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

1. 💯

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Over the moon to see so many 1s!

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@Doyoumindfisithere

None of your options are correct IMO, it should be:

We should ease out of restrictions from now but not on arbitrary dates but scientific data AND we should be doing much more to suppress cases so that everyone unvaccinated has a much lower risk of contracting covid.

That's a bit too sensible for the "just open up right now, nothing bad will happen!" thread, dude. Read the room.

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If four conditions aren’t met then it may still be 2 not sure

Bit harsh to suggest people who want to open up now (or on June 21st) think 'nothing bad will happen' @PrincessNutNuts

Maybe we're just of the opinion that if you continue with restrictions based on variants, lockdown will continue forevermore. That if the elderly/vulnerable are vaccinated, who are we protecting?

People's mental health is suffering horribly, people are worried for their jobs and children's education. There has to be a balance and I think that balance is when the vulnerable are vaccinated- and also after a year of restrictions there's only so much you can expect from people.

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1. Ive had enough and cant cope anymore

1. Lockdown cannot be the default answer to a largely non-fatal pandemic ever again.

@Branleuse

2. Ive had enough and cant cope anymore

Nor me. I’m a numb, distracted shell of the person that I was in 2019. I forget things, I’m tired all the time, I feel empty. Every day is like being in prison. If I’m being honest, I don’t think it has been worth it. I think future generations will condemn the high price we paid for covid.

I have friends message me and call me, feeling suicidal, and honestly, i dont even know what to say anymore. None of us have got anything left to give.

@Branleuse

I have friends message me and call me, feeling suicidal, and honestly, i dont even know what to say anymore. None of us have got anything left to give.

So true, nobody is in a position to buoy anyone else up because we are all depleted.

If anyone says ‘just follow the rules for a bit longer’ I will SCREAM.

I think people that keep demanding people follow the rules are really selfish.

1. Enough is enough

The option the government is taking isn't even included.

Option 7 - Roadmap out of lockdown based on levels of vaccinations, hospitalisations, deaths and case numbers as it was explained in February.

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@BlowDryRat

2. Lockdown cannot be the default answer to a largely non-fatal pandemic ever again.

This^

What’s next? Lockdown for the next bad flu season?

Don’t give them ideas @bumbleymummy

They’re already talking about it the coming winter

1. I won’t be vaccinated by 21 June. I don’t care. I’m at far more risk from other things.

I think future generations will condemn the high price we paid for covid.

Yes I wonder about this too. I expect that history will be rewritten to whitewash all the severe negative impacts though.

@JeanClaudeVanDammit

I think future generations will condemn the high price we paid for covid.

Yes I wonder about this too. I expect that history will be rewritten to whitewash all the severe negative impacts though.

I think it depends who is in power. I think the tories will be finished within 20 years - I think right wing politics is having a kind of last resurgence, and Brexit etc are the death cries of it going under. Once the over 60s are no longer with us, I can’t imagine them having any sizeable voting base. Younger people don’t really do identity politics.

The problem is that we just copied what other countries did - thinking we would look bad if we took the same steps they did. We should’ve come at it from a far more innovative angle rather than just STAY AT HOME. But it’s done now, we have wrecked the ashes of our post Brexit economy, all to save the lives of people who were nearly at the end anyway. I’m not saying money is worth more than any life, but the years of austerity we are now in for will take more ‘life years’ than covid.

I expect that history will be rewritten to whitewash all the severe negative impacts though

I'm not sure that would be possible. Thanks to social media, we must have more first person accounts on this pandemic than any other in history, surely? The sheer volume of content is vast and easily accessible, how would you white wash that?