Life without lockdown

[fourpeasinapod]

Sitting thinking, what would life (in the UK) be like if there was no lockdown?

Say no gyms, schools, cafes, restaurants etc closed and everybody still had to go into work, what would you say it would be like right now?

Grim and utter chaos.

Instead of10% of health workers being off sick/isolating, it's 75%. NHS grinds to a halt in many places. The nightingales are full , even though woefully understaffed. Morgues are full and ice rinks are requisitioned.

Public transport is patchy, as are all logistic chains. Businesses are trying to,stay open, but there just aren't enough customers (everyone's ill) and there are many failures. Food supplies have some outages. Gas leaks cannot be repaired quickly, so there are intermittent closures. Similar for other utilities.

Those who only hadmit mildly are under enormous pressure to restore everything, but there just aren't enough trained HCPs, engineers etc to patch the critical issues. Social care buckles. The economy is in tatters.

It takes not months/years to fix, but years/decades. And a whole generation has MN scars that may never be fixed. They will,never understand why their parents made choices that made everything worse for so. Uch lonepgermand allowed their grandparents to die. Intergenerwtiinal blame and strife will mark the next half century

Sorry - my keyboard went a bit wild on me. Let's try my forecast again, with fewer typos!

Grim and utter chaos.

Instead of10% of health workers being off sick/isolating, it's 75%. NHS grinds to a halt in many places. The Nightingales are full, even though woefully understaffed. Morgues are full and ice rinks are requisitioned.

Public transport is patchy, as are all logistic chains. Businesses are trying to stay open, but there just aren't enough customers (everyone's ill) and there are many failures. Food supplies have some outages. Gas leaks cannot be repaired quickly, so there are intermittent closures. Similar for other utilities.

Those who only had it mildly are under enormous pressure to restore everything, but there just aren't enough trained HCPs, engineers etc to patch even the most critical issues. Social care buckles. The economy is in tatters.

It takes not months/years to fix, but years/decades. And a whole generation has MH scars that may never be fixed. They will,never understand why their parents made choices that made everything so much worse for so much longer and allowed their grandparents to die. Intergenerational blame and strife will mark the next half century at least.