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.

Those of us who were forcibly prevented from being with dying loved ones whilst our leaders partied don't deter restriction minded people from expressing their opinions, so it seems unlikely it would work the other way round either.

I wouldn't limit myself to walking / cycling outside to an hour a day / once a day or whatever it was.

Or be too afraid to park in the beach carpark and go for a walk on the beach.

I wouldn't try to shop in person, I'd rely on my stores until the furore calmed down and order online, and I would be stricter about quarantining goods coming in. I wouldn't travel between lockdowns, or be persuaded by the eat out to help out nutters. Overall though we didn't have any problems during lockdowns, I enjoyed extra time to sew, bake and forage for and make preserves.

It's likely to be very different for me as DH and I are no longer working in health care and would make very different risk assessments regarding seeing family. And at the first whiff of risk of a lockdown I'd buy a decent television, a new musical instrument and a greenhouse.

I'm tired of people saying crass and insensitive shit like this. I don't think I've ever been through anything worse. I just want to try and forget it ever happened.

Same!

I felt very lucky to live in an area where the curtain twitching didn't really take hold.

My kids are being difficult enough as it is right now with being allowed out of the house. If we had lockdown again and i had to keep them inside and home school and work, the thing i would do differently is quite happily kill myself.

Overall though we didn't have any problems during lockdowns, I enjoyed extra time to sew, bake and forage for and make preserves.

Well that's lovely for you, but for many of us it was utterly and relentlessly awful.

I would be stricter about quarantining goods coming in

Why? This was batshit even at the time.

I would comply again as I am pro social, care about others, and not a selfish twat who couldn't actually even explain what a virus is or how it works, never mind how to tackle it, but thinks their TikTok habit constitutes research.

Not eat so much, never got back to pre covid weight.
Not drink so much, got into bad habits and never really got rid of them properly.
Brush my hair properly. I used to just brush the fringe and sides quickly if I was going on a Teams call. I forgot about the back and realised in horror one day it had become once monster knot which I spent ages trying to tease out and then have up and cut out. What a slob!

Viruses can live on cardboard etc for quite a while- it's not batshit.
I'm fully aware many people hated it- what's your point?

We wouldn’t put the newspaper in the oven for 15 minutes to cook the bastard little Covid germs. Didn’t do that for very long, but we do laugh about it now.

Both of my parents died during lockdown, they were in a nursing home, my sisters had designated themselves as sole visitors so I didn’t see them before they died, the funerals were dismal with only 10 people allowed.
My sisters had their house stripped and on the market before the funeral, I have never forgiven them for their behaviour.
I think Covid brought out the worst in some people, the best in many more.

Nothing, apart from I'm not a 'keyworker' (🙄) anymore, so I would be able to WFH this time.

I was furloughed at the beginning but not for long. Going to work was fucking terrifying. I kind of doubled the social distancing thing though.

I didn’t get COVID, nor did anyone in my household (funnily enough because we didn’t have contact with people any more than necessary).

The winter lockdown was great though - I was wfh by then and didn’t leave the house until well into the summer the following year

I was able to wfh for the first time during lockdown and really enjoyed it - struggled to get back into the office once it was over and managed to negotiate 2 days/week wfh afterwards. Enjoyed gardening and hobbies etc that I never got time for with the work commute.

However, my mum was in a nursing home and I had to test every time I visited her and wear all the PPE they insisted on, but I removed it once I was in her room, with the door closed, as I’d tested negative each time and had the recommended vaccinations, for her benefit. She didn’t recognise who I was with all those masks & gowns etc on.
And there was no way they would have been able to stop me visiting her if she was end-of-life, when no-one was able to leave their home. So many elderly people were on their own, not knowing where their family was, during their last days and the thought of my mum being in that position was absolutely terrifying for me.
Luckily that didn’t happen and she passed away after lockdown was over, her children & family there with her, holding her hand.

You couldn’t get online slots for love nor money

Depends on the virus. If it were ebola/haemorrage fever, I would comply. If it were like covid/flu - I would keep my distance from people but I would not follow all the rules of the last lockdown.

And that's what social media and the mainstream media does. One of my friends took a photo of two people on a deserted beach calling them all the names under the sun.
Others shared posts daily to 'stay the fuck at home'
Ironically they were the first people jumping on planes and sat having distanced cocktails when things opened up whilst I didn't want the sort of weirdness that came with it.

I've got no idea of my neighbour's opinions but having seen the reaction of some friends it's hard to avoid extrapolating. It's easy to imagine that the person on Mumsnet complaining about 'crisps on a bench' isn't walking past me in my own park.

All the police needed to do was harass one woman with her takeaway coffee in a beauty spot for many people across the country to fall into line.

I had 6 windows up at different supermarkets at midnight and I had a basket in each- I very rarely failed to get a slot- in the beginning it when it was harder I gota DPD delivery from a Chinese supermarket in Manchester
(I was in London ), clearly you needed to be a little more inventive.

I'd go outside for a walk!
I'd still do my best to avoid people in general, especially crowded places, but I was classed as clinically extremely vulnerable last time and told to stay at home. For most of the first lock down I only went outside to go to hospital appointments.

Nothing I would do differently. I didn’t do anything batshit (didn’t wash shopping, etc), I just retreated to my house, went dog walks when others did not, saw more of my family - through zoom - than usual, got all my food online, decided to chill and learn new skills online/read books as there was nothing else for it - it was very freeing to have to let go. I am lucky (decent sized house, garden, WFH for the duration) and had a great time I look back on fondly. I rarely talk about it as I know many others did not share that experience.

I wouldn't bother trying to home school.

Request to be furloughed from the get go juggling a toddler and ft work was nigh on impossible and DH counted as a key worker.

Take my children to the playpark and ignore don't let kids play in playgrounds rule! (Unless ebola or suitably other high chance of death virus)

Walk til my heart is content as frankly nobody was going oooo it's been more then an hour!

Not watch the daily SNP soap box briefings!

I got very sick from covid and still have long covid but 85% "normal" some of the rules were plain bonkers!