Will there be civil unrest?

[yellowredtulips]

If everything continues as it is and there’s no progress in the way of a vaccine or cure, so we’re stuck with all the measures/masks/distancing/testing rules, local lockdowns and potentially wider scale lockdowns every time the numbers rise, all the rules and restriction on travel and leisure. Will people begin to get fed up and start rebelling, even rioting and going mad? On the one hand people will learn to live the new normal and start to forget the way things were before, but on the other I think there’s only so long this can go on for before more and more people just can’t cope?

Absolutely sick of it.

Me too. The incompetence is staggering.

I think most will just not follow guidelines but in a discreet way to try and avoid fines.

Not sure about the rioting, historically we are fair weather rioters.

The queen normally has a good guage on these things. What does she think. She predicted the poll tax riots.

I doubt it, isn’t rioting a summer thing

I can see it yes. It’s the perfect storm. People don’t trust the government, they have broken their own rules and laws and have taken away people’s freedoms whilst protecting their own.

Throw in some food shortages, redundancies, the economy tanking because of the virus and brexit it’s a perfect storm. Desperate people will do anything and people will be desperate if this continues.

This saying it’s not possible, obviously have no idea what it’s like to be truly desperate or any idea of human behaviour.

Mass unemployment will lead to civil unrest.

I don't know about civil unrest, but I do think regulations are increasingly going to be ignored. Enough people not viewing the government as having any right to lecture to them.

Another new poster suggesting there maybe civil unrest?

The civil unrest posts are becoming tedious. And it’s perfectly obvious that those supporting the idea would be the first to barricade themselves in their homes, get on the phone to the police, shrieking in horror and demanding ‘something be done’ if someone so much as trampled on a marigold in their front garden.

@DianaT1969

You'd almost think that an unimaginative Russian bot was starting these threads.

Ha ha ha

Not even the French have kicked off properly about Covid lockdowns yet, so it's doubtful.

@DianaT1969

You'd almost think that an unimaginative Russian bot was starting these threads.

Indeed.

I'd join in, but the weather is getting a little chilly.

I dunno.
Usually these things need a catalyst. So if the police go in mob handed to break something up when people know they’re doing fuck all about other things...

Probably, as people run out of money, then food. It will start with supermarket ram-raids and go from there.

@Itisasecret

I can see it yes. It’s the perfect storm. People don’t trust the government, they have broken their own rules and laws and have taken away people’s freedoms whilst protecting their own.

Throw in some food shortages, redundancies, the economy tanking because of the virus and brexit it’s a perfect storm. Desperate people will do anything and people will be desperate if this continues.

This saying it’s not possible, obviously have no idea what it’s like to be truly desperate or any idea of human behaviour.

I agree. I think there will be protests. And the Govt will use Emergency Powers to halt them, and then there will be riots. The Govt will find the EP's brought in for Covid - 19 issues very convenient for the Brexit shortages unrest that may well come :(

I don’t know if the UK coup pull off full scale civil unrest, the demographic is quite old (compared to countries where it happens regularly), people tend to protest with their votes here. If the Torys were in opposition I suspect a number of them would be throwing their weight behind the Anti lockdown/5G conspiracy theorist, to win votes from them. Despite all the noise on social media I think the majority of people would rather keep going social distancing and masks for the foreseeable future.

When unemployment hits 50% and there are regular blackouts and we are queuing for rations...

i'm not sure the british public will riot just yet
but I am 100% convinved that the authorities have been planning for it - and the laws are in place to legally stop it, and the police/army have been training for it and have fully formed plans on how to deal with it and quash it.