Will you stick to the rules if lockdown in the UK is extended for another 12 months?

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Yes or no?

Financially I don't think the public or the government can afford a lockdown to continue in its current form.

Mentally I don't think anyone who is not already still going out to work could cope with it. And I include children in that. There are lots of people in 'normal society' who chat to anyone and everyone they see - shop staff, people in parks etc who are isolated on a normal basis. Given a high proportion of these are likely to be older people who are also shielding, there will be many, many people struggling with their mental health if this continues.

Children by their nature are sociable beings and mostly need to spend time with other peers in order to learn how society works. Siblings have a greater advantage but it isn't foolproof. Video and phone calls can only do so much.

I really don't see it happening but yes of course I would.

I would want to follow the rules because of vulnerable family members. But realistically I can't see us doing it because we have children who need to mix with others in order to maintain their mental health. One if already struggling massively and has social communication disorder. This isolation is putting her so far back in progress we have made. We would stick to a small group, but we have no control over who else is seen by those people and as DH and I are both keyworkers, we would be increasing both our risk and that of others.

Absolutely not. I’m struggling as it is with my mental health.

Dh and I could do it but it would cause too much damage to ds so no.

Nope and I can't see it happening either. The curve will have flattened, the covid hospitals are set up, and people need income.

Social distancing will continue, people will be less huggy, shaking hands no more, schools need to be back somehow.

I'm sure the Government will be watching Sweden closely, they seem to have managed what the UK wanted but hands were forced.

No. I do know some young (20's) sheilding, and they are ready to take the risk, also olds in care homes, want to get out regardless. I think at some point you have to let people decide their own fate.

Great quote from a oldie "I accept I am 80 and therefore old, but I am NOT fucking vulnerable".

12 months without seeing my partner, dad and friends? No chance.

Yes. Probably. Not if there’s another period after that though.

Absolutely not

No way.

I don't care about going to restaurants or cinema, concerts, sports but I want DS to start school in September, he has a speech delay and an EHCP and he's an only child, plus I want him to be able to see his grandparents and meet our friends..

Posted twice, but no 😂

12 months is a long time, we've just about coped because the warm weather has made it lovely to sit in the garden.

However, without a vaccine I can't see life ever going 100% back to normal.

Yes, but then I'm normally house-bound anyway. However it could become tricky if there are tooth or other problems and I need to go out.

I don't think for a moment we'll have to do this for 12 months, though, even without a vaccine.

CV will be around for a long time. I’m not sure what will change in 3 weeks / 3 months or 12 months.

You don't understand what is happening. The lockdown is not happening because of coronavirus. It is not happening because there isn't a vaccine. It is happening only to prevent there being too many serious inflections all at once, to the degree that hospitals cannot manage the numbers.

"Coronavirus" has already been around a long time. Arguably, in some forms, longer than humans have. This particular variety of it is now here, and it is going nowhere. The chances of it being eradicated are, in terms of any science currently on the horizon, nil.

So nobody will be staying in lockdown for 12 months. If the world stayed in lockdown for that long, there would be nothing to come out for!

No, surely lockdown isn't meant to be a long term solution? It's meant to "buy us time" Presumably in the time we're buying the powers that be are ramping up testing capacity; arranging a tracing and isolation process and organising hospitals so they can manage to treat covid and non covid patients separately. If they're not doing this, they've failed and need booting out.

No chance

No - we wouldn't be able to as a family we have already gone down to one wage because of this and are renting we are slowly starting to run out of money so we need extra income ASAP.

No

Well I suppose in lots of ways we wouldn’t have a choice (if schools were shut and the guidance was still to wfh). However, things like seeing close family- I think lots of people would crack around Christmas.

I think DH and I would be ok, but DS (3) is really struggling with missing friends and extended family. If this was extended for another year, I think we’d end up seeing at least my parents.

i read that the quickest a vaccine has been approved before this was 4 years- mumps vaccine. So if you’re saying we could be locked down until a vaccine is found it could be that long. Which is very unrealistic.

No, not under current rules

If, as someone said upthread, they allowed you to see even a small group of people in your own house then id be fine

No chance

In the very unlikely event that we did need it to go on for 12 months exactly as now, yes I would follow the rules because I can. That doesn't mean I think 12 more months will happen or that I think it should happen.

Like fuck would I not see my parents for a year