Do you think we will be locked down this autumn/winter?

[SparklesandGold]

I wouldn’t like this to happen but I can’t help but think it will.

What do you all think?

No, unless there's a vaccine that escapes the vsccines.

Not until the very last minute.

Johnson will once again wait until the horse has already bolted.

@ifonly4

No, unless there's a vaccine that escapes the vsccines.

Do vaccines escape from themselves?!

Do vaccines escape from themselves?!
Obviously variant

No I do not think we will go back to the level of restrictions even at stage 2 of the so-called roadmap. Schools will not be closed, for example.

Any restrictions, most likely on foreign travel, will of course as with India and the Delta variant, be introduced later than should be done for them to be effective.

A question to all these people that 'won't adhere'

I would imagine in the case of another lockdown it would be because the situation has gotten pretty dire, new variant, vaccine no longer working....or potentially a new variant that impacts more heavily on the youngest unvaccinated in the population.

Not saying at all that this will happen but it is probably the only scenarios in which we would lockdown again.

Would you really 'not adhere' if it could potentially end up with your young healthy self or your child in hospital with covid? Because I really don't believe for one second that would be the case, infact If young 'healthy' children (not those with underlying health problems) started getting more unwell and hospitalised as a result of covid I can imagine the outcries to get school closed.

No

@jumpbounce

A question to all these people that 'won't adhere'

I would imagine in the case of another lockdown it would be because the situation has gotten pretty dire, new variant, vaccine no longer working....or potentially a new variant that impacts more heavily on the youngest unvaccinated in the population.

Not saying at all that this will happen but it is probably the only scenarios in which we would lockdown again.

Would you really 'not adhere' if it could potentially end up with your young healthy self or your child in hospital with covid? Because I really don't believe for one second that would be the case, infact If young 'healthy' children (not those with underlying health problems) started getting more unwell and hospitalised as a result of covid I can imagine the outcries to get school closed.

I would not adhere. And my view probably aligns with most on MN when I say that I can't help it if shops, restaurants etc are closed... but I will not be told I can not see people in my own house again.

@XenoBitch

As a person with a child at risk of covid myself I just don't believe that.

If children were at risk then of course no one would put their child in harms way and would do whatever it took to protect them and if that meant following lockdown rules then they would do it.

It is easy for people to say they wouldn't comply when they currently feel they are low risk but if the tables turned it would be a different story....remember the hysteria and panic buying fiasco at the start of covid?

If they do i damn well know what my New Years resolution will be.

I haven't seen anyone in my house for 18 months even when it has been allowed by the government because the risk is still there and absolutely no different for us now than it was back in March 2020.
I would imagine if younger healthy people and children became more at risk from severe disease from covid (which is probably the only reason we would ever lockdown again) or if your own child became CEV as a result of any manner of tragic things that could put them in that position, then I can't see people taking those risks.

Got my crystal ball at the ready.

remember the hysteria and panic buying fiasco at the start of covid?
Yes, I was going out to work so couldn't queue at 9am. Had to go to three supermarkets and still couldn't get a normal shop. Actually going to the shops more is not hiding away from a deadly virus.

@jumpbounce

A question to all these people that 'won't adhere'

I would imagine in the case of another lockdown it would be because the situation has gotten pretty dire, new variant, vaccine no longer working....or potentially a new variant that impacts more heavily on the youngest unvaccinated in the population.

Not saying at all that this will happen but it is probably the only scenarios in which we would lockdown again.

Would you really 'not adhere' if it could potentially end up with your young healthy self or your child in hospital with covid? Because I really don't believe for one second that would be the case, infact If young 'healthy' children (not those with underlying health problems) started getting more unwell and hospitalised as a result of covid I can imagine the outcries to get school closed.

No I wouldn’t. I didn’t over the winter either.

@jumpbounce I can honestly say I wouldn’t. Nothing would stop me and my child seeing our loved ones, we would be cautious as we were when seeing loved ones early in the pandemic, I have seen my (non vulnerable aside from being over 50) parents and in-laws throughout! the risk of keeping my child as a recluse for a huge part of their life is a worse risk for me. So no I would not comply with any further lockdowns. Me or my child could end up in hospital for any number of reasons but a life of avoiding risk at the expense of everything else is no life to me.

The question of not adhering should be asked of the government, who have the highest percentage probably of those who have not adhered to restrictions.

Perhaps.

I’m more concerned about high numbers of ‘mildly’ ill people not being able to work for a week or two in the tens of thousands each day, that’s going to have a huge impact on our way of life especially when you factor in cold and flu season. Schools will be impacted, health services will be impacted, but if we keep calm and carry on it’ll be fine, won’t it?

This ‘normal’ way of life people have adopted is just about holding up now in the ideal conditions of summer with school holidays, how it will work during autumn and winter is yet to be seen. Will the vaccines hold out? They better had.

Because our government is choosing to ignore the virus when it comes to schools and the workplace doesn’t necessarily mean Covid will play ball. Our biggest mistake could be assuming we can live with Covid and that our society will cope. Time will tell.

@Thewiseoneincognito

Perhaps.

I’m more concerned about high numbers of ‘mildly’ ill people not being able to work for a week or two in the tens of thousands each day, that’s going to have a huge impact on our way of life especially when you factor in cold and flu season. Schools will be impacted, health services will be impacted, but if we keep calm and carry on it’ll be fine, won’t it?

This ‘normal’ way of life people have adopted is just about holding up now in the ideal conditions of summer with school holidays, how it will work during autumn and winter is yet to be seen. Will the vaccines hold out? They better had.

Because our government is choosing to ignore the virus when it comes to schools and the workplace doesn’t necessarily mean Covid will play ball. Our biggest mistake could be assuming we can live with Covid and that our society will cope. Time will tell.

But we can't afford lockdowns/restrictions either. Hundreds of billions have been paid out in furlough, business support, redundancies, business loans which will be written off, loss of tax revenues from affected industries.

We’re already on many thousands of people a day infected and isolating and also contacts isolating.
People here predicted that would mean public transport, shops, hospitals closed etc
They even posted that it had happened. But those posts are exaggeration/wishful thinking/outright lies.
As things stand we are managing our exit wave.

Of course there’s a point where we can’t.
I think the government have suggested that that point is over the 100k mark.

Nope- I’m a vaccinator and most probably starting booster for flu/Covid in a few weeks( not confirmed.)

Nope

@applesandoranges221

Yes. Once the crime bill passes ( and therefore the government can prevent protests, impose harsher punishments etc etc) the lockdown will be swift and fairly brutal.

🤣🤣 stupidest thing I've read on here for a while

@XenoBitch won't comply with any future restrictions and refuses the vaccination - lovely!

Yes. A "bad" variant will turn up.
Or one will be found in cats or dogs, or something somewhere.