Predictions on when ALL restriction are lifted

[slider]

As the starter of this thread on when will ALL restrictions be lifted, my date of 7 Sept is still in with a chance but it looks slim, I note many of the optimists who posted dates have already come and gone sadly Anyone want to go for another date??

no chance. Things might have eased but there will still be restrictions on big gatherings, social distancing, face masks etc.

I work for a Government department have have been told we will continue to work from home until at least September, after which there will still be restrictions on teh number of people working from teh office at any one time. We are told not to expect anything close to normality until April next year

 

[McKenzie]

That sounds about right to me.

no chance. Things might have eased but there will still be restrictions on big gatherings, social distancing, face masks etc.

I work for a Government department have have been told we will continue to work from home until at least September, after which there will still be restrictions on teh number of people working from teh office at any one time. We are told not to expect anything close to normality until April next year

 

[martin_b]

To be very selfish the longer I can work from home the better, I'm saving about £60 a week in petrol, and 3 hours a day in travel time,
Tomorrow for instance I'll get in an hours fly fishing, and still be on-line before 8am.
What is interesting is that im my industry (Broadcast) it has proved that a lot of us can work efficiently from home so why pay for all thoese expensive offices.

 

[sh1kar]

See my earlier reply

 

[sh1kar]

Post no 33

 

[Archer]

In my dreams by Aug 14th ,but, whilst there will be minor changes/relaxing, I think the reality is restrictions will be in place until Christmas

 

[User00035]

Some restrictions will never be lifted. Governments love controlling people. Control is power and once they gain extra powers they never give them up willingly.

 

[timbrayford]

Depending on the presence or absence of infection spikes amongst the BLM/BAME demonstrators in Bristol & London over the next week or so lockdown will either be in the case of the former as soon as the Government can do so without loss of face or in the case of the latter the run up to the next General Election. In any case by a week tomorrow the picture should be a lot clearer.

 

[Sika-Hunter]

spikes amongst the BLM/BAME demonstrators in Bristol & London

Hopefully they will do a Local lockdown if that happens not blanket

 

[VSS]

To be very selfish the longer I can work from home the better, I'm saving about £60 a week in petrol, and 3 hours a day in travel time,
Tomorrow for instance I'll get in an hours fly fishing, and still be on-line before 8am.
What is interesting is that im my industry (Broadcast) it has proved that a lot of us can work efficiently from home so why pay for all thoese expensive offices.

I think that this ^^^ is the future. Better for everyone, and the environment.

 

[kes]

think it is worth considering what will be acceptable to the majority of people and, barring a second (or third) spike, most people will have returned to completely 'normal' by mid - end August. Most people accept necessity but confidence has ebbed considerably and some never really cared for the 'rules' anyway, like the demonstrator holding a placard saying - "no lives matter until black lives matter". If thats not racist, I dont know what is.

 

[User00035]

Hopefully they will do a Local lockdown if that happens not blanket

And hopefully a permanent one.

 

[NoIDeer]

The week this virus decides to fizzle out on its own like they all do eventually?

Staying with this.

 

[wildfowler1]

1st January 2021.

 

[User00040]

The week this virus decides to fizzle out on its own like they all do eventually?

Not sure about that, HIV is a virus and still going strong? Been around for decades now.

 

[Pedro]

Restrictions and returning to (what was) normal are two different things.

Restrictions will, I suspect be a thing of the past come August or September, assuming the virus continues to wane. But shopping will involve protocols that have been introduced still I expect and personally, we will not be doing what we used to. Seeing an old friend in the street that you haven't see for a while might have involved a hug before, but not going forward. On one of the pheasant shoots I frequent, lunch is taken in a converted static caravan and things are a bit tight. Can't see that happening any time soon.

And having a snog (or more) around the back of the nightclub with a new person will now involve yet another element of danger. (Not that it's something I've done in many a long year).

 

[slider]

To be very selfish the longer I can work from home the better, I'm saving about £60 a week in petrol, and 3 hours a day in travel time,
Tomorrow for instance I'll get in an hours fly fishing, and still be on-line before 8am.
What is interesting is that im my industry (Broadcast) it has proved that a lot of us can work efficiently from home so why pay for all thoese expensive offices.

I expect some of the pension and investment companies that own many of the city centre office blocks are peeing their pants as many businesses realise they can operate just as efficiently, in fact more so, with many staff working remotely.

While I do miss the social interaction to an extent I am enjoying working from home and expect that to continue, with perhaps one day a week in teh office.

 

[NoIDeer]

Not sure about that, HIV is a virus and still going strong? Been around for decades now.

I really hope I'm right and you are wrong, the two previous nasty corona viruses SARS and MERS aren't around now

 

[User00040]

I really hope I'm right and you are wrong, the two previous nasty corona viruses SARS and MERS aren't around now

Believe me, I want to be wrong too!

Both of those viruses mutated in the wild and became less infectious but samples are still being kept in labs

 

[Heym SR20]

Working practices will change, especially for desk based and office work, especially for those sorts of jobs where you travel for an hour to work, drive a desk for the day with your communications by email, messaging app and phone, and then travel home again. And there are millions doing just that.

In my business i would spend at least one if not two days a fortnight on trains, planes or in the car. Now we do the travelling on Zoom. Far far more productive and cheaper for all.

Only downside is no switch off time.

We will learn to live with COVID. Most on here will remember the terrifying emergence of AIDS - don’t die of ignorance etc - AIDs and HIV whilst not curable per se, can now be managed and most live a ling and active life with the disease.

Colds and Flu kill tens of thousands each year, so does obesity, heart disease. Frankly life is a sexually transmitted disease that is 100% fatal.

Most of us will go about our daily lives pretty much as before - there will be major changes in how we work and shop. And those who particularly susceptible to disease or immunosuppressed will have to distance and shield themselves. But such people have always had to take such precautions.

Hopefully the healthcare systems will relearn the importance of controlling infectious disease and that you need a strong community healthcare system - not A badly run under funded centrally controlled beauracratic too big to fail institution that we currently have.

Sadly I fear that no such lessons will be learned and we will shudder from one crash to another.