Covid 19. What do you think should be done? Should we go into another lockdown?

bozone1972

with this covid  going up again what  do you think should be done about it does  anyone  think we should  go back in a lockdown  again?

Tori_Scope

Interesting question @bozone1972 What's your view on it?

janer1967

Personally I think we have to take precautions like mask wearing social distance 

However it's not going to go away we have to learn to cope with it being here long term without having to keep going into full lockdown 

Just my opinion 

MarkM88

I don’t necessarily want one, but if they chose to impose one, I would follow what was asked of me. 

I’m careful anyway, I still wear my mask, sociably distance, don’t meet indoors, I go out less and when I really need to. 

I don’t go to pubs, restaurants, events with large gatherings, etc, that’s my choice though. 

I am double vaccinated, I also have had my flu jab and will of course get my booster jab. 

I also test twice weekly for covid. 

I think I do as much as I can. 

poppy123456

Another lockdown? No thank you! I'm fully vaccinated and i'm due my booster in a couple of weeks, i also had my flu vaccine a few weeks ago.

I do go to my local shops but i'm careful when i do. I don't wear a face covering because i'm exempt anyway but i sanitise my hands reqularly. The only people i see is my daughter and grandson, i don't visit anyone.

I lost 3 months of my grandson's life because he was born just before the first lockdown so i only seen him twice. No one will ever stop me from seeing him ever again.

Lisatho11987777

The reason the cases are rising its been said is because people think the vacination and booster stop them getting the virus and don't follow whats been advised alot of people that are in hospital are mostly people who have been double vaccinated here in wales on Wales online someone was in hospital with corona virus that had already had their booster  

I think there will be stronger restrictions but as the Welsh government has said here if thete is no improvement and hospital cases rise he is prepared to lock wales down hospitals here are saying that they are starting to be over whelmed with the delta variant 2 which is a mutation from the delta variant  

This is only what I have read and seen on the news only we can keep  ourselves safe 

rubin16

I think the way in which the government has handled covid is bad, they should of never relaxed mask wearing in shops and things till atleast the cases were very low. I don't go out much but if I do I wear a facemask but so many people don't have a mask anymore and stand close to each other. I think they should make masks mandatory again (unless exempt).

I am also double vaccinated and waiting for my booster jab in the next few weeks, but if we do go into another lockdown, people only have themselves to blame and just shows how useless the governement is at the moment.

OverlyAnxious

I don't think there'll be another lockdown, but I do think mandatory face coverings for shops etc will come back.

I physically haven't been able to get to a shop for about 2 months now and don't see that changing any time soon.  But even if I could get there, I can't have the jab and have a weak immune system and honestly don't see any end to this.  Covid will be with us for a long time to come and 'normal' people will just have to get on with it, hoping they have reduced symptoms due to the jabs. 

I'm happy to take responsibility for myself, keeping apart and practicing good hand hygiene (finally my OCD comes in handy!) but that can be so easily undone by just one other person getting too close and speaking/coughing etc.  Imagine one person driving the wrong way up the motorway...all of the other people that were just minding their own business and doing the right thing are now caught up in the carnage through no fault of their own.

TheAlien

To be brutally honest, my life didn't change much from what it was before the first lockdown and hasn't changed much since it was relaxed.  The only change is I double mask when I go out which is two days a month for medical appointments.

I'm double vaccinated and not due my booster or flu jab until early December.

People need to be sensible and realise we have to live with this thing now, but hopefully treatments will improve in time.

nannymaroon

I think we should all be vaccinated where possible and maintain hand washing and social distancing to avoid another lockdown. Sadly most people are behaving like covid  is over and another lockdown might be the only way to halt the spread.
Unfortunately the government and PM think they know better than the doctors and scientists. They will continue to do nothing to curb the increase in infections and the deaths /long term health problems covid causes.

nannymaroon

I really do think another lockdown is needed to remind us all to be considerate and careful.

Durhamjaide

I think we should after Christmas is out the way 

nannymaroon

I'm no Grinch but I think we should go into a strict lockdown by Christmas Eve at the latest.
Too many people still think that it's ok to get together. The numbers will rocket by new year due to the v high R rate of omicron, even with a lockdown. Without stricter measures we are in big trouble.

nannymaroon

Username_removed said:

Politically a non-starter at this point. It would be suicide for Boris.

Practically, irrelevant when combined with other magnificently stupid decisions like abolishing the red list; allowing mass gatherings like gigs or clubbing etc. it would take a massively long lockdown to even begin to impact.

Sadly I think you're right. I can't type what I think of him on a public forum. But I'm not surprised that Boris is putting his car crash of a career before the health of the nation.

Lisatho11987777

We need a long hard lockdown the NHS are already overwhelmed  in wales a man I knew personally  had a stroke waited 3 hours for an ambulance do his son took him to hospital he was then left in a wheelchair for 14 hrs and later died 

As its already been said people aren't liveing with it can't have an economy if there are no people omicron spreads faster dome has now fied from this variant people will be mixing at Xmas and the omicron will spread I wouldn't want to risk the lives of my children and grandchildren and my family or my unborn grandchildren 

We need a long hard loxk down to preserve life 

This is my opinion 

poppy123456

A lockdown isn't going to help, not now. They took countries off the red list, on TV last night they were showing a football match and the stadium was full. It's Christmas, there will be parties.

If there was it wouldn't bother me if there was a lockdown because i don't go out much anyway. I just know that no one will ever stop me seeing my daughter and grandson again because these are the only 2 people i see.

nannymaroon

I'll be spending another Christmas alone due to COVID-19. It's no fun but better than getting the virus or passing it on to others. Even though I'm triple jabbed I don't feel safe mixing with others yet. I'm going to keep shielding like I did since , early 2020.

nannymaroon

Covid nearly killed me this past June. I'm not about to risk getting it again or passing it on to others. We can't rely on the PM or MPs. I'm going to follow the scientists instead of a spoilt brat compulsive liar. It's pitiful that a man who is nearly 60 in the highest public office cannot be trusted. He's a liability. I wonder how many of those who listened to his rambling nonsense are dead now?

calcotti

Username_removed said:.... and vaccine equality across the planet ..

Seems to be the key element that is missing from almost all political discourse on the subject. Until all countries are sufficiently vaccinated the world is full of variant factories and these variants will spread.

nannymaroon

Typical selfish short term thinking by rich nations to hoard the vaccines. So the virus mutates in countries that have been starved of vaccines and we are always running to catch up with covid each time a new variant emerges

nannymaroon

What happened to the nightingale hospitals, were they ever used and how much did they cost?