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Do you want another lockdown?

380 replies

RosieCrumpet · 30/10/2020 23:33

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.

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TokyoSushi · 31/10/2020 10:46

I don't want one but agree that we need one. The major difference for me this time is that schools will likely be open.

If the schools are open, then I can deal with anything. If they close schools too then it will be pretty much unbearable. Fortunately my DC are great, but full time WFH plus homeschooling them while DH is out of the house for work almost drove me to the brink of insanity last time.

Hardbackwriter · 31/10/2020 10:49

I can't believe people are still going on about needing lockdown to be 'tougher' and how we didn't have a strict enough lockdown last time when we all saw Spain ban children going from outdoors etc and saw that it achieved literally nothing

DressesWithPocketsRockMyWorld · 31/10/2020 10:53

I think we need it and I would be able to work from home without issue but I would be very, very worried about my husband's job in a non essential shop with no furlough scheme.

YellowBeryl1 · 31/10/2020 10:55

@Hardbackwriter exactly, common sense isn't prevailing if there is another lockdown. The virus is here to stay, lockdown is pointless and just costs jobs.

cazisalittlenuts · 31/10/2020 10:58

The last lockdown sent my mental health spiralling into a pit of shit. It also took the chance to spend time with my mum from me, because she was in hospital for months, NON covid related and we weren't allowed to see her.

Shes now dead. I am now alone as I was her carer. My mental health has already been down the shitter since I was in my late teens, but now it's even worse.

No, I don't want another bastard lockdown. I just want to be able to see what's left of my family, but of course, that's not possible unless we sit in the garden in the pissing rain.

If this is what lifes to be like for the forseeable, I dont want it. I'd rather be dead than live through constant isolation from the people I need support from right now.

ilikebooksandplants · 31/10/2020 10:59

I am very against another lockdown for several reasons, some selfish, but also I don’t think it will work. We won’t see the dramatic falling we did in the spring because schools will still be open. It is spreading in schools so a semi-lockdown with schools open will not work. I know children need to be in school though, so I do not know what the answer is.

Lots of the joy has gone out of life at the moment, and it is doing my head in not being able to plan anything and trust that it will happen.

Maryann1975 · 31/10/2020 11:01

I don’t want a lock down. I’ve woken up as miserable as sin this morning as we are in tier 2 and that’s bad enough when the weather is horrendous.
But I also don’t want the NHS to fall and am prepared to ‘do as I’m told’ and not mix with others to prevent that happening.

However, as a family we were on the brink of major mental health issues during the last lock down. I’m hoping dds new school are more accommodating and if schools close, she can still have a place (she should have had one last time, but school Were shit and wouldn’t give her one).

laudemio · 31/10/2020 11:04

At least Sir Kier will be our next PM, especially now he is excising the anti semitic, misogynistic woke bros from Labour. Every cloud and all that. The current gov have let us down badly with test and trace failure.

Jojobythesea · 31/10/2020 11:06

@quarentini

Honestly no. I can't do it again. I will definitely loose my job and house and I'm to old to start again. If I honestly thought it would work I would go with it but the virus will still be here on the 1st December and nothing will have changed apart from more unemployment and more mental health issues
Totally agree with you. Everything is so precarious already. Life in limbo.
PhilCornwall1 · 31/10/2020 11:08

Would it be worth it if it saved your life? What about your family ?

No, no it wouldn't. My life has been shortened due to illness and allegedly ECV according to the letter, so would more than likely pop off if I got it.

It's not worth crippling the country, for me, my family or anyone else for that matter. None of us are that important.

Susanwouldntlikeit · 31/10/2020 11:08

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-delingpod-the-james-delingpole-podcast/id1449753062?i=1000493861170
Ivor Cummins on why Lockdown is counterproductive-all evidence and why masks are the new religion based on medieval superstition.

BearSoFair · 31/10/2020 11:10

I support a full lockdown but not sure what we're likely to get will be effective and could just drag things out even more.

Vanillaradio · 31/10/2020 11:10

I don't want one. And I think it's pointless. If schools stay open (which they need to or you are throwing a whole generation under the bus) then you won't see a huge fall in cases and we'll be right back where we were within a few weeks of coming out of lockdown.

