Covid Lockdown

[NeilMorepies]

Five years ago the UK went into Covid lockdown.

How was it for you?

What did you do to pass the time?

Did it change anything for you long term?

Have you recovered?

 

[Daytripper]

It was all a bit surreal, it kind of made me realise who was there for you and who wasn’t . I felt for the youngsters trying to grow up to deal with the situation and the vulnerable.

Going for walks and the silence sometimes.

the most difficult was dealing with a family member having a stroke and not being able to visit them in hospital. As someone who’s had difficulties with anxiety over the years it was a tough time but keeping things in perspective about what others were going through kept me going.

 

[Blue 1]

I enjoyed the first one, I got a month's furlough, and the sun shone, and day drinking was no longer frowned upon. Then I worked from home for the rest of it.

 

[Littlesue]

Loved the first one as had 3 months furlough. Lived with my son at the time and he had to work as he was a Physio at the Warwick hospitals so had flat to myself. We were living in Halesowen looking over miles of countryside so once I had been to see my Mom I would walk for miles over there, would never see a soul.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Know it was horrific for many but can honestly say it was one of the best times of my life.
The proper one that is. Not all the half arsed stuff afterwards.

 

[Leylo]

Think we all got pissed off painting the back garden fence

 

[Street end man]

You risk a right mauling here if you tell your honest thoughts.

 

[Andy McGurk]

First 3 or 4 months were ace, as a peripatetic music teacher I got my self employment grant early, updated my teaching room with better studio equipment, had online pub sessions with quizzes, developed a whole new musical project, and also chuckled to myself when I did online music lessons knowing all the empty cans of Stella were behind the laptop out of view.

Unfortunately though once the schools started staggering back, one on one music lessons were the last to restart, and some outside school projects also ceased to exist. Probably lost a third of my income, and with the cost of living crisis, I don't think I've fully caught up.

So mixed feelings

 

[parkendkev]

Had to work right through it all mind you, my work involves the NHS. Best thing was the empty roads in between hospitals, but the worse was always the worry, that I was in the firing line every working day.

 

[Wizard]

I’m not sure we would need another lockdown for Covid given how many people are vaccinated and it becoming less aggressive.

But if a similar thing happened again and lockdown was the sensible approach I’d be ok with that.

But I had a pretty nice lockdown as I moved in with my parents, which I was nervous about but worked out really well. And luckily had no one close to me die or have any bad side effects. Can completely understand why people that didn’t have that sort of experience would never want to go through it again.

 

[degsy]

Five years ago the UK went into Covid lockdown.

How was it for you?

What did you do to pass the time?

Did it change anything for you long term?

Have you recovered?

Didn't bother me too much, while being mindful of others who might be likely to get sick, If it suited me, I disregarded it when possible.
I pretended to scan their QR tracker thing every time I went in anywhere...total failure that cost millions? Billions?...the police liked it though for some reason - I wonder why
The two times some jobsworth demanded to actually see my phone screen to check I told them to get a court order and went on in.

The lad, his missus and 3 kids in Victoria or as it became known as Chairman Dan's Peoples Republic of Lockdownistan were locked down for a total of 262 'kin days ffs.
Well they bailed out to QLD about 2/3rds through
Got put in Hotel Quarantine for 2 weeks at a cost of $12,000 of which the Qld Govt are still trying to collect, he just throws he letters in the bin - koff.
Why? Because it wasn't/isn't - allegedly - properly legal.
What do we base this on?
The Letters state...gist...'we would really appreciate it if you could find your way to pay this' seriously!
If it was a proper legal bill it would be Legally Demanding, Bailiffs, Court orders - THE WHOLE DEAL,

Before the moved they talked it over with the kids 11, 9, 6
'What about your friends?'
11y.o. 'Friends? What friends? I haven't seen anybody for 6months.
Which is a long time when you're 11
They moved soon after.
Never looked back.

Governments restricting your freedom to keep you safe - yeah right.

Edit; none of the states or the national Govt came out with much credit, but some officials just took the absolute P.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

The ones who thought it was a scam....

 

[Harryflashman]

The ones who thought it was a scam....

I certainly don’t think Covid itself is a scam thd lockdown and its management feels like a separate question .

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I certainly don’t think Covid itself is a scam thd lockdown and its management feels like a separate question .

Poorly managed, certainly, but no weird conspiracy stuff went on.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

I think a lot of public trust has been lost with what came out about the government parties and overall behaviour during that time. Even though its a new government now, the attitude from some people would be very dubious towards lockdowns and I dont blame them.

I know in my family my father in law died (not of covid) during a time when we had to isolate and my wife had to be snook into the hospital by the Nurses to say her final goodbyes. She still feels she missed out on over a year of her dad's life and her dad seeing his children and grandchildren. So I think, as a family, we wouldn't isolate from each other, but we would isolate from other people.