Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #55

Questions....

  • #TeamSAGE I’m with the scientists, lock us down before it’s too late!

    Votes: 183 48.3%

  • #TeamBoJo I think he made the right choice with the 3 tier system for now

    Votes: 79 20.8%

  • I’ve done my Christmas shopping/will do it this week.

    Votes: 62 16.4%

  • F*ck off it’s only October, I am NOT ready for the crimbo are you mad!

    Votes: 168 44.3%

  • I have broken lockdown rules, don’t tell anyone

    Votes: 93 24.5%

  • Still being good, star student. No rule breaks here!

    Votes: 136 35.9%

  • I believe we will eventually go into a circuit breaker lockdown (before Christmas)

    Votes: 238 62.8%

  • I don’t think the government will lock us down again.

    Votes: 82 21.6%
  • Total voters
    379
  • Poll closed .
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eSsExBiRd said:
They’d be mutiny if we went into another lockdown. No one I know wants this.

I’m surprised Labour are calling for it, they’ll have lost voters as a result.
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Yeah I was surprised by John Ashworth on bbc news yesterday saying that he agreed hospitality is spreading the virus and needed to be limited further. I wondered what planet he was on.
 
JLXRD said:
The way they are going back and forth over this for WEEKS when it affects so many lives is absolutely disgusting.

This has been looming in the background for so long , the government have no consideration for people’s mental well-being or knowing what will happen.

People will feel like the tiers are the way forward and have made peace with that after its benn drip fed to us since mid September , it’s like they just want to keep pulling the rug out every so often. Why announce tiers to u turn 1 week later?!
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Or business! What people don't seem to appreciate is that the constant threat of lockdown does almost as much damage as an actual lockdown as they can't plan or take any risks.
Not only have my company taken a battering this year due to lockdown, but it doesn't look much more promising for next as people are cautious an any big schemes are being delayed until things are more certain.
 
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It's saddening to read the low posts on here mentioning suicide. I too myself have really dark thoughts. The only thing that helps is like @JLXRD I realise that nothing I do will change the overall outcome. I am keeping myself busy with decluttering the house in the evenings and watching comedies on TV so I remember how to laugh. Regular exercise helps. And I hate to admit but cutting down on alcohol has helped too...
 
eSsExBiRd said:
They’d be mutiny if we went into another lockdown. No one I know wants this.

I’m surprised Labour are calling for it, they’ll have lost voters as a result.
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No one I know wants this but if you look at the page 1 poll on this thread... 85 want to be locked down, 41 not to 😬 I don’t personally understand it but there you go.

I think it was a complete political play done after the horse had bolted but it must have some support.
 
hnoz said:
Or business! What people don't seem to appreciate is that the constant threat of lockdown does almost as much damage as an actual lockdown as they can't plan or take any risks.
Not only have my company taken a battering this year due to lockdown, but it doesn't look much more promising for next as people are cautious an any big schemes are being delayed until things are more certain.
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I dont know what to do about next year either.
We moved this July holiday to next July.
Dont know start preschool jan easter or Sept.
Jan and feb usually tough financial months for us.
No idea when next see family wales wants to ban English travelling there.

Can we fix test and trace in 2 weeks and sack dido Harding.
We desparatly need cabinet reshuffle .
I want so many gone.
 
hnoz said:
Support for a full lockdown is actually quite high according to polls.

yougov.co.uk

Most people support new lockdown rules | YouGov

A snap YouGov poll finds more than three quarters in favour of the new restrictions
yougov.co.uk yougov.co.uk
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It shocks me. I don’t oppose a full lockdown, I’d just rather not - it won’t really effect me (no kids, wfh, nothing planned for the foreseeable) but I’m surprised so many are willing to be on 60% pay for weeks, lots won’t be able to survive on that.
 
eSsExBiRd said:
They’d be mutiny if we went into another lockdown. No one I know wants this.

I’m surprised Labour are calling for it, they’ll have lost voters as a result.
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They might change their mind if they're in need of medical assistance and turned away from the hospital door ,a doctor was on earlier talking about the amount of people already in corridors as they've no free beds ,here the two main hospitals had to stop elective surgery and people were literally told at the theatre door their procedure couldn't go ahead ,,It's a big wake up call when it gets to that stage believe me ..
 
Platypusfattypus said:
If they are going to do a circuit breaker I'd rather they did it properly or just not bother. There's no point in a half arsed affair, I'd rather they didn't do one at all.
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Same here it's bonkers schools and uni stay open.
Why the hell is Nottingham not tier 3

Saw the woman who ran Nottingham council newsnight other night. Horrible abrupt smug and fails to understand .
They have highest cases per 100k.
 

