If we suddenly had to go into a 3 month lockdown again, how would you feel?

[LaurieFairyCake]

I think people would definitely comply. If it was Mpox I would want a smallpox vaccine as it's somewhat effective.

Why wouldn’t you test for Covid?

I'd love it. I've got 3 weddings in the next 2 months that I have to attend(family so no wriggling out of it) and I'm dreading the inconvenience and cost of them all. A lockdown to get me out of them would go down nicely.

Personally I would love it, as long as only 3 months and all out by Christmas!

It's like a little holiday from the drudgery of life

So how would you get your food if you want to be in lockdown, or does that someone else not matter

Robots deliver food here. They’re immune to biological viruses.

The paradox is that Monkey Pox is significantly more serious than Covid.

We locked down compliantly for covid when it was NOT needed. People will not lock down for something far more serious when it IS needed.

Notwithstanding the fact that the country is virtually bankrupt arising from the last lockdown and furlough scheme.

Because work won't pay me to stay home but during lockdown I was shielding so they did. Iv never had such a good tan the summer was gorgeous that year. Didn't have to go anywhere or deal with people just sat in the sun all day and played with the kids. Didn't matter if the house was messy as no unexpected visitors, got to know my neighbours my mh improved as I wasn't being made to do stuff.I was literally living my dream life.

get them super duper space suits and pay them quadruple with one week on, 1 week off.

Our Co op has them but they don't hold much

M pox won't trigger a lockdown. It's a "normal" type of virus (ie it's the same type as a lot of well-known similar ones. Covid was unique because it was new and the vaccines didn't existing.

I think a lockdown will only happen again if a new virus arises that specifically attacks juvenile physiology in such a way that it's more fatal for kids than adults, so that if an adult goes to work and comes home carrying the infection their kids could die. Anything less nightmareish than that, people won't comply.

The UK has been bankrupt and effectively trading while insolvent since the 1950's at least.

The fact the chickens coming home to roost has come in near proximity to Covid and lockdown is unfortunate, but that's far from being the only reason, or even the main one why the UK's economy is it the toilet.

Decades of government borrowing to prop up an artificially high standard of living, expected by an ever demanding public with unrealistic expectations about levels of public service v's taxation, and politicians too craven to actually point out it was totally unsustainable and tell people to wind their necks in...

I'd be excited. Loved lockdown put a pause on life. Got us in shitloads of debt which we are only just out of but I loved that time as a family and no one else.

Wouldn't particularly bother me, just like the last one didn't. OH would go bonkers though.

I wonder if everyone in here will suddenly change their minds once they realise that the fatality rate for DC is 10%.

Let's hope so.

It wouldn’t bother me. Didn’t bother me last time either, went out walking for miles every day after work because the weather was so good and found loads of things in my local area that I didn’t know existed, loved the “pause” from real life and made me and my family communicate better which has continued since

Everyone’s experience of lockdown was different for some it was hell and some loved it. That’s going to effect how people feel about another one

No, I’m not worried.

Delighted

Hopefully they will keep them inside then

Plenty of brainwashed sheep still around so they’d certainly agree with it. I didn’t agree with the lockdowns from day one.

I agree. If a very serious, easily transmissible and deadly virus came along and we were told to lock down, we would do it, and I would have no problem with that.

I would not be best pleased.

If being a sheep means staying alive during a pandemic, then baaa baaa ypu bet I’m a big fluffy white sheep…better that than six feet under.

I absolutely loved lockdown so would be thrilled to have another, I'm classed as an essential worker so no time off unfortunately but I do miss having my colleagues stay 2 meters away from me