Bollss · 31/10/2020 11:14

@laudemio

At least Sir Kier will be our next PM, especially now he is excising the anti semitic, misogynistic woke bros from Labour. Every cloud and all that. The current gov have let us down badly with test and trace failure.
I thought I'd like him but a labour government who have not said a word and stood by and watched the poor become poorer? No thanks.
Waxonwaxoff0 · 31/10/2020 11:15

Nope, don't want one. I can deal with most of it apart from schools being closed.

chubley · 31/10/2020 11:18

I don't want it, even though I've been working from home since March, and the only difference to us would be the closure of small shops - I'm really against forcing businesses to close. It's good to have a variety of shops including small ones in small towns and villages - not everyone wants to buy everything in the supermarket or give all their money to them. Lockdown was needed in March as there were no other measures in place to slow the spread such as SD and masks.

If infections are about to peak in the next week or two and then start to fall (many areas, eg student areas, have already peaked and are coming down now), lockdown will not achieve much in terms of the spread of the virus or the death rate/hospitalisation rate but would potentially have a huge negative effect on everything else already mentioned in this thread.

I thought last time that schools should have opened mid-June for 4 weeks, when infections were falling, as the summer holidays would have provided a fire-break with some immunity having reduced the September spread. Having both schools and unis going back in the same month was ill-thought out.

roarfeckingroarr · 31/10/2020 11:27

YANBU

The economy is well and truly fucked

Mrsfussypants1 · 31/10/2020 11:36

No, dont want one, but it will happen anyway regardless on my thoughts on wether we should or not. I don't think people will be so willing to comply this time.

Igotthemheavyboobs · 31/10/2020 11:41

I think we will start next week and be in lockdown another 12 weeks. I don't think they are going to want to risk people travelling for Christmas.

PhilCornwall1 · 31/10/2020 11:49

@Igotthemheavyboobs

I think we will start next week and be in lockdown another 12 weeks. I don't think they are going to want to risk people travelling for Christmas.
Are people going to stick to that?
AgeLikeWine · 31/10/2020 11:56

Nobody wants another lockdown. The reality of the situation, however, is that due to the incompetence of the government and the irresponsible behaviour of sections of the public we have lost control of the virus again and the trends in hospital admissions and deaths are escalating rapidly.

This situation was preventable and avoidable, but we are where we are so we need to decide what to do next, and there are no easy options. Another lockdown in all but the least-affected areas may well be the least-bad option.

Washimal · 31/10/2020 11:58

I don't want one, but the current restrictions were never going to cut it. Certainly not with schools and universities going back at the same time.

My concern is that if they allow people to travel abroad and keep secondary schools and universities open it will all be for nought. IMO if we're going to lockdown we should keep primary schools and nurseries open but secondary should be blended learning (one week in school, one week off for most kids but vulnerable students can be in full time as they were in first lockdown) and universities should move to all remote teaching. Foreign travel should be stopped, none of this corridor bullshit. Otherwise it's just pointless, more damage to the economy with no significant impact on the number of cases.

Teateaandmoretea · 31/10/2020 12:09

@Washimal whatever restrictions you have aren’t going to stop Covid. It will keep coming back and if we don’t use our immune systems it will possibly be worse.

I have heard on Twitter (and before people call me an idiot it’s as accurate as any other source in this shitshow) that the Oxford Vaccine is being distributed in preparation. The results of the trials are apparently being currently peer reviewed.

I think what will happen is half way through the month lockdown it will be licensed. The only problem is that it is only 50% effective and will take months to actually dose everyone who they decide to dose, not least because it needs 2 shots. So it will be eased around this but they aren’t announcing this until people have been driven into enough despair to comply at a higher rate than currently expected.

LastTrainEast · 31/10/2020 12:11

@rashalert

Oh, I'm so sorry *@workhomesleeprepeat*

I understood the virus had come from Wuhan and that they had kept quiet about it for as long as they could.

Is this incorrect then? Did it come from Southend?

We need to talk about your share of the responsibility for Mad Cow Disease. You didn't warn people here or in other countries and you risked their lives. For a long time no one wanted to buy from us because of what you did.

I get that you've been horribly inconvenienced but try to get a little perspective.

Teateaandmoretea · 31/10/2020 12:12

@lasttraineast how many people actually died from vCJD?

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