What would you do differently if there were another lockdown?

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If we had another lockdown happen, i doubt it but if it did, what would you do different this time round.

I cant say i would change anything as i live alone, and i enjoyed it tbvh.
I didnt go mad with stock piling.

But if it happened again i would knit another quilt.

Get all of us to NZ before everyone starts losing their fucking minds again.

If it was a lockdown for something like Ebola, I’d be bleaching anything and everything, and just burning the post.

Many people thought it was something like Ebola, at least at first when we saw those images from Italy.
I wouldn't do much different. I got covid and nearly died a year after the first lockdown. I did take it seriously before that but thought I was safer after having the vaccine. Apparently I wasn't.

I wish the trend for social distancing when infectious had continued.

It may seem insensitive but people have different experiences. So it’s okay for someone to say it was awful but nobody can be honest enough to admit that it wasn’t the worst thing?

I'm genuinely confused by this attitude. Different people experience things differently and I'm sorry it was tough for you but I'm not sure you can expect people to censor their experiences for your sake somewhere like this when they don't know about you.

It's not crass or insensitive. It's how they feel.

I'm not a key worker anymore so I wouldn't be going to work.

Wouldn't do anything different, id still have to work as a keyworker so no chilling at home relaxing whilst most people i know did

I would ask work if I could be furloughed. As a lone widowed parent trying to wfh, home school my DD (who was then 8 years old) and parent was difficult!!

Because apparently most people didn't enjoy being in lockdown which means I'm a crass, insensitive, unempathetic AH for enjoying it. So in order to save myself a bunch of grief I have to lie and pretend I didn't like being cut off from the world. Never mind it's was the one time in my life people weren't bringing me drama, problems, trying to get me to do something for them or dragging me into social interactions I have no interest in and I could just focus on my hobbies and what makes me happy.

I enjoyed it too, Defiant. That didn't mean I was unsympathetic towards those who had great difficulty with lockdown but speaking for myself, it was marvellous.

As someone who's very clear on the downsides of lockdown and finds the moralising against critics equal parts laughable and pathetic, I think it's fair enough for people to state that they enjoyed it. That's not insensitive in itself. It doesn't invalidate other experiences. And it's also very obviously true that some people had a much nicer lockdown than others. We knew this at the time!

I was working for a business in a key industry supply chain the last time and now I'm retired, so the only difference for me would be that I could stay at home instead of putting myself at risk by having to go to work every day.

Not turn myself into a borderline alcohol. I hated lockdown and tried to black it out by starting drinking earlier and earlier as it went on. By the end I was ordering wine by the case and starting at lunchtime. Put on 2 stone, 1 of which I'm still struggling to lose.

I would not eat so much! I must have gained at least a stone and a half.
Interesting that people seem to still think that outdoor exercise was limited. It wasn’t. Mr Gove made a suggestion that once a day for an hour but anyone who has a dog probably exceeded that daily ! Also washing groceries was always deemed unnecessary by the government.
I guess I wouldn’t worry about being ‘caught’ going to a preferred food store further away than my local one.

Ignore the nonsensical rules like only 1 period of exercise.

Yes if we had another lockdown i would be seriously shielding due to the damage caused to me by the last pandemic. Dh would have to as well, or else he would have to move out.
As much as I enjoyed lockdown the first time I wouldn't be happy to see another purely because it would mean there's another illness doing the rounds. I wouldn't survive another pandemic.

tactical shopping to avoid queuing

I wouldn't change anything in terms if how I reacted, ie I followed the rules. I caught covid about six weeks after vaccination, and felt absolutely awful, so ultimately would want to avoid catching whatever while I had some degree of protection.

I’d ignore it all.

I would completely ignore it all.

For those who think it was the best time of their life - I feel you must be completely lacking in empathy.

On a personal level - we were ok, the kids were a good age for it (yr5 and 6) and I could still do some of my job from home. We had a garden.

But I was so sad for all those that were in worse situations. The teenagers missing the first year of uni. Not being able to socialise. Older people
who live alone never having any company.

The whole thing was so frustrating and sad so no I did not think it was the best time of my life. Even if I was fine.

@Delatron Exactly, anyone wanging on about how fantastic it was just sounds crass, obnoxious, smug and privileged to me, and completely unaware of what an absolute bloody nightmare it was for most of us.

I would try to write a novel or at least a collection of stories, maybe learn a language or teach myself martial arts. I can't believe how much free time I had, and though I exercised, cooked etc I didn't learn any new skill. I don't think I will ever have that much free time in my life again!

I wouldn't comply.

Beyond the initial lockdown, I went to work in a school for the children of key workers so I didn't have it too bad as I was seeing people but my teenage daughter was hugely affected by it all. DH wasn't really bothered as he is quite antisocial and a home body at the best of times.

I would need to know solid scientific evidence of any measures we were asked to take rather than the rules seemingly being designed on the back of a fag packet. 2m rule, fair enough. Not being able to see people in the back garden but seeing them in the front garden instead - ridiculous. Being able to have a cleaner and a nanny in your house (this is later in lockdown) but only being able to see one person socially within a bubble - ridiculous. Being able to go to the gym in one place but not in the next - ridiculous.