Do any of arch-lockdowners regret it?

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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.

Yeah helps Certainly not to the level of herd immunity though. And the " immunity" doesn't start until a couple of weeks after jab and wears off within a few months as well as not necessarily protecting against different variants

Incidently I worked through our all the lockdown delivering food to those hiding indoors. And had a cancer diagnosis and treatment during the time of covid restrictions. Never got covid Had first 2 jabs so I could travel

Well stdg whether that is the case or not is irrelevant to the point made that somehow the vaccinated stuck by rules and took one for the unvaccinated

it seems pretty clear that the Covid vaccines do fuck all on the transmission front

time will tell on the other fronts

What do you mean by ‘they deserve everything they get?’
Most people I know (including myself) who supported lockdowns have more or less forgotten about covid now (until threads like this come up), have (mainly) not been effected mentally because we were resilient enough to cope with the pandemic and are also living without a shred of bitterness towards it. So, yes, I guess we have got what we deserved.

I mean exactly what I say. The people negatively affected by all you supported will never forget what you allowed, dare I say pushed for, to happen to them.

The people who couldn't mentally cope with the pandemic and quarantines had to invent a narrative about it that the lockdowns were unnecessary. In real life, the people I know who were like this are incredibly controlling people. They had a severe reaction to the loss of control.

Countries where people walking in the countryside with their takeaway coffees had higher death rates than countries that didn't. Lockdowns have been proven to have caused more harm than good.

In the meantime, we have a generation of young children with unheard levels of speech and language and behavioural problems, a generation of teenagers with unheard of levels of mental health problems and an economy and health service that needs razing to the ground and rebuilding because there's no one with the will or competence to fix what was so comprehensively broken.

We literally have no idea how many people died "of" covid. People died of cancer or the complications of dementia old age or being knocked down by cars and were counted as covid deaths because of a positive PCR test, the validity of which has been debunked time and again. I mean, GPs were writing death certificates for elderly people with covid as the cause, having never even met the patient.

No one pushed for anything.
The government made decisions with the information they had to hand, that will have saved lives.
We all lived through the same pandemic. EVERYONE was effected one way or another.
In my mind we should just be grateful we aren’t one of the ones who died from it, forget about it and live for now. Dwelling on it is just keeping people mentally stuck in 2020 and wasting more of their lives (if they viewed lockdowns as a waste of time).
I don’t think the government did anything wrong. I think anyone in charge would have done the same things. Lots of countries did the same thing.

I'll say it again; the people negatively affected by all you supported will never forget what you allowed, dare I say pushed for, to happen to them.

I followed instructions and was pro-lockdown. Still would be, in the same scenario. Although to be fair, I do not feel like I have been negatively affected by lockdowns, and cannot understand why some people are still saying they are so impacted by it. How does it impact you? Why can't you just carry on with life? Why was it such a huge deal to follow the rules for a few months? Lockdowns have been how civilisations have dealt with pandemics for millenia, it's a sensible response to minimise fatalities and the spread of disease in the face of a threat.

The thing I do wish was different is that we as a society could have some ways to hold our law-breaking politicians accountable for the lies and breaking of their own rules, because that was an absolute joke.

You are a broken record without a reasoned argument, but most anti-lockdown people are stuck on a loop in 2020 so it’s to be expected.

I think you forget what lockdown was for. If we had an unlimited NHS with unlimited beds and staff they could have dealt with it. It was mostly to ensure those who needed the care got it, those who were vulnerable didn't catch it, and to stop complete overwhelm of the system. Most people complying was ok, there was wiggle room as it still got the same result.

I have no personal regrets about how I followed rules, but a lot of opinions on how the government could have done things differently.

You are a broken record without a reasoned argument, but most anti-lockdown people are stuck on a loop in 2020 so it’s to be expected.

Quite, everything is about them. Luckily most people are not that self centred.

Lockdowns as we had in 2020-1 are absolutely not how civilisations have dealt with pandemics for millennia. They were in fact brand new. They incorporated some elements that are ancient, but that is not the same thing.

This.

I did as I was instructed. It was highly dull but I've had 4 years to get over it and move on.
Would advise the OP to try doing the same.

I am broken, yes. A lot of people are in many different ways.

And I'll say it again; the people negatively affected by all you supported will never forget what you allowed, dare I say pushed for, to happen to them.

🙄 Yes, we get it. We are very sorry and will never do it again. Promise.

You're right, it won't, but I'm sure you want it to. Have a nice day.

I think the problem is none of us have any resilience anymore.

My colleague was a Nurse in Sierra Leone and nursed people through a civil war but it was Covid that made her leave nursing after so long because it was so traumatising.

We did as we were told and I personally have absolutely no regrets. It should have been implemented sooner though.

Seems odd you would start a post like this now 4 years later if it upset you so much as the time!!

The PP who said lockdowns were only 6 weeks long. The gaslighting and minimisation here will make damn sure people wont do another one. People tend not to like having their sacrifices dismissed and minimised.

Lockdowns have been proven to have caused more harm than good.

How?

I suspect if it had gone the other way and we hadn't locked down, there would be threads now blaming the anti-lockdowners for deaths of loved ones, long Covid, and the economic crash caused by lots of people becoming seriously ill at once.

Most people were negatively affected but they've managed to put their violins away.

You either buckle up get on with life post covid, or you sit about and wallow, but if you choose to sit about and wallow, you don't get to blame other people for unprecedented events that made the whole fucking world suffer.