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JR Sep 2020 8:41pm, 19 Sep 2020 895 posts	0 JR While you’re all out at the pub but saying a second lockdown would be OK - consider this. I had my almost 80 year old mother (sole career for my 80 yr old father with vascular dementia) in tears & absolutely today fearing a fine or worse if we visited her or she left home on anything other than an essential basis. It is abhorrent that those who say a lockdown would be OK (NE in local lockdown) but don’t see the absolute hypocrisy of this as you continue your trips out! I’m incensed by this today - beyond rage that my parents & other elderly people are being made to be scared witless.
Bazoaxe Sep 2020 8:45pm, 19 Sep 2020 17,579 posts	0 Bazoaxe Do trips to Greece get included in that ? Other than shopping each week I have been out once where I had lunch in a pub.
Derby Tup Sep 2020 8:46pm, 19 Sep 2020 46,451 posts	0 Derby Tup Genuinely sad to hear about your folks JR. That is desperately sad However, I doubt very much that you’ll find much support among regular posters on Fetch for a lockdown. Nobody wants it; for the economy, for the quality of their and their family and friends’ lives, or for the economy. And as for anyone keen enough to be a regular pubgoer why would they want to be excluded from going out?
Totriornottotri Sep 2020 8:48pm, 19 Sep 2020 924 posts	0 Totriornottotri Agreed my grandad felt similar. A lockdown should be last resort. I’m lucky that I don’t have any friends so won’t meet with more than 6 but wouldn’t hesitate to meet Mum, brother and sister in a group (7). Pointless number. Also lucky I drink at home alone so no need to go pub. You see there’s positives in everything.
Derby Tup Sep 2020 8:51pm, 19 Sep 2020 46,454 posts	0 Derby Tup ^ I’ve got economy twice above I was going to say economy, quality of life and (mental) health
Bazoaxe Sep 2020 9:01pm, 19 Sep 2020 17,580 posts	0 Bazoaxe Although there are many good and valid reasons not to have a lockdown, with the current rise in infections what are the realistic alternatives ?
jda Sep 2020 9:07pm, 19 Sep 2020 8,405 posts	0 jda "Herd immunity" One big assumption in that being that immunity lasts long enough to be useful. Which I think is quite likely, albeit not certain. Even deaths are ticking up quite markedly now. They'll be double within a fortnight (maybe 10 days). Still quite small in absolute terms, it's the potential to double and double and double again that really matters.
Derby Tup Sep 2020 9:15pm, 19 Sep 2020 46,459 posts	0 Derby Tup How will die and where jda?
JR Sep 2020 9:19pm, 19 Sep 2020 897 posts	0 JR Trips to Greece are precisely because the rules are ridiculous & make no sense. Life is for living - thankfully the Gareth’s are doing that. At least I’m living while the rest of you are complicit in what is increasingly looking like a prison of your own making. I’m not calling for or supporting a lockdown though am I? Thats where the hypocrisy lies.
JR Sep 2020 9:20pm, 19 Sep 2020 898 posts	0 JR Gareth’s? That should say Greeks.