Will you be angry if we end up back in lockdown?

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/ harsh restrictions?

I feel so tired of this all - but mostly tired of feeling lied to by the government. The false promises - 'irreversible' 'final lockdown until science / the vaccines can save the day'

And Scotland are already floating more restrictions, only a few weeks after reopening. It's gutting. I wish they would just tell us what the probably already know is likely to happen over the next few months.

Yes and I won’t do it. My mother in law has barely see our 3 year old grow up and now after everything she might have cancer. What a bloody waste of our lives.

Both DH and I worked FT throughout. I'm in an SEMH school so students would be in whether we're in lockdown or not. My only fear is that shops will close before Christmas and we'll have to compromise on the big family day we usually have.

One of the reasons I’m enjoying all the freedoms we currently have is because I’m not convinced we won’t see them again this year.

That said, I won’t abide by rules to stay away from close family and friends. I can’t keep theatre open, but I can choose to see my Mum.

Yes, not because of the actual lockdown which I would comply with as we always have, but because dropping all restrictions and the need to isolate when positive cases in the households was only ever going to lead to cases and ill health going up. If the vaccines start to wane after six months then many people already are at the stage of needing boosters and what about those that don’t qualify due to age?

Yes and, like the above poster, I will not comply.

Before anybody starts, yes of course I can't go to the pub/hairdresser/whatever if they are closed but I won't stay away from friends and family for one second.

Exactly what @IceCreamAndCandyfloss said

Not angry, no. Fed up, yes.

Personally I don’t think they do know? Maybe naive but don’t think there’s some big conspiracy. No one exactly knows what might happen.
It was always clear vaccine may not be the complete final answer.
I think they’re feeling their way.

@MrsSkylerWhite even though they have been misleading us? That makes me angry!

I'm not contemplating it, OP. Well, I wasn't until your thread came up in Active What's the point? The UK is open for now so get out and enjoy the things you missed during lockdown. Winter will bring what it will bring.

I’m over it now, it’s exhausting - if they try another lockdown I’m not going to stop seeing friends and family again, I can’t deal with it.

@NautaOcts they should say that then and not use silly words like irreversible and last lockdown

I’m not sure it’ll be anger, just generally fed up as it’s seemed inevitable since we started to lift restrictions.

Yes.

Angry at the government.

Angry at the vast numbers of people I’m seeing who don’t wear masks, crowd into small enclosed spaces, and generally act like they don’t give a shit that a couple of plane loads of people every week are dying every week from a disease that is, in part, by wearing masks and giving people space. I’m not talking about theatres and schools, I’m talking about not pushing into me waiting in an outside queue with no restricted space, or cramming into a kiosk, or choosing to sit next to me on the train rather than any of the other mostly empty seats and rows.

Fucking fuming at a government whose policy for children appears to be let them get it.

And worried about long covid; not especially for myself, but for a society that is going to be pretty grim if we have hundreds of thousands of chronically ill people.

I won’t be angry, but I do think what they actually achieve is minimal.

@Carycy Sorry to hear.

I’ve heard this a lot, but I struggle to understand it. Surely you followed the rules to protect your mother in law, not because you were “told to do so” by the government?

I have an 18 month old and he still hasn’t met some of the family. Not because we weren’t allowed, but because we know we could carry covid to CEV relatives.

I'll be so fed up, I broke my ankle 8 weeks ago so haven't been able to do much this summer and have missed most of the "out of lockdown" time.

Apparently I should be more or less out of pain and mobile so my prediction is we will go back into lockdown then. Yes I am feeling a bit paranoid about it all.

Yes and I wouldn’t comply either, except that I obviously couldn’t go to shops and restaurants if they’re closed. I just hope there isn’t another distrusted school year.

@NautaOcts

Personally I don’t think they do know? Maybe naive but don’t think there’s some big conspiracy. No one exactly knows what might happen. It was always clear vaccine may not be the complete final answer. I think they’re feeling their way.

I agree, I don’t think they have a big master plan because until things happen why plan for them?

They’ll have a level at which lockdown has happened before, but now with double vaccines and talk of boosters that will change too.

I don’t think the government want another lockdown, it’s too damaging for the economy and the thing they’re mostly interested in is money.

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What would make me angry is a. Saying dropping of restrictions was irreversible and b. Stopping isolation for household contacts. I understand stopping isolation if you happened to sit near someone in a pub, but in a house where you are quite possibly caring for the sick person is just madness.

I also won't comply if there's another lockdown.

I followed the rules for the past 18 months to the letter with the promise of irreversible changes.

We've all lost and given up too much already.

I’ll just be really fed up. Home schooling and juggling work is very hard, and not complying with either of those isn’t exactly an option.
I think it’s really short sighted to get rid of isolation for close contacts, too. I suppose time will tell.

[quote turnshavetabled]@MrsSkylerWhite even though they have been misleading us? That makes me angry![/quote]
So what would you like them to say? Sorry there’s no way out of this, it’s lockdown cycles forever? There’d be riots and suicides left, right and centre. They have to give us hope.

For what it’s worth I really don’t think there will be more lockdowns, they clearly don’t work, all they do is push the wave back a few weeks.

I worked in school throughout the last lockdown, and that's where I caught Covid. I'm not angry about that. It's a virus, doing what viruses do, and it gave me some (hopefully!) immunity back then.

What I am angry about are the double standards. Members of the government flouting the lockdowns. Not isolating when the rest of us had to. "Pilot scheme" my arse. And it is so so obvious that not requiring people who live in the same house as a positive case will cause mega spread. Now, having had Covid already, I'm not personally frightened about this, but we (i.e. the UK) have spent a year and a half being bombarded by government and media horror stories and fear mongering about Covid, and this is going to push a lot of people over the edge now. My friends who haven't had Covid are terrified. The messaging about the efficacy of vaccines wasn't clear either - people seem to have believed that they would 100% stop you catching/transmitting Covid, rather than acting like the chickenpox vaccine which makes your infection less bad ...