Lockdown report/Covid enquiry - if you supported lockdown do you regret it?

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I haven’t seen a thread on this so sorry if it has been done. In light of the report yesterday I wander if people have changed their minds on whether lockdown was a good idea. I remember the threads of utter lunacy on here and the mask hysteria/schools debate. I was against lockdowns and masks very early on but complied - I don’t think I’d ever do it again. I genuinely think it was a massive overreaction which has damaged things in this country irreparably and left many children and adults far worse off than they were pre covid.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Exactly, at the time people thought it was the right thing. Now there’s new evidence. However you can’t change the past.

Awww i bought in to the hysteria for about a few months, then realized it was utter, utter madness.

I had my 3rd DC in June 2020 of the lockdown and thats when I threw caution to the wind and lived my life normally.

i supported lockdown,
i watched the news from Italy,
i read the headlines

It's easy to look back and think that now. At the time science needed time to catch up and learn about the virus.

I don't think that there was enough concern for hospital and care home patients and staff and I maintain that government should have helped schools with dramatically increased cleaning costs.

I didn’t support it and I didn’t obey it, but I broadly come down on the side of what was done was done because there was little guidance, a lot of panic, a range of often conflicting views from people with a range of motivations all purporting to be The Science, and a lot of pressure on government to be seen to be taking action which people believed would prevent illness and death. I think it’s far more beneficial that we generally just acknowledge the above and focus on remedies to mitigate the after effects than try to rewrite history by arguing that it should have been obvious what needed to be done.

Ostryga · Today 09:52
Exactly, at the time people thought it was the right thing. Now there’s new evidence. However you can’t change the past.

No, there were many of us that realised it was madness at the time. But when we tried to speak out we were condemned by those who bought into the hysteria. We knew at the time that eminent epidemiologists who spoke out against it were effectively silenced because it did not fit the 'narrative' - the evidence is not 'new'

I never supported lockdown and I felt like exactly foresaw the problems that would be created and how it wasn’t worth it for the greater good. But I know some TOTAL loons who went OTT, washed their shopping, quarantined their post, dobbed in their neighbours, put crying videos on social media etc and I now really want to ask them if they feel silly for doing that. Because I certainly would if I was them.

We did the best we could with the information we had at the time - agree with @fliptopbin

The first lockdown yes as no one really had a clue what they were dealing with.
Subsequent lockdowns no, I believe they were a knee jerk panic overreaction.

Every country did the same , it was impossible to know the best way to proceed as unprecedented

It was completely obvious from about May and June 2020 that lockdown (& masks!) was pointless. We have since learned that it was actually harmful. And yet those of us who dared to say that were howled down. We can only hope that all countries have now learnt the right lessons.

Lots of us at the time raised concerns that after the initial month - 6 weeks, it was too much, too long. Especially in Scotland - our kids were out of school March-August and then again Christmas-Easter. My oldest was not doing in person uni for the whole of the 2021-22 session.

But at the time we were told we were selfish covidiots who wanted people to DIE.

I don't think it's fair saying about hindsight. People pointed out the issues at the time and were totally vilified.

I supported lockdown and locked down my own family earlier as dh is clinically vulnerable. I took dd out of school a week or so before they closed and was amazed that others weren't and that the government seemed to be delaying. a lot of lives could have been saved if they had locked down earlier.

Quite.

I had a close friend like this, she was absolutely horrific to speak to, she was arrogant, judgmental and hateful to everyone who didnt do as she done, wash shopping, follow every single rule to the absolute letter.

She said many hurtful things to our friends group and some of us just haven't got over that.

She now says she was scared and thought it was the right thing but actually i dont care, i think people like that were weak.

I was fine with lockdown, it was pretty easy for me to just get on with things. The NHS would have broken without it anyway. Not sure how our essential services would have muddled through with even more people off sick and untreated.

I'm glad me and my DC's didn't get covid until we were fully jabbed and it was milder.

Exactly - we were the ones being called ‘granny killers’ on MN. Getting the lockdown fetishists to listen to reason was impossible.

Some did say at the time though. They were shouted down and people were pretty hardline on hurling abuse

Op I thought initially ok but then not. And wanted people to acknowledge the damage more.

I haven’t seen the report though

At the start yes but after summer 2020 I was more frightened that restrictions would never end and that this would just be our way of life from then on.

@Umbonkers - that sums up how I feel. I think what makes me angry is that a lot of people at the time questioned it - the lunacy of ongoing furlough and could see that the cost/benefit wouldn’t work out and those that did question it were shouted down. I do think there was an element of people who loved it. Lots of people advocated for a Swedish approach and were shot down. I just hope that even though the enquiry will come out with lots of lessons learned platitudes people will not so blindly “follow the science”.

It was a brand new virus, and a brand new vaccine, and the first time this kind of lockdown was used.

Do I think it was correct at the time, on balance, probably yes.

Do I think the costs were horrific, absolutely - but at the time the great unspoken was " its bad enough it's killing people over 40 and anyone vulnerable, what if a variant starts killing the kids". With that the caution makes sense, I can't believe there is a single person who would make that call easily.

I also had one like this who posted nasty comments about anyone who dared to leave their house. And if anyone challenged her she cried ‘bullying’

She even made anonymous calls reporting mutual friends - though made them from her own phone so was found out very quickly.

Ivd seen her since and she totally blanks those of us who didn’t share her OTT views - oh well

at least i wasnt in italy, people in lockdown for so much longer.
my adult dc came home, so i was happy
i still went to work
i sat in my dm garden.

Mn was crazy. People worked up and hounding anyone who said think of cost / benefit and overall damage