If we suddenly had to go into a 3 month lockdown again, how would you feel?

[LaurieFairyCake]

I think people would definitely comply. If it was Mpox I would want a smallpox vaccine as it's somewhat effective.

Lock down fucked the economy, along with brexit, and accelerated the "nothing works here" narrative.

There would have to be a better reason.

Labour is in the business of collecting money, not handing it out

Yeah right!

It would be annoying as we have quite a few plans over the next three months - it's not at all likely to happen though

Me too, I’m retired and I lead a very quiet life anyway.

Only if key workers get to be furloughed this time instead of being the only ones working and risking getting infected while everyone else is relaxing in the sunshine!

More seriously I think we have seen the outcome of lockdown on many of our children and we should find other ways of dealing with it as it is a know illness.

This thread gives me hope! So many people who can look back and see that it was crazy. We were all told to be very, very afraid by people who had all the facts and therefore weren't remotely afraid themselves (and having parties). I complied beautifully in Lockdown one, like the model citizen I once was, but by lockdown 2 something in me had snapped. If it happened again I would rage against the machine and break into playgrounds with wire cutters. My faith in authority is completely decimated.

I would comply-don't really get out much anyway! My gran had a stroke during lockdown and we couldn't visit her for weeks in hospital which was horrible. We were just relieved she never caught covid in there all that time though. We were pretty lucky overall, realise it was tragic for so many people.

We can't know how bad no lockdown would've been for the country though. Mpox is potentially very scary, you have parents that don't wanna let their kids go places because of mass stabbings so am sure if a terrible disease that's worse in children starts circulating they'd DEMAND lockdowns themselves.

I find it quite worrying that so many posters don't seem to understand that the whole point of lockdown was to get us to where we are now with covid. Covid now vs covid in March 2020 are two very different things, thanks to a combination of treatments, vaccinations and the omicron variants. Lockdown slowed things to allow us to get to this point where no, you don't have to test and no, covid isn't a serious illness any more.

Lockdown changed me in a positive way.
I'm not sure it would be as impactful if it happened again.

@Eviebeans
Can you say what those positive changes were
Yes.
Firstly I don't want to minimise how bad it was for many people and I know so.e people have suffered long term consequences because of Co I'd and the lockdown

However all my family continued to work so we still had social connections.
My best friend works in the team next to mine so I was able to see her most days.

I dont work for the NHS or in a nursing or care home so I didn't see have to deal with trauma and work was quite calm
I think I have always had FOMO and often booked too much in my social calendar.
Lockdown taught me to slow right down and enjoy more simple things.

I did home exercise videos enjoyed watching films that I thought I never had time for. We live next to the moors so I was able to get my outdoor exercise out in the countryside with no crowds of people which was great.

I had no where to go, I'm not a shopper but most of my money goes on travelling or eating out etc so I literally saved thousands of pounds. So much so that I was able to pay the remaining £47,000 off my mortgage.

Congratulations!

Mpox has been around for a long time, no need to panic.

I loved lockdown and would love another one.
I live rurally with my horse outside the back door. We thoroughly enjoyed riding whilst the roads were lovely and quiet.
We, as a family, look back on it fondly.

The economy can’t afford it, surely. The damage that has been done to the economy and the knock on effects since then have been so severe.

I'd still have to go to work. Lockdown to me means we lock the door to monitor who comes in.

It would depend on the disease. If it was a repeat of COVID, most people would probably ignore a lockdown. If the Ebola virus or something similar or worse ever figures out how to spread via the air, I bet most people would happily lock down without being asked.

I’d love it. I still miss the peace of lockdown.

yes definitely I would! Or if it got to the stage of it being over here and spreading, and we hadn’t been locked down I’d make the choice to pull dc out of school!

I'd be over the moon.

I really miss lockdown. I think it was one of the happiest times of the last decade for me.

I totally understand how awful lock down was for many but it was OK for us.

Lockdown has ruined my eldest child’s life. She is now 14. I remain incredibly angry and sad.

So long as schools were still open I think we could cope as a family. I’m a teacher, and dealing with the fallout of lack of socialisation etc has been hideous.

Don’t see it happening for mpox because it spreads so differently from covid. But hypothetically, if it was ordered, I don’t think my mental health would survive. I see people saying they wouldn’t comply, but there were things where we didn’t have a choice. The travel bans affected me a lot and would again. Offices closed, schools closed, university classes online, prevented from visiting relatives in care and hospital. All the things about lockdown that hurt me most were not in my power to disobey. Just the thought of having to go through that again makes my heart race.

I'm so sorry to read this 😔
Terrible for so many of her generation. I hope things improve massively for her, and others, soon.

No chance of compliance here
the government couldn’t t even obey their own rules - why should we?

it ruined the economy
it ruined peoples mental health
it ruined peoples finances
for many it was a disaster

besides the government had absolutely no right to tell you to stay in - guidelines aren’t laws.

I feel that this point was missed. The people with the very best knowledge and insight of the situation, better informed than anyone else in the country, weren't at all scared of socialising. They knew it wasn't dangerous. But they wanted us to believe it was.