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

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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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The vote and the comments are complete polar opposites so far. Which IIRC was what actually played out last time. There is a very small but vocal minority that they won’t follow the rules and that they won’t either. In reality most people either agree with the rules or think they haven’t gone far enough and do follow them.

YABU though to think we have a plan for a future pandemic.

I don’t think they would.

Well perhaps the focus should be on how to manage lockdown better rather than overrun the nhs and let more people die ? What’s your suggestion?

Yep. COVID is not fatal for the majority - it’s just unpleasant and makes you feel shit for a few days or weeks.

What are you basing this on?

It would absolutely depend on the disease and the risk factors. It’s the right thing to do in the right circumstances

I loved lockdown

"I think few of us would comply next time."

I think people would if it was something like ebola.

This is closer to my take. What people do depends on the symptoms and how much they concern people and possibly the age group although very young might just mean parents keep dc home.

But we’ll hopefully have a big gap because a worse virus soon would be very hard to lockdown for with the same financial support.

Whether we should or shouldn’t lock down (or how or when) depends on the disease and the circumstances.

I think there’s a lot to criticise about how we did lockdown, but blanket opposition to lockdowns is just as stupid as blanket support.

The OP is talking in general terms about any pandemic we could get, and how the plans would be to lock down.

If people were bleeding from every orifice and dying in the street, I’d bet my house that you’d comply with a lockdown.

I honestly don't get why people are so wedded to this assumption.

Lockdown isn't automatic. It's a policy that can only happen with a disease severe enough to frighten people into voluntarily limiting their behaviour, but not so severe that we can't keep the basic building blocks of society running because people are afraid to turn up to work. People often tend to ignore the need for the second part.

Covid happened to fall into that middle ground in 2020-21. There's no guarantee that any disease ever will again, and it certainly isn't going to happen any time soon because the public trust is absent and we couldn't possibly afford it. Personally I'm not sure a Goldilocks spot actually exists at the moment.

The problem with the lockdowns - here in Scotland at least - is that they carried on far longer than was needed to "protect the NHS" and work out that it was affecting certain groups.

I think everyone appreciates that when you are faced with a new illness, you don;t have a treatment and aren't very sure who the most vulnerable is, then restrictions are sensible. But the goal should always be to keep restrictions for the minimum time and get things moving again. I would not be complying again with rules about not seeing friends in your house or allowing children to play together again.

I certainly wouldn't.

If people were bleeding from every orifice and dying in the street, complying with a lockdown wouldn't be one of yours or her options. Because the people who need to work to make lockdown possible wouldn't be coming in.

If there is an Ebola outbreak, I would be isolating regardless of instruction!

Honestly of all the things you might be depressed about in the world right now, the potential for COVID lockdowns to return seems ridiculous.

Perhaps worry more about geopolitics instead?

No matter what the disease though? I don’t ever think anyone who says “I will not” is ever correct. Blanket refusal regardless of the specific situation is just stupid.

If this was an untreatable hemorrhagic fever spreading through the country, would you be hosting play dates for your kids?

I started working for a care company in an admin role during lockdown. It was so upsetting seeing the daily figures of deaths due to covid. So many people lost grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, sons and daughters. If you seen lockdown as an inconvenience then congratulations! For many people it was a waking nightmare. I feel for all those frontline staff working in health and social care, hospitals etc that delt with death daily and felt totally helpless.

I have no doubt that lots of people would love to lock down safely at home if it were something like ebola. They'd be rather disappointed that others wouldn't be working in person to keep them fed, supplied with basic utilities, medicated and not being attacked by marauding mobs. Lockdown needs a functioning society.

On this icy Monday morning when I’m meant to log on for work again after 2 glorious but busy weeks off I’d certainly comply with a lockdown if it started tomorrow (due in the office, cba to scrape my car and sit in the cold and drive to the office 😂), would appreciate no meet ups in January, I want to get back to my sensible eating and exercise routine which I could mostly achieve during lockdown.

On a serious note, I complied last time and would again.

Well I would comply, why? Because I would want to protect me and my family

lets not forget no one had ever been through a pandemic of this scale and it certainly showed how unprepared the whole world was

we are a very small island with a very large population and any new illness would run through like wildfire. Then what? No hospitals as drs and nurses are ill, no food, no shops, and more people dying than should

one thing the lockdown really showed is how little resilience people have for sudden change, how they didn’t manage any change, and it’s a sad indictment of the youth of today that so many suffered from ‘mental health’ issues rather than crack in, accept it was happening and find ways to cope. Today’s tech world makes contact with others much better than if this had happened in the 70s and 80s.

it’s very sad to see just how selfish the UK has become judging by the number of posts saying they would not comply will you be just as confident you won’t comply when you and/or family members die?