Would you support a new English lockdown?

[demitrimendeleev1]

Just that really
Yabu- I wouldn’t
Yanbu- I would

No one should be allowed to leave home unless they are 1. A key worker or 2. Going for their weekly shopping trip for essential items only (ie items that people would die without) at their allocated supermarket only.

@Lorius if I'm buying my essential items can I also buy a book or a bar of chocolate? Or do I have to live like Oliver Twist absolutely no reason whatsoever?

Imagine thinking that going for walks is killing people. Never read anything so melodramatic in my life

I thought, well hoped, that was more a sarcastic response . In that murderers walk around after their victims....

But hey who knows...far to many people not happy unless people are handcuffed to their sofa unchained only to eat the left iver bird seed next door threw out in the garden

I think the police now have more to worry about than if/when people are going for walks.

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A headless chicken lockdown where we had no idea what or how it was going to end = no. We cant keep locking down as a solution - it isnt a solution it should be used as time for us to come up with workable solutions and so far those have been lacking.

At the moment in tier 4 where I am in Christmas Holidays it is in effect lockdown - I would like to see the impact on figures and 2 weeks of online schooling has on figures going down - will that still work (I am not entirely sure that it will).

Alongside that we need the vaccination programme stepped up (hopefully not just Pfizer) and a decent testing programme - one that works for schools. And a proper track and trace programme. Travel between places should be the last thing to open.

I think the next 3 months are going to be fairly brutal but hopefully it will look better at Easter

[quote Lorius]@demitrimendeleev1

Myself, DH and the DC (12 and 9) have not left the house since March, no.[/quote]
That's child abuse.

Also you're either really wealthy and therefore unaffected or able to fully work from home.

Or you're lying.

I can't decide which is worse

@GlummyMcGlummerson

Frankly chocolate is not essential. Therefore people should not be buying it in a pandemic.

We all need to be doing everything possible to save lives. That includes staying indoors as much as possible and not spending unnecessary time in shops.

I’m in Tier 4, have very elderly parents in Tier 4 and I’m terrified they are going to catch it

[quote Lorius]@demitrimendeleev1

My DC are both being home educated for now.

We believe as a family that it would be selfish for the DC to attend school because of the impact schools are having on the transmission of COVID in society.[/quote]
Do you sit and polish your halo while you're at it?

Sorry all my posts are sarcastic.
Of course going for a walk isn’t hurting anyone. Taking the mickey out of the ridiculous posts by @Lorius who wants roadblocks and children locked in houses. No exercise and no fresh air. I’m hoping she’s a troll as the alternative is scary.

I’d hoped it was so ridiculous that people would know I was joking!

I’m surprised by this thread. @Lorius your definition and my definition of “living” definitely don’t match!
I could not put my kids through not seeing their peers for a year.

I do wonder why some people are so eager to give up their rights.

Yes, a full lockdown

[quote Lorius]@GlummyMcGlummerson

Frankly chocolate is not essential. Therefore people should not be buying it in a pandemic.

We all need to be doing everything possible to save lives. That includes staying indoors as much as possible and not spending unnecessary time in shops.[/quote]
@Lorius but if I'm at the supermarket anyway why can't I get chocolate? Who will I kill? Surely by your logic we all just buy bread and butter to live off (even celiacs presumably?)?

Sadly I fear the majority support a less extreme version of what Lorius promotes

I definitely don't want one, but choice would I have but to actively do what the experts think are the right thing to do?

I am actively dreading it - especially if we go back to homeschooling and trying to work in the cold and dark

And yes locking your children in the house since March for a virus that most likely will be mild for them is child abuse. Your assessment of risk @Lorius is so far off. Poor kids.
I’d report you if I knew huh.

Frankly chocolate is not essential. Therefore people should not be buying it in a pandemic

If you are shopping and you grab a bar on the way to the check out wtf difference does it make

@Delatron I knew yours was, I was referring to Lorius's post too

The terrifying thing is she's home educating the children.

@Lorius your dismissal of others' pain caused directly by lockdown is frightening. Sociopathic levels of wanting to control others. You are no angel.

@Lorius, please speak to a counsellor or a gp about your health anxiety, as what you are all doing, shutting yourselves away for months on end, will be more damaging, than Covid 19 is ever likely to be to any of you. Please recognise there's a problem and seek help. Please.

Thanks @Waxonwaxoff0 love your username!

I was hoping it was obvious I was joking!

NHS gets 'overwhelmed' every winter so I am getting a bit sick of healthy people having to stay indoors to 'save the NHS' when frankly the NHS should be here to save us.

This

@Whatwouldscullydo

Frankly chocolate is not essential. Therefore people should not be buying it in a pandemic

If you are shopping and you grab a bar on the way to the check out wtf difference does it make

Chocolate is for our glorious leader only.

No, because I dont believe its warranted in terms of the risk to a lot of the population for whom this virus is mild.

I would far rather see targeted measures to protect the elderly & CEV.

I think we will look back on this in a few years time and think we overreacted.

@MadameBlobby

NHS gets 'overwhelmed' every winter so I am getting a bit sick of healthy people having to stay indoors to 'save the NHS' when frankly the NHS should be here to save us.

This

Agree