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 hated it.. I was working in care, shopping for 4 vulnerable wider family members and a 96 year old friend of my mum's, per week.. and couldn't see my disabled young adult son who lives in a residential care facility due to his complex needs.. and who couldn't properly understand why. He still believes in Father Christmas but couldn't come home to us to have him visit. It was that which almost broke me when I thought I was pretty unbreakabke. I had an actual breakdown that winter.

In another such situation, I'd do what I had to, to save lives. I'm another who is surprised at the glibness I'm reading. I don't wish that everyone had an awful experience during Covid but I'm surprised at the naïveté and attitudes I'm reading in their dozens.

Who else has seen the tv mini-series, Breathtaking, starring Joanne Froggat? It's based on real journals kept by an A&E consultant. I think it would be an eye-opener for some.

I really worry on MUMSnet that so many posters are adamant that they wouldn’t comply with lockdown for a disease that mostly kills CHILDREN, because it might affect their own mental health.

So staying at home with your kids is bad for your mental health, but burying them would be ok??

Honestly, if it was 3 months and only 3 months would 100% love it. But thats only based on my personal circumstances. Myself and childs dad (separated) deemed key workers, I’m MoJ and ex is health care. First lock down tried the home schooling out of fear whilst working full time and extra hours to make up for lack of staff etc but second lockdown was “okay kid youre eligible to go to school off you go” so then we could both work and i wasnt almost in tears over primary school maths work😅
The roads were clear to work, the weekly shop felt like an adventure, saving so much money etc.

BUT i dont have any family around and cannot imagine those hardships. I missed the time i could have spent with my grandad who passed in 2021. Saw him a few times prior but yeh for purely selfish reasons, if it were 3 months (3 months max!) would feel pretty okay with it and again thats only based on my circumstances.

Not everyone has children and grandchildren, so many posting may not, I have one adult DS who is gay so maybe more likely to get this but no I would still go out and carry on as much as I could as normal and I daresay he will be as well

Would nurseries still be open?!

If that scares you, better not read the potential side effects list next time you need an aspirin 😂 🤡

There are idiots everywhere. So because some moron doesn't follow the advice of healthcare experts, I shouldn't? I don't need to play monkey see, monkey do. Some people in government positions even advised injecting bleach at one point... People have to follow common sense advice from epidemiologists and infectious disease experts and use their judgment. Even if others choose not to.

You can choose whether to take aspirin or not, you don’t get to choose whether you contract a potentially fatal illness or not. 🤦‍♀️

i mean, i also wouldnt comply with another lockdown but surely we didnt go into the other one in the context of individual benefits lol.

or do you mean more ‘knowing what i do now
kinda thing?

@StarrySkiesAtMidnight is right, @Lobberto, one can decide not to take an aspirin, but one can’t choose not to catch an infection if you happen to come into contact with an affected person.

Love this haha 😆

I agree, had to work throughout or no pay.....customers treating us staff like dirt and no regard for our safety at all, couldn't see my mum for over a year as no time off either ( not enough staff andcouldn't risk her getting more ill) then wasn't allowed to see her in hospital before she died. And all through this seeing post after post of people flaunting rules and having lovely family days at the beach/ really nice time spent with kids etc etc all whilst being paid to sit safely at home.....

Now I know where all the dementors have been.

How would I feel? Honestly, despair.
Suicidal.

You're right to be concerned about a lockdown with a 15 yo IMO!

DS was 14 when we had the first lockdown. He's an only child and we live in an area where lockdowns were extended beyond the rest of the UK.

We followed the rules so he saw no one other than me face to face for a long time. Prior to lockdown he'd understandably began to detach from wanting to spend time with me and was enjoying increasing amounts of freedom, adventure and independence. He's very close to his cousins and is a sociable person so was enjoying friendships.

We muddled through, and he made the best of it and was sociable with me to a point, cooked, played games together etc.. He gamed online a bit. But as time went on he became more and more low and his sparkle went. Lockdown was brutal for him and the effect on his wellbeing was huge ending with serious a MH crisis. I completely accept that it was brutal for lots of other age groups and demographics too- I'm just sharing my perspective.

My understanding is that the type of isolation that he felt is known to be a trigger for poor mental health especially in teenagers who are beginning to look towards independence. He knew that he was becoming unwell but lacked the life experience to understand how and why and hid it from me.

I almost lost him.

We're all way more aware of the damage the lockdowns can do now. To people's physical and mental health, and to the economy. I think the public in general would take way more convincing. There is very little goodwill towards politicians concerning their behaviour in the last lockdown too.

I wouldn’t comply with any lockdown for monkeypox because it isn’t necessary. I would refrain from hanging around or having sex with pox-infected people, so I wouldn’t be burying my kids or anyone else.

@GreenTeaLikesMe I mean how do you think the children in the DRC are getting it? Why would it be any different here?

Kids get it because they have close contact with each other and adults. The same way they get herpes (cold sores).

You really cannot think of reasons why disease control might be just a tiny little bit worse in DRC, one of the poorest and most chaotic countries on the planet?

Hell, far more DRC kids will be dying of malaria and diarrhea than monkeypox. Oh no! There was a case of diarrhea recently at my DD’s nursery. Help! Lockdown! My child is about to die! PANIC!!

Eyeroll.

Monkeypox appears to spread in a fairly similar manner to smallpox. Modern societies are well equipped to control and crush smallpox outbreaks - not through lockdowns (which didn’t even exist as a concept until COVID) but through temporary travel restrictions, contact tracing and ring vaccination.

Wouldn’t comply. Simple as that. They’d have to lock me up to lock me down.

I was coming to the end of my foundation year of my degree when we first went into lockdown. Continued to study and work (retail) throughout, whilst trying to stop 4 kids turning feral! If we went down again I'd be furloughed. My eldest would have to move to her employer, as wouldn't be a "key worker" but can't just stop due to the industry she's in.
I would make the most of it to learn a new skill and spend time with the kids.
I'd probably ask my grandad to come and live with us though, so he wouldn't be alone.

Nothing would change in my life. I work from home. My husband is in the Fire Service. My step children would visit as they do currently ( which was acceptable under the last lockdown).

Not for this no!! It would definitely need to be something that actually called for a lockdown! Like others have said a blunt tool used badly for COVID. If we actually do need a lockdown for something then I really hope that it would be that! No delivery drivers for any reason! Then those that thought they had a lovely lockdown would realise all those people that went out every day to deliver your shit while you stayed at home feeling safe! This is from someone whose husband worked all the way through, massive garden, no money worries and still know noone dead from COVID! (1 dead from the vaccines if that counts?)

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