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I can’t bear the thought of another full lockdown but it seems inevitable

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cantfaceitalloveragain · 04/06/2021 17:19

I’ve only just this week been allowed to see sister without social distancing, as she lives in residential care, had a lovely meal and a big hug but at the end all I could think was, will it be another year before we can meet again? She’s been hugely, horribly affected by this virus - she’s dreadfully ill through anxiety - and has been only just told this week she can see two relatives and one friend, and she might be allowed back to day care services the end of this month - first time since Feb 2020 .

I can’t bear the thought of another year indoors, no haircuts, no socialising, no shopping, no travel, no seeing sister or friends or family ...

I live in a tiny village with shit public transport that was largely stoped over both lockdowns ... can’t bear another year in this three mile square and relying on online delivery and zoom ... GP rang this morning and even yapping to her I thought, how lovely it would be to see someone else face to face - most friends and family are still heavily avoiding all socialising, this is my experience of most people now that there’s a lot of fear and anxiety around covid .

I realise restrictions are necessary and probably inevitable, and things could be so so much worse - but I’m struggling so much now . Finding I’m dreading getting out of bed as I keep thinking, what’s coming next?

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Sunshinegirl82 · 04/06/2021 21:08

@SonnetForSpring

Genuinely, what is it that you want to see happen? If you were PM what would you do?

SonnetForSpring · 04/06/2021 21:08

I'm just relaying what are saying as not many people are listening to them. So no, I'm not scaremongering. I'm passing on the facts which people seem to be struggling to grasp.

RedcurrantPuff · 04/06/2021 21:09

Thing is though if they still can’t get on top of it then there must come a point we give up and just take what comes, even if it’s as bad as India, where the situation is improving anyway now. At that point we have to accept the virus is stronger than what we can throw at it. As I said long life and health is guaranteed to no one.

leafyygreens · 04/06/2021 21:09

@RedcurrantPuff

What happened to Covid being seasonal and summer stopping it spreading? Was that just made up bollocks as well? Or if not, why did summer make a difference last year, with no vaccines, but not this
well I mean you say "wanging on", i say, that's the answer Grin

we have variants that are significantly more transmissible, and that people with previous immunity are able to re-catch due to the genetic difference

it's not made up bollocks yup it is seasonal, we'd be in a much worse situation if we were heading into winter... I don't think anyone ever claimed that "summer stops it spreading" though

StealthPolarBear · 04/06/2021 21:10

Green that's not helpful or useful.
There are other major risks.

leafyygreens · 04/06/2021 21:11

@StealthPolarBear

Green that's not helpful or useful. There are other major risks.
is this a reply to me? what do you mean?
SonnetForSpring · 04/06/2021 21:11

[quote Sunshinegirl82]@SonnetForSpring

Genuinely, what is it that you want to see happen? If you were PM what would you do?[/quote]
Singapore style approach. Be more cautious. Test more. Have proper quarantine. Wear masks, ventilate etc. Etc Support people mentally and financially. Endless things can be done but only if people accept there is an issue. Boris is useless!!!! I would love people to stop pretending there is no problem and covid is over and we can all get back to normality.

RedcurrantPuff · 04/06/2021 21:12

Och, I don’t care. I’m starting to think the best thing would have been to let Covid just rip last year. It’s hard to believe that this crap we are having to put up with is worse.

SonnetForSpring · 04/06/2021 21:12

@RedcurrantPuff

Thing is though if they still can’t get on top of it then there must come a point we give up and just take what comes, even if it’s as bad as India, where the situation is improving anyway now. At that point we have to accept the virus is stronger than what we can throw at it. As I said long life and health is guaranteed to no one.
That would cause serious issues for our whole infrastructure.
RedcurrantPuff · 04/06/2021 21:12

Is better I mean 🙄

RedcurrantPuff · 04/06/2021 21:14

That would cause serious issues for our whole infrastructure.

Shutting down the economy for what will be 2 years isn’t going to be amazing for it either.

leafyygreens · 04/06/2021 21:15

@RedcurrantPuff

Och, I don’t care. I’m starting to think the best thing would have been to let Covid just rip last year. It’s hard to believe that this crap we are having to put up with is worse.
it would still be a huge problem here if we had done. Contrary to what people want to think, it's not something that will "burn itself out"

we'd just be in wave 99 or something by now

leafyygreens · 04/06/2021 21:16

@RedcurrantPuff

That would cause serious issues for our whole infrastructure.

Shutting down the economy for what will be 2 years isn’t going to be amazing for it either.

the economy will be shut down for 2 years anyway if you let an uncontrolled pandemic rip through the country without any attempts to supress it
SonnetForSpring · 04/06/2021 21:16

@RedcurrantPuff

That would cause serious issues for our whole infrastructure.

