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

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If the government restrictions stayed in place?

So until May 2022.

‘Two years of everyone staying home means full collapse of the economy and possibly society as we know it. There will be no public services because the government won’t have any funds for them.’

Much as I don’t think a two year lockdown is possible, at no point in the current lockdown has everyone been off work, and more people are returning to work all the time while still in lockdown.

This is just scaremongering. Already the non-COVID deaths as a result of the lockdown and recession will be far higher than COVID deaths. We have to live alongside the virus and accept it's presence as we do other diseases, albeit with some modifications to normal everyday life. I hope there will be a vaccine within a year.

Absolutely.

No, and I say that as a keyworker who works from home and has a DD in childcare. DH also works from home.

This cannot go on forever, we have to go back to normal at some point. I'm not saying now is necessarily that point, but we're not far off. I miss our families, we miss taking DD to new places.

The economy does need to recover. We also need to avoid the mental health issues that are and will he associated with this period of time.

No. I'm missing my daughter too much as it is, although whenever lockdown ends will be followed by a massive increase in deaths, possibly including my own and/or my husband's so I may never get to see my daughter.

I like being locked down personally but it's not about me, it's about the greater good. The economy needs to get going in order to save lives long term, have funding for the NHS, cancer research, etc.etc. So although I'm working from home, I will go back to the office (on the tube) when asked to.

No

No don't be silly.

God no, I'd emigrate

‘Already the non-COVID deaths as a result of the lockdown and recession will be far higher than COVID deaths.’

But the two combined are presumably a lot less than the number who would have died if we hadn’t had a lockdown.

No I don’t think the economy would survive

Wfh ok but the dc need to go to school

Not even the slightest sliver of a chance. I'll go on for the next month, maybe 2 if I absolutely must , but then I'm done. I have followed lockdown to both the letter and the spirit since day 1, but I am seriously at the end of my tether. My children are really suffering, their development has gone backwards, my youngest has stalled in learning to talk, my eldest who was nearly potty trained is back in nappies. No. I will limp on a tiny bit longer but then that's it.

Personally yes, I don't really have anywhere to be or anyone to see anyway so my life hasn't dramatically changed. That said, you'd need things like dentists and GP surgeries back open - people can't go two years without those. It won't last anywhere near that long though, society just wouldn't function.

No - that is ridiculous. I am surprised at the PPs who said yes

For me - yes. I have discovered I prefer my much simpler life, I’m happier and have realised the people who truly make me happy (I was far too social before) it would be dependent on being able to carry on working from home though.

For my Ds: no, although again I think we will choose to lead a much simpler life going forward, he does need some peer interaction rather than just face time. His education is better at home (private video lessons) so that part doesn’t bother me, just the social skills element.

Nope not a chance

Personally yes, I don't really have anywhere to be or anyone to see anyway so my life hasn't dramatically changed.

Clearly you don't work then or have an ultra safe job

If it stops needless deaths, then yes.

Lots of things would stop needless deaths but we make risk assessments all the time otherwise we would do nothing, cross the road, drive, fly, drink alcohol etc etc. There has to be a limit.

‘The economy does need to recover. We also need to avoid the mental health issues that are and will he associated with this period of time.’

There isn’t a way of avoiding them. There are people who will have worsening mental health as a consequence of lockdown, going to work with the risk of Covid19, being treated poorly/unsafely at work, increased poverty, seeing so many people die, having loved ones die, being orphaned, being widowed, longer mental health waiting lists.

We’d just move to Spain close to the IL’s.

No, the cute would become worse than the disease.

I'm not even happy to lock down for the next 2 weeks.

No, and I would be really angry because other countries have shown how test track and trace makes it unnecessary

I don’t know about drinking, but flying, driving and crossing the road have a much lower death rate than the corona pandemic even in lockdown.

I appreciate that we can’t all stay in lockdown but I don’t think that requires underestimating the risks.

No. We cannot spend the next two years trying to wfh with children (it will be a massive disadvantage to my career as understanding as my employer may be). Neither can the children cope that long without formal education and socialisation. And we will no longer be functioning as a family unit if we do not get time and space away from each other.