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On course for another lockdown?

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TalkToTheHand123 · 19/03/2022 07:07

Covis cases on a rapid rise, heading towards 100,000 daily cases. Are we heading for another lockdown?

OP posts:
x2boys · 19/03/2022 12:23

[quote BeforeGodAndAllTheFish]@ancientgran

My children and I all had covid in february. Two of us were very very ill and one was totally fine (not the vaccinated one).

Vaccination doesnt stop you getting it. It doesnt stop you becoming ill.

It will stop you, in most cases, from needing to be hospitalised. And that's the whole point.

Get vaccinated. You wont end up in hospital. We dont need more bloody lockdowns which most cannot afford.[/quote]
Quite
My fifteen year old son has had it twice despite living in a small two bedroom house neither myself or my cev DH caught it ,we are both fully vaxxed, including booster
My friend had it a few weeks ago she' type 1 diabetic ( fully vaccinated including booster)
She said it really wiped her out and she felt really unwell,but not to the point of needing hospital admission
Which is the whole point of the vaccines.

Pollyputthekettleon1975 · 19/03/2022 12:23

Oh we've come round the Mulberry Bush again have we.
No. It won't happen. We're done with that now.

Nelliephant1 · 19/03/2022 12:32

Hope so 🤞

Wedonttalkaboutrats · 19/03/2022 12:32

Nah. Not unless a more dangerous strain takes over. Which is very unlikely.

Lolaqp · 19/03/2022 12:33

I think only another variant that caused a huge increase in hospitalisations will cause another lockdown.

I think what we're seeing now is the usually cautious people stepping out and the fading out of masks. So we're in a wave.

I'm caught up in that wave. I was very cautious - I was pregnant during 2020-2021. Then had a newborn. Now my baby is older, we've started socialising in groups without masks and the result was - immediately struck down with covid. I think I'm part of the group you're seeing getting hit with covid now - those who are feeling confident that their vaccines will prevent them from severe illness.

The country, I guess, needs people like me to start getting it now.xx

Oxborn · 19/03/2022 12:40

Definitely not

ImplementingTheDennisSystem · 19/03/2022 12:43

Literally not a chance 🥱

duvetdayforeveryone · 19/03/2022 12:43

@REP22

I don't think there will be another imminent lockdown, but I wish there would be. Last week, my 80-year-old mum, who is CV because she's had cancer twice, having kept safe for two years, was persuaded to go on an organised holiday (here in the UK) with a group of friends (all older than her). ALL of them have now got the virus, my mum quite badly, all have been triple-vaccinated.

I'm very cross about it as well as worried and distressed.

But I suppose we'll have to wait and see what develops with this new BA.2 variant. The only predictable thing about it is that it's unpredictable. Sad

@REP22 This may well be the single most selfish post I have ever read on Mumsnet.

You seriously wish there would be another lockdown?!? Do you have any idea how much suffering and misery the previous lockdowns caused? All the domestic violence, children abused behind closed doors, the people that committed suicide, the people that lost their jobs and the businesses that went bankrupt?!? Not forgetting the people that died in hospital alone, and the funerals that only 6 people could attend, without hugging or putting your arm around a crying loved one.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 19/03/2022 12:44

@Nelliephant1

Hope so 🤞
Why?
Gilly12345 · 19/03/2022 12:45

No lockdown I think the economy couldn’t cope.

Maybe deaths and people feeling Ill.

greenteafiend · 19/03/2022 12:47

So you think removing all mitigations is a good idea because masks, social distancing, ventilation etc is a massive sacrifice and impingement for personal freedom?

The figures I'm seeing from Hong Kong suggest masks make naff-all difference against the new highly infectious variants of COVID. DItto ventilation. "Social distancing" means no normal social life and entire industries only surviving on government life support, or not surviving at all.

And that is the problem, really--the things that might work (a bit) to stop the spread of COVID are not easy to do, and the things that ARE easy to do , don't actually work.

I am afraid I don't see any answers other than double down on vaccines and therapeutics, and remind ourselves that at least we still have far longer life expectancies than our ancestors could possibly have dreamed of.

Lolaqp · 19/03/2022 12:48

@duvetdayforeveryone don't attack someone like that for how they feel. It's not selfish of the OP to want another lockdown to protect her Mum.

Sure if she was the decision maker then yeah it's not taking into account the greater good of the country - but from her own world her wanting something to happen to protect a family member she loves is not the same. It's not selfish, it's natural.

