Now we are a coupe of years on. Do you think the Covid lockdowns should have happened

[Rainbowdeer]

I don’t we should have shut down the schools and I don’t agree with the lockdowns
the damage has been far too great
esp regarding children’s mental health

the economy been damaged far too much

work culture has totally changed

You didn't comply? I assume you mean you visited people? I mean you could hardly force yourself into a gym/pub/cafe. Did you sneak into Marks and Spencer?

That was the third one not the srecond one The second one was November 2020. Parents tend to forget this because schools were still open
Us child free remember it though

@Longma

Hindsight is a wonderful gift.
People forget that it was a new disease, for a long time people had no real idea of what it was or what it could possibly do.

But we did know what it could do. The very first England press conference told the public very emphatically that this would be a mild disease for the vast majority.

It's not that tricky to comprehend what she meant ( and good on her)

'When you should be dead'

Who are you to say when someone 'should ' be dead?

My mother was an otherwise healthy 80 year old. She shielded, and has survived, still living independently and having a good quality of life. Are you saying she 'should' be dead?

Also I hated that Christmas when we weren’t allowed to see extended family

If fact, this year has taken up walking netball to keep active. A much lived extra-granny to three families in her street whose grandparents live a long way away

I can barely remember when one ended and another began. It's one terrible harmogenous mass in my head.

One Christmas where you couldn't have what you wanted.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I don't think they were avoidable. Though if they'd been started sooner, they could have been shorter. But they saved a lot of lives.

@Baital This is MN where anyone over the age of 50 has one foot in the grave.

No there was a lot more to it than that, but if i went in a Time Machine I would have gone to Join the rest of my family, I mean batshit crazy things like eat out to help out was happening shortly before Christmas got cancelled!

the whole thing was just so surreal

do others look back on that time as surreal ?

Hindsight is wonderful. if hospitals had been over whelmed? Children scarred from long covid or mental health issues of seeing family die in front of them.

some things seem mad looking back now. However, we just didn’t know anything about this virus.

6 months before? not shortly. The summer was relatively ok for cases when they did the eat out to try and pump some money into the undustry, but winter, as always, escalates hospitilisation from all virus'. The second lockdown began in November, they delayed it far longer than they should have. By October hospitals were full, and patients were dying who maybe would have otherwise survived under normal winter pressures. But the government waited and delayed that lockdown.

There’s always one idiot who thinks they know better!

Is that you Boris?

Perhaps lockdown would have been shorter if everyone had done their bit to keep other safe. Unfortunately as we saw, some are selfish and didn’t think of others.

There was a fucking big attempted push to have Christmas 2021 go the same way though.

No I think the vulnerable should have isolated and the rest of us got on with it. The tier system where they locked down vast swathes of the north while allowing places with higher cases in the south was outrageous as was the MN attitude that we were locked down because we’re all thick and not able to socially distance down t’ pits 🙈.

Worked really well in China 🙄

So you believed the government when (at the beginning of the pandemic and data was limited) they said that that it'll probably be fine, but not when (later, and there was a wealth more data available) they subsequently said that if we didn't have lockdowns the NHS was at serious risk of being overwhelmed. Interesting.

Even the government wasn't trusted.

I never said I believed the Government verbatim at all.

I simply said that governments across the world were all dealing with something new and were having to make decisions.

I very clearly said that mistakes were made.

And I certainly don't believe our government made the best decisions or had the best behaviour throughout!