To be depressed that lockdown would happen again tomorrow if there was another new disease

[Pavementworrier]

We talk about all the things that are worse "since the pandemic"but government prep is based on all the same mad nonsense that caused the worsening

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I think few of us would comply next time.

Nobody would comply if they tried it again.

I agree, no one would comply. They could close shops and schools etc, but they couldn’t control the will of the people.

So you’d rather get ill?

Of course people would comply if lots of children/young people were dying.

The reality is we locked down for the wrong illness

agree, people wouldn’t comply. I still maintain it ruined my DC’s mental health (and a lot if their peers’/friends’ MH too). We got through it as adults mentally but after catching it in 2022 my digestive health has never been the same.

Yes I think lots wouldn’t comply. We would only comply if it were children who were at the highest risk and it was more severe.

What would be the alternative? If the hospitals were full and people were queuing up in the car parks to try and get in, like in India when Covid was at its worst there?

No one wants lockdown but I’d love to hear an alternative plan for containing an airborne, highly contagious disease spreading rapidly through the population.

Oh for God’s sake, grow up. Lockdown was awful and had awful down sides, and we had the politicians we elected who were exactly the clowns we all knew they were, and utterly unsuited to the task.

But we didn’t know we would find a vaccine, or that it would be as effective - we were realistically hoping for 50% effectiveness, and on the first strain it was 94% effective, but as it was a coronavirus it did what they all do and evolved.

Everything we are suffering from - the hit to the economy, the trauma of loss and illness-based bodily damage / after-effects - it was all caused by the disaster which is a pandemic. It’s like arguing that we won’t put up with our house falling down next time there is an earthquake.

Ask anyone who worked in a hospital during Covid if we could skip masks and lockdown next time. We can’t. The other thing we can’t avoid - making mistakes. Hindsight is 20:20 but these are insanely difficult choices.

For years we knew we were overdue a global pandemic - the expectation was that they were a one-in-a-hundred-year event but so many factors change - global travel and deforestation on one hand, the facts of novel illnesses on the other - incubation periods, how it spreads. We aren’t in control of everything.

Agreed.

I didn't comply the first time and I certainly wouldn't if they tried it again.

Its not just about getting ill from the virus, its the knock on effect..I needed ICU treatment for an unrelated condition in April 2020. Had no beds been available I'd have certainly died. So yes, i would be compliant with a lock down.

Enough of us would revolt against another lockdown that it won’t happen.

I’d rather get I’ll with something like Covid then my DCs development and mental health being damaged, yes. If it were a much more severe illness and affected kids much more then I would lockdown but apart from that I’ll take the illness.

No I wouldn’t. I’d welcome it again.

I disagree ‘no one’ would comply. At the end of the day, when people see others dying or severely ill around them, they will want to preserve their life. The survival instinct is very strong.

Do I think it should/would be conducted exactly the same as last time? No. I’m sure improvements to a pandemic plans have been made, but they are never going to be without consequence one way or another.

It depends totally on the virus - if there was suddenly a highly infectious and deadly strain of Ebola in the UK, for example, I’d have no issue locking down personally.

I think now that we're seeing the long term impact it had on children and young people, there would be a very strong reluctance to lock down again in the same way unless it was children who were most at risk.

I think for a lot of people to be too bothered they would have to shut airports first.

Why ban going to your family members house when people are flying in and out the world. Stupid.

I agree entirely. It's absolute bullshit as a strategy but all you'll get on here is a bunch of lockdown lunatics who see no problem with economic meltdown.

All this “no one would comply” stuff is nonsense. If a new hemorrhagic fever with no cure started spreading around the world, you’d all be inside and isolating.