The ultimate Mumsnet lockdown

[Rushjob]

Let’s have a bit of fun. Given the hysteria from some on here. What do people see at the ultimate Mumsnet lockdown?

I’d guess everything shut apart from Hospitals, Police and Fire plus associated services.

People forcibly locked in their homes and doors/windows welded/sealed shut

Delivery of pasta once per week nothing else.

I suspect some would want all TV channels to either shut of just be relays of BBC News 24 to keep up the brainwashing and panic levels.

The only hysteria I've seen is from people claiming that everyone else is salivating over a lockdown.
Perhaps ask the bereaved both on here and in real life if they want to participate in your nasty sniping.

Army on every street corner with people out for exercise being shot on sight.

Each household allowed one visit to the supermarket once a month- but only the bread and gruel aisles open. Everything else is non-essential and basically tantamount to murder.

Schools closed for 6 months but teachers to deliver live online lessons for the middle class DC with laptops. Everyone else can go without.

Of course there are equally the people like you OP who feel that you should be allowed to break laws and do as you please despite being a random.

So I guess your ideal lockdown is a nationwide street party with a snog a neighbour theme.

Personally, I would lock down the entire country, apart from nurses and teachers, who would have to continue their jobs, only in a relocated posts at the furthest away point in the British isles from their original workplace.

@chickenyhead

This is a total red herring that the lockdown fanatics like to argue against. It is not either lockdown or just go back to normal.

We need to have a balanced approach that ensures hospitals are not overwhelmed. But also acknowledges that lockdown has huge negative consequences not only for the economy but also on poverty and health.

Personally I support measures like the rule of six, social distancing and face masks. I also support further local restrictions where hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed.

But we do not attempt to prevent every death from any other cause so o don’t see why COVID should be any different.

It would follow the scientific principle that being miserable is what defeats the virus.

There are a lot of horrible people out there who have tedious lives and want everyone else to suffer as much as possible to make themselves feel slightly better about their own lack of the excitement and joy of life.

@Rushjob - that’s not a MN lockdown. There’s no way any self respecting MNetter would condone a weekly delivery of pasta. Think of the carbs!

No hobbies. Hobbies kill old people and we can't be having any of that sort of frivolity.

[quote Armi]@Rushjob - that’s not a MN lockdown. There’s no way any self respecting MNetter would condone a weekly delivery of pasta. Think of the carbs![/quote]
That’s true. Although they’d probably say it must be eaten dry.

@chickenyhead. Not at all but I’m conscious that too many and too harsh lockdowns creates a worse situation. Especially in the future when massive spending cuts happen to pay for it.

@Ecosse

Neither you nor I started this goady tripe thread.

I have seen nobody call for what the OP proposes.

[quote chickenyhead]@Ecosse

Neither you nor I started this goady tripe thread.

I have seen nobody call for what the OP proposes.[/quote]
There were people wanting that back in March, suggesting a Wuhan type weld the doors up should be happening.

Let’s have a bit of fun
....ooh yes, I like a bit of fun.

Oh, actually just a 'Lee Hurst level' bit of fun (ie shite)

@Rushjob

It is October. Not March.

The government locked the country down not MN extremists.

[quote chickenyhead]@Rushjob

It is October. Not March.

The government locked the country down not MN extremists.[/quote]
But given the Goverments record it seems they are getting their policy directly off this forum.

People want places to open or at least I do. And everyone I know rl. Maybe when it was a new thing people wanted everything to close. Not anymore, just because some vulnerable people want the government to protect them, it don’t mean they want everything else to close. All they ask for is protection and safety. Which cost money the government don’t want to pay.

@Ecosse

Army on every street corner with people out for exercise being shot on sight.

Each household allowed one visit to the supermarket once a month- but only the bread and gruel aisles open. Everything else is non-essential and basically tantamount to murder.

Schools closed for 6 months but teachers to deliver live online lessons for the middle class DC with laptops. Everyone else can go without.

No bread, it's non-essential according to one thread. Dust is the answer.

Quite @HazeyJaneII

What an awful way to view things. I had a colleague who was like you until they moved from London to a area of low cases in the first wave. They're not so blasé about it now that they're in a major hot spot and seeing people they know 'dropping like flies'

What a vile and goady thread OP you've clearly got too much time on your hands.
If you've no sense at least spare a thought for those who have suffered impacts you've obviously been lucky enough to evade.

There were people in wave 1 who argued that sanitary towels/tampons were non-essential so going into a shop just to purchase them was tantamount to murder.