For
duck’s sake. The rates are now the highest they are going to be (hopefully) and she and her family are still happy to mix indoors together. They live within walking distance of each other and there is no way the government are going to ban household mixing on Christmas Day (though they will likely limit numbers). I’m not saying it’s right that they’re happy to ban mixing on Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah etc but not on Christmas but there’s no way they won’t come to some form of compromise.
It goes without saying that I wish her mum all the best and I hope she gets a lot better but I presume if she’s happy to take the risk now she’ll be happy to take the risk on Christmas Day when the risk is actually bound to be lower following the lockdown.
The people who are actually going to struggle are the people who are homeless at Christmas & the people who have no jobs at Christmas due to the pandemic, who can’t put food on the table, whose kids can’t have a visit from Father Christmas. The people who are alone as they’re shielding. The bereaved. The elderly. The people whose family are too far away (including refugees).
A Christmas alone doesn’t have to be desolate & I think as a society we’re going to need to do everything to wrap our arms (virtually) around people who are alone or in need. To make it the best it can possibly be. And that doesn’t involve scaring people on the internet by trying to second guess what it’ll look like whilst having a personal pity party (when you have a glass that’s very much half full). 2020 is
tit enough without her self-pity.
Though maybe if there’s a numbers limit she’s worried she won’t make the cut because she whines to much and insists people it slop?