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.

Why are you so angry? How would you have liked me to pay my bills otherwise and put food on the table for my very young child? Not all of us had a lovely time on furlough, some of us came out the end of it with crippling depression

I won’t be complying.

I'd sigh and carry on going out to work again like I did last time. I work in a key industry supply chain and can't work from home.

I’d be absolutely fecking delighted personally as I loved lockdown.

But it will never happen, people just wouldn’t do it as a big contingent just couldn’t hack it and made an absolute fuss about nothing.

But me personally, yes please. It was bloody brilliant.

I do recognise that as I live in a beautiful house with tons of outside space in the countryside my experience is very different to someone in a city high rise.

Well they can all just fuck off until I get back from my holiday next month.
First one since we got stuck in Florida when Thomas Cook went bust in 2019.

Won’t happen

A lockdown for mpox would be stupid. To catch it you have to be actually touching someone's broken skin.

No. Both my YP were in exam years. Both have Autism & Dyslexia. It hugely set back both their academic & social progress. My youngest & I both got covid early on. She developed long covid. My son got a bad dose last autumn & ended up with Myocarditis. My Mother & my Partner Both died of cancer whilst covid restrictions were still in place. Johnson & Co partied. No.
Having said that, if MPox, or the next virus, is bad, we should voluntarily isolate a bit as we're all now vulnerable health wise. But not nationally, no.

Nothing against those on furlough although I wasn't myself, money needed to keep flowing so people could put food on the table and keep the economy somewhat alive.

How on earth the government were able to come out the other side insisting the social welfare system is tooooootally fine is beyond me though. If benefits were fair, everyone could've just gone onto unemployment benefits until their jobs were up and running again.

Not sure if that's what @WhiteButtonMoon was getting at.

I was abused through the covid pandemic. I often look back and wish for the banana bread, house party, TikTok dance type of lockdown. So for that reason I’d comply (and get the mixing bowls out😂)

Good job I just bought a new bread maker

People would comply it suddenly significant amounts of people in their demographic started dying.

It is bluster to say otherwise.
If 1 in 10 of people that caught it died, irrelevant of age/underlying issues then people would self isolate if it was widespread.

But it would have to be severe for people to isolate again.

I'd actually be delighted tbh. Three months off work and off everything else, school runs, socialising etc etc would suit me down to the ground.

I actually liked lockdown
Few cars on the road
Empty hotels ( I was a “hero” so worked away from home a lot and got to travel )
No trails in the sky
No traffic noise
Did more than usual walking and felt safe on my bike.

Then the “ eat out to help out” cheap food in restaurants

Would you see them even though you knew it would put their lives in danger?

I wonder if we will be allowed out to the pub if we have a substantial meal like last time

I was married to an arsehole so lockdown was very miserable. Would not mind a nice lockdown personally now, but I would not wish it on others.

I'd be fine if I only had to think about me but I have an elderly, frail mother and a mother-in-law who both live alone but need support and also have small grandchildren and know how it could impact them and their families

I'd be bloody Furious. And I'd also be absolutely bloody livid at the sheep who unthinkingly would go along with it. Now we have the hindsight we can see that the covid lockdown was completely in utterly unnecessary and probably just made things worse. People lost their jobs their businesses their livelihoods and in some cases their lives and their minds over something that was no more dangerous to the vast vast majority of people that the average of flu. I had covid twice and it was just like every other flu I've ever had.

neither of us had a lockdown last time , both just went to work everyday as usual

For the people that loved lockdowns, and would welcome another... why not just live life that way anyway, and let the people who did not share your lockdown experience go on and live theirs...

Depends if the Mpox is like Covid and lets you finish your food before invading your body 😂 it might not be as patient

Mpox virus can spread to anyone through contact with objects, fabrics, and surfaces that have not been disinfected after use by someone with mpox. This includes items like clothing, bedding, towels,…

I'd be fine. My DD, about to start uni, would not, if she was still in school she'd be fine and the pandemic had minimum impact (private school and full online schedule from day one).
My son would find it difficult- he is sports mad and thrives on company. The lockdowns were a disaster for him.

Nope. I worked through the last one as a carer. Not doing that again. No way am I turning relatives away from their elderly families just to have them die alone from unrelated causes.

They stood and clapped and I felt like a witch.