In your opinion, How much longer is this local down going to go on for ?

[Lardlizard]

Will be another couple of weekS do you think or months ?

2 months in total, that's what I'm mentally preparing myself for :(

June or July earliest is my guess. We haven’t even peaked yet so it won’t be in the foreseeable future.

I feel like I need to try n get it into my head how long this is going to last

Too long!
Realistically I think fully back to normal ie. everything open come June. Slow lift of restrictions mid May.

June, later if people flout it

Title should say lock down, sorry this is so small on my phone

No idea but its unsustainable long term.

I don't know realistically how long even the hard core isolaters will sit there with no end in sight...

@lardlizard

My phone keeps changing it to lickdown which frankly sounds like much more fun!!

There are quite a few threads asking this already, so you might want to read them. I’m not sure many people have the energy to keep replying sensibly!

Initially they said if the closed the schools it would need to be for 13-16 weeks. Why they did this for 3 weeks is baffling. They’d have been better to set a realistic length in the first place. Their thinking seems all over the place , I think it’s beyond our ability to guess because you never know which way they’re going to jump next. I truly think all we can do is wait & see.

I’m happy for it to last as long as it takes to keep the numbers below maxing out the NHS’s ability to cope & having to decide between patients who gets a ventilator & who misses out

(Different to a clinical decision that a patient won’t benefit from it).

@SarahTancredi

I don't know realistically how long even the hard core isolaters will sit there with no end in sight...

I’ll be happy to do it for as long as it takes & is saving lives. I think care should be based on outcome for the patient, not the number of bits of equipment available.

And if it takes a year? 2 years? And you have no job to go back to?

I think people staying stuff like that will probably still be going stir crazy after a few more weeks of this no matter how amazing they think they sounds saying otherwise.

It’s not as simple as being happy to do it as long as it takes. If the economy falls apart and there are no jobs who pays for the NHS? There’ll be no taxes so no nurses/ doctors or ventilators anyway, surely?

OP I think lock down will be for 12 weeks (including what we’ve had already) and after that a staggered return to allow the economy to function.

I’m on the 12 weeks of isolating for those who are vulnerable, second week just ending so I reckon at least mid-June.
Certainly I don’t think schools will go back before September.
It’s getting your head around lockdown is to flatten the peak(s), so that the NHS can cope. Not to eliminate the virus, which would be impossible anyway, so I think there will be at least one more peak after the first and probably another in the winter.
Those who don’t act responsibly and persist in going out will mean the lockdown continues, they are complete idiots.
Everything is going to be uncertain for some time to come.

But the virus is always going to be there. We haven't figured out a cure for the common cold.

So, what's to stop this happening again and again and again?

We cant lock down indefinitely can we?

And as for blaming people going out

Its usually fairly easy to maintain distance from people when out and about unless you live in a particularly busy area . I could be out all day I'm some.parts round here and easily be able to stay more than 2 metres away and not touch anything or anyone.

But crowds are unavoidable in so many parts of life. Normal every day working life even if u bam socialisation for the next two years

How do you manage distabcjg imnoffices and call centres and drs waiting rooms and in fire trucks or a lift.

Those are going to ge a problem for well ever arent they?

As long as it takes. No real testing etc. Prob not even peaked here. Get used to it. May at earliest.