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.

I loved lock down tbh i enjoyed it.
The last moth of it i broke every rule.
If it happens again it wont bother me.

I certainly wouldn't trust our current government with a vaccine rollout.

Oy, less of the elderly 😀, its people from about their mid fifties onwards, I think it stopped in about 1970, I had it in the late 50s. Not sure how much protection it gives though

Sorry 🤣🤣🤣 I thought it stopped earlier then that 🙈🤣🤣

Iv just googled it it's anyone born after 1980 that haven't had the vaccine

It would really depend on the actual risks and benefits of lockdown. I doubt it will happen again unless there is a major, major outbreak of something highly transmissible with a very high fatality rate.

Personally I'd be ok I think, DH and I can work from home and I am a solitary sort at the best of times but I hope it doesn't happen as I know it was very hard on many people and had so many unintended consequences.

I also don't see any point of worrying about it until it actually happens.

If there's sufficient evidence to say that the smallpox vaccine is effective against mPox then we could get away with just locking down those who haven't had it.

Though I think that'd be a bit too risky.

I was born in early 70s and haven't had it. Check your facts.

I don't know I wasn't born I'm just saying what Google said and a pp saying they had it in the mid 1970s

I wouldn't comply and I think we are still feeling the affects of Covid - lost educations, lost healthy immune systems from being locked up, and lost mental health of thousands of people. My parents in law locked themselves away and became paranoid, they turned into old people within the space of a few months. We now have a business employing 10 people, we couldn't close and continue paying them. We complied last time and now we look back, we feel like idiots for doing so.

I never tested for covid, I never had any symptoms, in fact I was the healthiest I've ever been. Two years without so much as a sniffle. And my workplace had you test if you had symptoms, so no, or another person close to you had symptoms or covid, so also no. By the time my partner had covid, the testing was over.

1971 is when it was stopped routinely given in the uk

That's not correct. I was born in 70s and haven't had it.

The expert being interviewed on Radio 2 yesterday said that the vaccine does not offer lifelong immunity. He said the exact length of time covered hasn't been reliably ascertained, but that a sensible estimate would be 10 years.

I think in many cases, including the company I work for, furlough was claimed incorrectly. The company was never going to go bankrupt as it had plenty in reserve. I don't think this was ever checked properly.

There was absolutely no need for the majority of staff to be off.

Sunak got the rules wrong as to who should claim, and in your case as an independent sole business you absolutely should have been able to claim something.

@NAndJIsLockingDown when you said "I certainly wouldn't trust our current government with a vaccine rollout." Why is that? I'd have thought that they would be more than capable of doing this if needed, especially given that due to vaccination campaigns related to Covid there is already a framework to adapt accordingly, and from
which lessons can be learned WRT what works and does not work.

My feeling is that I have more faith in the current government than I did in the previous one. Although they set the bar pitifully low unfortunately.

Have you seen the symptoms? Awful weeping sores and huge raised lumps across the face and body.
I definitely think people would if it started to spread.

Thank you for acknowledging that @BurntBroccoli. I appreciate it.

I also appreciate that there were reasons why the furlough approach was initially quite a blunt instrument with a broad brush approach. However it felt brutal not to be eligible through no fault of my own, despite a full history of working hard since leaving university. It would have been possible to assess my eligibility but people in my situation were ignored despite a general acceptance that the vast sums spent on furlough were necessary otherwise people's lives would be ruined. My life was ruined financially.

I will never be going into lockdown again, my house will be open to all. Lockdowns are a nonsense idea and have no effect anyway.

@Mespher
I haven't had the smallpox vaccine and I was born in 1967.

I think smallpox was getting rare in the UK by then. The last smallpox death in the UK was in 1978 (my husband knew the woman who died) but that had spread from a lab so I'm not sure when the cases prior to that were. I lived in an area where we had a few outbreaks in the 60s so I had the jab then. If you were in an area without outbreaks you probably wouldn't have been offered it.

I don't have to go into lockdown because I work in the NHS. It didn't really affect me, I was out everyday and weekends I just did gardening.
I enjoyed the peace and quiet and the roads were empty. Of course I would not wish lockdown on anyone who hated it.

I would be pissed. And I'd want to flip stuff. 😂

Lock down was awful and I would not abide by it again. I'll be even more angry if flights were stopped and immigration processing timelines impacted even more. It's already slow, backlogged and delayed. Having to be apart sucks.

Should be released by tomorrow (Sunday) - it's on YouTube, it'll be This Week in Virology episode 1140, the channel is Microbe TV. Can't wait!

Our Prime Minister is incapable of defining what a woman is, I highly doubt he has the competence to oversee what will be a highly complex logistical operation.

@NAndJIsLockingDown ah ok, thanks for sharing your POV. I will leave that one with you.