To ask whether you would support a further lockdown?

[lola777]

Posting here simply as I don't know if voting can be enabled outside AIBU.

Vote yes- You would support further lockdown of this extent
Vote no- You would not support a lockdown of this extent after the current lockdown period

Personally, I would be happy for restrictions to slowly be lifted after this. Amongst my friends, I feel I am in the majority.

We haven't really had a lockdown tbh. The whole management of this has been an utter disaster. Far too little too late. We should have continued with test and trace and quarantine, we should have closed air traffic and done a proper lockdown much sooner. We are now at levels of death which a few short weeks ago we read about with horror when they happened elsewhere. Try reading foreign press to see how appalled they are at the UK. Truly the sick man of Europe.

I support stopping people dying if that means keeping us locked down then I’d support it.

I havent seen my partner in weeks and I live alone with my 2 year old. Im trying to work from home. Its a nightmare trying to work at home and lonely. But also my little girl and family are safe and ny little girl and I are having lots of together time. Its difficult but for the best right now

I would support along term social distancing measures as long as I was able to go and see my parents and siblings. I could probably handle another 1-3 weeks on top of what has already been proposed but after that I would expect some easing of measures to keep people sane. We live in a flat with no garden or outside space and up until recently we visited my parents and my husbands parents every weekend. My husbands parents have health issues that put them at risk so I understand the importance to staying away from them save delivering supplies to them but my parents are in 50 and 52 with no health issues and whilst I do understand this can affect anyone I feel allowing people to visit family in private homes and keeping the existing social distancing measures in public areas and obviously continuing the ban of large gatherings and parties etc would be a good step in easing measures but still limiting the spread and allowing a bit of a morale boost to people.

I agree that this hasn’t been a proper lockdown though, it’s been a liberal lockdown, which probably hasnt contained the virus like it should. Everything now just feels like too little too late.
Test track and trace was the only way to control it and they just gave up/ didn’t bother, and let it ravage through the population.

Seriously I wonder at people - this virus is an unknown. We don’t know how to cure it; we don’t know how to vaccinate against it; we aren’t sure if you build immunity to it if you have categorically had it; it isn’t ‘just’ the old or those with pre-existing that can become a fatality - children, teenagers, those in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s who were apparently healthy individuals have died. 20,0000 + people have died (and that’s not including care homes and those who have died at home) and more will die.

Yes lockdown is hard. Yes it is putting people in difficult positions financially. Yes home schooling is a ball ache. But do you want to have long term health issues after contracting the virus - or potentially die? Or want your partner or child(ren) to suffer the same? Or your elderly relatives dying alone fighting for breath in hospital (if there aren’t enough ventilators to go round, the younger patients tend to get them!)?

Until the government had some kind of a hold over this virus, lifting lockdown is going to lead to further peaks in infections and death. It’s that simple.

Definitely not. There needs to be a balance between this, other medical conditions, the economy, our children's education.

That said, I don't want a jump back to "normal" (not that that is going to happen anyway), but I very much hope that the lockdown is eased slightly at the next review, with maybe another easing coming after the second May bank holiday weekend.

Yes, I would! From a selfish, personal perspective only, I'm better off financially on furlough (saving after-school club costs) and am really enjoying all the quality time I'm getting with my partner & kids - we've accomplished so much DIY and gardening, and I feel more relaxed & chilled than I have in a long time - whilst I definitely don't want anyone else to die, I'd be happy to continue this way (as I said, from a selfish, personal perspective only, obviously I know it's impacted others far harder) until September.

yes i would support a further lockdown at least we have food and all the amenities and it wont be for ever. look at the second world war saint petersburg was locked down by the Germans for 2 years people starving so i will not be moaning about a couple of months

I don’t understand the push to end the lockdown at all. Staying home is not a real burden and people working in customer facing jobs deserve protection. I’m really shocked at how people are complaining about being bored. It is simply not that difficult to fill one’s time with a mixture of frivolous and worthwhile pursuits.

@BluebonicPlague tell me about it. My cousin is living in Spain and she tells me the Spanish are laughing at the UK for the way that it is handled. They can't believe how we ever managed to have so much control over the world as an Empire when everything British people do is so incompetent. It's embarrassing.

Until the government had some kind of a hold over this virus, lifting lockdown is going to lead to further peaks in infections and death. It’s that simple

Simple? So your solution is to stay in lockdown indefinitely, and condemn thousands to death as a result of other causes eg cancer?

Yes, I would. I am happy to do whatever is necessary to keep me and my family safe. I am a bit scared of the lockdown ending and us being at more risk.

Purple earning money? Being able to see family?

I will support decisions taken under scientific and mathematical advice . There are countless articles from scientists across the globe who all agree on one thing . That is that the R number needs to remain below 1 . That will not be easily achieved with total free movement. I saw that there is a “bubble” idea being discussed where each household chooses two other households that become part of their bubble . Which allows for family or friends to visit and eat together. Most agree too that this will peak and drop for up until 2025 . Or until some sort of antibody generating drug is found to work while they work on a vaccine

PS purple I’m also curious to know what your home is like.

I'm with @flirtygirl

I’m off for my 5 miles now so not ignoring any replies, just 5 miles -> food etc.

Staying home is not a real burden

For some people it really is. For some it is actually life threatening (DV, mental health spiralling, lack of cancer treatment etc).

I support extended social distancing. But we must learn to live with this virus, it isn’t going to just disappear. So we need test and trace in place, then slowly opening up again. If that isn’t in place by the end of this lockdown period it is another example incompetence by the government.

The point of lockdown was to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed by sheer numbers being very ill at once. As the incubation period is thought to be about 2 weeks, after a month of lockdown either the policy has worked and we should be gently releasing, or it hasn't worked, so there's no point in continuing with a failing strategy.

It looks as if it's working: daily new numbers are not increasing and the NHS is well within capacity.

The virus is not going away. We can't stay locked down for years in the hope that it dies out or a cure or vaccine might be developed. We could release lockdown gently and hope that the daily infection rate remains within numbers that the NHS can handle, or we can release all at once and be ready to lockdown again if necessary.

It's not just a case of lives versus money. Destroying the economy, people's livelihoods and the majority of the normal function of the NHS is also causing death and health problems, and the longer lockdown continues, the worse it will get.

Contrary to what the 'just stay indoors' people say, it's probably just as well that a certain number of people aren't conforming very well - it may prevent or reduce a sudden leap in new infections when we do release lockdown.

I would support another lock down,if was deemed the best thing to do. It is easy to have your own personal thoughts about all this, when you are feeling fed up about all things as they are at the moment. But a serious and careful approach is needed, to protect the health of the country, no matter what.

I don’t want to live under the threat of this killer. We’ve come this far, we need to see it out.

I’m not keen for children to return to school. I’m an educated person with common sense so my kids can continue their education at home.

We havent even HAD a lockdown - not properly, that's why we've got the worst death percentage in Europe - yes I would support an extention on lockdown and a proper Lockdown - with strick controls whereby people STAY IN - would even be happy for food parcels to be delivered (paid for) on a kind of 'eat what you're given' basis - I don't want to have the worst death ate in Europe and see more families suffering these tragic losses - we can pick up the financial pieces later. Lock in and reflect on what really matters.

we can pick up the financial pieces later.

I wonder will my mortgage provider see it like that?

Please no more lockdown. It is a nightmare working full time with kids at home and who the fuck is paying for all this? We are about to fall off a cliff into a major recession.