Just lock us down before the vaccine!

[DinosaurDildo]

Lock us down and be done with it until Feb/March or whenever the vaccine is established. All schools off too (health trumps education).

One last shit show, then we will never have to do it again.

The light IS at the end of the tunnel. (Vaccine, hurrah).

Let’s save lives whilst we can. We never know when we may need emergency NHS treatment.

For the record I’m not privileged, and I have three young kids who in the perfect covid free world I would much prefer to be AT school.

My friend thinks we should just get on with our lives “survival of the fittest”. Well bloody good luck with your survival rhetoric when you need a hospital bed for you or your child and there isn’t one......

Anyone else agree/disagree?

I agree OP

November was not a lockdown. The schools were open.

How long for this new full lockdown, OP?

@DinosaurDildo
Lock us down and be done with it until Feb/March or whenever the vaccine is established

Whenever the vaccine is established is currently looking like September/October 2021 (assuming the government don’t manage to fuck up the vaccine rollout).

Other countries would vaccinate faster test more our so called military support amounts to zoom meeting and phone support because they are valuable resources not to be wasted

With more vaccines and people we could vaccinate faster get it over quicker but our government is dragging their heels again

I agree with this, prioritise vaccine over testing even. Army, volunteers, whatever administering the jabs en masse. And then relax lockdown.

Yes, I agree. This faffing about trying to keep stuff open and then back-tracking and closing it again later is causing everything to drag on and on. Let’s spend less energy changing the rules every week and more energy getting people vaccinated.

@HainaultViaNewburyPark

What I meant was when the most vulnerable etc have been vaccinated. You don’t need to vaccinate the whole population to ease pressure off the NHS. Once the NHS is freed up the restrictions will ease.

Plus you get a natural reduction of cases in the spring and early summer.

I think if the NHS is hitting its upper limit of capacity with the Zoe app indicating 52k new infections per day, prior to the rise that we will see following mixing at Christmas and before the kids go back to school, then we will find we need to do something soon regardless of people's feelings about it.

Hell no! So many children and parents are totally fucked if they close nurseries and primary schools.

Quite willing to collect vaccine and do it myself or let my daughter administer it she has injected herself 4 times a day since she was 8

No, because even the most vulnerable groups won't be vaccinated through until at least April. This is no way to live your life. I'm also flabbergasted at the amount of people who seem desperate to park our children's education and wellbeing for months on end!

Yes. Agree OP. A hard lockdown. Immediately.

@Chipsandchesses

I dunno, 6 weeks??

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Seriously though all this stop and start shit is more damaging surely...... just get the job done.

I agree op but I dont have kids in school so maybe am not the best person to

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All hail the mighty vaccine!! Personally I think you sound like a nutcase op. Not everyone is waiting for a mighty saviour wielding a needle you know

Brave of you to assume the vaccine will actually work against all the new strains that are popping up.

Totally agree. Short, sharp and yes painful but we wouldn't just be kicking the can down the road with no plan anymore. We have vaccines, we have treatment. Let's get the numbers as low as we can and vaccinate as many as we can from the vulnerable lists.

The dangerous thing about Covid isnt how quickly it spreads, it's the death rate. If we can decrease that (through vaccinating the most vulnerable) things can begin to move back to a more normal state of affairs. Kids can go back to an uninterrupted education, people can see their families, hospitality and leisure and travel can return.

Pain now, for a quicker trip to normal? Yes please.

Personally I think the vaccine will be very successful. All hail the mighty vaccine indeed.

Happy to be called a nutcase for that. Also we have a new variant, not a new strain. Even MORE of a reason to vaccinate so aggressively now.

Pointless.

Nope. Absolutely no faith in our government not to make a massive fuck up of the vaccination programme. Also absolutely no faith in them setting a date and sticking to it. It’ll be Boris bumbling and blustering week after week with yet more reasons why the restrictions can’t be lifted just yet.

I’m not supporting any further lockdown unless every household is allowed to have a support bubble. I’m not having another 2 or 3 (or 6 or 9 or 12) months where the only adult I’m allowed to see indoors is DH.

Speak for yourself. My kid needs secondary education after missing 80% this year. Secondary school. No, the cannot just "catch it up".

What about those of us with young children who can't work from home?