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

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

In a nutshell: No. Fucking. Way.

Do you really still believe the vaccines saved us? Even if you haven't looked into things like Pfizer's own research data (1 in 800 had serious adverse side effects in the trials) just the numbers of vaccinated people who got COVID again and often got it much worse after vaccination should make you stop and think.

I know there was worse, like China. We followed the news very closely. But England is not as far away and similar cultures etc, so it would be more reasonable to compare with those countries around us.

No, I wouldn't comply and I didn't comply during the second Covid lockdown either.

Can't see it happening again anyway when the country is already barely staying afloat, and this disease has a vaccine already.

I'm a support worker so no furlough for me. Last lockdown I was in retail. Which was awful working in a supermarket tbh quite scary.

Husband and daughter work retail and other daughter is in care. Lockdown would just make all of our jobs so much more difficult than they need to be.

I wouldn't do it. The whole lockdown last time was ridiculous. No way should we put people and the economy through that again.

MN just love a lockdown don't they?
It won't happen again in living memory. Very few would comply and the country can't afford it.

Some of us (and our children) still haven’t recovered mentally from the last lockdowns.

I won’t be complying, not that I think it would happen anyway.

It was heaven for us! I had to go to work, no traffic on the road, peace and quiet in the office. DH was furloughed so we ad a beautiful garden and he did loads of painting and decorating, and all the housework. No social pressures. Can we have another one without a pandemic please?

Personally - I would love it! However my circumstances are different to most people's.

I've just started a new cancer med that is making me feel quite unwell and giving me horrendous diarrhoea, and it would be lovely not to have to make excuses not to go out.

I think most people have got lock-down fatigue and wouldn't bother. Also, as far as I am aware, Mpox isn't a killer.

I remember the small pox outbreaks in the 60s, we didn't lockdown then although I remember people queuing for hours to get vaccinated. There was a surgery in the road where I lived and the queue would be out onto the pavement and stretch for 400 or 500 yards down the road, that doctor was working 14 hrs a day.

I wonder if smallpox jabs all those years ago still gives us some protection?

Same here. I absolutely wouldn't comply with a lockdown in terms of not seeing my friends and family again but would love 3 months off work!!!

I think it would depend on the fatality rate. A high enough fatality rate would be scary. But maybe everyone would assume propoganda on the news?

It doesn't matter if the country could afford it, if it was official or not.

If there was was a highly infectious disease with a 10% or 20% death rate, people would self isolate... who in their right mind would jump on a busy train or bus or work in an office or queue in a super market, when there was a very good chance you'd catch a deadly virus?

Covid wasn't the disease we all should have isolated for, simply wasn't deadly enough, it was almost a madness individuals and countries had to out "lockdown" each other.

After all the lies last time who is going to believe anything the government says?
Not me.

I wondered that as I'm sure I had one, born 1958

Hasn't it mutated, sorry if that's wrong I had a busy day yesterday and was only half listening but I thought it was more deadly. Not sure if transmission has changed.

I think there’d be a country (worldwide!) wide rebellion. I don’t see people complying. Last time, I had to carry on as per, see to the horse, walk the dogs, go into work on a rota or teach from home.

Loved lockdown tbh i would feel relief

If it does still give some protection it is going to reverse the covid situation with younger people being the most vulnerable.

Before I retired I was in HR, in I think 2011 there was a bad flu outbreak. It was really obvious that the over 50s had been exposed to something similar way back as the younger staff were dropping like flies and the 50s and 60s were fine.

It would be fine. I'd get my running times up again. I don't have any plans so 3 months of WFH isn't a problem.

Feel free to lock yourself down, don't expect the rest of us to!

I take issue with the premise of the OP.

There isn't going to be another lockdown again unless people want to do it. That's how it was during covid, and it's inevitable in a society where we have such relatively small numbers of police and armed forces. Which is why all the behavioural nudge stuff was so important.

And I don't see it happening at the moment. The reason for that is because for a lockdown to happen, there needs to be a sweet spot of people being scared enough to go along with it but not so scared that things stop functioning because those who do the most essential day to day basic societal maintenance refuse to go out. Even in 2020 and 2021, that wasn't a particularly big space and I'm not sure it exists at all now.

There will be no lockdown, it didn't work last time. Plus you really think many would comply this time after the government didn't even follow their own rules.

Plenty of people would have to carry on as normal because they have bills to pay!