First day of absolute freedom? June 21st.

[Blue Maverick]

It’s a pity Boris couldn’t let us have June 18th instead if 21st . England v Scotland on a Friday night !!!

I have no doubt that was brought up, it would be carnage on a Friday

 

[Northernstorirs]

Probably leave it a week or so to let all the dickheads get it out of their system.

Ditto.

Sick of seeing Fiat 500 owners bang on about this date.

Nice pubs will be frequented by knobheads who've never had a drink in their life, think I will let things die down.

 

[unicorn]

I am free now to do what I want within the law, laws will have changed by then so will go about my business in a law abiding way.

I will be as free as I am today only thing I am missing is the pub and I can be in a beer garden by April 12th

Same here. Hope there's enough pubs with outdoor areas to make April 12th reopening worthwhile, and that Manc Council lets Northern Quarter spill out onto pavements like last year.

 

[chaddblue]

It’s a pity Boris couldn’t let us have June 18th instead if 21st . England v Scotland on a Friday night !!!

Ha Ha . Suspect that wasn’t accidental

it would have been the maddest Friday of all mad Fridays

 

[ell]

The type of people who will be out on the 21st are the ones who have been doing what they want anyway. Roll on July

 

[BlueHammer85]

outdoor pubs and other places will be opening before then.

i don't think this date will be a 'bang' and everyone out.. will be gradual.

 

[waspish]

Last year in the July August period rates were low what be interesting this year will be come October November if there is an increase in covid cases?! This will tell us how well these vaccines have worked.

 

[Ballet-on-ice]

Absolute freedom, the ultimate illusion.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Not to piss on anyone's chips, but absolute freedom? We're not getting back to that for months and more probably years. Until the entire world is vaccinated, as long as you let people in from elsewhere, as long as you go elsewhere, and as long as cunning new strains of the virus are working out ways to get round whatever vaccine happens to have been developed, there may and probably should be light constraints on the way people socialise with strangers. Emphasis on light, but they'll be there. I live in a country where prior to Covid everybody kissed each other on the cheek (men with women, women with women) or shook hands (men with men), as a standard thing. It's considered rude not to. I think there'll now be cautiousness about that for the forseeable future.
Oh and Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Moderna et al. have studiously refrained from guaranteeing the length of immunity even for such vaccines as we now possess. With good reason, since this has never been done before on this scale, and at such short notice. We're in uncharted waters.
That said: by God I would love to do something as simple as sit at a café terrace and have my coffee while I watch the world go by, or go into a pub and have a pint. Even if I do have to keep my distance.

 

[paulchapo]

Absolute freedom, the ultimate illusion.

It's not happening. It's typical Boris bluster to quell growing unrest for a while. Hancock has already been doing the rounds this morning pouring cold water on expectations. Like last summer there will probably be some easing, again to stop mass rebellion, before the inevitable lockdown four in Autumn.