

More people are dying from other conditions than are dying of Covid. Project fear has take over our lives. If we are double jabbed and had boosters and probably also a flu jab the effects are expected to be minimal. Take control of your own safety. I will make my own decisions about wearing masks and where I go, and I will live my life as I choose. We only have one life and I want to get the most out of it that I can.That won’t happen if I’m stuck indoors.

Which other conditions? Which single preventable condition is killing more people than COVID?

You don't need to be stuck indoors. You just need to think about other people's welfare.

songstress60

I am glad the resrictions are ending because now we need to concentrate on the economy which is now in a dire strait. Let's get on with normal living and to those who don't feel safe - well hey YOU stay indoors because I am sick of rules, lockdown, masks and testing. Bring back normality! No not the new normal but prepandemic normal.

We can't go back to "pre-pandemic normal" until a highly transmissible virus, which makes some people very ill, has disappeared completely. It's wishful thinking to believe otherwise.

Or is she who she thinks she is anyway? Some recollections may vary.

If you're not you, are you her?

Farzanah

No it’s not me It a red herring ?

How can you not be you?
?
You seem ‘new’ so hello! Or not? ?

Do you realise people don't have the option to stay home?

Well said songstress if you are scared stay in I for one won't i want my freedom to do as I wish life is for living

Riverwalk

Prince Charles succumbing again is a timely reminder that it's not over yet.

Yes, and the TV News is very concerned because he was with The Queen two days ago - which seems to indicate that isolation is still necessary...?

No it’s not me It a red herring ?

Me too Casdon, I can't make it all out, but I haven't been on GN long enough to get an I depth picture. All I have gleaned is that GN is far bigger than one individual poster.

For the intellectually challenged (i.e.me) is this post code for Alegrias is now Farzanah? Also, where is Lemongrove - is she Discodancer1975? I’m getting confused!

More people are dying from other conditions than are dying of Covid. Project fear has take over our lives. If we are double jabbed and had boosters and probably also a flu jab the effects are expected to be minimal. Take control of your own safety. I will make my own decisions about wearing masks and where I go, and I will live my life as I choose. We only have one life and I want to get the most out of it that I can.That won’t happen if I’m stuck indoors.

Farzanah

GSM ?

At least we’ll get the username right now.

Dickens

mouse44

I agree with Casdon about Alegrias and hope she wasn't driven off by people who disagreed with her, sometimes in an unpleasant way. Does anyone know her personally and could tell her she is missed?

... I second that.

I third it.

I was horrified at the treatment she got on a certain thread.

Oh well we shall have a couple of new verbs to add to the language. to Boris it = put oneself before everything and everyone regardless of the effects on the rest of the world. is that true or a boris? = to lie but to be able to change the lie according to whatever twist suits you first and fumble and pretend you never said something. Hard luck Boris we have films of your speech so you cannot hide it all the time

That’s a very compassionate sentiment songstress.

Viruses generally mutate into sub groups, don’t necessarily burn themselves out
I believe there are at least 3 sub groups of Omicron circulating in UK just now, the latest being Omicron BA.2 which is being monitored.

Chance would be a fine thing.
I have a good few years of work left yet.
I doubt I'll be given help to stay home.

I am glad the resrictions are ending because now we need to concentrate on the economy which is now in a dire strait. Let's get on with normal living and to those who don't feel safe - well hey YOU stay indoors because I am sick of rules, lockdown, masks and testing. Bring back normality! No not the new normal but prepandemic normal.

Just because the government restrictions are ended doesn't mean we should all stop wearing masks, have large parties, gatherings, pack into pubs, football stadiums, clubs, discos etc. I'm going to continue to be careful, I know the virus is still out there and I don't want to get it so I will be making my own mind up about what is safe to do and what isn't. We should think for ourselves, that's all it boils down to.

Indeed Hetty58.

I really believe we don't actually know what will happen - just hope for the best - and that's all of us!

It appears (fingers crossed) that the pandemic is burning itself out, which is what these things do - eventually.
On the other hand, many of us are vulnerable and infection levels still quite high, so don't take any notice of that fool Johnson, and take care of yourselves as best you can, and however you wish.

GSM ?