Everybody seems to think there’s going to be a big countdown and all the pub and club doors are going to swing open and it’s going to be the biggest Saturday night ever. Papers basically announcing that too. That’s not what’s going to happen.
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They’ll open, but if people need a vaccination certificate to get in the queues are going to be unworkable.
I’ve been really quite strict with the rules and was walking round like the Cheshire Cat yesterday thinking about drinking a draught Guinness outside with a couple of friends on April 12th. I’m not gonna feel bad for sticking to the rules and being excited that they are gonna be relaxed.
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Because they’ll feel let down when it doesn’t happen like they imagine it. Today’s front pages are the most over the top sensationalist speculation I’ve ever seen.
It’s like people are supposed to believe the virus somehow won’t exist in June. It’ll still be here, plenty of people will refuse the vaccine and plenty of people will refuse to work or socialise in a busy room for a long time. I’m sure the bingo halls and high street discos will be fine but the overall landscape is going to take years to adjust back, and the papers are making people think it’s going to happen overnight.
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Fair enough. I know of a lot of places that’ll be announcing their closure as soon as furlough ends, so keen to see how it unfolds.
I just think announcing a specific date this early is a bit optimistic.
They haven’t managed to accurately get anything whatsoever right before.
First day back in school today and it’s a very muted reaction having all the kids back on the 8th. People seem worried about it. We’ve just had a few staff catch covid pretty recently after the whole place has been relatively clear of it all year, so I guess it close to home and too soon maybe.
My kid was meant to start nursery this week, and we found out yesterday that it’ll (supposedly) be in two weeks now. So that’s fucked things a bit.
It’s all about being realistic. I understand that this thing is going nowhere, and these dates are “if all goes well”. Not getting carried away by any means, but certainly allowing myself to soak in a bit of excitement after what has been some of the most testing months of my life.
Looking back to last summer when the pubs reopened we all expected they would be crazy, and in some parts they probably were. But from my experience it was relatively calm and if anything people were quite reserved. Although I’m in my little midland village bubble.
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Everyone I’ve seen on social media seems to have glossed over the whole “at the earliest” thing and just summed up June 21st as the de facto date for normality, and given the government has fumbled it every step of the way over the last 11 months, I do not have high hopes that it’ll be a return to normality in 4.
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In fact, the pub I used to run (real ale, no kids inside, no TV, no gambler) had an influx of regulars from other locals who weren’t sticking to the rules.
Depressing stuff.
I wonder how much the UK association with that particular vaccine is repsonsible.
What a bunch of cunts.
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I switched my pubs due to not feeling like my usual haunt we’re doing enough and people in there were taking the piss. As did a lot of others too. Down to the other pub here that took advantage of people wanting to be safe and got an app, full table service and an outdoor marquee set up. Made sense and was way safer.
Going to be called ‘Vaccine passports’, it seems.
An absolute gift for the conspiracy freaks.
have many of you had conversations with people who aren’t normally dickheads that go along the lines of “will you get that vaccine? i won’t. i don’t trust it. it’s not tested” sometimes i bother talking them through it. sometimes i don’t. it’s getting really depressing
I wonder how many of them will stand firm if it means they can’t go on holiday.
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Not since Sunday, and that was the “I do everything right and I’m healthy so I don’t actually need to take it, somebody else can have mine” angle.
i’ve tried a few different approaches. my most recent was something along the lines of “the more people who get this thing and in turn pass it on, the higher the chance of a more deadly mutation. would you get the vaccination if covid was 100% deadly? you only don’t want to get it because you believe covid won’t affect you but there are millions of people who can’t get vaccinated for whom covid is already almost 100% deadly”
although i admit the problem with trying to appeal to people’s better nature is that most people are just selfish fucktards
