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Say they cancelled lockdown

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 12:29

So say lockdown was cancelled.

No more financial support.

Covid-19 spreads in your local area.

Apart from essentials, work, school, healthcare.

Would you go out socialising under these circumstances? Not indoors with family, but places you spend money, bowling, cinema, pub, farms etc.

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 12:31

The only thing I would do is go swimming under some misguided belief chlorine water kills the virus.

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emmathedilemma · 22/10/2020 12:38

I don't go to many places like that "normally". My cafe trips have mostly moved to outside, i don't often go to the pub unless it's for a meal, and the gym is currently open (albeit without classes) so the only thing i'm really missing at the moment is being able to travel and stay with friends / family and seeing more than one other household at a time.

99victoria · 22/10/2020 12:39

I'm not going to those places you've listed now and I'm in a Tier 1 area, so I guess I'm unlikely to do it if the virus was just running rife!

Remmy123 · 22/10/2020 12:42

Yes I probably wouid

PaddyF0dder · 22/10/2020 12:43

Fuck no.

I would form part of an infection chain. Even if I didn’t get sick, at the end of that chain would be a fatality. And that fatality would be on me.

ifonly4 · 22/10/2020 12:43

We've only been to pubs, and cut that back to two locally as they're the most covid secure. If numbers go up too much more (tier 1) then we'll even stop doing that.

starfro · 22/10/2020 12:46

I went out normally during swine flu, despite the media predictions of tens of thousands of dead.

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megletthesecond · 22/10/2020 12:48

Not until the warm spring weather arrives. I have better things to do than risk being ill. Can't work or parent when I'm ill.

Tfoot75 · 22/10/2020 12:49

Yes. I don't come into close contact (within 2m face to face for 15 mins or more) with people I don't know in any of these places. We have no idea how common super spreaders are but as the natural R is only 3, presumably fairly rare.

Additionally, covid is not a risky illness to the vast majority of people. It will most likely present with either no symptoms or no worse than a cold. An illness like that would not normally inform my risk assessment process (except now have to think about potential exposure and risk of self isolation)

Mawi · 22/10/2020 12:55

No.
I haven't all year and probably won't for a year or two. We are having a takeaway once a week to support the economy and because we want one too obviously. I am shopping local but I won't go into a pub, restaurant, cafe, cinema etc. I would go to a farm/donkey sanctuary/zoo as they are outdoors. Some weekends DH goes out and gets breakfast or lunch and brings it home for us to eat. I am vulnerable and even though I don't think Covid would kill me or anything I could not cope with long covid as I already have 4 different chronic illnesses. Dh is going to work and dc are going to school so we don't want to take anymore risk.

CaptainBrickbeard · 22/10/2020 12:56

The only thing I would do that I currently can’t is to meet up with another family of four in a group of eight. I definitely wouldn’t be going to restaurants, the theatre or cinema if there was no social distancing or masks required, wouldn’t take my kids to any attractions or go on public transport. I couldn’t contemplate being in a crowded place with the virus running rife and no precautions taken.

EssentialHummus · 22/10/2020 13:04

I’d have playdates for my toddler in my home/others’ homes. I can live without pubs, restaurants, cinemas etc.

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 13:05

See I agree we wouldn't go to semi-crowded places if they said fuck it let's open it all, if Covid-19 was rife in the community.

This is what I don't understand about the "stop lockdown" arguments, economically for these social places I can't see it no lockdown helping at all. Never mind the chaos at healthcare centres. At least there is some small help for some from the chancellor whilst the government instructs tier-restrictions.

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 13:07

@EssentialHummus

I’d have playdates for my toddler in my home/others’ homes. I can live without pubs, restaurants, cinemas etc.
Would you go to a small toddler group though?
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RegularHumanBartender · 22/10/2020 13:07

Absolutely I would yes. We are out pretty much every weekend anyway, as much as restrictions allow.

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 13:08

@CaptainBrickbeard

The only thing I would do that I currently can’t is to meet up with another family of four in a group of eight. I definitely wouldn’t be going to restaurants, the theatre or cinema if there was no social distancing or masks required, wouldn’t take my kids to any attractions or go on public transport. I couldn’t contemplate being in a crowded place with the virus running rife and no precautions taken.
I get the personal social meet up, we would do that but would you meet-up and go bowling say? Because we wouldn't.
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RaininSummer · 22/10/2020 13:08

No not going out now at all other than walking type outings. I have one meal out, just this week, as visited a friend in another town. Not keen on going again really though it seemed as safe as it could be.

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 13:09

@ifonly4

We've only been to pubs, and cut that back to two locally as they're the most covid secure. If numbers go up too much more (tier 1) then we'll even stop doing that.
We only go to a very covid-safe pub, just happens to be our favourite local before lockdown as well and we only go in day when it is fairly quiet but we only went then anyway.
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Angel2702 · 22/10/2020 13:12

We aren’t doing any of those things anyway. Apart from DC doing outdoor football and going to shops we aren’t doing any social activities indoors.

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 13:12

@Mawi

No. I haven't all year and probably won't for a year or two. We are having a takeaway once a week to support the economy and because we want one too obviously. I am shopping local but I won't go into a pub, restaurant, cafe, cinema etc. I would go to a farm/donkey sanctuary/zoo as they are outdoors. Some weekends DH goes out and gets breakfast or lunch and brings it home for us to eat. I am vulnerable and even though I don't think Covid would kill me or anything I could not cope with long covid as I already have 4 different chronic illnesses. Dh is going to work and dc are going to school so we don't want to take anymore risk.
Similar here, we do visit a pub once in a blue moon but even that we think more about as have the NHS app downloaded and if the kids had to isolate for 2 weeks because we fancied a pint we would feel ever so guilty.
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TempsPerdu · 22/10/2020 13:14

Yes I would (and am as far as I possibly can - I’m in a Tier 2 area). Probably spending more time outdoors than usual with extra hand-washing etc but otherwise living as normally as possible.

I have a two-year-old DD so getting out and about each day is essential. We are doing soft play, swimming (private pool - council ones are lane swimming only), restaurants/cafes (outdoors when it’s fine, inside when it isn’t), farms and gardens. I’d obviously rather not catch Covid but DP and I are fairly relaxed about the risk to our immediate family, and for us DD’s socialisation and everyone’s mental health are the priorities.

Billben · 22/10/2020 13:15

No, I wouldn’t. I still only go to places I absolutely have to. Suits me fine.

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frozendaisy · 22/10/2020 13:16

@Angel2702

We aren’t doing any of those things anyway. Apart from DC doing outdoor football and going to shops we aren’t doing any social activities indoors.
The kids do an indoor gym class once a week and swim. But with restrictions,cleaning, masks, pool limited numbers it feels just about ok. Would we do it without restrictions? Probably not at the moment.
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tattooedmummy1 · 22/10/2020 13:23

No. I haven't been doing those things anyway and live in a T1 area. I have covid currently. It is nothing like flu. It's nothing like the cold. I'm fit and healthy and under 30. Before I got it, I work in a care home. I have a personal responsibility to the residents there, so no. Absolutely not.

IfIHadAHeart · 22/10/2020 13:24

I absolutely would. I miss my old life and would go straight back to it if things reopened. Concerts too.