Do any of arch-lockdowners regret it?

[Refractory]

Just that really.

I haven’t really been on MN since 2020 because I found the near complete support for lockdown far too upsetting.

the lockdowners in my life seem to not think about it much. For them, it’s just over.

with hindsight do you wish you’d been more sceptical?

would love a civil conversation about this.

Do you not remember the death rates and how the NHS was overwhelmed OP?

Well done I hope you feel better now 👏 Do you not have a life? Because you seem to enjoy talking to me a lot lately! 😄 🤣 😂

Where oh where is the OP?

You sound quite proud of your ‘achievement’!

They were fewer than those dying of COVID. As I said, there were no winners.

1 was the best by far.

if the fraction was that tiny, where did all the bodies come from?

I stuck to the rules even though I didn't support them. I wouldn't do it again. I also hated every bloody minute of it and didn't learn how to make banana bread or anything, nor did I clap. Stresses me out majorly to think about it still,

Most of it was made up with no scientific basis. Social distancing. Masks.
Plastic barriers in shops. One way aisles. Weird rules about restaurants.
Some of the scientists have even admitted that the figure of "two metres" for social distancing was made up on the spot, with no basis in science. "Social distancing" is the mother of all oxymorons.

And Gove saying "you shouldn't go out for more than an hour": he made that figure up on the spot, it was widely quoted, and became part of lockdown legendary lore. The government made no attempt to correct the record.

So much was simply made up on the spot. The police didn't know that they were expected to enforce the nonsense until Saint Boris told the public so.

Do you not understand fractions?

Why oh why are people so concerned about the OP?

He/she is not needed at all for this discussion, as evidenced by the fact it has gone on for over 20 pages.

I generally followed the rules, but was equally skeptical about the extent of the later lockdowns, and did not have the vaccine as I was mainly at home even after lockdowns were lifted, and had already had COVID.

I found people shouting at other people about rules horrible, especially considering what Boris and friends got up to. That madness was almost as bad the pandemic itself and created a hostile environment when it was the last thing we needed.

Some old hags were bitching behind me in a cafe in a really nasty, bitchy way because I happened to not see an arrow on the floor and went the wrong way (I had a buggy in front of me) and I regret to say I just told them to fuck off. They deserved it. They did not have to be so nasty about it. I had not long lost a family member to COVID yet there was people like this practically wanking over the opportunity to play policeman. I do hope they feel a bit embarrassed with themselves now.

We followed it and kept ourselves hidden away for about a year and a half but my son had Cystic fibrosis so was classed as vulnerable, we had the best time though lol my son bought a pool table and we just spent proper quality time with each other. He died in an accident in 2022 aged 22 and im so so thankful that we had lockdown and we were able to spend all that time together

My mother was one of those few. In fact on the day she died they were STILL swabbing her trying to find covid. If she had caught it in her last 2 days they would've tried putting her down as a covid death when she was dying anyway

No achievement. Just a homebody who enjoyed
lockdown with an anecdote relevant to the OP.

Erm, despite the number that died they still represented only a tiny fraction of the human population overall. Do you understand that?

Not going to read all the posts but what on earth is an ‘arch-lockdowner’? Is it someone who basically obeyed the law at the time? If so then yes I guess I’m ‘arch’. I did manage to go abroad in 2020 and 2021, just in the small windows it was permitted. I wore a mask on the plane and did my 2 metres. I followed the advice of the experts etc

Interestingly my favourite Christmas was 2020 when it was just my little family. No travelling around and forced big group shit. Just the 4 of us playing games, eating, watching movies, adults having favourite drinks, listening to music. We all got dressed up in our best clothes for dinner, then later put our trackies on. It was great. So chilled.

However, I’ve moved on and have a full life. It was a weird chapter of my life, and it’s funny to think those years will be cemented in history as a novel event, but I don’t dwell on it.

The only person know who dwells on it is my DB1 who has mental health issues and is a conspiracy theorist. He mainly stays in his room (still lives with DM in his 40s) smoking weed so may as well have stayed in lockdown anyway.

Your post is both heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure.
Im sorry for your loss, but glad for you that you were able to embrace and enjoy that time during lockdown together.

Lockdown was a positive memory for me too and we made the best of it.

@YourMommaWasASnowblower Thank you. It would have been my sons 25th birthday tomorrow so me and my daughter are gonna get the pool table out and have a few games where I will be laughed at because I'm bloody terrible at it lol my 14 year old daughter is better than me and she holds the cue like a javelin haha

@Ihopeithinkiknow You sound like a lovely family. I hope tomorrow is all that you want it to be and you get to reminisce about the good times you all had together. Your attitude is admirable 💐

Hmmm interesting one. From a selfish point of view I don't regret it because it kept me and my family safe throughout that first wave, however I see the damage it's done to the economy and the world in general and I wonder if it was worth it. Don't think I'd be saying that if I'd lost family to it though.

Still remember DH going on a pub crawl and it wasn't the pints that made him sick... it was the substantial scotch egg meals that did it. 🤦‍♀️

This.

I don't regret it at all. It saved lives.

Just a pity the government thought it was one rule for them....

You could still make your own lockdowns for yourself. Don't let the governments current advice on it being fine to leave your home fool you. You can create your own personal lockdown.

No regrets. Lockdown was an evidence based strategy to slow down the spread of the virus until a vaccine was found. It worked saving thousands of lives. It should have been introduced earlier.