Hypothetical lockdown situation

[Colabottles29]

If the Government announced that lockdown that we're currently in would remain in place until at least 2022 because of new variants, would you continue to follow it or not ? Why or why not? Just interested to see.

So relieved to see the majority of people are saying no.

I think most people just had enough. I kept the rules etc, but this last one broke me (and few people around me). Year is enough.

There are bits that I wouldn't be arsed about, on a personal and completely selfish basis, but there are elements I wouldn't accept and would ignore.

@firstevernamechange

Haven't since March 2020. I'm not taking responsibility for the government underfunding the health service and there being no plan for a pandemic response. Yes, I'm selfish and I don't give a shit about your emotional blackmail.

Funding issues aside how would you feel if you passed on the virus to someone who then went on to die when you could have hugely reduced the risk of that happening by abiding by the guidelines?

Not a chance in hell would I accept it although Bill Gates seems to be of the opinion that everything won't be back to normal until the end of 2022.

I'm celebrating my 2nd Birthday in lockdown today, sure as hell I won't do a 3rd.

@LaceyBetty

I've been following the rules almost 100% but there is no way I would continue to do so into 2022.

Ditto this

Fancy paints: I would feel they knew the risk they were taking by being out and about during a pandemic. shrug

No, because we have one life to live on this earth. Not worth a permanent lockdown.

No. I wont be able to do much about stuff being closed, but I sure as hell will ignore anything about not seeing other people socially. Being told having people in your own house is illegal is madness.

Would people saying yes honestly be happy to not set foot in another restaurant, salon, friend or family's house or travel to even another city for at least another year ?!

Yes I would. Lockdown life suits me, no social pressures and so much better for my finances. I realise I am lucky in that respect.

Funding issues aside how would you feel if you passed on the virus to someone who then went on to die when you could have hugely reduced the risk of that happening by abiding by the guidelines?

Did you go through life before Covid worrying about passing on flu every winter to an elderly or vulnerable person? Would you be prepared to lockdown every winter for the rest of your life to help the NHS cope and prevent deaths? I'm just curious at what point you would be prepared to draw the line.

No way.
When I see the effects that lockdown is having on friends & family - money worries, isolation, health worries, missed operations , children and young people struggling to be educated, it makes me so angry.
We need to have realistic conversations about funding the NHS properly, what we cover, and face up to the fact that death is a fact of living,

Nope. Lockdown was to reduce pressure on the nhs and that's been achieved. Vaccines for variants could be rolled out in the autumn so I wouldn't see any benefit unless we started seeing big numbers of hospital admissions (but at this point that's more likely to be because of things put off because of Covid).

Funding issues aside how would you feel if you passed on the virus to someone who then went on to die when you could have hugely reduced the risk of that happening by abiding by the guidelines?

Every action we take impacts someone else. I personally do not think about what you have mentioned as that will set my mind on a slippery slope, and I would never leave the house or interact with anyone. No one should be too scared to leave the house.

Every 'selfish' action we take in life impacts somebody else. Nobody is 100% altruistic all of the time. Nobody.

No, as I would struggle to see the justification. I'm struggling to see it now quite frankly.

Of course if a nasty, completely vaccine immune variant appeared and deaths and hospitalisations shot up then that would be a different matter but I can't see that happening.

I think I wouldn't be flabbergasted to be in some form of 'lockdown light' over winter anyway, dependent on variants. I can't envisage a lockdown from now to 2022, that seems impossible.

However if the scientists I trust said we needed to do it, I predict I would comply. I would need to look to science not the stupid bloody government.

@RMRM

Yeah, I'd be fine, but I'm in a privileged position. I know this. Could do this for many more years tbh. I get that others can't.

Not arsed about shops or festivals or cafes or restaurants being open. Family live miles away anyway. I can exercise in the house.

See, I know what you mean by privileged, but I don’t think you are. If you don’t miss cinema, theatre, meeting friends fir coffee or a meal, visiting art galleries, museums, heritage sites etc etc I think you are far from privileged. I think there is something very sad about that sort of life and that to be happy with it for years there must be more to this than you are telling us.

@GrandDuchessRomanov

Not a chance in hell would I accept it although Bill Gates seems to be of the opinion that everything won't be back to normal until the end of 2022.

I'm celebrating my 2nd Birthday in lockdown today, sure as hell I won't do a 3rd.

There’s a difference between ‘not back to normal’ and another lockdown though. Not back to normal would include continued masks and social distancing with strangers. I think he’s right about that, and I’m happy to do it.

Yes I’d follow it, but Based on how viruses mutate the odds of this are lower than me growing wings and flying to the moon,

I'd probably have little choice since the venues I like visiting would be closed. I'd certainly be looking into options to break it, though.

Loads of people were saying when we went into first lockdown in March 2020 the people wouldn't comply for more than a few weeks. Here we are. I truly believe this could go on for years if certain scaremongering voices have their way.

Not clear from the post what you mean by "lockdown" or how people would be able to breaks the rules. I could go visit my mum but I can't force a pub to open.

Personally, I'm happy to make adjustments based on the public health situation for as long as necessary - masks, hand washing, "social distance", ventilation, minimising overall contacts.

My top priority is keeping schools open. I would not support mass rule breaking which increases the spread of the virus and leads to schools closing.

Not a chance in hell I would. I have lost a lot of patience with this lockdown to be honest. We cannot live like this forever, what is the point?