Totally unscientific poll on covid and lockdowns.

[KenDodd]

Just thinking about yourself, nobody else you might pass covid on to. Would you rather just take your chances against covid and not have any lockdowns? Bearing in mind you might have no access to healthcare if you needed it. Please just think of yourself and your own health, nobody else.

Yanbu - lockdown
Yabu - I'll take my chances against covid

I dunno...
Not being able to get any medical care if I had a horrific car accident or a maniac stabbed me or I got a broken leg is a pretty scary thought. I'm not at all afraid of covid, but I don't like the thought of having zero health care for everything else, too. My understanding is that is why Lockdown is happening - to allow any other health care to continue. I would sign away my 'rights' to have any treatment for covid but not for everything, if it would stop the Lockdowns, certainly. My age is Mid 50s.

I am 31 and i would rather take my chances. Yes i could get long covid but this could happen with any virus. Yes there is a slim chance it could kill me but i wouldn't avoid going out just in case i was run over by a bus or stabbed. To be honest i am far more scared of getting dementia or cancer.

I stand a good chance of dying if I get covid badly enough to require hospital treatment, and women my age with leukaemia are over-represented in ICU admissions

Lots of other people will die too. And NHS will be overrun, do lots of people will die of lots of things

• hospital boss on BBC news this evening said that in a bad flu season, there would be about 3000 people in hospital. And that the flu season has barely begun, but there are already 10,000 beds occupied by Covid patients

I can see why the government and many doctors are so worried. No slack for bigger rises

I tested positive last week on a routine swab for work. I have no symptoms at all. None of my family have come down with symptoms either and it's day 10 tomorrow. I'm. A nurse, oh is a paramedic we are out there taking our chances anyway.

The vast cast majority of people will survive covid and long covid is an exception to the rule and can be a consequence of any virus. My worry is more for the nhs being over run. It's on its knees most winter and so understaffed. Throw covid in and it will break. I believe in Belgium they are so understaffed due to staff absence that if you've tested positive for covid but are asymptomatic (like me) you are just asked to work anyway. (can't remember where I read it)!

Unfortunately, lockdowns are not about an individual's preferences, wants or needs.
They are about actions for the greater good.
Not about saving the life of your granny or the clinically extremely vulnerable neighbour, friend or child.
It's simply an attempt at trying to minimise the risk of vast numbers of folk all needing access to serious health care, at the same time.

So I'm going to read this as 46% want lockdowns to protect themselves.

This isn't a comment on protecting others btw because that's not what I asked about.

Any reason that you didn't put your poll in the Coronavirus topic?

Before I was pregnant I'd have taken my chances. Now it's more important to me not to get ill than to earn more money.

I voted YANBU because I would be vulnerable to covid

But I think YABU to ask the question in this way as we can never consider it without thinking of the impact on those we may come in to contact with and infect.

the is, you can't separate yourself form others, so to be asked to do so for a theoretical poll, is nonsense.

I am 53, healthy, reasonably fit, but obese.
I am not afraid of dying, and would happily take my chance with the disease, if I was single. But I am not. I have a dh who I don''t want to leave a widower, and I have 3 kids who are still school age. No way would I take a risk which would leave them motherless.

So, how do I answer your poll?

No lockdown because I totally think it's a front for something else other than a virus.

I think I’d probably on balance take the risk for myself as it isn’t that great a one (no more so than lots of other risks) and I don’t have any other underlying conditions that make me high risk for needing medical care urgently for something other than covid. In general I’ve concerns that getting people used to the idea that they can just operate as their own family unit or bubble isn’t that great for individuals or society as a whole. It’s liable in general to make people more focused on their own self interest when you ideally want people focused on the collective good to get through something like a pandemic. All that said given the UKs current circumstances it seems prudent to have a lockdown now and try and get numbers back down before we get into the main flu season, grim though that is for everyone.

I think I had coronavirus in March, I'm 32 -slim and healthy. I was in bed for 2 weeks and struggled to breathe for some of the time. Completely incapable of looking after DC.

YANBU from me, the thing I was most scared of was ending up in hospital away from the DC.

Yes I'd take my chances in that scenario. Under 30 and no known health conditions. Also became somewhat desensitised after the news of the virus came out in January and I then spent the next three months until lockdown commuting on a packed train to London with people coughing and spluttering every 2 seconds

@Mimishimi

No lockdown because I totally think it's a front for something else other than a virus.

Such as?

I’m young and relatively fit but if I can avoid getting it I will.

I know two young (40/50s) people who have both had Covid recently. One spent a week in hospital, one still can’t do anything 3 weeks on. Both healthy and active before.

I think a lot of the the “I’m young I will be fine” people are in for a shock if they get it.