England will have no further Covid restrictions until after the New Year.

I am thankful it is being left up to us for now; we will manage our own ‘risks’ and only socialise doing things we feel comfortable doing.
We all take daily LF Tests in my family.
Covid is not going away but it seems not to be the killer it was (thanks to vaccinations).

Thank heaven. As someone who works in mental health the last thing we need is more restrictions.

Essential workers who go off sick will be able to return to work 7 days later. Then a new cohort might go off sick. Ebb and flow. Once a group go off sick they do come back.

Our youngest daughter had Covid in September 2020 and long Covid for 9 weeks.

We have superb vaccines all this year. Roll out has been brilliant. And so far Omicron seems very much milder. Two-thirds less I read last week. Which is good news.

Hospital admissions may be down now but surely a rise after Christmas and New Year mixing is likely. Not to mention the numbers of essential workers who will have covid or be isolating. I think the rest of the UK is doing the right thing. England is out of step and we will pay the price.

Hospital admissions are not the only criteria of a bad case of Covid. I know and know of, many people now who have or have had Covid and have been quite ill, it's not mild at all.

There are, I understand, around a million people with long Covid.

There are serious implications for all sorts of employment if people are unable to work including hospitality, transport, food production and because the government doesn't care, there is no support for people who can't work because of disability of any kind.

There are also many people, including those with cancer of various kinds and other serious conditions who cannot resume what is described as normal life.

I think we can all have a selfish point of view with respect to this. I am glad because it means my daughter's (supported home) home isn't locked down s I have taken her back today as I would normally do and I will bring her home again for New Year without worrying.

Well I think Boris has called it right. In the news headlines just now:
“Far fewer people in hospital with Covid this Christmas despite cases being three times higher
Doctors said they are 'cautiously optimistic' that no new restrictions will be needed.

Hospital admissions not Cases is what’s important.

This government is too shit scared of its critics to bring in any restrictions. There are over 100,000 + cases per day , I know so many people isolating. We usually have a neighbours party on NYE, no way would I host this year.

... and we just don't know, what price we will pay later.

If that price is for grand-children to again have schools closed and work from home, then I think this is much much too high a price.