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.

I'd get on a plane to Saladita, Mexico and surf the whole time. They may make it illegal again but I don't care.

Not doing another bloody lockdown.

I didn’t mind the first one (spring 2020), but the second felt pretty miserable.

What I wouldn’t do again - get a puppy early in the first lockdown. While she was planned for and much-wanted, not having regular visitors to the house for months means she’s reactive to the doorbell and very wary of strangers 😩

No change. Prep while people are still making jokes, go to work.

Was no fun for me or my kids, or DH. None of us got very ill at all, but we watched the news and knew better than to extrapolate our small experience to conclude that covid was harmless and the mass burials were propaganda. Sneered at people who survived and proclaimed that covid was harmless.

Would comply again if there was another epidemic. We are smart enough to know that a bit of googling does not make us epidemiologists, able to dictate our own terms, at the expense of others.

I was furloughed the first lock down and it was ok. Wasn't the 2nd and was surprised at how quiet London was.
I retired just at the end and missed out on a big send off and presses.
I hate watching any programme that was made during lock down and all the people wearing masks. Just want to forget about that time.
My DH had to travel to wor every day as he is in construction and has a lot to say about WFH people. He said given people the choice and not making them return to normal has ruined this country and made people lazy, not to mention all the business's that had to close because people didn't go out to work and still dont. I agree with him.

This! I also caught covid just as lockdown began. I was in bed for 5 weeks, and still have post-covid symptoms😫

I was supportive of lockdown. I work in infectious diseases and I think we did the best we could with the information we had at the time, certainly much better than other countries.

I wouldn’t spend so much of it drinking wine. I drank way too much. I don’t drink anymore and everything is so much easier. Parenting through lockdown would have been easier too. But I didn’t know that at the time.

Break lots of rules like I did last time. But hopefully we won’t be stupid enough to go into lockdown and there won’t be as many stupid rules.

Ignore it. Lockdown almost broke me and I’m still not the same person I used to be.

Lockdown is probably more likely with a Labour government

Honestly this hantavirus seems far more serious than COVID from the brief googling I've done. The death rate seems quite high and even across ages. So I'd probably take it more seriously as it affects my kids. COVID didn't really affect me much really.

DPs work wouldn't be possible and his company are really good and earn very well without his type of work so he'd still be paid. My kids are young so no GCSEs to worry about. We'd isolate.

There wasn't a 1 hour limit on being outside was there?

I will remember how lazy I am next time I work into the night (unpaid) because hybrid working means on my wfh days I don’t bother finishing at my set time if I’m in the middle of something.

Not to mention weekends - having the facilities means I can do a few extra hours when I feel like it.

There was never a one hour limit on outdoor exercise in the U.K. You could stay out as long as you wanted but briefings suggested you should only go out once a day if possible. I think a lot of people made their own lockdowns even worse because they didn’t read the guidance.

Comply less than last time. And I broke a few rules then.

I’d shave my head.

id also get out more and not worry about things so much.

The thing I can’t change is ignoring the rules and seeing my family more, as they’re all gone now, but if I went back in time to the last one that would be my main priority.

Begin seeing people outside and on the quiet a bit earlier. We stuck to the first couple of months, but in retrospect that was bad for my children's welfare.

That said, it's hard to call because the circumstances will so obviously have to change significantly before we can have another lockdown. The 'space' for one doesn't exist now. For one thing, lockdown requires paying enough people to stay out of the way. That's not happening any time soon. So my life would look very different by the time another theoretical lockdown could happen.

The one hour was just a comment that Gove made in an interview of what he would do.

I remember some fucking idiots arguing that a ministerial comment about exercise duration outweighed the actual law!

Yep!

I would quit nursing and stay with my babies.

I worked all the way through it and got ill twice
Right at the end I got a letter through saying due to my asthma I shouldn't be working

I would refuse to work although I'm no longer in an industry that would stay open in a lockdown and priorize my health
Last time I had to rely on family so much to help with the dc while working for wraparound ect

Yes

We followed the rules which meant my poor nan in her 90s died alone and frightened in a hospital not knowing what was going on, they would not let us be with her :( not only that we wernt allowed to have a proper funeral for her, no cars no hymns no hugs no wake, had to sit distanced apart in the crem , only a small number of people allowed to attend
She deserved better
And all this on the day that boris was enjoying a boozy get together with his workmates. Disgusting!!!!!
Never again would i trust what they say

I was on mat leave when the first lockdown started. DH works in ITU. When the lockdown started he was "reassured" by the hospital that if I caught covid then they would put DH up in a hotel for a fortnight so that he wouldn't catch it and could carry on going to work as normal (leaving me alone, ill, with the baby). Fortunately this never happened, but I was disgusted by this policy when we were told this, and remain disgusted by it now. We complied with all the lockdown rules, but I was losing my mind (DH was working 14-hour shifts in ITU, so no happy jolly family time at home for us). Never again will I put the interests of random strangers ahead of my own family.

Ignore it

It seems I’d need to exercise more caution with the amount of people who would apparently happy to go about their lives possibly spreading a deadly virus around.
I’d likely be fine, but I wouldn’t want to risk giving it to the vulnerable people in my family.
It’s interesting to hear that so many people would ignore any rules. For a while we didn’t understand the etiology of covid so it’s quite bold to ignore rules.