Be kind.

muddyford · 19/03/2022 12:49

No chance. Hospitals are not overwhelmed. Anyway, the vast majority of those in hospital are unvaccinated. The vaccinated, including an elderly relation of mine, not much younger than the Queen, are generally getting a mild cold at worse

louiseofthelakes · 19/03/2022 12:52

I know most people will disagree with me, but from my selfish point of view I found it upsetting that ALL restrictions came to an end just as immunity from booster vaccines for those who are CEV were beginning to wane. My husband is CEV and in many ways the past month has been much more concerning than any time during the pandemic. Until now on the rare times he had to venture out it was reassuring to know that most people were sticking to the rules of the time, wearing masks, social distancing, reassuring to know that most people who tested positive would be isolating. Once our children/grandchildren came to visit again they all tested beforehand, giving us at least some security. But with free testing not to be available anymore this won't be possible.

Now we cannot rely on these levels of protection, the only way to protect him would be to shield again. However as nothing has been put in place to give those who are CEV the freedom to make that decision that is not possible. So going to work, children to school and college, knowing the person sitting next to them might have covid as they no longer have to isolate, is more dangerous than ever. Especially as rates are higher in this area than they have ever been.

It does feel that any public sympathy for those who are CEV has evaporated (as shown in the post about the elderly woman catching covid on a much needed holiday) and certainly the government couldn't care less. But equally I know others should have the freedom to do what they want to do, and not be anymore restricted in any way...it's just for those who are CEV it's a scary time and we feel forgotten. I know I am selfish.

UserError012345 · 19/03/2022 12:52

Never.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 19/03/2022 12:53

[quote Lolaqp]@duvetdayforeveryone don't attack someone like that for how they feel. It's not selfish of the OP to want another lockdown to protect her Mum.

Sure if she was the decision maker then yeah it's not taking into account the greater good of the country - but from her own world her wanting something to happen to protect a family member she loves is not the same. It's not selfish, it's natural.

Be kind.[/quote]
Oh, stop with the "be kind" nonsense, it's patronising and used as a way of shutting down opinions.

And reverse your post. It's also not selfish of people to NOT want lockdowns, to want to keep their jobs, go out and see friends, have their children at school. But it seems perfectly acceptable to call those people selfish.

Juno22 · 19/03/2022 12:55

Louiseofthelakes hasn't your DH had a fourth jab?

Ilostit · 19/03/2022 12:55

Apologies for the strong language but FuCK lockdowns responsible for so much misery

Mouldyfeet · 19/03/2022 12:55

The death rate is lower than it would be for flu so no

Lolaqp · 19/03/2022 12:58

@louiseofthelakes you're not selfish. This is your experience of the pandemic and your experience matters and people should have empathy for you too. I have empathy for the kids who have missed out and the businesses that have closed, but that doesn't mean I don't also have heaps of empathy for people in your situation too.

It sounds really tough for you. I know that boots are selling LFT's very cheap, could be worth stocking up so you have tests to give to visitors before they come?

It's not right for people to say someone is selfish when we're not the decision makers in all this. We're all just doing the best we can.

TypicaIMe · 19/03/2022 12:59

@Lolaqp her mother made the decision to go on holiday and she caught Covid.

If her mum needed protection, she could have chosen not to go on holiday, and to isolate instead. No lockdown necessary.

It's not very kind to wish that Draconian measures be put in place because your mum made a decision which on balance may not have been particularly wise (unless she was perfectly ok with the risk she took, @REP22 didn't specify).

duvetdayforeveryone · 19/03/2022 13:00

@Lolaqp REP22 is free to put her mother in her own lockdown. No need to drag everyone else with!!!

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ might have been saved if he had attended school.

JackieWeaver101 · 19/03/2022 13:01

@hamstersarse

Given lockdowns don’t work and only achieve a reduction in infections of 0.2%, all the while destroying the economy, jobs, education, mental health….yeah, good idea!
This really does sound like a statistic plucked from the rear end of a rodent.
Roselilly36 · 19/03/2022 13:01

Who on earth would be daft enough to comply with another lockdown? Those who wanted the vaccines have had them, lockdowns did more harm than good on so many levels. We should never, ever be locked down again.

lightand · 19/03/2022 13:02

No
Covid has been rife in our area for more than 2 weeks.
Hospital has a number of cases. But no one is serious, last I heard.
And of all the people I know who have had it lately, inculding the elderly, and very vulnerable, everyone has got over it.