Your position on Covid lockdowns

[kellehi]

Well, I have seen a lot of people on here changing as the wind blows and the government continues to move the goalposts with respect to lockdowns, and so the same happens here. So just wondering what your position on this will be in the future, if X happens.

Please start your post with the relevant number below, you can expand on this if you want, but not necessary.

1 - we should end the lockdown and open things up now.
2 - we should open up as originally promised on 21 June, regardless of the government position
3 - we should end the lockdown and open things up when everyone over 18 who wants a vaccine can have one
4 - we should end the lockdown and open things up when adults are vaccinated
5 - we should end the lockdown and open things up when every person including adults and children are vaccinated
6 - I think some element of lockdown should continue indefinitely whenever the government says it's required, even if it means years waiting.

Thanks

Hidden option 10 please, strict lockdown forevermore. Welded doors etc.

1- want 1 but feel in my guts it will be 6 forever more even with the magic potion injections

I want option 1, I'd tolerate option 2 but I'll continue to swear and moan about the glacial speed of reopening.

My view is probably closer to 4 than anything.

I think there are some things that should continue beyond 21 June, mainly the wearing of face coverings on public transport and in hospitals and shops, screens at places such as shop tills, and the choice of remote appointments for GPs. I also think that for those who have worked from home, at least the option for two days per week at home should remain.

1. Definately. We have lost enough already and any benefits of lockdown (if there are any at all) are far outweighed by the negatives which are colossal.

What about...

We should follow the road map, as set out (and if we meet the criteria at each stage of opening up...based on data not dates).
We then assess an ever changing situation with regards to this public health crisis and respond accordingly, in the best way possible.

Not catchy enough?

1 with the caveat that I’d rather we held off travelling abroad for a bit longer. That’s the only thing that makes me a bit twitchy and only because I do not want any more lockdowns.

I wonder if some people ignore the colossal effects of lockdown because it’s not impacting them personally that much? How are we in a situation where continual lockdowns are an acceptable strategy long term? They are not and never have been meant to be used in the manner we are using them.

1. It’s ridiculous we’re still in lockdown when the NHS is far from being overwhelmed (because that’s why we did it in the first place, right?!).

@CuthbertDibbleandGrubb

My view is probably closer to 4 than anything.

I think there are some things that should continue beyond 21 June, mainly the wearing of face coverings on public transport and in hospitals and shops, screens at places such as shop tills, and the choice of remote appointments for GPs. I also think that for those who have worked from home, at least the option for two days per week at home should remain.

The facecoverings thing should be revsered.

Those who want to wear them should be advised to wear one which protects themselves, like the N95 or whatever they are called, to allow those who have little interest in piece of cloth to burn theirs.

Gradual reopening until 3.

See how it goes.

@southeastdweller

1. It’s ridiculous we’re still in lockdown when the NHS is far from being overwhelmed (because that’s why we did it in the first place, right?!).

My thoughts exactly.

It was originally stay at home, protect the NHS.

Now its stay at home, do lateral flow tests with 49% accuracy everytime you get a cough, keep the cases high so we can carry on staying at home.

@MrsHastingslikethebattle its everytime you go out you need a rapid test according to Suffolk County Council. They've put signs up around the place saying "If you need to go out, then make sure you are safe to go out" then there's details on how to get a rapid test.

A year ago, people who suggested that would become a thing were shouted down as tin foil hat hearing conspriacy theorists.

We locked down to save the NHS

How the fuck did we end up here a year later?

And I will not he getting any bloody tests either. No wonder case numbers are rising - if you search you will find, particularly with a crappy PCR test

I think we need to stop focussing on case numbers. We are testing more and picking up asymptomatic/mild cases that will not have any impact on the hospitals. We need to keep an eye on hospital numbers and otherwise just get on with it.

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@Roonerspismed

And I will not he getting any bloody tests either. No wonder case numbers are rising - if you search you will find, particularly with a crappy PCR test

I think you mean a crappy LF test

No I mean PCR

...do lateral flow tests with 49% accuracy everytime you get a cough...
No one has said that. Lateral flow tests are for people without symptoms.

Cases rising isn't so much the issue, hospitalisation and monitoring new variants, is.

Why would PCR tests, which are used for people with symptoms, crappy?

Because they are inaccurate!

1., if we're playing fantasy lockdown policy.

With mandatory furlough for all Cabinet ministers while we restructure their jobs, and a blanket 12-month ban on international travel for everyone in government, F1 moguls and everyone else that fucked off to Dubai for no good reason.