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Wonder if lockdowns will just be a thing?

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Wrensrobinsandsparrows · 11/12/2021 19:32

Does anyone else wonder sometimes if jan and feb will just become months where schools and businesses close and the year will adjust accordingly? I know, probably not, but I wonder.

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DSGR · 11/12/2021 19:34

What do you mean? Every year? No, because pandemics always run their course and the virus becomes like a cold or flu.
We’re just having a bad pandemic, it won’t always be like this

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Wrensrobinsandsparrows · 11/12/2021 19:35

But they don’t, necessarily, do they? AIDS didn’t, for instance.

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Exhausteddog · 11/12/2021 19:42

How will businesses manage if they can only trade for 9 or 10 months of the year? Who will finance it? What will people live off in January and February?

And what about businesses whose peak trading times are Jan and Feb? (I'm imagining gyms but there are probably others that I can't think if, off the topic my head)

SpringRainbow · 11/12/2021 19:45

I really seriously hope not.

We cannot go in and out of lockdown constantly forever, it’s not in any way sustainable.

Poetrypatty · 11/12/2021 19:54

No I don't think so. We would have to build capacity in the NHS (and should have been these past couple of years) but also, vaccines and treatments are developing all the time.

Whatelsecouldibecalled · 11/12/2021 19:57

@DSGR is there such a thing as a 'good' pandemic?

Livelifeinthebuslane · 11/12/2021 20:00

It's my birthday in January, so it's a no from me!

Kjcf · 11/12/2021 20:04

We have had nearly 2 years to build capacity in the NHS!!!

Waxonwaxoff0 · 11/12/2021 20:05

No. Who is going to pay for it?

DSGR · 11/12/2021 20:08

AIDS isn’t a coronavirus

dustandfluf · 11/12/2021 20:11

AIDS and covid are a weird comparison OP. I

CaptainMarvelDanvers · 11/12/2021 20:13

We can’t afford it.

Lorriestakingppe · 11/12/2021 20:14

AIDS? Hardly the same are they!

ballsdeep · 11/12/2021 20:16

@Wrensrobinsandsparrows

But they don’t, necessarily, do they? AIDS didn’t, for instance.
But it's 100% survivable now with medicine
Tuliprain · 11/12/2021 20:17

No we wouldn’t be able to manage it as a country. Can’t see it happening at all.

Katie517 · 11/12/2021 20:19

OP who do you suggest will pay for this? And do you actually think people will accept that 2 months of their year are lockdown months, you know screw any children or adults that happen to be born in those months they are destined to a life without birthday parties. What a ridiculous post.

DigitalGhost · 11/12/2021 20:20

If only they'd stop wasting money on utter shit. Fund the NHS & pay the staff adequately.

I mean they've had 2 years to sort it out and they've been a joke.

HariboMaroon · 11/12/2021 20:21

@Kjcf

2 years is nowhere near enough long enough to build capacity within the NHS. Takes 3 years alone to train to become a nurse, and they still haven’t reinstated the bursary. Who in their right mind is going to want to pay 9k a year to complete nurse training? Whilst working in long placements for free.

BrimFullOfAsher · 11/12/2021 20:29

AIDS? Confused

I don't actually know what to say

Livelifeinthebuslane · 11/12/2021 20:38

Who in their right mind is going to want to pay 9k a year to complete nurse training? Whilst working in long placements for free.

Lots of people, my DD is applying for nursing and the admissions tutors in places we've visited have said applications are going up.

llanfairfechan · 11/12/2021 20:43

We have not had one lockdown at all, just a series of restrictions. Nothin remotely like Spain in March/April 2020, or Australia, or New Zealand.

I don't expect anything like the level of closures seen between January and May 2021 to be repeated in early 2022, or any future years.

containsnuts · 11/12/2021 20:44

I think HIV is an interesting comparison. It's an example of how we adapt to accommodate a virus longer term. HIV prevention measures are commonplace 40 years on: condom use, medical protocol and testing are ongoing management stratagies that we all accept. Something long term may be required for covid, testing and isolating if positive for example. This would hopefully replace the need for future lockdowns.

Prescottdanni123 · 11/12/2021 21:06

@Wrensrobinsandsparrows

But they don’t, necessarily, do they? AIDS didn’t, for instance.
No, we are not going to wake up one morning to find out that Covid has disappeared into thin air. It is here to stay now, but the pandemic will blow over, and like cold and flu, we will learn to live with it.

Aids and Covid are quite different from each other. But the 1980s Aids pandemic did blow over. It still exists but it is easier to love with. Before much was known about it, people worried about how it was transmitted which caused a lot of hysteria. This was when people thought that it could be spread by touch or airborne particles. Unfortunately, ignorance at the time meant that it was pinned on the gay community as a 'gay' disease. Thankfully we now know better. We know how to take precautions, we have preventative medications and good treatment options for those who do become infected. People who do test positive for HIV can live healthy, normal lives. Because we have learnt to live with it.

Prescottdanni123 · 11/12/2021 21:08

Live with not love with

Stopsnowing · 11/12/2021 21:18

It would have been sensible to have had circuit breaking lockdowns during school holidays