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.

Same!
Exactly
No thanks
And if the government wants to do another of their experiments
Please give us notice to give any of us a chance to leave!

You stay home and stay alive
Let the rest of us live how we choose to live
Maybe you'll emerge from lockdown with the world to yourself 🤣

Thank you
What on earth is wrong with people all of a sudden 😕
The rest of the world must think were bonkers

You do realise a lot of people died from covid and a lot have long covid right. The lockdown was needed to protect people until a vaccine was available

No, it really wouldn't be a given.

We only had lockdowns last time because it was what the majority of the public wanted or would at least go along with. The UK has nothing like enough police to enforce a lockdown that the people didn't want. There's 170,000 full time officers, for a population of 65 million. It's nowhere near enough. It wasn't last time, as lots of us who live in non MN approved areas where compliance broke down towards the end of restrictions could tell you. It sounds like it was similar where you live.

This is why lots of us think another lockdown now is simply impossible. People have to be scared enough to lock down but not scared enough that society and order stop functioning. But in the unlikely event of one happening again, people can do what you and I did last time and do all the things we want to do that we can get away with.

I really liked it and saved loads. The biggest issue for me is the national debt.

So fucking selfish. Words fail me. You want another lockdown so you can get your laundry done? Like I said on another post, try to educate yourself on how devastating lockdown was for so many people. But hey, nice clean laundry 😡

This is a really important point. The state gave itself new powers, and lo and behold these were enforced most against those with least power. This was bleeding obvious at the time, but not discussed much.

However, plenty of ethnic minorities ad white working class people have picked up on the race and class aspects of lockdown and restriction policy now. So this is also part of the landscape we need to factor in, when we talk about whether another lockdown could happen now.

I can't for one minute imagine that we would ever go into lockdown again. The country can't afford it. Am happy to wear a mask if need be but I would hate another lockdown and doubt I would comply.

I'd love it. The last one was fantastic. I lived alone, the sun shone, I was furloughed and I lived far enough away from any family that they couldn't get to me even if they were allowed! I would welcome another lock down!

I'd lose my job most probably if there was another lockdown. So it's a no from me.

It's interesting how many posters thoughts about being happy to lockdown again are linked to the fact that last time they received furlough. On a separate thread entirely mumsnetters are discussing benefit cheats.

IMO there is a grossly unfair attitude towards people on benefits and an unfair belief that many people claim fraudulently. I'm not suggesting that there is no benefit fraud at all, but that it's not as widespread as many believe.

There is a massive difference of course in that there was absolutely no issue with people receiving furlough whether they needed it or not. However, I still find it curious that people are comfortable with the prospect of another lockdown, or enjoyed the last one, due to benefitting financially from furlough.

Furlough has to be one of the most abused benefits out there. So much fraud!

However, I still find it curious that people are comfortable with the prospect of another lockdown, or enjoyed the last one, due to benefitting financially from furlough.

Seems fairly obvious to me? The risks and harms of lockdown were very unevenly distributed, and some people had the ingredients for a much nicer one than others. People who had those things in 2020-1 are disproportionately likely to still have them now. We've all got lived experience of prolonged lockdown now, and of course people are influenced by their own personal experiences.

Lots of people on furlough still really struggled, compulsory loss of 20% of income without warning is no joke. But I guess those people are less likely to be supportive of lockdown on the basis of their experiences last time.

People still believe that?

I had full furlough for 6 months. I live in a rural part of the world with a large garden and everyone had their own room and their own laptop to do school and uni.

I fucking hated every single minute of it and seriously don't think my MH would cope with another one.

I have the most genuine respect and love for those parents who managed it without a tenth of the privileges I had.

Your disgusting. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself. No matter what your beliefs I was talking about friends and family who have died and how I'm still suffering 2 years later from long covid and that's your response.

People die. Its really sad. Lockdown didn't stop people dying, they still died. My friends mum died. That was during full lockdown. It happens. We can't control death.

I'm talking about people who died from covid and someone is saying to me covid isn't real do you honestly think that's acceptable. I'm saying how my life was completely destroyed by long covid and being told it's not real by this poster. Come on surely you can see that's not acceptable behaviour

So this is also part of the landscape we need to factor in, when we talk about whether another lockdown could happen now.

Absolutely.

I don’t understand how people can be so selfish to say they loved lockdown?!
how could you possibly have loved it?
children and teenagers missing out on schooling and peer interaction leading to the mental health crisis we are going through atm.
financially the country is on its knees because of the lockdowns
people are still suffering psychologically from it.

and you say you had a wonderful time?
how is that even possible?

all of you that say how much fun you’ve had on the back of the suffering of others how can you come out and say you loved lockdowns?

can’t you see hypocritical this is??

I didn't think they were saying covid wasn't real. They were saying the idea that we needed lockdown until the vaccine was made wasn't real

Well people are selfish. If you liked it, you liked it. Some of it was nice. We might never see again the wonder of a deserted city and nature exploding into something like the garden of eden taking over

They said do people still believe that when I said covid was real and how it impacted my life

All I remember was my quiet rural idyll absolutely over run with lockdown dogs shitting everywhere, and litter and bottles of piss thrown out of delivery van windows.