Does anyone miss lockdown?

stuck in a traffic jam on way to work, trying to fit work around a client lunch, after work do, will get back at about 10pm.  I must confess this is all proving a bit much and I part of me misses the quiet streets and not having to leave the nest unless I wanted to...

That’s a fair point actually, Chimp. The Saj seems to have fallen into their clutches already demanding the expensive and intrusive travel PCR tests continue. I wonder if they blackmail people? It’s likely they knew of Hancock’s affair and used it to control him. 

Lockdown was a hate crime and that will also be my opinion 

hard to see how I can be "right" or "wrong" about that. 
 

being 'right' is v important to you tho chimp so I can see why you project this onto others 

you will continue to drone like this for several hours tho no doubt 

"notes Linda's first post on this more than 24 hours ago"

And indeed she was first to jump on the OP and managed to do so within 1 minute. But someone else is the obsessive.

You lot ok? I wander onto rof when I do and reply to the posts that I wish to 

sorry I didn't wait a seemly amount of time before doing so 

*massive eyeroll*

And yes I think the middle class fooks who demanded their arses be covered in cotton wool at the cost of the lives and health of others will be punished for what they did.

"And yes I think the middle class fooks who demanded their arses be covered in cotton wool at the cost of the lives and health of others will be punished for what they did."

Hi, I'm middle class and I spent the first lockdown helping to:

- run a UK manufacturing business that kept going with all employees working as normal;

- get a hot meal delivery service established in conjunction with the local food bank;

- revive a bereavement support charity that had closed.

What did you do ? Triple your ROF post count ? 

I certainly think the “experts” need to be held accountable and SAGE punished for the misleading advice and media performances that characterised late-stage SAGE. Even now a few of them are still trying to stay relevant mostly by demanding muzzles and more or less permanent home working. 

Rhamnousia07 Oct 21 11:29

I don't think I will ever get over it tbh

it was completely awful and I despise the people who supported it 

 

So if it turned out that someone you knew had (for instance) publicly urged people to work from home where possible, observe social distancing, wear a mask (unless exempt) or get vaccinated you would have nothing to do with them ever again - is that correct?

Whenever I read one of Crypto's posts on this subject, I like to imagine it being shouted through a spittle-flecked megaphone at a rally of the paranoid and confused in Trafalgar Square.

I was massively anti-lockdown (aside from a few weeks in LD1) but am feeling quite overwhelmed trying to manage everything (kids,work,social life,exercise) again post lockdown. Did so little for so long its like it became ingrained in me -  even though we all managed it before 2020. Especially having really busy weekends and not feeling I get enough rest. 

And am not enjoying the return of a weekly hangover lol, but I am enjoying the company that goes with it. 

I still cant believe they cancelled Christmas to be fair. 

Over a hundred people are dying every day and will probably continue to do so for months. Delta is about to rip through poorly vaccinated Australia. We haven't beaten anything 

covid isn't that scary and we shouldn't have over reacted. I'm glad England has mostly saned up but plenty of places remain menkle over it 

You want covid to still be a threat (so people you’ve been arguing with on rof haven’t been proven correct) but also not that threatening (so you can maintain your belief that lockdown was never necessary). Unfortunately these things don’t really go together.

I don't "want" covid to be anything. You are a very strange man 

covid will never go away and we should never have over reacted as we did. These are not contradictory or particularly controversial opinions 

We haven't beaten anything 

We have smashed it out of the park.  Oz & NZ are going to have a tough time for a while due to anti-vax Covid denying Team Sane loons, but nothing like as bad as we had it.

You'd better pray for a variant that evades existing immunity, that's probably the only realistic route through to the misery and death you are hoping for.  

lockdowns were cruel and should absolutely not have happened after 1 June 2020, when everything should have re-opened completely and as normal.

Funny then that our rabidly anti-lockdown PM eventually was forced by the facts to order lockdowns to avert an utterly catostrophic breakdown of the public health system.  I assume that in your fairy land that wouldn't have happened.  How?  Magic I expect.

 

"You'd better pray for a variant that evades existing immunity, that's probably the only realistic route through to the misery and death you are hoping for."

Er what 

"If you have a driver, as I’m sure Davos does, you can legitimately say you’ve bossed it?'

Heh.

I use my own steam (cycle/run) to get to the office. It's hardly a commute. 

So yeah, maybe I can legitimately say I've bossed it?

no, those who were vulnerable should have self-shielded.  For the relatively healthy of us, Covid-19 was not a serious threat and nowhere near as harmful as the consequences.

Much as I support our government, it was pandering to the bed wetters on this.

No.

 

had a couple of work lunches last week.  Had drinks after work last night. Back down the airport lounge next week and changes in working practices meant I got to go to a kids assembly this morning. Plus lockdown was pretty brutal on my family life 

We have smashed it out of the park. Oz & NZ are going to have a tough time for a while due to anti-vax Covid denying Team Sane loons, but nothing like as bad as we had it.

Dunno about that. Single dose vaccination rates in NSW now just about to hot 90%, with double dose running a few weeks behind that.  Nationally the picture is similar, albeit with regional variation as WA and QLD lag behind, but that's because they've had almost no community transmission rather than anti vax sentiment. Once the dreaded vuvu breaks through they'll be getting jabbed up too. 

National double dose rates in Australia are 60% and climbing by about 0.8% per day. By the end of next week Australia will be, statistically, more vaccinated than the UK. It already is more vaccinated than the USA. 

NZ still has an atrocious vaccination rate but I would expect that as soon as there is substantial community transmission people will be rolling their sleeves up with gusto.