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Just cancelled our holiday we had booked for April as the remaining balance needed paying by Friday this week. It was only a cottage holiday in Cornwall over the 3Easter holidays but I just don't see things having changed all that much by then and can't afford to lose the mone. Absolutely gutted
 
monga said:
They might change their mind if they're in need of medical assistance and turned away from the hospital door ,a doctor was on earlier talking about the amount of people already in corridors as they've no free beds ,here the two main hospitals had to stop elective surgery and people were literally told at the theatre door their procedure couldn't go ahead ,,It's a big wake up call when it gets to that stage believe me ..
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I doubt it. Most comments I see now are that it’s a cold, they don’t know any one who has had it, flu kills more, it’s about government control, it’s fake and there was never a problem.........I honestly think that if you showed people that and they'd claim it was BBC propaganda 🙄
 
I’m so gutted about this lockdown... purely for selfish reasons but I had loads of plans next month which have all been cancelled. Then I thought I’d book a week off for me and my partner to go on a break somewhere in the uk which has also now been cancelled. I was consoling myself that at least we could have a week to chill, go out for some nice meals and maybe explore our local area more - perhaps meet up with some friends outside. Now I have a week off where I won’t be able to do anything at all - I should cancel the time off really but I’m seriously burnt out at the moment so need the break! I’m going to go mad after 2 days of nothing to do though! Anyone got any kids that need babysitting?! 😂
 
fireflies said:
Same here it's bonkers schools and uni stay open.
Why the hell is Nottingham not tier 3

Saw the woman who ran Nottingham council newsnight other night. Horrible abrupt smug and fails to understand .
They have highest cases per 100k.
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Derry/Strabane area in Northern Ireland is around the 900 mark too and they shut all hospitality a week or two ago. Have Nottingham still got everything open?
 
JLXRD said:
It shocks me. I don’t oppose a full lockdown, I’d just rather not - it won’t really effect me (no kids, wfh, nothing planned for the foreseeable) but I’m surprised so many are willing to be on 60% pay for weeks, lots won’t be able to survive on that.
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I honestly don't think the majority of people appreciate what is in store with a second lockdown. The first one was almost pleasant for a majority of people, they worked from home or they were on 80% to sit at home doing puzzle with their kids, baking and playing in the garden. Plenty of posters here said they really enjoyed lockdown, they were less stressed etc.
Furlough masked the economic disaster it created and the furlough extension masked the true scale of redundancies. But most of these jobs unfortunately have not been saved, just stretched a few more months.

A lot of people picture being at home, still getting paid, drinking hot choc and watching christmas movies and they think the world, the economy and their jobs will still be there after a nice break which is just not how it works.

The average reading age in the UK is incredibly low at around 9 years old. Not to be patronising, but this does mean a huge portion of the country struggle to interpret, break down and understand information.
Time and time again the British public have been turkeys voting for christmas, nothing has changed.

I don't think a full lockdown can be fully ruled out, we might need it but i'm not crying out for it like some people are, there are massive consequences to it.
 
mcfeez said:
Derry/Strabane area in Northern Ireland is around the 900 mark too and they shut all hospitality a week or two ago. Have Nottingham still got everything open?
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Everything they tier 2. Conservative council who blame unis
But Liverpool had 4 unis.
 
JLXRD said:
It shocks me. I don’t oppose a full lockdown, I’d just rather not - it won’t really effect me (no kids, wfh, nothing planned for the foreseeable) but I’m surprised so many are willing to be on 60% pay for weeks, lots won’t be able to survive on that.
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This is the the thing that surprises me when so many call for a lockdown. I seen a poster a few threads back (sorry can’t remember who!) said they felt most people who call for a lockdown were unaffected first time round which I completely agree with, I have so many friends calling out for a ‘hard’ lockdown but they are the same friends that back in the Summer said they were having a great time off work sat drinking most days/in garden/baking on 80% pay now better off because they didn’t have commuter costs. I wonder how many would say the same when the reality of Winter would be 60% pay and less likely job prospects after!
 
Pixipoppy said:
I’m so gutted about this lockdown... purely for selfish reasons but I had loads of plans next month which have all been cancelled. Then I thought I’d book a week off for me and my partner to go on a break somewhere in the uk which has also now been cancelled. I was consoling myself that at least we could have a week to chill, go out for some nice meals and maybe explore our local area more - perhaps meet up with some friends outside. Now I have a week off where I won’t be able to do anything at all - I should cancel the time off really but I’m seriously burnt out at the moment so need the break! I’m going to go mad after 2 days of nothing to do though! Anyone got any kids that need babysitting?! 😂
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So sorry about this! It sucks, doesn't it?! Do you have any projects you could get started on, or a reading/watching list?

I've got next week booked off...had planned to visit my dad with my sister, but he's in Merseyside so that's off. I might just miss any circuit breaker but Sadiq Khan keeps threatening London will be moved to Tier 2, so I won't be able to spend time with my mum or sister, either if that does come in. I've got a few jobs to do round the house, at least. I was considering cancelling the time off, but I've had so little this year, I really need a break from the computer/work.
 
I think another lockdown would be much harder to deal with than first time round.

Back in March we went into it thinking it was 3 weeks and there was an end in sight.

This time round people don’t have hope, they don’t know how long it’ll last and how many times we’ll have to keep doing this.
 
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