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Would you be happy to lock down for the next two years?

612 replies

BirdieFriendReturns · 13/05/2020 12:01

If the government restrictions stayed in place?

So until May 2022.

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PrimeroseHillAnnie · 13/05/2020 12:48

That would make us the only country in the world to be in lock down then ?.

Alymcnabs · 13/05/2020 12:48

I’m happy to lockdown as long as it takes to keep myself and my family safe. We, as a family, are united in that. Those who are working are working according to social distancing rules and PPE. Those whose employers haven’t, yet, put safety measures in place will stay off work until they do. My grandchildren, and other children within the family, won’t be returning to school until it is 100% safe to do so. By 100% safe I mean free from CV.

Daily exercise isn’t a problem where I live. We can walk for miles without seeing a single person.

I hate the monthly jaunt to Tesco but we all have to eat. There are too many people willing to put themselves and others at risk. Hopefully, now everyone seems to think lockdown is over, there will be home delivery slots available soon.

Some people are doing what they want. That’s fine. I don’t have any problem with what others choose to do, provided they don’t put anyone else at risk via their own decisions.

Gercha · 13/05/2020 12:50

No. I would no longer have a house to lock down in, we need to start learning to live with this very soon.

pigsDOfly · 13/05/2020 12:51

No, I wouldn't be happy.

I'm in my early 70s and retired. I haven't got long left, I certainly don't want to spend it locked in my home never seeing family or being able to go anywhere. I haven't committed a crime. That's a prison sentence.

The country and economy couldn't stand it.

The suicide rate would soar.

If the NHS continued as it is at the moment people would be dying unnecessarily because of the lack of treatment for things like treatable cancers. And mental illness rates would just keep rising.

Children need to be educated in social settings, whatever form that takes. They need to mix with their peers to become rounded mentally healthy individuals. They need to have access to outside activities, even if that outside activity is as simple as playing with the child next door.

Whatever needs to happen, and I'm not convinced that the new guidelines we were given on Sunday is the best way to go, we can't stay as we are for very much longer.

Angel2702 · 13/05/2020 12:51

No already looks like we will be both out of work by August. We are going to be absolutely screwed. Will lose the house in all probability. The effects of lockdown outweigh the risk of the virus by far in our household.

The knock of from this lockdown will be bad enough, nobody could survive long term.

dottiedodah · 13/05/2020 12:52

Its a no from me Im afraid! Just been let out of House Arrest today ,for a nice drive and dog walk. How exactly would the economy manage FFS? We will be bankrupt by then. Also unless a vaccine is developed and is successful we could be waiting a very long time! Looking at previous viruses (out of interest ) Polio took over 60 years to develop .Damn sure we didnt lock the world down when there were outbreaks though! (Obv with better medical advances it wouldnt be this long now )

unchienandalusia · 13/05/2020 12:52

No fgs!!! Who the fuck is going to pay for that? People are so deluded

TheDailyCarbuncle · 13/05/2020 12:53

'My grandchildren, and other children within the family, won’t be returning to school until it is 100% safe to do so. By 100% safe I mean free from CV.'

@Alymcnabs are you aware that the chances that the world will ever be free from CV are almost non-existent? Are your grandchildren going to stay locked down for the rest of their lives?

jasjas1973 · 13/05/2020 12:53

For those saying NO, how would you feel if the 2nd wave of CV-19 was far more severe?

This is what happened in 1918, a mild first wave, followed a very virulent 2nd wave and then a 3rd wave but less deadly and the virus just went, vanished.

We should stay in some sort of tight restriction until we can track and trace infection outbreaks and do this until a vaccine is found.

MrsBlue4 · 13/05/2020 12:54

No chance. Would be absolutely demented.

yearinyearout · 13/05/2020 12:54

Nope! Happy to stay away from crowds though.

emmcan · 13/05/2020 12:54

No.

ShambalaHambala · 13/05/2020 12:55

No. I can't imagine being in lock down with my son for that long. That'll be 2/3 of his life from 18 months to 3.5. It would be awful.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 13/05/2020 12:55

Absolutely not. I'd rather take my chances with the virus.

