Stricter lockdown coming?

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What might a stricter lockdown look like? Will we get to a point where we can't go out to exercise at all? Or is it more likely we'll only be able to go shopping once a week?

"The flu doesn’t crumble the NHS, that’s all that is trying to be stopped."
Seriously? After all you know now?
I had the flu vaccine so I didn't get flu when my dd got flu in November. I have MS so I get a free flu jab.
There. Is. No. Jab. For. This.

Bellin wtf are you talking about

You said this is just flu.

Ok I should quote I admit but quoting is annoying

I was just reading a post from someone else who said why are we bothered about this when we have the flu with x number of deaths. My response was the flu doesn’t crumble the NHS like this will. Regardless of the name of it the threat isn’t just number of deaths it’s collapsing the health service.

Sorry to inconvenience you with expectations that you will quote. This must be so hard for you.

Stopping postal workers?

What if you need to get medication delivered? I’m really frightened now.

Lol don’t forget to be sarcastic in reply though

I was going to retract my harsh reply but now reading your wee humphy face

Laughing maybe.

For me, the current lockdown is as far as we should go- the vulnerable should be protected, but I don’t believe it is fair to ask everyone else to give up all their liberties and pleasures for a long period to extend the lives of people who will in all likelihood die in the next year anyway of other causes.

So nice to hear that my life doesn’t matter.

I am very vulnerable to coronavirus.

I’m not going to die otherwise.

Thanks for the pep talk?

I think the most likely change is to forcibly close non-essential workplaces, beyond just retail. At the moment workplaces not open to the public, such as offices and factories, can stay open if the company wants to.

It's not a step the government wants to take because it would pretty much kill the economy. But it's a step the government may feel it has to take. It's also a step that won't be too onerous to enforce. Whereas something like restricting movement into and out of cities and regions, or further restrictions on people leaving their homes, will require a lot of policing to enforce.

I welcome stricter measures because far too many people think it doesn't apply to them and spend ages bending the rules so they can go to the shops as a family, walks 3 times a day and a drive at night .

Some exceptions should be made, like farmers not being in lockdown as they tend to work alone, outside and far away from others, anyway. And those with genuine needs perhaps allowed out more often.

But honestly, a lot of us need to get a grip. Staying in and watching tv is not torture.

@Rocketmam because some of us are currently feeling suicidal due to having our support networks ripped away and having been isolated for the last fuck knows how long?!? Are you really that fucking stupid???

Our lives matter just as much as the elderly and physically disabled/at risk groups. Our lives are just as fucking important as everyone else’s and to say we’re snowflakes because we’re bloody struggling is a fucking kick in the teeth. Majority of us have been mentally stable for fucking years and now have had the rug ripped from under us with no fucking option but to “just roll with it”. No alternate ways of coping put in place, no transition phase. Absolutely fuck all to safeguard anyone with MH problems but the elderly are suddenly so much more important than everyone else.

@Esspee How do you suggest said animals are cared for if no one can leave their homes?

BuzzingButterfly about a week has it been?

Sorry you are feeling that way but pretty sick of certain people using suicide as emotional black mail. They do, and it's obvious.

Are there no online/phone resources you can use. Is your house so unbearable you can't put up with just popping to the shop/chemist/go out for exercise?

Are people still that fucking thick that they're still comparing this to the flu?

I haven't seen anyone saying they'll be flouting lockdown rules otherwise they'll kill themselves. I am following all rules, but I am telling you that for me personally along with many others like me, the damage to our mental health from lockdown is going to be statistically more likely to do us long term harm than contracting covid 19.

Saying that doesn't mean I'm going to flout the lockdown. I'm not.

Try two, Rocket. Two fucking weeks of seeing no one, and telling anyone I feel suicidal is NOT emotional blackmail. It’s a fucking scream for help. Grow some brains.

but the elderly are suddenly so much more important than everyone else.

Not just the elderly that are going to suffer though is it. Do you have dc? Any males you are fond of over the age of 40? There is a huge knock on effect of the NHS getting swamped. That is why these measures are necessary.

Your life isn't worth less than anyone else's. It is also not worth more.

I am a survivor of extensive childhood abuse and will probably die by suicide as a result of this lockdown.

I’m hiding this thread as it’s not helping with that.

Buzzing, everyone's lives matter. The elderly, the immunocompromised, pregnant women, those with chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, etc.

You can't just demand we forget about lockdown because of how you feel. Just like an elderly man can't demand lockdown for 6 months because he's 95 and wants another 5 years. There has to be a middle ground between saving lives from x, and saving lives from y.

It's been one week. A lot of people go through worse in their lifetime and we have to try and do the best we can. Not rip into each other because we think we are more important than others. That's just dicklish.

As to those talking about snowflakes.

You wouldn’t say people should just magically not have cancer or diabetes right?

Mental health is the same. You can’t just not have an illness.