My wife sent me out at about 11:30 to collect the in-laws. Before I left I messaged friends on several WhatsApp groups to see if anybody wanted them but there were no takers so I had to bring them back to ours anyway.

Seriously though, I did manage to educate them on
-the striking lack of evidence for asymptomatic transmission
-the second wave being an extension of the first wave
-the Government's failure to give a consistent strong message on how to reduce spread and protect ourselves....and how their failure to adopt decades' worth of standard pandemic management guidance would now be putting some elderly people at risk from symptomatically shedding relatives on Christmas day

They then checked their phones for Christmas messages from some of their elderly and chronically ill friends and we heard stories of some being wrapped up in blankets with the windows wide open and others eating their Christmas lunch in the garage with the door open.

The in-laws left fully convinced that, with us all being well, we posed no risk to each other and that it is symptomatic people in confined indoor spaces that they don't know who will be the ones who pose a risk. As such they will now keep their distance from people they don't know and gel their hands when out an about.

I also had a completely normal Christmas - it was lovely. I feel very bad for the people whose relatives took it more seriously than mine, and who were alone - I even know someone who is at higher risk to covid, who wanted to see their family but family remembers refused due to the risk to that person's safety, so they had to be alone! Just goes to show how inhumane and paternalistic the situation is. I was one of the people who fled London at short notice when tier 4 was announced (I'd been planning to go a few days later) - went into a Tier 2 area and managed to even go to the pub and shops a few times. I was worried about being stopped by the police on the way back but there were none anywhere. It's just not possible for the police to enforce this when they've still got actual crimes to solve, and they've been under resourced and over stretched for years...

It's encouraging to know that others have had what they describe as a 'completely normal Christmas' - understanding that it takes a collective group of people from different households under different influences. Yet still they pulled together.

I left a key question at the end of my opening post, where I quizzed what people plan to do for new year celebrations.

For myself and my fiancée, it looks like the relations with our respective family will be ruined almost beyond repair, urged along by this globalist government's criminal stranglehold on our population. Despite my efforts to pull the family together during this madness, my Coronafied parent's will only spend new year with my sister and their grandson, permitted by the state because they're all within a "support bubble".

I can not remember a time our family have not spent new year together.

No matter how hard I've tried to pull everyone together, the state seems to have won, and I believe it could be the last of our winter traditions; next year the whole celebration of Christmas and New Year will likely be banned completely. When I asked for the last time if they'll join us for New Year, my dad thought it was funny to tell me that he'll see me after lockdown.

I responded; "if that's the case, I'll see you next decade."

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ps. a special thanks must go to the utterly disgusting
Bolsheviks Broadcasting Communism.

Very well identified J4mes, we are all frogs in a pot with the government slowly but surely turning up the heat, the regulations will become more and more strict with less and less leeway and exemptions, with as you say the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation constantly applying further and further coercive pressure. New Year isn't happening, Easter isn't happening, summer holidays will be put off yet again, and Halloween, Firework Night, and Christmas/New Year, will all be banned in 2021.

I agree with that james and speedstick. I have felt this would be the last Christmas so I made the best of it this year fully expecting next year to be cancelled along with any holidays or special occasions. Anything that equates to any kind of fun or happiness will be banned . boris and co will continue to add more and more draconian rules. Next one no exchange of kisses new years eve migh TV spreas the rona. They are getting away with this bullshit as many sheep will follow.
I love the name for the bbc. Spot on.
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