Do you want another lockdown?

[RosieCrumpet]

YABU - I want a lockdown just like before
YANBU - I don't want to lockdown.
Comment - Any variation on the above.
I'm genuinely curious to see where the majority lie on this - some people will be terrified of losing their jobs and homeschooling again whereas others would love a few more months of WFH or furloughing and extra family time.

The chances of anyone under 30 dying of Covid are vanishingly small, so they should be allowed to just get on with life, with virtually no restrictions.

I thought the issue was more that you could have a serious accident and then find there are no beds available because of covud patients, who are unlikely to die with appropriate care but nonetheless take up beds.

Apparently we are soon to exceed the 'worst case scenario' projections.

You're right @LordLancington
Uncontained Covid = no room at the inn hospital.

Maybe all the people wanting lockdown could be asked to pay an extra £100 per week in tax or something, to pay for the job losses and business closures.

@SpnBaby1967

Public of Britain shocked as a virus behaves likes a virus.

Breaking news - NHS overrun in winter due to a virus! As has happened every year!

Scores of people shout for the future of this country, our children, to be denied the education their parents received.

Headlines in 20 years

Anger as politicians fail to run the country after they were denied an education and were unable to take their exams back in 2020/21

A generation of pensioners just cannot understand why our country is in such a mess after denying their children the right to a FULL education in high school.

Remembering the NHS, before the Lockdown Era and the economic destruction of a country meant there was no public fund to pay for it.

The cost of Health Insurance rockets as Britain is forced to enter the new age of privatised health care after scores of people made unemployed and needing to claim benefits destroyed the tax system and plunged the country into debt in 2020/21

Exactly 👏

@secretllama totally agree with you too. It's bullshit.

Perhaps if anyone who doesn't see the need for lockdown would wear a plastic bracelet, stating that until the pandemic is over they want no health treatment for anything. No contraception, no antibiotics, no mending if in an accident , no diagnostics

Well when the nhs stop treating obese people, smokers, drinkers etc then yes I’ll say I don’t want healthy testament for anything
Stupid

I doubt anyone WANTS a lockdown, but I think most people deep down know one is needed.
It’s funny because the people screaming “I want my life back” “it’s a load of shit” “we can’t keep locking down then opening up” were the same people clapping on their doorsteps earlier this year. How easily we forget

I think going into another lockdown is a mistake. I certainly don’t want one deep down or otherwise. It isn’t going to do anything in the long term. We aren’t going to save anyone. We are just pushing the deaths down the road

Sweden 0 deaths today Maybe we should follow them.

Yes I want my life back and no I didn’t clap for the NHS. Not one person in my street went out and clapped.

Perhaps if anyone who doesn't see the need for lockdown would wear a plastic bracelet, stating that until the pandemic is over they want no health treatment for anything. No contraception, no antibiotics, no mending if in an accident , no diagnostics

So what would be the difference to now,

Dp (terminal diagnosis) can’t get an appointment with his consultant since last November
Dp is also diabetic and has to beg and plead for insulin.

I’m not happy about another lockdown, I’m angry that so many people have been blasé about social distancing so a lockdown is necessary. If all people were erring on the side of following guidelines or being more conservative, then a lockdown wouldn’t be needed.

My family will be fine. We wfh and are already homeschooling. We have a large detached home and garden. We are introverts with lots of hobbies. Lockdown won’t bother us at all, but I’m still angry.

The chances of anyone under 30 dying of Covid are vanishingly small, so they should be allowed to just get on with life, with virtually no restrictions, but obviously avoid close contact with anyone shielding, or over 70

My niece is 25 and works as a school escort
She lives with her grandparents who are 84

I don't want half-measures. I would prefer no lockdown and using other methods (including graded restrictions) to limit infection and to save the economy.

But.....a lockdown seems inevitable, but will be useless and wasted if schools aren't closed too. So either don't bother or go the whole hog and close everything, including primary/secondary schools and universities....get all learning properly done online.

Terrible choice, where whatever happens, it won't be right....

If it is
"let's lock down for the month, then open everything up and get on with our lives" then I would say yes but they won't.
They will keep changing the goalposts and screwing everyone's lives up.
So no I don't want one. It's not going to help the majority of the population in the long run.

@GlowingOrb

I’m not happy about another lockdown, I’m angry that so many people have been blasé about social distancing so a lockdown is necessary. If all people were erring on the side of following guidelines or being more conservative, then a lockdown wouldn’t be needed.

My family will be fine. We wfh and are already homeschooling. We have a large detached home and garden. We are introverts with lots of hobbies. Lockdown won’t bother us at all, but I’m still angry.

Bollocks that this is down to people being blasé!! It's a virus doing what a virus does ffs.

@midgebabe

Perhaps if anyone who doesn't see the need for lockdown would wear a plastic bracelet, stating that until the pandemic is over they want no health treatment for anything. No contraception, no antibiotics, no mending if in an accident , no diagnostics

Why? The two things aren't remotely linked. Should we stop treating smokers and drinkers too? Anyone who gets in a car accident as well? I mean if they didn't drive they wouldn't need healthcare.

Fucking stupid.

@MercyBooth

The chances of anyone under 30 dying of Covid are vanishingly small, so they should be allowed to just get on with life, with virtually no restrictions, but obviously avoid close contact with anyone shielding, or over 70

My niece is 25 and works as a school escort
She lives with her grandparents who are 84

I would assume the number of twenty something's living with their grandparents is vanishingly small.

No, I don't want one.
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@maureenfrombarnsley I really hope someone does research into the response to covid in a few years, I think it will be very interesting....

I’m more worried about how awful life is going to be after all this than of Covid to be honest, it’s all well and good saving lives but not if it’s going to monumentally shit for everyone

I would assume the number of twenty something's living with their grandparents is vanishingly small

Actually know quite a few.

@AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii oh me too. The reaction to this virus seems insane to me.

@Oliversmumsarmy

I would assume the number of twenty something's living with their grandparents is vanishingly small

Actually know quite a few.

And your point is? Yes, there might be some 20 somethings living with GPs. But, the overwhelming majority don't. And I firmly believe that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few. I cannot countenance the sheer amount of suffering these lockdowns are causing to tens of millions, just to safeguard a tiny fraction of the population. Covid isn't the Black Death, it has a recovery rate of over 98% fgs.

What is the rationale for destroying the economy, ruining teenagers' education, consigning hundreds of thousands to deaths/serious illnesses that are not Covid, ruining millions of livelihoods etc, just to protect the tiny fraction of the population that might not recover from Covid. If hospitals get over run, and it's doubtful seening as they weren't over run last time, then maybe we actually use all the bloody Nightingale hospitals that have stood empty for the last 6 months.

Most of the elderly people I know couldn’t give a shit about staying in and trying not to catch this virus. They want to be out with their friends and if they catch it then at they would take their chances

Agree it isn’t a death sentence.

@Oliversmumsarmy I work in community nursing, mostly elderly patients and more and more of them are saying the same, they can’t understand all this destruction of the economy etc.

As to the it’s not a death sentence? The government pushed that agenda at the start and now there is hardcore groups of people who still truly believe it is

Same for the elderly people I know oliversmumsarmy. Both my Auntie and MIL are over 75 but would much prefer to live normally, and take the (very small) risk.