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 lost a friend to Covid. She was a healthy 41 year old. She was in hospital for two weeks and didn't come home. 6 weeks later my 14 month old healthy DD developed heart and vascular complications from what initially seemed to be a 'mild' covid infection and ended up in the same hospital fighting for her life. Miraculously she survived without any long term effects.

To those who DON'T want to comply with another lock down if Mpox comes our way, please at least consider wearing an FFP2 or FFP3 mask when out and about and using a hand sanitiser regularly. Those particular types of masks are really effective and are no longer expensive to buy. Reducing transmission and viral load is key. If everyone who could wear a mask did wear one as a matter of course I believe we wouldn't need to lock down again. 😷🙏

Deja vu Someone said a similar thing in the middle of July 2020 That if we wore masks it would prevent a lockdown. And we all know what happened five months later

YewHedge · 15/07/2020 18:57
"Some people have good reason not to wear a mask and they therefore rely on everyone else to wear one to protect themselves. Similar to how a vaccine works. I have no problem at all with people who genuinely can't wear a mask.

Some anti-maskers, however, are like anti-vaxxers- ill informed and not considering other more vulnerable people.
I have to say I have heard some truly ridiculous ideas about why people should not wear masks to do with breathing in CO2 or lowering oxygen levels!!

Wearing a mask is not that much of a hardship. No one is asking anyone to donate a kidney!!

Yes masks might take a bit of getting used to but people can practise at home. Even very young children wear them with no problems in other countries. Medical staff wear them for entire shifts. Women give birth in them. Wearing one for a few minutes whilst going into a shop is really not much of an ask.

There are lots of studies now showing how they really bring down the R number. Wearing masks can prevent another lockdown which is something everyone wants to avoid"

I am very sorry that you suffered from covid. I had a virus infection and am still disabled from it and on disability. I had to learn to walk again - and again - and again, then carrying something and walking, then carrying something in each hand, and walking.

I stocked up with PPE for the people who helped me at home. My black carer came all through every day of lockdown. When his wife was positive he used to come and do the garden and see I was OK through the window. His wife is a specialist nurse at a hospital miles away, and she went up to London daily, working in the hospital, despite her colour being at risk.

I feel every sympathy for those who are still suffering post covid, because I know they are going though something that no one will ever understand. I went to bed one night fit and well, woke up the next morning and my legs gave way.

When covid came I kept indoors.

If someone had thought of calling them 'face coverings' which did not need CE certification, it would have saved countless lives.

In another lockdown we would not be bound by EU regulations. I am glad about that. The pack of masks I had from previous times were CE certified, and made by a German company, but they were thinner than toilet paper and absolutely useless. We were not allowed to buy the Chinese made masks until 2021, and they were always best.

This is response to the post by the post that you responded to by YewHedge · 15/07/2020 18:57

Wouldn't bother me if we locked down again. Did it once, we could do it again🤷🏼‍♀️

As long as you wouldnt mind the NMW workers and delivery drivers doing it too

It wouldn't bother me either, but then I rarely go out anyway, so it would be no sacrifice.

I didn't strictly follow the rules for the Covid lockdown - I still seen my adult children regularly throughout, didn't limit myself to how often I went out, etc. I'm self-employed and WFH anyway so I didn't notice a huge disruption to my life tbh.

I wasn't particularly fearful of Covid though - even at the height of it I thought the restrictions were over the top and would do more harm than good. However, if mpox took hold and started killing 10% of kids too right I'd follow lockdown rules - I think most people would.

I wouldn't want to but I would take precautions not to catch the disease. At 75 a d still working I feel a little vulnerable now.

It's garbage. Monkeypox is a self limiting, not terribly contagious, non fatal disease and has been endemic in central Africa forever. Who is it such a threat all of a sudden? People need to get a grip.

Don't have sex with anyone covered in pox. You'll be fine.

And no I certainly wouldn't shut down my business, ruin my kids education or neglect my relatives again.

That I would wake up shortly.

We can’t afford any more lockdowns

Well since we had a lockdown lots of people couldn’t work, so…

It's whether the reproductive number is as high as covid, but there isn't any recent information about this I can find

@namechangeforthisi yes I would like to know this too-not that it means much to me! I mean I'm assuming it's nowhere near as contagious as something like chickenpox?

I didn't comply with 'the rules' last time - even our PM didn't! I wouldn't again either.

Well, it would be a "given" Govt orders Hospitality shut, shuts down transport, employers (who can) go for more WFH, shops shut as no staff! and probably no customers!
No non essential journeys.

Police giving out fines for anyone disobeying,

TV bombard us with our "hero" nhs workers battling against the odds, heck! i'd bet they'd still be a majority who would go out and bang pots for them all!!!

So if you say "i wont obey another LD" fine, but what would you do? everything shut, rationing at supermarkets and of course the fear of catching an infectious/deadly disease.

Don't mis understand me, i didn't clap for the NHS and i didn't really take much notice of the LD restrictions, i thought it all completely over the top for a virus that, pretty much everyone got over quite quickly (even the elderly i knew who caught it) but i was rural, far harder to do in a town.

There was an awful lot of fraud, employers used it to reduce wage bills and make money.
I was furloughed, yet colleagues who weren't, were overworked and needed people like me back in the workplace but i couldn't, we also had some technicians furloughed whilst others were driving from Hull to Plymouth or London to Scotland to fix supermarket IT systems, it was a joke.

After all the breaches of lockdown rules by those in/near power last time (yes Johnson, l mean you), any future lockdowns won’t be followed by me.

I think people mean going round people's houses or having a home hairdresser round, sitting on benches, stuff like that, The fines were really to keep the poor people in check. Obviously they couldn't go to places that were closed or go to work if that was closed.

Well if it makes you feel better I spent the 1st 2 weeks of the 1st lockdown organising my mum's funeral whilst worrying about my dad who was isolating alone grieving for the woman he had spent 60 years of his life with. The 1st week of the 2nd lockdown I was organising dad's funeral. All the while wondering how the heck I was going to pay the bills as my conditions of furlough (laid down by my employer), was that I could not undertake any paid work elsewhere and the £1.08 UC I was entitled to barely made a dent in what I was losing from losing 20% of my full wage. DP was one of the millions that were refused any help from the Government and so had no income at all for 6 months when he finally managed to get some work through an agency.

I'm happy so many people had a lovely time on furlough, I truly am because I wouldn't wish what I, and many others, went through on anybody. The fact that you are angry because not everyone on furlough (which was through no fault of their own), weren't all sat at home in abject misery is, I'll be honest, spiteful and nasty.

I think the amount of posters saying they'd welcome another lockdown is really, really sad.

I would absolutely hate it and would do everything I could to not comply but I'm reluctantly law abiding. I'd feel broken for my kids, tbh.

It's mutated and is now transmissible by surfaces ect which is why now their concerned

I never understand people who say well I wouldn't do something to protect my own child because someone else didn't. Boris isn't going to be their when your kids in a hospital bed dying.

Just whyyy
No No thanks

It was unnecessary and a lot of fear mongering
People with health anxiety complied and didn't fare any better or worse than those that didn't
Think about that