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.

I was very much against them from the start and am now a member of the told you so camp. I quite disturbed at amount of people on here, even with the the benefit of hindsight, that still advocate them.

Remember all the posts of people complaining when they seen people buy non essential items in the supermarket? 😂
Some of lockdown was probably necessary, some was completely crazy.

No we didn't have the local restrictions, we had actually had very low numbers up to then. In September it took off and we had a rough few months. All that eat out to help out and visitors from all over the country definitely spread it here but to balance that it saved a lot of local businesses. These things are quite complex aren't they.

I was excluded from the SEISS as I was in about the third year of my business, they went on the previous year's SA, and I had spent a lot on equipment, website etc. I almost made up but I was something like £60 below the threshold. I applied anyway but was rejected

I’m tired of all self righteous I told you so Brigade on here. It happened get over it. Move on! Be thankful you’re still here to be judgmental not everyone is….

Bit of a glass houses and stones situation you're in there!

🙄 typical.

Nobody cares mate.

How intelligent of you.

And I’m not your mate! Bye

There really can't be anything left of the easily shattered structure you're standing in, the number of stones you're cobbing out.

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Enjoying yourselves, children?

Stop it, you two! You sound about 13!

To me, it seems logical that if fewer people were mixing, and people were mixing in smaller groups, this must have slowed the spread of covid - and at the least, this will have kept the numbers being hospitalised from going beyond the capacity of the NHS. It probably also protected the people who did have to go out and about (for work or for the other good reasons people have mentioned on here) - fewer people around meant less risk to them of picking it up.

I honestly don’t know how else we could have protected the people who couldn’t work from home or who had to go out, and kept the pressure on the NHS to the level we did. I do wonder whether, if we had locked down our borders at the first sign of it, and had made everyone entering the country go through quarantine, we could have kept covid out of the UK until such time as the vaccines had been developed and rolled out nationwide - I think this is what Australia and New Zealand did, but I don’t know how well this worked - did they keep covid out, and if they didn’t, how bad did it get there?

How privileged and utterly foolish for anyone to say they regret getting the vaccine. That'd be the vaccine that reduced deaths and reduced the severity of the virus. People never cease to amaze disappoint me.

It's the best way to respond to absolute nonsense.