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Makes complete sense. Cases are rising and a mutated more transmittable strain is now active so it’s all that can be done, it’s been coming and anyone who complains that they have changed the rules again and so close to Christmas is ignoring what is happening on a bigger scale. We are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, it’s blatantly obvious the rules are going to change and at times quickly. 

And Christmas has not been cancelled, it is simply very different to how it normally would be; you can still open presents, put up decorations, each food, have a drink, have a visitor around (admittedly limited and only if really needed) and see each other (albeit online). It’s not the same as every other year and is awful for many but saying it has been cancelled is not what is happening. For once in goodness knows how many years for all it should be very much a case of getting thru so that you can meet up again when this is over and have a far greater celebration together. It might be incredibly hard and s**t but we have to see the bigger picture. Vaccines are now getting distributed with more being approved; there is a little bit of light, unfortunately it’s a good few months away to the end so, to paraphrase John, we’ll just have to carry on. Count the cost, grit our teeth, close our eyes, cry in the night if it helps. Whatever it takes to get us thru.

Sturgeon said it would not have been changed if the new strain was not presenting a massive risk to Scotland; it’s something like 70% more contagious then the one we have grown accustomed to over the last year. The reason why it wasn’t announced sooner and why the rules have changed is a) the new mutation and how severe it could be was only identified over the last day or so with the science only revealed onto the government today and b) numbers in Scotland are lower than the rest of the UK and they didn’t want Christmas to be any worse than it had to be. This new development has changed everything quickly.

No government will want to do whats being done to Christmas but unfortunately the world is in a battle with a highly dangerous and infectious mutating disease which does not give a toss which day of the week it is or national holiday is coming up. Rules and restrictions are going to change quickly, at times with no warning. It’s s**t for billions of people but what else can governments do? It’s far easier looking on saying this should have been or not but I’d hate to be making the decisions as whatever they do it’s going to heavily effect millions of people in ways that cannot be underestimated. No point I’ll post again questioning what is being done but I get that it’s all really s**t for everyone – including Boris and all the other politicians and rulers leading their countries thru this.  

What I will add is just how s**t Labour are in the UK. Have and give no hard opinion on anything, just sit and moan about whatever is decided and announced. Even Brexit. No plan ever outlined. I have no idea where they stand or what they want except it all should have been done differently and better than whatever has been done.

It is very worrying just now with the amount of cases and how quickly the numbers are rising. No idea why people would chose to forgo waring face coverings or continue to break the rules in meeting up but it’s not surprising.

My plan is to avoid everyone except when in work and in the shops getting the odd messages – tho I have home deliveries coming.

Dark Overlord said
If 5% of UK residents have COVID (even while under lockdown), then they should be arresting people who don’t wear masks? While it may seem extreme, it would scare most into wearing masks and the few that would still refuse to wear a mask would be in jail, where they won’t be able to potentially spread COVID.

  

There are people who for very legitimate reasons can not and do not wear masks. It would therefore be impossible to police without asking questions about their health conditions and whatever else. 

At one point you could get a letter from your GP or have a lanyard with a specific design but these vanished with little notice.