MadamShazam · 13/05/2020 12:56

Absolutley fucking not

Kazzyhoward · 13/05/2020 12:57

how long do you think we’ll be social distancing for?

Until there's a vaccine. Things will start to return to normal in lots of ways, but it all relies on people being responsible, i.e. washing their hands, not hugging/kissing everyone they meet, not coughing & sneezing around people, self isolating if they get symptons, no large gatherings etc etc. We may not even be in lockdown if people had done what they were told back when this all started!!

ShambalaHambala · 13/05/2020 12:57

We would also reach a point where non covid related deaths rose (suicude/abuse etc - lots of causes ) to a point which was unsustainable and outweighed the benefit of lockdown

FuzzyPuffling · 13/05/2020 12:58

Please can people stop with the assumption that the clinically vulnerable group are all old (seen several times on this thread and elsewhere). We aren't. Under normal circumstances, you'd have no idea at all we had health conditions. Normally we'd be out working, volunteering, partying, contributing just like everyone else.

azaleanth90 · 13/05/2020 12:59

No way. I'll be back as soon as I'm allowed and I'd send my kid into school if I could.

sirfredfredgeorge · 13/05/2020 12:59

Social Isolation risk of death is at likely at least 20% up on default, and many studies suggest 50% or more.
Coronavirus risk of death is likely around 100%.

So over-simplifying of course you need to be pretty sure you're going to get it to make isolation worth it - if lockdown has worked then you have a very small chance of getting it now (and obviously need track and test to make sure that stays low) then you have less overall increased risk of death.

That is before you even get to the secondary effects of isolation/

So no, the balance of risks do not remotely suggest locking down for years, it will simply kill people with other things.

Gwenhwyfar · 13/05/2020 12:59

No, of course not.
There's no talk of a strict lockdown for 2 years though. What might happen is having to go in and out of it many times.

TheDailyCarbuncle · 13/05/2020 13:00

^For those saying NO, how would you feel if the 2nd wave of CV-19 was far more severe?

This is what happened in 1918, a mild first wave, followed a very virulent 2nd wave and then a 3rd wave but less deadly and the virus just went, vanished.

We should stay in some sort of tight restriction until we can track and trace infection outbreaks and do this until a vaccine is found^

@jasjas1973 things were very different in 1918 - there was literally no treatment at all for the flu and people's health tended to be very poor, which contributed to the deaths.

Also the flu did NOT disappear. If you have had flu there is a good chance it is a mutated form of the 1918 flu, which is still going around and still killing people. Flu kills up to 600,000 people worldwide a year.

There is a good chance a vaccine won't be 100% effective, much like the flu vaccine. So what then?

TinRoofRusty · 13/05/2020 13:01

NO. I'd leave to live in a country that has more fucking sense. There's no law about wearing bloody masks, either. Some people cannot wear them due to disabilities, too, sorry to spoil your Party of Doom.

This is the new normal. We need to get to get our head round the idea that this isn’t “lockdown” this is normal life now.

Maybe on Planet Dystopia, but this is Earth. Hmm There is zero way the entire population will be sacrificed for a virus with a less than one percent chance of death. It's completely unsustainable for any society and is not going to happen.

Plenty of people have already died and will die from the result of this ridiculous terror, not to mention people losing their livelihoods and people unable to even get an education.

Alymcnabs · 13/05/2020 13:01

@Alymcnabs are you aware that the chances that the world will ever be free from CV are almost non-existent? Are your grandchildren going to stay locked down for the rest of their lives

I’m sure the family bubble will be brought in pretty soon. There are lots of children within the family and 5 teachers. I’m sure they will survive without school.

None of the teachers within my family or their colleagues are willing to go into work as the safety guidelines stand at the moment. Our schools are too small and it would be impossible for them to implement what has recently been proposed.

DuesToTheDirt · 13/05/2020 13:02

For people saying they want to stay home till coronavirus disappears, do you never take any kind of risk? Get in a car? Cross the road? Climb a ladder? Use stairs? Get on a bus, when the person next to you may have flu?

Stay home for the next 2 years if you want, but don't expect the rest of society to do so, nor to pay for you indefinitely.

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