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Press reports that we will introduce a red/amber/green system for foreign travel; looks like Spain would be "red" but surely isolated islands could be raised into the green category?

The system would require one test before departure and two on arrival; no news on how you would actually do that.

I’m expecting an influx of Spotlighters to visit me in Dubai!
 
I miss group training a lot. After paying subs for a year through online stuff I never got into and some spells back I didn't want to go to I have finally cancelled my membership today. After so much shielding I just can't see me feeling OK about interacting like this again any time soon. Even once everyone at home is fully vaccinated the mood here is that we need to carry on avoiding people so no group sessions, events, holidays or anything like that. Unless I move away from here on my own like I used to I don't see this changing. So maybe that's the way forward for me but I don't want to get closed out of coming back for the whole Summer which is what's likely to happen if I walk out.

Feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place, trapped, with no way to go in any direction other than to carry on as things have been for the last year for another year. By that stage I think this place will be beyond my walking out on for a few weeks away. Either that or just sell everything up, re-home my mum somewhere she can be independent, break up and go back to living on my own. Been mega depressed today. Everyone else seems to be getting their lives back and I can't see any prospect of me getting any aspects of mine back whatever is actually allowed. The mood may change but for now it's as if nothing is easing for me.
Mate your doing an amazing job looking after your mum and your family.

But remember to look after yourself or you won't be much good to anyone else.

It's been a tough year and it's not going to get better over night but it WILL get better 💪🏽
 
Mate your doing an amazing job looking after your mum and your family.

But remember to look after yourself or you won't be much good to anyone else.

It's been a tough year and it's not going to get better over night but it WILL get better 💪🏽

I know mate, failing on that front trapped in a prison of the mind ! If I can get my 2nd jab early after Easter with my mum I've decided I'll restart 1:1 outdoor PT to get motivated - he has about 10 sessions' worth of my cash held over since last February I asked him to hold on to until things improved. Just need picking up and getting back out there keeping fit with an excuse and some accountability.

On the travel front seeing things like this just makes me retreat further and further into my shell not wanting to go anywhere !!

 
I know mate, failing on that front trapped in a prison of the mind ! If I can get my 2nd jab early after Easter with my mum I've decided I'll restart 1:1 outdoor PT to get motivated - he has about 10 sessions' worth of my cash held over since last February I asked him to hold on to until things improved. Just need picking up and getting back out there keeping fit with an excuse and some accountability.

On the travel front seeing things like this just makes me retreat further and further into my shell not wanting to go anywhere !!


Stay strong mukka, you’ll soon get back into your stride :D

Better times are coming 👍
 
Mate your doing an amazing job looking after your mum and your family.

But remember to look after yourself or you won't be much good to anyone else.

It's been a tough year and it's not going to get better over night but it WILL get better 💪🏽
Stay strong mukka, you’ll soon get back into your stride :D

Better times are coming 👍
Yeah, ditto Alex.
Don’t get into that hole that’s hard to get out of. I’ve nearly found myself there in the past few months.
 
yeah hang in there alex! better times are coming indeed. all indicators in the UK seem to point in the right direction and even for europe I start to feel a little more optimistic now. even though numbers in some countries are still high (and growing in some), they don't seem to explode as much anymore and speaking of spain specifically, the vaccine lots are indeed getting bigger now. it really looks as though april to june will be three months with frantic vaccination action here in spain (and I believe elsewhere in europe). yes, no doubt we're behind the UK (and US), but I still believe we're on track to reach some form of normality in the second part of this summer.
 
yeah hang in there alex! better times are coming indeed. all indicators in the UK seem to point in the right direction and even for europe I start to feel a little more optimistic now. even though numbers in some countries are still high (and growing in some), they don't seem to explode as much anymore and speaking of spain specifically, the vaccine lots are indeed getting bigger now. it really looks as though april to june will be three months with frantic vaccination action here in spain (and I believe elsewhere in europe). yes, no doubt we're behind the UK (and US), but I still believe we're on track to reach some form of normality in the second part of this summer.
Everything crossed for September 6th and September 30th 🤞🤞🤞🤞 Ibiza here we come
 
I know mate, failing on that front trapped in a prison of the mind ! If I can get my 2nd jab early after Easter with my mum I've decided I'll restart 1:1 outdoor PT to get motivated - he has about 10 sessions' worth of my cash held over since last February I asked him to hold on to until things improved. Just need picking up and getting back out there keeping fit with an excuse and some accountability.

On the travel front seeing things like this just makes me retreat further and further into my shell not wanting to go anywhere !!

My 48 year old brother took my mum yesterday for hers and got jabbed as her 'carer'. First thing he's done in 12 months was take her 🤣

You've definitely earned yours, good luck mate
 
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So now it's about a biweekly test for everyone. Not the vaccine. Or am I missing something?

I'm really starting to think my original suspicion was correct....
 
So now it's about a biweekly test for everyone. Not the vaccine. Or am I missing something?

I'm really starting to think my original suspicion was correct....
Nah, I think they offering 2 free lateral flow tests to everyone each week to make it easier for those who want to get a test or if an event requires a negative test.🤔

So for those under 50 not vaccinated or don't want to take the vaccine.

Imho I think the government really would like to remove all measures, but are really really nervous of a new variant appearing in the uk. Either imported or home grown.

Like in Brazil. New variant more infectious *and* reinfecting people who previously had the original variant. Putting a lot in hospital and dying 😕

As more vaccinated etc, if rates still moderately high, there will be "pressure" on the virus for the mutations that are less susceptible to the vaccine/previous infection immunity to become dominant. So we could end up with our own Brazil variant.

Thus they want to test test test to keep track of it all.🤷‍♂️
 
Imho I think the government really would like to remove all measures, but are really really nervous of a new variant appearing in the uk. Either imported or home grown.

I'm not sure I believe this at all. Once again we've been fed propaganda about the vaccine and our way out. Wham, goal posts moved again.....

NOW our freedoms might return if we all have a biweekly test. Their wording is really starting to p!ss me off. Massively.
 
So now it's about a biweekly test for everyone. Not the vaccine. Or am I missing something?

I'm really starting to think my original suspicion was correct....

Twice weekly testing should be mandatory for all unvaccinated UK citizens not voluntary. The people most likely to spread the disease are the same people who won't use the tests. Whole idea is fantasy as far as outcomes and it's clear UK won't be able to get hold of enough vaccines for several months to counter the balance of risk exposures in younger people. You can't impose vaccine passport / testing obligations without people having the means to access vaccines or tests. Hence the tests now being promoted in the absence of imminent vaccine options.

Refusing to prioritize teachers for vaccination has led to them being the second highest group of workers in the UK suffering long covid sufficiently bad to affect their ability to work ... you expect this sort of % in NHS workers due to extent of their exposure to the virus and the length of time it took to get a vaccine programme underway >>

 
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Surely it would be more weird if things didn't progress to the next stage?

You're saying the goalposts have been moved, and that is correct in a sense, but they've been shifted a little closer towards normality not further away. What would be more suspect, in my eyes, would be to completely remove the goalposts and pretend like they were never there (imagine the field day the "nut jobs" would have with that!).

Nobody is going to be frogmarching you to a test centre, so i wouldn't waste energy worrying abut it

The majority of UK forum members have been highly critical of our government, haven't they? Even the ones who voted for 'em
 
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