Do You Think The Lockdown Is Simply Going To Stop?

[andy-hughes]

I honestly believe that if the government does not offer a workable start to relaxing the lockdown, then people are simply going to stop doing it.

Isolation is unnatural for everyone, and human nature will simply take over.

Businesses losing money will simply re-open, the police can't prosecute every one of them, and people will soon pick up in that.

More and more the media are talking as I did a couple of weeks ago - confirming that if we don't stop the lockdown soon, there will be no economy to re-start, and the populace will simply not allow that to happen.

People will want to balance the saving of lives with the worth of the lives of everyone, which is being eroded every single day.

I don't think the public will go beyond the next two weeks - it needs a planned return to normality, or it will simply be abandoned.

What do others think?

[tamborine]

Facetime and Skype do not compensate a tangible hug with patients free of covid-19. I wish there was a way I could hug my ill son.

[fiction-factory]

>Thing is tho, ff, you would still come into contact with people who had visited crowded places / flown on aircraft etc, either by primary or secondary contact.

Yes I know. I'd just prioritise my activities and the priority is seeing family then friends.

That's why I'd much prefer the lockdown to be relaxed slowly in stages

[Zacs-Master]

I’m sure it will be but opening businesses of any kind has far reaching consequences. Open a business, especially a large one, and you’ll have to reopen business banking, accountants, stationary suppliers, photo copy servicing, IT experts, cleaning staff......
It’s complex.

[andres]

Leave things as they are for a bit longer. the virus has just arrived in our area with four people dying this week. Two of them were young men.