Our NHS workers have had enough. They are exhausted and many are experiencing symptoms of PTSD, but the sick keep coming.
The age of people being hospitalised and dying is getting lower. It was going through schools before Christmas, but children seemed immune in the beginning.
Everybody is fed up of the restrictons, mental health issues are on the rise, unemployment high and it's generally a right bloody mess.
Perhaps it would have been better to vaccinate young people and children first.
We can go out to exercise once a day and we can have a 'support bubble' joining another household if we live on our own, or on our own with dependents.
Apart from that it's only going out to work if we can't work from home, or food shopping.
It will probably be Easter at the earliest before our restrictions are lifted again. It's possible, because there is a seasonal nature to covid, we won't have restrictions lifted until the summer like last year. By then our vaccination programme should have progressed so the most vulnerable are protected.
We don't seem to be having the same level of objection as ther countries.
There are probably many reasons for that: we're very protective of our health service and want it to get better, not worse; we have an almost reasonable social security system; we have a history of 'the (collective) war effort' in our culture.
We are also getting clobbered so most of us have been personally touched by covid. Experiencing it, or losing people give us an awareness of the reality.
We don't have a curfew. If I want to do my shopping, or go out walking late at night when noone is around, that's sensible, not a violation.
I believe Canada was none too happy wth their curfew either, despiite having more daytime freedoms than us at the time it was introduced. A curfew is a poor psycholgical technique because it sounds and feels more like a political tactic, than a practical one. It's traditionally used to supress behaviour, not an illness.
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But you'll go to the USA with it's death penalty, Guantánamo Bay and other overseas concentration camps.What is the difference?