Is lockdown coming for us?

[BackyardChickens]

Do you really think a proper lockdown is coming for us, just like Italy? My husband is still burying his head in the sand about this. I think it’s a real possibility.

I think it will be announced Monday/Tuesday.

4forkssake, I did try to tell him that and also told him if at night, a parent can't leave an under 16 on his or her own in the house. Besides, u would know how long labour would take. I stand to go through labour alone, so am taking one day at a time & fingers crossed.

No one is saying it will stop the virus it is to stop the NHS being further overwhelmed when it is already at capacity.

I hope so. Because for people like me and my friends and family it will make zero difference. We are already at home with only essential movement. The lockdown effectively rounds up the selfish arseholes and unfortunately there’s a lot of them.

It will help though that is for sure.
The Italian Doctor from Bergamo said on Channel 4 news that "Lockdown should have happened immediately." Because it didn't the virus "exploded" and they are paying the price,
I agree that every single person should be tested for it with Health workers first in the queue.
I am totally petrified for our Country.

@marshabradyo

The NHS will be even more overwhelmed once lockdown ends and the virus has a field day.

Minimise social contact yes, I'd even go further and close non-essential shops. But some people need to get it so we can have a constant number of cases.

Re: South Korea

Having experienced a MERS epidemic (35% fatality) it focused the minds of the medics & the population.

It won’t completely end until vaccine / treatment / other as the CMO and others said they will use levers to increase and decrease use of lockdown.

Mummy yep, same with Taiwan and previous SARS

Bunnythebee, I have tried talking to him but this seems to be a risk he's willing to take. I had suggested he isolates at his mum's for a week then come to us and stay as long as he likes but NO. So I have given up. I tried talking to my sister for a bit of support but she also said I should make him choose between the kids. But am not trying to make him choose, so I have left it alone but really worries and anxious.

Bunnythebee, meant "shouldn't make him choose"

Yes we will have lockdown. Yes it will be too late, like everything else has been. My DC were out of school for over a week before schools closed. I'm going to be on the frontline and we in the UK are always a step behind where we need to be. We should be on full lockdown now. I went out for essential reasons today and saw lots of gangs of teenage lads out, and lots of people just out and about. It's dangerous!

My 18 yr old had a shit fit today, he has been in the house more or less all week. It passed.

He went to the gym last Wednesday at 5.30 in the morning on the basis that the machines are cleaned overnight and no one would have touched them before he got to them, he hasn't managed to get his act together sufficiently to go since.

He had a falling out with his friendship group about six weeks ago and they have not included him recently, they went to the coast today, he said Mum they are clearly arseholes and brain donors.

We have enough food for about ten days.

Also, about three days of interesting food.

We need more wine (me) beer (dh) and Peroni (ds) and we can ride out this storm.

I finish radiotherapy on Monday, after that I think I will go home and weather the storm.

I agree that we should have a lockdown but I fear it’s too late to have much affect. I live in the n.w of England and the amount of people coming to “self isolate” from the cities is unreal it’s like the middle of summer. I saw a group of women today talking about how they felt they had no other option but to self isolate here, while standing close to each other outside the supermarket. Our local hospital with icu is over an hr away our little local hospitals only have minor injuries departments. Makes me despair, everyone I know here is trying to do there bit with self isolation and social distancing.

Bug8 I understand the worry. It’s a very difficult and scary time to be pregnant right now.

We aren’t as far along as you but with a toddler we have no choice but to drop her off at my husbands parents whenever Labour starts. This goes against self isolation and probably will go against lockdown whenever that occurs, but we really don’t have a choice, she’ll have to stay with them until we all get home. Today was my last day at work. I work in Aldi, and I couldn’t justify staying there for my remaining 3 weeks I was due to work. Now self isolating. Husband still working (key worker but not customer facing) only exposed to his office staff.

It’s hard knowing what the right move is, you can only use your best judgement and the guidelines given.

Should have been done friday to stop the amount of utter fuckwits roaming the country all weekend

Mum2threejs this is exactly the concern. We are an overcrowded country and with not enough Hospitals in the rural areas. Its beginning to happen here. Selfish individuals,
Lockdown is overdue to stop these people spreading the disease and overwhelming our Hospitals
GO HOME.
I'm in despair.

Personally I think that providing childcare only for families with both parents on the key worker list would make a massive difference and should have been the case all along!

All this would do in many cases is force poorly paid front line NHS workers to stay at home with their children so that their higher paid partners can continue to work.

I would welcome a lockdown. We’re doing it anyway so nothing will change for us, but hopefully it will make the whole thing shorter if everyone is forced to do it.

Hope so.

No.

Gilead where is there a Wetherspoons open?

Don’t want to go into too much detail but...
Theres one particular restaurant (large chain Chicken restaurant) that has gone over to takeaway and staff are in tears because no rules are in place for any social distancing atall.
The sooner a stricter Lockdown is in place the better!!

North Esst, @dorapicasso. From what I’ve been told it’s not the only spoons open.