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.

I would happily get on a bus or train, because I don't believe in hiding away from normal life. We're all going to die, you know, so why be scared of it? I was never scared of Covid, and I would have happily have gone into crowds if any crowds had been allowed to gather!

And when there aren’t bus’s running as usual because the drivers had to stay home to care for their relative?

Vaccination sites are currently offering smallpox vaccination to:

• men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with other men, and who have multiple partners, participate in group sex or attend sex-on-premises venues
• staff who work at sex-on-premises venues

in London and Greater Manchester. The 2022 outbreak involved fewer than 3000 people in the UK and was contained by the vaccine. If the new strain is airborne it will spread to the general population but I don’t see any evidence of that as yet.

Yes, it’s funny how people assume bus drivers would go to work as usual.

A lot of them do come from hindsight, but not the sort you're referring to here. Some people already know very well what lockdown non-compliance is like, because of their experiences last time. It's not a hypothetical. This is what a lot of posts here are missing.

Certainly lots of people will comply, and others will partially comply more than they'd want to. But the assumption that people will stick to it, particularly after the collective experience of Partygate, is not one that can be applied to the whole population.

It wouldn't be much different to my normal life tbh. I'd stop the gym and have shopping delivered instead of going out.

It's the effect on my kids schooling that is the biggest issue. As much as my teen DD loved doing schoolwork from home in her pj's, I understand she missed a lot from not being at school and could well affect her grades this year.

I loved lockdowns, and 2 of my 3 DCs did too. Only the oldest one complained and tried to break the rules whenever he had the chance. Weirdly he was the only one then keen to get the vaccine but I guess because that meant he could get back to normal.

If we locked down again, I’d love it, I have some health issues and while I wasn’t scared for my health I did fully appreciate being able to take it easy for several months and get paid for it! Bring it on as far as I’m concerned. And yes I was ‘lucky’ not to know anyone severely affected by Covid or to be isolated etc as all my family are already dead. I would however invite my BF to come and live with me as he would struggle on his own.

If it gets bad enough that bus drivers aren't turning up for work, all bets are off. We'll have gone well past the Goldilocks point then. Self isolation, after all, requires other people to be going out to work to maintain the things the isolatee needs. Food, utilities, public order, functioning public transport and petrol distribution etc. The post you're replying to there is only going halfway.

So the mainstream media says. And as we know, the mainstream media always 100% tells the gospel truth, as does Saint Boris himself, because he is a paragon of truth; after all, he swore on the Bible to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

What I suspect really happened is that while Mr Johnson was in hospital, he was visited by his own government's heavy mob, who told him in no uncertain terms "you are going to advocate and press for lockdowns, whether you like it or not".

I knew a few people who had this attitude to Covid, refused the vaccines, and they all died of Covid.

I’d be so pissed off at the disruption to
DC. It was catastrophic to our young and vulnerable.

Bollocks.

Could you see everyone getting vaccinated though? I think there'd be even less getting it than the covid one which has been bad enough with conspiracy theories.

Agree, unfortunately. I would absolutely take a smallpox vaccine, but I very much doubt we'd get the same percentage of the population vaccinated as we did with covid.

You knew that many people that had covid, no vaccine and all of them died, I don't even know one person who died of covid, vaccinated or not.

What area is that?

That’s lucky for you. I had to arrange my Mum’s funeral in 2020. She didn’t die of Covid. The funeral directors were overwhelmed with Covid funerals.

Tbh we didn't need hindsight - many could see what a terrible decision it was at the time.

Clade 1b, identified in September last year.
There are two types of Clade 1 and the Swedish case has been identified as Clade 1b. Since mpox Clade 1b was first witnessed in Democratic Republic of Congo there have been confirmed cases in Burundi, Kenya and Rwanda, before the new case identified in Sweden.

So not people you knew then, it was from the funeral director.

@WhiteButtonMoon

"This makes me feel so angry.
The government paying people to have a lovely time at home.
I was angry about furlough at the time, and I'm even angrier about it now. As in really, really angry about it."

Yes me too! People were furloughed at my work who absolutely didn't need to be. I ended up with a lot more workload.

I would love it, although I would be working as normal. Absolutely loved the staying in.

I only think it would if it ended up being like a Black Death type of plague where the symptoms were weeping boils all over the body. People would automatically not mix.

A man who lived across the road from my Mum - my Dad went to his funeral.

An old friend who was anti-vax and anti-chemotherapy, believed in herd immunity.

The father of a work colleague.

Meanwhile some of us worked outside of the home throughout. Didn't even get a pay rise that year.

I wouldn't lockdown. And it would massively piss me off if we had the same divide as last time ie those who jollied around at home while others kept the country going.