Shutting down the economy for what will be 2 years isn’t going to be amazing for it either.

At least we have food/water/electric and some form of healthcare. Could be much worse.
Imnothereforthedrama · 04/06/2021 21:16

@SonnetForSpring

I'm just relaying what are saying as not many people are listening to them. So no, I'm not scaremongering. I'm passing on the facts which people seem to be struggling to grasp.
Your not passing any facts on though are you you are just seeing infection rates rising but the daily deaths aren’t published in the media like cases are . The hospital cases and deaths aren’t rising but you have to seek that info out . You can’t open a newspaper or see social media without the daily cases but they don’t bother to mention the hospital cases and deaths aren’t increasing so people think the pandemic is getting worse it isn’t.
Imnothereforthedrama · 04/06/2021 21:19

Singapore style approach. Be more cautious. Test more. Have proper quarantine. Wear masks, ventilate etc. Etc Support people mentally and financially. Endless things can be done but only if people accept there is an issue. Boris is useless!!!! I would love people to stop pretending there is no problem and covid is over and we can all get back to normality.

All these things we’ve done @SonnetForSpring
I’ll agree Boris is useless but I don’t think anyone is pretending it’s over just trying to live life .

MarshaBradyo · 04/06/2021 21:19

@SonnetForSpring

I'm just relaying what are saying as not many people are listening to them. So no, I'm not scaremongering. I'm passing on the facts which people seem to be struggling to grasp.
Who do you mean exactly? SAGE, PHE, Whitty?

I don’t think you’ve added much to what many have read other than a level of supposed certainty we don’t yet have.

MarshaBradyo · 04/06/2021 21:20

Oh and the odd bit of angry abuse added which seems par for the course when the few don’t get people to agree

And dodgy maths that isn’t corrected

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 04/06/2021 21:27

RedcurrantPuff
Thing is though if they still can’t get on top of it then there must come a point we give up and just take what comes, even if it’s as bad as India, where the situation is improving anyway now. At that point we have to accept the virus is stronger than what we can throw at it. As I said long life and health is guaranteed to no one

Are you actually serious?😂

The Indians and Brazilians hate their dickhead leaders. Boris is also a dickhead but doesn’t court unpopularity.

winched · 04/06/2021 21:27

And we need more than 85% of adults and children vaccinated if we want to get out of this mess. Fewer than 40% so far.

By "be out of this mess" do you mean eradicate covid? Because you might want to consider this thing called the entire rest of the world, many of which are nowhere near 40% vaccinated.

The UK gov have been following their "flattening the curve" strategy since the beginning... why change it now after 18 months of suffering?

Plus you do realise a lot of over 80's had their jabs ages ago and the immunity drops away faster in older people so they may not be protected enough from this delta variant.

Well that changes everything. Who wouldn't want to throw their children's education and health away, ruin their businesses, fuck themselves financially, and destroy their health and wellbeing even more, for even longer, for years!!, to extend the lives of strangers already past the average age of death.

You can't see any reason at all why people who have done this for over a year might be slightly hesitant to embrace this?

CloudPop · 04/06/2021 21:35

@NannyAndJohn

Yep, it's coming.

Cases doubling every four days means we'll hit 100,000 a day by the 21st June.

Best we all accept that we'll be spending the rest of the year in lockdown instead of sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that everything's okay.

Damned shame though. You must be an absolute blast at dinner parties.
Chatterbox1987 · 04/06/2021 21:36

@PaulGallico

What is it with the same three or four posters coming on every thread telling us all we are fucked...?? I don't think its anxiety or a love of lockdown. I suspect it makes the posters feel important and powerful.
Exactly this. I truly believe they fear that once this is all over they won't be able to sit and talk.about covid all day everyday. That scares them more than the virus itself.
NannyAndJohn · 04/06/2021 21:36

@RedcurrantPuff

What happened to Covid being seasonal and summer stopping it spreading? Was that just made up bollocks as well? Or if not, why did summer make a difference last year, with no vaccines, but not this
The timing of last year's lockdown meant that the reduction in cases happened to coincide with the school summer holidays. The rule of six and the low transmissibility of Old Covid meant we were able to mostly sustain this until the schools went back and everything went tits up again.

This then led the media to speculate that Covid is seasonal, despite zero scientific evidence to suggest so. Covid is not flu.

Echobelly · 04/06/2021 21:38

I'm not sure there will be another full lockdown - I think they'll allow a lot of outdoor stuff as we know now it really is low risk, and maybe two households at a time inside. Some things that have opened may have to shut again, tho :(

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 04/06/2021 21:41

I don’t think Covid is seasonal. India is pretty warm....