corona lockdowns

[firthy85]

i watched a post on a thread where someone was jumping around all over the place to maintain social distancing with a dog and a dd and ds so they could keep a distance. am i the only person to think its getting rediculous?. covid seems to have sent the population into some crazy paranoid mess. let's clean everything just to be safe. let's jump out of the way of a coughing person just in case they have caught it. never mind the fact it is december its the beginning of winter so it means that these illnesses get caught. it is just me right?

Yes but Spanish flu killed around. 20-50 million people world wide before it eventually died out and that was with a population of around 1 billion are people really happy just to go with herd immunity

unless some super fantastic vaccine comes along that wipes corona off the face of the earth or superman steps into the briech then yes herd immunity to me seems the only way to move forward from this. we can't spend years locking up then unlocking then locking down again. we are going to end up in a country pretty much like africa where there is very little

Ds is at high risk, so yes, I probably am a bit jumpy

I don't understand this though, there are no conditions which are high risk for covid which aren't high risk for loads of other things, from influenza to food poisoning, the things that make you high risk for covid also increase your chances of the other things, so why weren't you taking the same care in case someone else had influenza (the vaccine reduces the risk by half in a typical year, but if it's a child of course the base risk of influenza is way higher than the base risk of covid)

And for anyone under the age of 60, simply not following the government exercise guidelines are a higher risk than covid over a five year time period.

In pre Covid times we take care as far as we can - ds has the flu vaccine, we have a hospital passport and a bag packed for the times he is hospitalised, he gets ill a lot and whenever he is ill it has lots of knock on effects, he misses a lot of school.

He went back to school after the Summer, but as cases rose, when there was a case in his class and at the start of lockdown, we took the advice of his Dr who said it would be best to stay home for a bit. In pre Covid times, this has never been advised, so I guess we are taking their lead.

@GreenSeaGlass yes very true, vaccines weren't an option with the Spanish flu so we really had no choice but to let nature 'take its course' and let herd immunity naturally develop but now we do have vaccines it should speed things up even more 🙂

hi all. a good post some interesting thoughts. all this thread was based on was my own thoughts and opinions. not to trol anyone or be "gody lol". ps and i had actually forgotten there was a coronavirus talk page on the forum otherwise i would have posted it there. think the problem with following the rules is that the government have shot themselves in the foot. during the first lockdown all them months ago we kept hearing constant stories of this minister breaking lockdown to do a non essential journey etc. even that chief scientist who helped the government draw up a covid lockdown plan broke the rules by having his partner over at his house. and when cummings made his trip from london up north that was the straw that broke the camel's back for most people with feeling like they were being cheated and lied to. add all these factors together and of course the rule breakers are going to come out in force. i'm not sure this lifting of the rules for christmas is very wise. surely it woudl be better to keep things as they are for this year then hopefully by next christmas we can have a more normal time of it.