Have Enforced Lock Downs Had Their Day?

[dave50]

The way the authorities are having to virtually force people by law to abide by draconian rules and going by the way millions are flouting these rules every day isn't it time that these rules should now be only advisory? People now know the risks, it should be up to the individual to assess the risks and decide for themselves, especially now deaths are down to single figures. It is highly unlikely the NHS will get overwhelmed and that was the original reason for the lock down, to protect the NHS.

[Baldric]

Try as I might I can see no element of News in this question.

[ichkeria]

I think I the government are panicking a bit.
They see “second wave” “flu epidemic” “mass unemployment” coming over the horizon

[ichkeria]

I actually things won’t be anything like as bad as some predict. It’s easy for me to say that tho. The govt has to take a different line. I agree tho that they have to be careful. If they carry on upsetting people they will lose a lot of good will.

[ummmm]

Lock downs and Covid not news? OK then...

[dave50]

Sorry baldric if I put it in the wrong catagory.

[Old_Geezer]

Eventually I believe they'll have to see that normality is about folk making their own decisions. At the moment the headless chickens in power are desperate for a control they don't and shouldn't have.

[andy-hughes]

I think it's human nature for the novelty of anything to simply wear off.

It's like a boy who gets a new ball for his birthday - for a week he's kicking it about all over the place all day every day, but by degrees, the novelty wears off, and it becomes normal again.

The same applies to the mass as to the individual.

When Covid first appeared, and everyone was locked down, it not only was all over the news, it was the only news, for weeks on end.

Now, the novelty has worn off, people are simply learning to live with it, and trying to get back to as much normality as they can, which is human nature.

So the government will find it increasingly hard to obtain the public's co-operation in voluntarily subjecting itself to lockdown, which is why they are making less of an issue about it.

The government is not stupid enough to try and be heavy-handed, and look foolish when it is ignored, it is taking its foot off the pedal where it can, and slowly letting people mix and develop immunity or, as was always the case, simply be ill and get well again.

Yes, I think forced lockdowns have had their day.

[fiction-factory]

>The way the authorities are having to virtually force people by law to abide by draconian rules and going by the way millions are flouting these rules every day isn't it time that these rules should now be only advisory?

I don't recognise that description of what's happening now and in recent weeks. Paul Scholes and family held a big lock down party in Oldham the day after gatherings were not to be held. He just got a polite reminder from the police. At last month's raves the police generally did not intervene. I am not aware of arrests for not wearing face masks on buses or for having one person too may at a gathering. Many of the 'rules' have always been just advisory- 2 metre distancing, shielding, for example.

[Jackdaw33]

I can't think of a more appropriate category for lockdowns than news.
I tend to agree. I think that as time goes on more and more people will get fed up and ignore these edicts on such a scale as to make them unenforceable.

[jourdain2]

If they try to enforce this postulated O. 50s segregation - I shall buy shares in a hair-dyeing company.

[Baldric]

"Lock downs and Covid not News? Ok then"
The way they are presented in this question, no they're not.

[ichkeria]

Seems pretty topical to me

[Sqad]

I sincerely hope not.
The next step would automatically be "herd immunity" the weakness members of the community die and the strongest survived to provided naturally immunity to beat the Co19.
Do you really want that?

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - // I sincerely hope not.
The next step would automatically be "herd immunity" the weakness members of the community die and the strongest survived to provided naturally immunity to beat the Co19.
Do you really want that? //

No - but society does what it wants, not what I want.

[ichkeria]

It will be interesting to see how the death rate fares verdsus number of cases. As I've said before a rise in caes per se is not necessarily a disaster. many of the cases asre asymptomatic (still infectious tho admittedly). There are a whole raft of stats and factors which need to be considered as a whole.

[Sqad]

A-H.. my post was to the general population as a whole and not to you
... personally.
I should have made that clear.

[DTCwordfan]

I have no wish to catch Covid from some youthful t-sser running around here as an infected tourist, knowingly so or not. Of course, the lockdown should remain as a weapon but more on a local community basis I would add....as long as this works and it does appear that Leicester's r has come crashing down

One downside to the local economy, we're having problems in communities like St Ives here, which seems to have become Benidorm-in-Cornwall, too many people in the streets, disregard of distancing, waste on the beaches and streets, vandalism, arguments mostly about covid, drunkenness and even 3 stabbings recently.

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - // A-H.. my post was to the general population as a whole and not to you
... personally.
I should have made that clear. //

No problem - although I'm pretty sure you'd get the same response!

[Sqad]

A-H.. then it is simple we enter a phase where the strongest live and the weakest are left to die to benefit society as a while.
Now,which Political Party would be prepared to enter a General Elections with that legacy?

[Cloverjo]

Same here in Somerset, DTC. Without the stabbings though, as far as I know. I’ve seen three people pee in my garden and I’ve heard of someone down the road who found a poo in her garden.