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

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Yes or no?

No, I wouldn't stick to it. If they haven't taken steps to ease restrictions by half-term, I'll be starting to exercise my own free will. Lockdown to flatten the curve and delay the spread was sensible: imprisoning people for an indefinite period of time because there is a threat out there is not. We have to find a way to co-exist with the virus which will mean taking properly risk-assessed steps to move foward.

Won't happen, because no country could afford that

Barring unforeseen worsening of the COVID situation, the UK will follow other European countries and start relaxing measure from mid-May

I would stick to the rules

For 12 months, nope.

But it's moot really, we are not going to be in lockdown for 12 months. The country can't afford it.

Nope. Ridiculous to even say it.

Nope. Who do you expect is funding the economics of a 12 month lock down?

Yes of course, why would I let other people die because I'm too selfish to lose one year of my life.

I think there are things I will have to keep up for 12 months. For example, as a teacher who will be in not-possible-to-socially-distance school sometime quite soon I am not expecting to see my very elderly parents in 2020, and it may be longer. I am not expecting to be able to fly anywhere without quarantine over the same period, nor see DS in a live concert or gig of any size (he's a music student)

Would I comply with lockdown in its full current form for 12 months? I genuinely don't think that will be necessary, and for the children I teach rather than myself I would want to come out of lockdown. But I don't have a particular problem complying with lockdown conditions as they are.

@madcatladyforever Yes of course, why would I let other people die because I'm too selfish to lose one year of my life.

So when this is all over will you be volunteering a year of your life to build clean water wells in Africa? Have you ever done that before? Or is it just purely covid deaths you're willing to lose a year of your life over?

No. It would be disastrous for children’s development and mental health, disastrous for the economy and disastrous for society.

At a push I would move in with my sister and her family then we would be in walking distance of our parents and would see them at a safe distance.

No.
12 months? Ridiculous. I'll do it for a few more weeks. A month max. No more.

I wouldn't want to get into trouble with the law but I think if it happened my mental health would crash even further and so would lots of others'; it'd be a hell of an experiment on keeping social animals in unnatural conditions. Speaking for myself, I miss church the most and seeing my grandparents and best friend, and am less fussed about shops etc but the current situation is making me feel like a spider trapped under a glass.

why would I let other people die because I'm too selfish to lose one year of my life

What about the people who would die as a result of a 12 month lockdown?

@madcatladyforever oh give over. People need to go back to work to keep a roof over their heads.

What about the people who would die as a result of a 12 month lockdown

I don’t think madcat cares about those

I wouldnt stick to it for another year

I'm a nurse (currently on covid wards), sister is a nurse in same hospital (icu). We are a close family. I can't see her, can't see my neice and nephew... I saw her in the corridor the other day

I could forgoe the gym, meals out, holidays etc. but if I will not go without seeing my family for another 12 months!

I would stick to most things but I would go and see my parents. Everything else I can manage!

Gladly, as itd mean i wont need to pay for childcare!!

i could forgoe the gym, meals out, holidays etc. but if I will not go without seeing my family for another 12 months!

Absolutely

I also worry about the mental health of members of my close family

No

12 months?! I have managed to slither around it since it was implemented, and I will not even pretend to stick to it beyond another 12 days, never mind months.

I have lost my job as a direct result of lockdown, quite apart from anything else. I need lockdown to end as soon as humanly possible, so I can start earning enough to feed my children and pay my mortgage. If this goes on for 12 months, we will be homeless. Sod that for a lark.

Not a chance in hell. If another 3-week extension is announced I'll just about cope, but beyond that I need to see somebody. Living alone is just crap during this time.

Yes if people’s lives are at risk.

No

Yes I definitely would.