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.

Same here.
It would be the same people having to risk themselves while the same people got to sit at home again.

Do people not realise that the main purpose of the COVID lockdowns were to give the health service time to cope while a vaccine was created?

There is already an effective vaccine for mpox.

The stepping up of mpox to a global health emergency by the WHO is primarily to encourage funding to provide the vaccine to the lower income countries and support efforts to treat it and control it in those countries.

Children are supposed to be at high risk with this virus. I suspect many people would take this more seriously than when it was elderly at high risk.

@Iwasafool

"Do you think more would have died if we didn't have lockdown?"

With no lockdowns marginally more people would have died - similar to the Asian Flu pandemics of 1953 and 1968 where there were no lockdowns.

However the big difference of no lockdown would have been that the deaths would have been concentrated in to a shorter period of time, causing panic, rather than spread out over time with a lockdown.

What do you mean by this please? Genuine question, I don't understand.

Hmm I don't think people would comply this time.

I think for those that had gardens, and a stable income they didn’t need to physically turn up to work to get and lived with people who they got on well with it was such a fantastic time they wouldn’t mind doing it again

The reality for a lot of people was very very different

Job losses
Mental health issues
Losing your home
No income bar Job Seekers allowance that wouldn’t cover the mortgage payments.

Then the ridiculous rules regarding working through lockdown. Yes you can work shoulder to shoulder with your fellow workmates but if you didn’t immediately spring 2m apart at 5pm then you would be screamed at for “spreading Covid”

How many would really like to do lockdown again if that was the result

I could never get worked up at the government holding parties or sitting together during break times because if Covid was going to spread it could quite easily have spread during work times.

Well, it couldn't be any worse than the first time for me. My dad died day 1, my mum died day 32 (I never saw where she died or met/saw the people who were with her), MIL was terminally ill throughout and in month 2 she was at risk of being paralysed from the neck down. Oh, and I was working FT from home along with DH and trying to manage some home schooling for ds who was grieving

If we have another lockdown I think all of you who said it was lovely etc have to go and work in care/hospitals and all of the staff who worked can sit at home. It wasn't lovely were I was, people were dying, without their families by them, I can tell you stories of how I had to say to a family over the phone that their mum had died, before she died she asked that we to!d her daughter that she loved her, we were short staffed, stressed, going home not knowing if we were taking vivid home and going to kill our families.I
I have heard people say well you signed up for that by doing the job you do, no we didnt, none of us would have become carers/nurses/healthcare professionals of we had been told what what going to happen

I would comply, we did last time but it was hell on earth with no garden, a neighbour from hell and people shouting at us when we sat down on a bench for 5 minutes after we had walked to the park (we had no outside space at all). I also was made redundant from my job. Now it would be easier, we have a garden, wonderful neighbours and a stable job that would keep me very busy in another health emergency etc...... however, I know my mum would really struggle with another lockdown. She lost so much mobility (already disabled) due to being sat in her house for months and months.

Why do you think people would comply?
My friends and I all said never again after the last one.
Of course, if the police are there to arrest you, you comply when you think you have to, but otherwise NO.

Why? Are you just jealous?
I was jealous of people who were allowed to go out to work.

"I could never get worked up at the government holding parties or sitting together during break times because if Covid was going to spread it could quite easily have spread during work times."

When they were having parties, I wasn't even allowed into the office so I had no human contact at all! I definitely am angry about those parties.

This is absolutely true even essential workers wouldn't go to work as fear of bringing it home to their children. Although there seems to be a lot on here who would still plan on going everywhere so they perhaps would still go to work Although I think the reality of their children and grandchildren dying would change that. If it got that bad which let's be realistic it won't it would be the army dropping of food parcels and rationing.

I'd comply with a lockdown. I don't have health anxiety at all. In fact, I frequently get told I don't worry enough about health.

The point of a lockdown is to stop a disease spreading through the population, overwhelming health services and putting lots of people out of action at the same time and paralysing vital services because people are too ill to work. It's not to save your own skin because you're scared of being ill. At no point during the Covid lockdown was I even remotely anxious about what would happen if I caught Covid.

There are already people who've posted in this thread pointing out that they don't have children, so they wouldn't.

It's a very parent centric thing to think everyone cares that much about kids. I agree most people would view the deaths of children as worse than deaths of the elderly, in abstract. It doesn't follow that people who don't have any children they're particularly close to would limit their own behaviour to protect them.

If it did come here and we needed mass smallpox vaccination then a short lockdown while we all got vaccinated (like 4 weeks) would likely be enough

Of course we would mostly comply if it killed one in ten healthy young people !

Not just children but healthy young adults are at risk

COVID didn't really infect children badly, but mpox would. Surely if you all saw children and babies dying on the news you would comply

Although I don't think people in general care about other people's children I think death is different I would save a child that wasn't mine from a burning building or from being hit by a car but I wouldn't give my seat up for them on a train.

Not a chance in hell. The sacrifice was made to save the few and the vulnerable and imo it was not justified. Next time the few and the vulnerable would have to be protected in some other way that does not involve healthy children, families and business having to lock themselves away.

I say this as someone who had parents who would be classed as vulnerable.

I’d only comply if a risk to children.

Okay then, I'm begging all the people who feel another lockdown would be quite delightful, to consider the wider picture a bit before formulating their feelings. It is entirely possible (albeit perhaps rare) to feel horrified by something even though you will personally be unaffected.

The train and burning house is where most people sit in general, I agree.

But it's not like lockdown is either widely accepted or the only choice in that situation. People might advocate for eg school closures only. They might be willing to go on working whilst say workers under 21 were furloughed, that kind of thing. There are lots of things people might support or do that they'd see as being for protection of kids and young people, whilst not being willing to lock down themselves.

Last lockdown sent one of my dc into a mental health spiral that still continues to negatively affect his and all of our families lives. No way in hell would I do that again.

It's hard to say as we thankfully didn't get to see the reality of what would of happened if their wasn't lockdowns and hospitals got overrun. I think covid foe the most part was well controlled with lockdowns until we had the vaccines and hospitals in this country didn't get overrun which meant if someone had a heart attack or was in a carcrash they was still seen. It didn't get to the point where hospitals where over run so that everyone over 50 wasn't discharged to be sent home to die. Because these things potentially could of been the reality if it was allowed to spread freely before vaccine.