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.

It was rubbish having to cook constantly though wasn't it?

No takeaways or eating out, not even a pastie from a proper bakery 😫

Don't be daft.

Some of us are clinically vulnerable. We'd have to be suicidal not to comply, however boring it was.

I’m so sorry you went through that. I left my abusive ex a couple of years before Covid and I thought of all the women and children experiencing locked down abuse with terrible sympathy. 💐

I wouldn't mind but I wouldn't be doing battle with my dc over home learning again.

I complied with Covid lockdown and and was separated from my children and grandchildren for more months than I can bear to remember. Not because I feared for myself but I had a fear of putting a foot wrong and causing harm to my family. It all seems like a crazy dream to me now looking back on it. It almost broke me. I won’t be doing it again and I’d rather take a long walk off a short pier.

I’m having flashbacks now to that weasel faced fuckwit Hancock and the Don’t Kill Granny slogan. Is it any wonder we have a high incidence of mental health issues in our teenage population?

I would follow the rules mostly, as I did last time.

I don’t want another one though. I didn’t have it bad, not at all, but it’s not a time I look back at fondly either. I think home schooling mixed with a very uncomfortable pregnancy which turned into a very unsettled screaming infant whilst my partner looked at me disapprovingly from the computer at my inability to keep the kids quiet whilst he worked killed any good lockdown vibes for me.

I wouldn't mind not going into office at all but I would struggle with everything else. I complied the last time and it was difficult on my own. I also put on a stone that year and it was a bitch to shift.
I have an 8 year old nephew and his group at school are still not quite as they should be owing to being so disrupted starting out. That would be horrible to see again, as would students having their university experience solely through a laptop (and a few years later coming into the workplace extremely immature).
So..personally I'd do a month before cracking. Hopefully it won't come to it.

I'd feel well-prepared 😆 Just need a few extra packs of bog roll, and I'm ready to avoid all the numpties spreading infections around!

I bet you were paid to sit on your arse at home too.

I'd look forward to more furlough payments and another bounce back loan!

Me and DH would both love it, the kids less so this time around as they're older.

However, I wouldn't for a second wish it on those people who genuinely suffered as a result of lockdowns.

Sorry but no one is going to follow a Government crying wolf the second time.

I wouldn't comply and don't know of anyone else that would.

Me too. I enjoyed it so much

Why are you so angry?

If it was something that was killing children then yes I would

I’m not debating the wisdom of the international policy of lockdowns during covid, but I am surprised at the glib ´I’d love another lockdown’ comments. It was an utterly horrific experience for many and particularly, of course, the most vulnerable; children, elderly, poor, isolated, abused. Awful. I lived a highly privileged experience during the lockdowns - indeed the reset took me down a new and highly fulfilling path - but the idea of people having to go through that again is terrible. Everyone knows this really. On that basis I would probably largely comply if there’s international and cross-part support for a lockdown because they know it’s the least best option.

Bloody air travel is how these contagions spread. We need proper quarantines at borders, ALL borders.

Absolutely. It's beggar's belief how travel went right back to normal after Covid. People don't fucking learn.

I don't think this will come to anything but I actually can't believe some people on here if their was a disease that mainly killed children (not necessarily this one) going around you wouldn't go into lockdown to protect them. I would die for my children and you can't even stay at home and bake banana bread for yours

Not a chance we'd comply. Lockdown was fine last time (good weather, Dh worked from home, lots of time as a family) but no chance people would comply again so it'll never happen (unless maybe if there was an outbreak with scarily high morbidity rate).

@Berlinlover So what were people who were furloughed to do if their place of employment had to be closed? Would you rather that they had no money and starved. It was hardly their fault.

Work flogged me half to death during the last ones and I ended up ill through that. No furlough or enjoying the weather.

If it were to happen again, I’d appreciate a weeks notice so I can book a flight out of here and work from wherever for 3 months without queuing for supermarkets, doing battle for staple goods and having my exercise regime dictated to me.

You have to seriously ask why some people have DC when they are willing to let other DC die just so they can go to the pub.