How long do you want the lockdown to be because as proven with the November month one is a complete waste of time.
This virus is going nowhere fast and it's going to take a few months to get the over 65's first vaccine then start on the over 50's and give then the second one it could be June before myself and the rest of under 50's get vaccinated should we keep us in Lockdown until then?
So let's us all catch it at some point keep away from the elderly until they have had the jab crack on with life pay our taxes and keep people in work.
The thing is this - as I said above - we didn't lock down. I was still in contact with people from a wide geographical spread as my job went on as did my partners and my lad was still at school. Yes, I worked from home a bit more but I still went to an office and sat with a lad from Southport, a bloke from Preston, a woman from Blackburn and my partner went to work and spent time with kids who travelled about in breach of rules, went to sleepovers etc as well as people from Ulverston, Morecambe, Kirby Lonsdale and so on.
I then went to the supermarket and presumably mixed with a bunch of people who were in the same boat including some people who may have travelled abroad at some point for work and so on and so forth.
My thought is simply this. We've spent shit loads on not being very effective and yes, other countries have had the problem as well. But we don't seem to be willing to countenaince the tough option because we need to be economically driven. But... we've already spent shitloads.
It seems like when you want to buy something and go for a slightly cheaper option and then end up going 'damn, I wish I'd spent the extra £100' - you end up wishing you'd gone all in, cos you've still spent a load but you're unhappy with the thing you get.
With a vaccine on the horizon and an economic recovery tangible, I'd personally bet the house on it.
I've no issue with people wanting to get outside, people wanting to exercise and people being sensible in doing so and I have massive sympathy for people who are self employed and so on, I totally get why people are against it when they need to feed their family and keep businesses going - that's up to the Government to provide and I'll pay more tax if required - my feeling is, and I'm fully prepared to be wrong, if we take tough measures, we bring the end forward.
If we prevaricate, we delay it. The economic rebuilding needs to be strong, certain and as soon as possible and the only way to do that imo is to get numbers down fast and I don't see how we can do that with the situation I have been living and will presumably continue to live. The way I see it is thus - I havn't risked going seeing our parents because of the contact we have with others as a family - that seems logical. If I then extend that to the wider society around me, if I'm worried about my mum, I should also be concerned about the old lady who takes the trolly after me, or picks up the bag of apples I put back down because one of them was rotten or whatever it is.
Not arguing about this - that's how I see it - I'm not an expert, I know sweet FA in the grand scheme of things and I read the views of others with interest and I'm also concerned about the mental health aspect, but for me, the living life caught between two positions is impacting my mental health as well as everything is a pale shadow of reality, but I keep having to engage with it.
Actually, that's a good line for some kind of emo song. Fuck blogging, I'm going to write songs for miserable teenagers.
Right. I REALLY NEED TO STOP COMING ON HERE!
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