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There's a distinction between "healthcare crisis laws" (such as the initial lockdown for a few weeks in the UK), and making it illegal to visit friends and family indefinitely.

I'm just repeating myself now though.

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You know, the problem is that nobody goes and thinks "Oh we have messed up, now we need stronger lockdown measures, if only we had done a weaker lockdown sooner we could have avoided this" instead everyone thinks "The government is subverting democracy. We must fight back." x months later "The government is getting worse. We must fight back even harder"

We are eleven months in.

I voluntarily restricted myself for a long while. Far, far longer than I should have, to the point that I may have given myself brain damage.

Now I am visiting my family because I'm not willing to do it indefinitely. The UK government is waffling on about restrictions until 2022 despite the fact we'll have vaccinated most of the vulnerable in a month or two.

Everyone has their breaking point, and I've reached mine.

Two weeks to flatten the curve, yo.

Maybe news from other countries may be more informative than your current sources. Current projection in my country is that by summer every adult may've been vaccinated. The vaccine lessens severity of the disease, even if it doesn't block it entirely. So we might be on track to open up sooner than expected, which initially could be 2-3 years trajectory following fast-track of normal vaccine development.

The issue is lockdown and how the UK government chooses to proceed, not coronavirus spread or science.

I'm opening up from March 23, they can do whatever they want.

That's a long two weeks.

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