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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One thing is that we are now far more adapt at working from home than we were pre-pandemic, so at the first hint of a pandemic we'd switch to remote working for everyone who could.

Delivery services have mushroomed so there would be less need for people to shop in person.

Basically it'd be much easier to make behaviour changes that fell short of a full lockdown earlier which would help avoid the "shutting the stable door once the horse has bolted" problem we had at the start of the pandemic.

My workplace already relaxes requirements to work from the office during flu season, because it's very easy for people to WFH.

That’s the case now, it wasn’t before the vaccine and some naturally acquired immunity. It was a new virus and people were dying in an unpleasant way, which unfortunately I was witness to.

I live somewhere in the US that complied with lockdown for approx 6 weeks in March ‘20, and then it just sort of collectively decided ‘fuck that’ and started to go back to normal. They just couldn’t force people to do otherwise. The private schools my kids attended, and nearly all others, reopened after Easter break due to pressure from parents and never closed again, they tried to implement some sort of cohorts/distancing/wellness measures but didn’t enforce them. Bars and shops reopened with absolutely no social distancing unless they were national chains (and that was sketchy at best). The Fire Marshall would do the odd crack down but it had no teeth. The resuming of fairly normal life didn’t make a jot of difference to outcomes for either outbreaks or hospitals being overwhelmed. There is absolutely zero chance they’d ever manage another 6 weeks where I live. Probably one of the few times we’ve looked at what was happening in Europe with astonishment and not the other way around

It blows my mind that there are people who genuinely think they are smarter than people who have spent years studying and working in relevant fields.

Do you think it makes you cool to ‘fight the system’?

What made you non compliant when you had absolutely no idea how dangerous this new disease was?

Hopefully you don’t have kids or pets.

Yes, I think it's interesting how this has been skipped over by posters who think it could happen again now.

Lockdown works by reducing contacts, which means paying a critical mass of people to stay out of the way. We're better now at remote working than we were in early 2020, which would be helpful, but there are still millions of people earning their crust from work that could only be done in person and would be closed if we had restrictions. There would have to be money to pay these people enough to stay at home and behave themselves, ie benefit levels won't cut it, and if there wasn't then no lockdown would be forthcoming.

Covid was severe in the beginning

Boris Johnson was having parties during lockdown. What's good for him is good for the rest of us.

Not sure where you're getting you're, no one would comply survey from. Many of us would, why wouldn't we?

> If there was an illness were there was no cure, hospital were overwhelmed and people were visibly dying we would comply

You have just described the early months of COVID

Don't have parties or drive to test your eye sight. That's what I would suggest 🤔

Tbh i would welcome another lockdown

I don't understand comments like this. If you want to make your life more like it was in lockdown then do that.

My son and daughter had it and then me and my partner. We got over it pretty quickly with the help of remedies.

I'm in Scotland where the rules were even more ridiculous, I wouldn't comply another time.

All the free thinkers could go out and get infected.

I'll stay in full Matt Damon mode, thanks.

Boris got COVID and was very ill, if you remember. Perhaps a good example of why parties shouldn’t be held during pandemics,
The problem is it is an unknowable as to how many people would have died if we didn’t lockdown, so people will argue it either way to suit their purposes.
But saying ‘well not that many died during lockdown’ appears to be a bit of an oxymoron as that’s exactly what lockdown was hoping to achieve.

You’d take your lead from Boris Johnson? Blimey.

In the last lockdown the amount of money that was given to buy PPE and the NHS never received is scandalous. You could see they were all filling their sacks with money at our expense.

But the facts were out there! There were no children and young people getting really sick or dying. The number of adults dying were hugely inflated by the way that covid deaths were being classified. Yet people were still like sheep and no doubt would be again! It scares me to be honest that people would comply like this.

Makes no odds to me. Ill still have to go to work like last time.

“Remedies” ?

I see.

Given our families outcome there is a lot of things worse than getting ill with what for us was a flu like illness that lasted a few weeks and once recovered we haven’t had again

Stuff that has wiped us out financially, careers lost, marriage destroyed, jobs lost that haven’t been replaced, depression, dementia and effects that will last a life time.

If we hadn’t gone into lockdown our lives wouldn’t have been destroyed.

As I recall, we were aware even in the early days that asymptomatic and low symptom covid was possible- both obviously more worrying in terms of transmission. There wasn't a lot of testing in the UK in early 2020 before the formal programme started, but there was a teeny bit for known contacts of some confirmed cases and that wasn't limited to the symptomatic.

He was okay with socialising and mixing with others. While the common people received fines if they met their mother. What was good for him is good for the rest of us.

Life is meant to be a bit hard sometimes - it’s like war. People didn’t love living through war time and they were damaged by it but you don’t have the right to live in a perfect era. Some people will and some people won’t. It’s one of those things.

I couldn’t care less if we had another lockdown-I hope I won’t live through another but if I do it’s not the end of the world for me. I’d rather a lockdown than WW3 and that’s much more likely in my lifetime.

No point winding yourselves up about something that’s not happened yet.