I'm fairly certain now that Johnson will go for a 4 week/month delay. He's probably been swayed by bloody Whitty and Vallance into making this decision. I for one am absolutely DREADING this being announced on Monday, or confirmed by the press and media on Sunday night. To be this close now - just 10 days, from all(or most) restrictions at long last ending, and then for this to be taken away from us and it becomes another 4 weeks/a month we have to endure this and then no guarantee that there won't be another delay again for some stupid reasons, this is just all too much. This is mental torture for many people, including myself. I can't take much more of this. Many are mentally drained by having to endure all this for 15 months now. This just can't go on any longer. This has to end ASAP.
If this 4 week/month delay does go ahead, I really hope there will be absolute uproar about this, to show Johnson we have absolutely had enough of all this.
I’m not sure where will be uproar, things seem to be compartmentalised into a few groups now
* an increasing mass of people for whom normal life has essentially resumed, give or take the odd Perspex screen or mask when they can be bothered to put it on
* the genuinely terrified who are now a very small contingent
* those pursuing the specific agenda of attempting to continue working from home for as long as they can swing, so will be pushing for “restrictions” but not actually taking notice of any restrictions apart from the one which says they shouldn’t return to the office
* business owners who continue to be crucified by all this
Only the last of these has a sufficiently vested interest to make trouble I suspect, and they’re only a small cohort. There would by now have been trouble if we still had lockdown restrictions like stay at home, but with most people now able to do a reasonable range of things there isn’t quite the urge to push further.
I’m in mid-Wales at the moment and barring the signs on every shop front door and a few Perspex screens here and there (which most people seem to be subconsciously moving to the side of now), you wouldn’t really know there was anything abnormal about life.