Are we locking down again?

[Dancerinthedark01]

And if so will they do more of the furlough and shutting things down?

Schools?

Please No!

I’m reading that this might be happening.

I think you're wrong @SaveWaterDrinkGin

I really really want this to end and I'm sure most people do now.

Maybe the government don't want this to end though. Goodness knows why. But if they'd kept a lid on things we might not need to lockdown now. It's as if they let it get out of control just so they could shut down again.

Without a vote? It's an extension of the COVID act, emergency powers, it has always been likely to be extended, repeatedly, for the next 4 years, iirr;

You are supposed to be more outraged than that. Emergency powers being abused, civil rights being eroded, we'll never get them back, compulsory chips for all!

Nope and if they try it again who is going to go along with it again?

Well if they close schools and non essential shops, you won’t have a choice in those things.

Hopefully it won’t happen anyway. People stating it as fact that it won’t happen are as ridiculous as those trying to worry people about it happening. Nobody knows.

No. Lockdown ain’t what it used to be anyway, it’d never be the same as the first one. There’d be too many exceptions and loopholes, things will carry on as they are now but with more excuses for shit service and cancellations.

BBC News - Covid: No 10 'keeping a close eye' on rising cases
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58973185
You're better off checking the news that seeing what a load of randos think on Mumsnet.
My own take is no. I don't think there will be.

cantkeepswayforever

You’ve just described what is already happening in my kids high school in Yorkshire

@SaveWaterDrinkGin

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: some people really, really don’t want this to end…

Our restrictions have been almost fully lifted and look where we are now. If we’d had slightly longer in some measured and a better vaccination programme, we wouldn’t be here.

So yes I fucking want it to end up again and again our government pander to the likes of you and things keep getting worse.

And yes, as @MarcelineMissouri said, the extension of the act is being used to reduce some of the powers as well as extending the timespan if others.

Yes probably.
We were told that rolling lockdowns would be a probability right from the start of the pandemic

Well if they close schools and non essential shops, you won’t have a choice in those things.

No but you have a choice about the rest of it, who you have in your home, how many times a day you leave your house etc

@cantkeepawayforever I’m absolutely not saying that any of this is imaginary or trivial or anything of the sort, but there are posters on Mumsnet literally salivating at the thought of another lockdown when in truth none of us can say what will happen.

Wow, its been, what, 3 weeks since we last had one of these.

There will be those who insist (yet again) that a lockdown will definitely happen, those that say it won't, some dodgy stats, a bit of fear mongering, someone who knows someone who knows someone who is high up in the NHS / government who has been told to prepare for lockdown, a bit of name calling, some ripping the piss and then the thread will drop off the front page.

[quote SaveWaterDrinkGin]@cantkeepawayforever I’m absolutely not saying that any of this is imaginary or trivial or anything of the sort, but there are posters on Mumsnet literally salivating at the thought of another lockdown when in truth none of us can say what will happen.[/quote]
Can you quote from the post in this thread - obviously before the first of your posts - which suggests this? Because I am not seeing it?

Adirondack
Yes we will if the nhs gets overwhelmed with cases

Yes. This is the measure of it and always has been.

My point exactly @Bordois it’s a pointless discussion.

Mumsnet makes me think that some people don't want Covid to end.

I am happily getting on with normal life until I'm told otherwise.

@Flaxmeadow

Adirondack Yes we will if the nhs gets overwhelmed with cases

Yes. This is the measure of it and always has been.

NHS will be overwhelmed with flu this year (like it always does), so Covid or not, they will use Plan B.

there are posters on Mumsnet literally salivating at the thought of another lockdown This is totally made up

Yes but nobody will take any notice

Nope. Which is both a relief but also frightening. We're just letting it run now, that's the policy. I understand it. I'm scared. They at least need to speed up boosters and the child vax programme.

All those scoffing, my MAT currently has near 2000 students home schooling due to high cases and no teachers our local public health told us to close. We have reintroduced bubbles and masks in classrooms to try as the disruption to schooling is not sustainable.

@LowlandLucky

Yes but nobody will take any notice

If shops, cafes, schools etc are ordered shut, how will people not take any notice of that? I’m not expecting that to happen but if it did, people can’t exactly ignore it.

Lockdown isnt under the Coronavirus Act 2020 anyway - that comes under the Public Health Act 1984

Its the final review to see it through to its end date of 2022 (March). It would have been foolish/churlish to not do its final review especially as it allows for more specific targeted shutdowns rather than a country wide lockdown

Plan B on the other hand was always fairly likely to come in

@Regulus

All those scoffing, my MAT currently has near 2000 students home schooling due to high cases and no teachers our local public health told us to close. We have reintroduced bubbles and masks in classrooms to try as the disruption to schooling is not sustainable.

I get the sense things are going this way locally here too, there is a very rapid increase in cases inthe last week.

Most of the kids at my school are vaccinated, but only in the past week. We've got huge swathes if students out at the moment, I feel that if we closed now for half term, we've got a chance of nipping it in the bud.