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Anyone else worried that four weeks will become 6 then 8 and so on?

34 replies

mangocoveredlamb · 31/10/2020 23:27

Just as above really. I know there is nothing I ca do about it, but I have this sense of impending doom that it’s going to go on for months and months again!

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Aquamarine1029 · 31/10/2020 23:28

Personally, I don't think 4 weeks can even begin to make a dent on this disaster. I'm thinking there will be more "announcements" in the weeks to come.

Char2015 · 31/10/2020 23:29

I can see that happening. The problem is that the places where transmission is highest such as in schools are remaining open. Numbers may fall very slightly, but not significantly.

CremantCharlie · 31/10/2020 23:33

In my head it will go on until March next year. I have prepared myself for this. If it ends sooner, bonus. Better this than to be disappointed when 4, 5, 6, 7 weeks pass.

Shieldingending · 31/10/2020 23:40

I'm really worried about this too ... I wonder if there may be a slight easing for Christmas then it will all start again in January

HotToCold · 31/10/2020 23:41

I think to show a dent in numbers , logically, it has to be atleast 6 weeks,

HotToCold · 31/10/2020 23:42

I personally am thinking around March we may get back to some normality

CherryPavlova · 31/10/2020 23:44

Looking at graphs and taking account of usual seasonal pressures, I cannot see any real lifting of most restrictions until around April.

pontypridd · 31/10/2020 23:46

This is obvious OP. Yes. I think it will start to dawn on people over the next few days/weeks - so that when it's announced that lockdown is extending in December - we'll all just be resigned to it.

It's shit. So shit.

Blankscreen · 31/10/2020 23:46

I don't understand what will suddenly get better in March. We weren't in a good place this spring just gone

Sarahandduck18 · 31/10/2020 23:47

March for full lockdown lifting, June/July before anything resembling the old days.

How it was before? = never.

SeverusSnape1 · 31/10/2020 23:49

Absolutely, no doubt about it

pontypridd · 31/10/2020 23:49

Nothing will suddenly get better in March @Blankscreen.

Except for the weather, which is quite a big thing, I suppose. It's more Vitamin D for us all and let's everyone meet up outside.

Maybe a vaccine will have arrived ... I don't hold out hope for that ever happening though, I'm afraid.

Come March we'll have been locked up long enough for the R rate to be down etc - just so we can all go mad again and feel free - until next Winter when we'll get locked back up again.

The real question is how many years is this going to go on for?

PineappleUpsideDownCake · 31/10/2020 23:50

Yep. He even mentioned "spring" at one point I noticed.

I really want my kids sport to run. Im not able to be very active and they need it.

Pinkchocolate · 31/10/2020 23:51

So worried. One of my DC suffers with depression and the other needs social interaction. My parents are vulnerable too. It’s so so sad. I don’t know what the answer is though, I hate the idea of lockdown and isolation but even more, I hate the idea of loosing loved ones. Sad times.

pontypridd · 31/10/2020 23:54

I think kids are getting a really bad deal out of this.

I feel fury tonight. I really do.

Somehow DH feels nothing at all will change for us. He's not bothered. I can't comprehend how.

We're not that sociable. We like our own company. But I really can't stand any more of this. And it's the children I feel fury for.

DigitalGhost · 31/10/2020 23:54

Wasn't the original lockdown for 2-3 weeks and ended up being months. Some of us never even came out out of it.

Letseatgrandma · 31/10/2020 23:56

@Aquamarine1029

Personally, I don't think 4 weeks can even begin to make a dent on this disaster. I'm thinking there will be more "announcements" in the weeks to come.
I agree.

I saw this posted earlier. It suggests that if schools are shut down for three weeks, then there will be 1 million fewer Covid cases in England than a long slow lockdown keeping them open but shutting some other things for weeks on end (which is what I can see our government doing).

I’d much rather go for the short complete lockdown.

Anyone else worried that four weeks will become 6 then 8 and so on?
Viciouslybashed · 31/10/2020 23:57

@pontypridd

I think kids are getting a really bad deal out of this.

I feel fury tonight. I really do.

Somehow DH feels nothing at all will change for us. He's not bothered. I can't comprehend how.

We're not that sociable. We like our own company. But I really can't stand any more of this. And it's the children I feel fury for.

Why are you furious for the kids. Is it their clubs closing? Not being an arse just wondered if I had missed much.
VampireVicki · 31/10/2020 23:57

Yes it will be much longer than 4 weeks because it isn't anywhere near strict enough.

All of education still open = pretty much no regulation whatsoever.

ohthegoats · 31/10/2020 23:59

I think we should do 6 weeks school, 2 weeks off on repeat until say, July or August. If we need more of a lockdown when the 2 week school break arrives, then lock everything down short term. Forget dates like Christmas, Easter or Bank Holidays - they are irrelevant at the moment. A year of short terms to try and keep a lid on it all.

phantomish · 01/11/2020 00:02

Maybe a vaccine will have arrived ... I don't hold out hope for that ever happening though, I'm afraid.

But why don't you hold out much hope? Vaccines have been developed? That is a fact. Many are in their final stages, and some are potentially going to be administered to certain individuals later this year.
I see this on MN quite a lot. The whole "yeah I don't hold out hope for vaccines!"
Why? What makes you think that? There has been a massive worldwide effort, not to mention huge investment in the development of one.
Or do you mean, you don't think it will be the silver bullet answer?
Can you explain your thought process to be clear, because just stating that there will never be a vaccine is unnecessarily negative and probably ill informed.
FWIW, I don't think a vaccine will be a magic wand to the pandemic, however the more people get vaccinated, combined with those that have developed some form of natural immunity, will mean there are less hosts to infect, so a vaccine WILL most definitely have an effect with time

Flutter12 · 01/11/2020 00:04

ohthegoats

I agree.
If you need to self isolate for 14 days in ‘normal’ circumstances then surely a 2 week break every now and then would be better than waiting for things to get really bad before shutting everything down for a longer time. I thought the idea was to slow the spread not stop it and this seems a better option for the economy and people’s mental health, education etc too.

pontypridd · 01/11/2020 00:06

Why are you furious for the kids.

Yes @Viciouslybashed - it's clubs that they love, closing. As an adult we don't have money or time to do these things. They're often not available for adults to do.

My two are lucky to be able to have sports they love. I worry for their mental and physical health. I feel sad for time and opportunities lost.

But also meeting up with friends. Freedom. Seeing family. Going to places other than where we live.

There's so much more that's been taken away hasn't there? Am I the only one feeling like this?

pontypridd · 01/11/2020 00:07

I think we should do 6 weeks school, 2 weeks off on repeat until say, July or August. If we need more of a lockdown when the 2 week school break arrives, then lock everything down short term. Forget dates like Christmas, Easter or Bank Holidays - they are irrelevant at the moment. A year of short terms to try and keep a lid on it all.

@ohthegoats - if only our government had a plan like this I could get behind the lockdown.

But as it is - I just can't.

AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii · 01/11/2020 00:08

They won’t extend furlough to all those non-essential businesses for months on end again though?