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.

It would be fun on here again with all the curtain twitching threads and the bonkers replies of

"Report, Report, Report!!!!!"

Also not forgetting the top tip of using cheese in your tea and coffee, because going out to buy milk was selfish!!!

I don't know how people can say never again to a lockdown. It probably won't be needed again soon but one day there'll likely be a much deadlier virus than covid.
If a virus with a 20% fatality rate appeared in the UK then you can bet I wouldn't be leaving the house, whether a lockdown was announced or not.

It was the disparity between the two. Some people had a glorious summer on almost full pay, some people having to sell furniture etc to survive. Fortunately I had a job that was possible to do online (had to work dounle the amount of hours to earn the same though), otherwise I would have been pregnant and forced out into a pandemic where I didn't know the impact on my unborn child if I caught covid.

No I wouldn't be complying.

I'd be complied IN by default if stuff is closed - but actively thinking "oh no, kids can't go see grandparents" etc - nope. Likewise - this 1 walk a day shite... also nope. Would also be making sure the kids were in school on key worker places from the outset as the damage to DD2's mental health was horrendous, and DD1 struggled massively with the loss of routine as well - I would NOT be sitting back dutifully and hoping someone noticed the kids needed to be in-school this time.

Would also be straight down the GP telephone line to get my anti depressants upped to the absolute max as well.

Yes I've actually had discussions with school about my KW status and reassurance the kids are very high on the list if things ever happened again in advance to know that those ducks are in a row.

And there is no fucking way I'd be putting pissing rainbows in windows or clapping like a seal either. I'll panic buy wine and sod bog roll.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't ever want to live through another lockdown again or want one, but people seem to just assume any future pandemic would be the same as covid.

a short, strict, thought out lockdown I could get behind.

wearing masks., yes (still do on crowded public transport)

the mess from last time. no way. though I admit that we had a good time as family all at home

The disparity was awful, I agree. But that could've been resolved by more equitable access to furlough. There was still no way on earth we could've successfully locked down without paying enough people enough money to make them behave.

I thought MPox was largely sexually transmitted?

I don't think I'll have too much upheaval asking my 85 year old mother to avoid unprotected sex for three months.

Obviously we would have to weigh up each situation as it came. If my own judgement is that not following a lock down is more beneficial for my own family, then I will not follow one.

I'll be evaluating what is best for the family as a whole as I don't mind lock down myself.

As I said some of us were actually in touch with people in Italy and hearing it from them. Do you think there were no problems in Italy?

DH and I had to go into lockdown very early, when Covid hit, as he was very vulnerable. It was definitely a struggle, not seeing family, except from the other side of a gate. Unfortunately DH didn’t make it out of lockdown, so it would only be me this time, if lockdown happened again. I too am now very vulnerable, so honestly don’t know how I would feel about shutting myself away from my family.

I think I would be willing to take the risk, but I don’t think my family would allow me to. I hope I never have to make that decision.

That very much includes people who are telling us we'll all lock down if it's bad enough.

unfortunately a new strain appears to be spread much more easily.

I wfh and DH is hybrid so we would stay home in that context.

Having gone through home schooling already due to covid, I would resist keeping my children home again unless there was a real danger to them. The social, mental, educational and wellbeing impact on my children of staying home needs to be weighted up as well.

Hopefully, the government wouldn’t do anything so rash because it would plunge us all into absolute financial ruin. We’re barely surviving the effects of 2020.

@fedupoftheheatnow

"Well you'd be angrier if the economy had completely collapsed and the benefits bill went through the roof because of how many people would be without any money"

If the Government forces people to stay at home then the government is under an obligation to pay them to do so otherwise they starve.

However if the government only recommended that old and clinically at risk stay home then everyone else has a choice to either stay at home or go to work. In this case no government payments would have been required.

It doesn't travel through the air like covid does. A full "stay in your house all day" lockdown would be pointless, though it could get to the point where heavy social distancing is required - enough to restrict a lot of day-to-day activities like schooling and public transport.

Yes I don't disagree at all! The self employed fiasco could have been very easily resolved in lots of cases. For me it would have just been looking at what I had earned for the previous decade before becoming self employed, instead of just saying oh you became self employed after this date, we can't possibly see what you have paid in taxes before that date 🙄

I would be fine with it, but that’s because I am privileged to have a reasonably sized house with a big garden, the kids are old enough to get on with schoolwork and I can wfh without issue. Older DC would be happy to spend most of the time at home, younger DC wouldn’t be as happy but regularly plays with his mates online. And we only see grandparents every three months or so anyway. So my little world would be good.

Wider society on the other hand would be a different story.

Do you think there were no problems in Italy?

Obviously not, @Iwasafool, since there were problems worldwide and there's no reason why Italy would be exempt

However I really don't feel it helps when those problems are exaggerated by fake images, manipulated data and personal anecdotes which aren't susceptible to checking

I agree another could easily be much more deadly. However with the Government having cried "wolf" on Covid, the compliance with any future restrictions for any future pandemic would be low until the are very high numbers of deaths by which time it's too late.

Yet another reason why the lockdowns were a mistake.

Really?

Lots of people died...

Furlough prevented people being sacked. My husband was let go due to Covid and thankfully rehired when furlough came in. What was the alternative? Homelessness?

I agree, and the people saying they wouldn’t isolate from their elderly parents might rethink when the risk of spreading it to them and therefore causing them death or long term illness may rethink when the reality hits.

Me too! Massive introvert here. I absolutely thrived during COVID lockdowns.

I think people would comply more effectively if they feared the disease would kill their children.