On Boxing Day Oxfordshire entered Tier 4.

The tougher restrictions mean you cannot leave your house unless you have a 'reasonable excuse', you cannot meet anyone from another household indoors, and non-essential retail and hospitality must close unless they serve takeaways or run a click and collect service.

Here is what our readers had to say about it all:

GLYN PLESTED: “Tier 4 is not much change from Tier 2.

“The Nightingale Hospitals been dismantled, vaccines in some areas disposed of as people do not turn up, these are more newsworthy items.

“Where has the equipment gone from the Nightingale Hospitals, who has it, or sold it? Tiers is a minor detail compared to this in the height of a major pandemic.”

CAROLYNNE HOLMS-SHARP: “Because of the thoughtless out there, we have had five elderly people from our club die this year.

“It is still closed to the needy who have nowhere to go.”

MATHEW JONES: “Just tell people to use their common sense but perhaps people do not have that much common sense.”

JULIE FLANAGAN: “I do not feel controlled, I feel safe in the knowledge that the government is looking out for me and advising the best way to go.

“I can still make my Own mind up and I chose to be safe and keep others safe.”

TREVOR KENDALL: “The political and financial decision to allow schools and universities to open has affected Oxford, and many other parts of the country.

“This has cost many people’s lives as well as the rise in the nonsensical ‘R’ rate allowing people from all over the world to congregate back in Oxford. There is a total lack of any social conscience (I am not the only person to see hordes of students hanging out together).

“This plus the other biggest infection vector of schools opening will lead to a Tier 5,6,7 lockdown.

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“Easter will be the earliest that things might get back to Tier 2. Happy 2021.”

PAUL NICHOLAS: “I’ll go to work, go to Tesco’s on the way home, about all I do anyway.”

LEE IAN GARNER: “I’ve been on reduced hours and a rota system in the lab. Was walking to work in the summer to avoid the buses (although the 900 is very, very quiet now so I do not feel it is too much of a risk). We had a few friends over in the summer when we could have people in the back yard.”

JAY JAY: “I will do what I want because I am a free sovereign. It is not about a virus. It is about control.”

TINA FROST: “The government are dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t. Impossible situation.

“Unfortunately, until people stop with the stupid thoughts that the government want to control us and the vaccine has a microchip in it so the government can track all our movements; which makes me laugh because the ones that say this are on social media sites, have a driving licence, TV licence, mobile devices, pay tax or claim benefits.

“So, if we do not all pull together 2021 is not going to be much better than 2020.”

PAM OVEREND: “Sadly as long as people don’t follow advice and please themselves the virus and restrictions will go on well into 2021.

“If people had followed restrictions earlier in the year, we could have all had a Christmas with our family”

KONSTANTINOS ROSSIS: “Our freedom is being taken day by day using the virus as an excuse.

“If the situation were so tragic, I would not work at a hospital site with the minimum wage.

“Anyway, we are the ones that must follow the rules.

“Just don’t kill your vibe people stay positive and calm.

“Live with hope and no fear.”

Edd Owers: “Tier 4 means nothing. People would be totally locked behind doors if it were as bad as it is made out.”