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Until June?!

328 replies

Woman31 · 29/03/2020 12:19

Iv read today that these strict rules will be in place until June.

I’m going to go insane before then. How are people going to manage? Surely it can’t be that long? China didn’t take that long ?

My anxiety is so bloody high 😩

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TestBank · 04/04/2020 22:01

Well yes, that's statistics for you. Different to a crystal ball. I was erring on the side of caution for myself ie underestimating my survival chances. My risk seems to be about 99.6% chance of survival, more than that even as I am female, but I am equally happy with 98%.

Bouledeneige · 04/04/2020 22:44

I'm thinking we have 3-6 months of this and then some relaxation. And then a possible second wave, with more restrictions to come over the winter at least until the vaccine is available.

Delatron · 04/04/2020 23:16

We’re not going to have 6 month of this!

Delatron · 04/04/2020 23:17

Maybe 6 months before any sort of normality but we will not be in lockdown for 6 months.

wetpants · 04/04/2020 23:19

Where do this people get off who come on to threads to trot out it’ll be 3-6 months. If it goes on that long, dying from virus will be a blessing 🙄

Pishposhpashy · 04/04/2020 23:20

I'm sorry but I really think, wettham, that you are naively assuming all individuals shielding will be happy to stay indoors for 2 years. All the shielding people I know have told me they would rather take their chances with the virus than go longer than 6 months unable to leave the house.

southeastdweller · 04/04/2020 23:27

Of course there won’t be a six month lockdown! Why would the government risk bringing on a depression?

LimitIsUp · 04/04/2020 23:53

"Perhaps write to the virus and let it know you don't intend preventing it spreading beyond May"
Don't be facetious, I am perfectly well aware that the virus will still be around by that stage, but despite that, longer than end of May is not tenable.

LimitIsUp · 04/04/2020 23:56

Letseathrandma it's not a threat, it's a statement of fact. I won't comply beyond that timeframe and if, as I suspect, there is civil disobedience and protest by that point, I will be joining in

bakedbeanzontoast · 05/04/2020 00:05

I wonder when they will know how long this will go on for instead of guessing? An end date would help many cope.

bakedbeanzontoast · 05/04/2020 00:16

And - can furloughing possibly keep on until as late as September? Surely not?

Hippofrog · 05/04/2020 07:46

@ LimitIsUp how can you socially distance at a protest? I don’t understand why people can’t just stay home, even if we do so for a few months.

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Woman31 · 05/04/2020 07:55

My BIL works for ford and is currently off work obviously, but he’s been given the date for May 5th when they are planning to reopen.

Although, English heritage was supposed to re open May 1st but had an email saying they aren’t now lol

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bellinisurge · 05/04/2020 08:27

Why is it not tenable to go longer if we have to? Seriously, there is little we can do but wait it out.

MinkowskisButterfly · 05/04/2020 08:38

China didnt take as long as Chinese residents weren't arses that flouted the rules!

TheCountessatHotelCortez · 05/04/2020 08:38

@bakedbeanzontoast this is the question I would like answered the government isn’t going to keep paying all that furlough money indefinitely, plus with the furlough pay it doesn’t completely eradicate the risk of the company going under so every day I worry DH won’t have a job to go back to if this goes on too long. The company has loads of work on but they can’t get on with it, he works alone on building sites (engineer for agricultural sheds)

Pishposhpashy · 05/04/2020 08:46

bellinisurge

Can't speak for everyone but I'm not doing longer 6 months solidly in a gardenless flat with a 4 year old. Just no. Would rather get the virus thinks.

Pishposhpashy · 05/04/2020 08:47

And all the shielding individuals I know feel the same btw.

Quartz2208 · 05/04/2020 08:49

There is a distinction though between wait this wave out which yes of course now there is nothing to do but ride it out and what happens after

bellinisurge · 05/04/2020 08:51

We are a densely populated country unlike Sweden. Our strategy, such as it is, is inevitably different.

Gin96 · 05/04/2020 08:51

Furlough will cost £10billion up to 31st May, if the government extend it for another 3 months, that’s another £10 billion, let alone the businesses that are going to go bust in that time. A lot of people won’t have jobs to go back to. Who are all these people mumsnet that can afford to be off for a year or more? Where is the tax income going to come from if businesses are going bust?

bellinisurge · 05/04/2020 08:52

Not saying it's not shit. Of course it's fucking shit.

Gin96 · 05/04/2020 09:00

I give up, I don’t know why some people on mumsnet can’t see why lockdown can’t go on after a certain time period 🤷‍♀️

Ticklemeelmo · 05/04/2020 09:03

China's figure of 3300 is completely made up by its autocratic government. it has 21 million fewer mobile phone users since the outbreak, the first time user numbers have since records began in 2000.

That tells you the likely truer scale of its death toll, they have also tried to ban foreign journalists during the outbreak. Not a chance they have the virus under control.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-03-23/china-s-mobile-carriers-lose-15-million-users-as-virus-bites

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