please empty your brain below

Just a month and year, thanks.
(and maybe one short supporting sentence)
June 2022
September 2022
October 2021
(Partner says December 2021)
August 2021
Because of summer, vaccines, and no school-spreading.
December 2022

'science' is unsure if the vaccine prevents spreading the virus, so one potential answer is 'never'.
April 2022 (allowing winter to be out of the way & encouraging people to treat Easter as the new Christmas)
August 2021, then another lockdown Xmas 21.
July 2022.
I have no confidence that UK government will deploy vaccinesin 2021 at a speed that exceeds virus mutation.
November 2021
May 2021.

I hope the vaccination programme will start to reduce the risks and then the government will reduce restrictions enough to allow your unlimited gathering.
July 2021

Reasoning per Ian, but I think it will take a little longer.
August 2021.
(My answer would be different if it was anywhere in the UK)
April 2022
July 2022, on the basis that our Government keeps trying to U-turn in an oil tanker.
December 2022. I cannot see any scenario that will allow a normal Christmas this year.
September 2021
May 2022
April 2022
June 2021
Summer 2023 - so July 2023
April 2022
July 2022
April 2022 for all groups in society to free of restrictions.
July 2021
June 2022
August 2021
January 2022
Dec 21
October 2021
December 2022
September 2021.
April 2022
December 2022
September 2021
October 2021
December 2021
April 2022
March 2022
June 2022
December 2021
October 2021
March 2023.

Two years to vaccinate everyone who wants it with two doses.
June 2021
December 2021
March 2022
Sept 2021
July 2021 (but likely only a fairly short period, with restrictions back by October)
Aug 2021, until they realise they've made a mistake & bring some rules back in.
July 2021 (and then saw above by Rich - which sounds likely too)
March 2022
September 2021
March 2022
Not enough vaccine injections; not fast enough; mutations.
May 2022. I think the new strain of the virus will keep ahead of the vaccine rollout for quite some time unfortunately.
August 2021 at the earliest.
September 2021
June 2022 (i.e. the Queen's Platinum Jubilee)
June 2022. This malarkey always takes longer than expected/hoped.
Me: June 2022
Partner: May 2022 (optimistic!)
Dec 2021
July 2022
June 2022
August 2021, but I think that will be too soon.
December 2021
But only for a limited time so the government gets their headline
September 21.
Thanks for making me think about this, my answer has not cheered me up.
April 2021 - for Easter to appeal to voters, but it will be too soon and another peak will follow.
October 2021
June 2021
December 2021. For a few days.
September 2021
September 2021
November 2021
Wife says October 2021
August 2022
October 2021
March 2022. Although Christmas is likely to be fairly close to normal, it won't be until the Spring that everything will be eased
June 2022
May 2023
December 2021
March 2022
May 2022 - but what happens if other mutations of the virus turn up?
December 2021
October 2021
May 2022
July 2022
October 2021.
Wife says July 2021
Me; October 2021
Other half; July 2022
August 2022.
October 2021
October 2021 - just in time for my birthday.
"Final" return to "normal" in October 2022, just in time for me to have my first Winter Covid jab.
August 2021.
Because if you're going to make a wild guess, it might as well be an optimistic one.
Nov 21
June 2021
It my birthday then and then I might be able to have a party!!
I hope it will be by the end of May 2021 because that is when we are planning to celebrate my wife's 70th Birthday by going away for a long weekend with all the family.
3 household members:
August 2021
June 2022
April 2022
October 2021; I have a feeling the government will mess up the vaccine rollout and push back the new normal.
January 2022
May 2022
March 2022
August 2021
June 2022
September 2021
June 2021.
I know I'm on the optimistic side here. I'm simply going by the fact that most elderly will be vaccinated by then + summer.
108 responses, thanks!
(and I have stopped counting)


Results at foot of post.
April 2022. The deciding factor was "unlimited households"; we believe that some indoor mixing will be permitted before this time, but given the experience of winter 2020/21, and the lack of evidence of capability to deliver vaccinations nationwide before next winter, we believe that unconstrained mixing will be somewhat further delayed.










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