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Do you actually think we will go into a second lockdown?

82 replies

Jods90 · 20/09/2020 22:42

As in schools, non essential shops, hospitality etc all closed.

If I'd have heard this speculation last month I wouldn't have entertained it, especially with how reluctant Boris was to lockdown in the first place.

Yet people on here sound so sure it's about to happen again. I'm not arguing against the possibility, I'm just shocked.

The economy cannot survive another period of the type of lockdown we saw in March, surely not.

The organisation that manages out local leisure centres (fusion) appears to have gone bust meaning our gyms/pools never reopened after lockdown, they were a huge organisation and already v successful. I fear this spells curtains for many businesses if it happens Sad

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Mippi · 20/09/2020 23:37

It's looking like it, isn't it Shock

Sugar00 · 20/09/2020 23:39

Absolutely no chance!

Pickagoddamnname · 20/09/2020 23:42

There’ll be absolute outrage if schools are closed. Children have been totally shafted in all of this. There needs to be a better way and they know it so schools must be the last thing to close.

TiddyTid · 20/09/2020 23:44

Yes. It will happen, they're preparing us for it

WILTY43 · 20/09/2020 23:52

@Sugar00

Absolutely no chance!
Really? Why do you say that?

I said that the first time round...

QueenOllie · 20/09/2020 23:59

I'm not sure. My work have emailed us all asking who can work from home and who can't in case of another lockdown

middleager · 21/09/2020 00:01

Some of us are already in areas with restrictions, such as no mixing of households. Some of us already live in areas with hundreds/thousands of children not at school. My healthy son was sent home after a week due to a case in an options lesson.
There are several cases at his school and at my other son's secondary school too.

I already feel deflated and the inequality in education based on postcode lottery is widening.

Mynameisrow · 21/09/2020 00:03

No. Not to the extent we did last time. They may bring in curfews and such but we will not have everyone sitting at home again.

RasberryRoyale · 21/09/2020 00:05

My area is in a local lockdown. I know so many people who sadly don’t give a damn. I think a national lockdown is coming but I don’t see many following it.

changing35 · 21/09/2020 00:05

Schools are preparing for it I think especially now theres google classrooms. My eldest sons school (secondary) sent emails to everyone last week asking us to fill in a form as to who has wifi and who has a device at home (either tablet or laptop) suitable for working on.

I personally think it will be curfews for pubs and restaurants etc and no mixing of households and wfh IF you can. I dont think they will close schools compltely. It will be managed with bubbles isolating unless there are so many bubbles it means they dont have sufficient teaching staff.

I am a key worker ( I know the list of who is a key worker was long and extensive before) but a key worker as in I cannot do my job from home at all ever and national security depends on me and my colleagues going to work. We will be absolutely fucked if the government dont have some provision for key worker children to be taught.

Ecosse · 21/09/2020 00:07

The vast majority of workplaces were never ordered to close in March. Many did so because of the knock-on effects of lockdown- you can not operate if no one is buying anything.

PheasantPlucker1 · 21/09/2020 00:17

Middleager completely agree with your point about the inequality of education.

We have yr 11 kids at home, some with internet, some without. Some in school with cover teachers with no experience of the subject, and some with teachers as normal. How can this be fair come exam time?

Pieceofpurplesky · 21/09/2020 00:29

Murk I would just like the same PPE that they have in supermarkets for a start. I teach classes from 28-34 in a classroom not big enough, with windows that don't open. I don't want schools to shut but something needs to be done (our year 10s are already out on isolation)

EveryPlanetHasAYorkshire · 21/09/2020 00:30

Well they can try. Whether or not people will comply this time around is a completely different matter.

Northernsoulgirl45 · 21/09/2020 00:53

I thought they were considering more social lockdown. So schools and work but no fun stuff.
Guess we wait for latest announcement on Tuesday.

Topseyt · 21/09/2020 03:28

If it happens again I will be less inclined to obey ridiculous rules such as not visiting my elderly parents when they are suffering (I live a three hour drive from them).

They almost didn't make it alive through the first lockdown. I sure as fuck won't be taking that chance agin. If they begin to deteriorate I will be going there and I won't listen to anyone telling me not to.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 21/09/2020 05:07

I really don't see how they can unless they reintroduce furlough. How likely is that?

There are a lot of EU countries with much higher cases than ours, they haven't gone back to full lockdowns.

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Jods90 · 21/09/2020 07:30

@Topseyt

If it happens again I will be less inclined to obey ridiculous rules such as not visiting my elderly parents when they are suffering (I live a three hour drive from them).

They almost didn't make it alive through the first lockdown. I sure as fuck won't be taking that chance agin. If they begin to deteriorate I will be going there and I won't listen to anyone telling me not to.

Yes me too.

There's no way on this earth I'll not be seeing my elderly mother, she relies on me alot for emotional and practical support.

We've had the virus and even so the risk is minimal, she is satisfied that she's made the choice which is right for her and that's seeing us and the grandchildren.

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Nicedayforawedding · 21/09/2020 07:53

Yes I think it’s the only thing that will work. We are in high risk area and NO ONE is following the rules. We are, haven’t had friends or family at home, my friends have the excuse that they ‘don’t understand the rules’.

You’d need army, police and really a full national lockdown to make people comply.

Nicedayforawedding · 21/09/2020 07:55

People don’t want to accept it but schools go against scientific advice . Lots of people in a contained space, no social distancing and poor ventilation is a recipe for the virus spreading. All the hand washing in the world won’t help.

Tomatoesneedtoripen · 21/09/2020 08:01

no i dont,
but how can we trust the infection rate,
we cannot compare it to april because they werent testing
and even now it is difficult to get a test?

meditrina · 21/09/2020 08:03

I hope we don't, but if we want schools to remain open, we may well have to close down a lot of other things.

Leisure and hospitality sectors could be hard hit.

And they won't want DC in different schools mixing up and down the country, so travel ban at half term

Tomatoesneedtoripen · 21/09/2020 08:04

the schools need to keep going but something has got to give.
restaurants/pubs

Tomatoesneedtoripen · 21/09/2020 08:04

gyms/swimming pools.

Topseyt · 21/09/2020 08:05

@Nicedayforawedding

Yes I think it’s the only thing that will work. We are in high risk area and NO ONE is following the rules. We are, haven’t had friends or family at home, my friends have the excuse that they ‘don’t understand the rules’.

You’d need army, police and really a full national lockdown to make people comply.

So a paramilitary and police state?

Bollocks to that.