Should the UK enter lockdown?

In 2020 we went into lockdown to "protect the NHS" and reduce the burden on it. Well the headline on BBC news currently says "winter pressure as bad as height of pandemic, NHS says" so logically should we be entering into lockdown to reduce the spread of influenza and other common winter viruses that are currently overwhelming the NHS at the same level as COVID was overwhelming it a few years ago?

 

Yes, without a doubt.

 

It would be political suicide. However, you would think people would be responsible and respectful of others knowing what is at stake. If you're ill, stay home.

 

It would help if employers didn't use coercion to get people who weren't fit to work because the had a contagious illness to go into to work and infect more and more people. I'm currently off with a flu / Covid type illness which as infected the whole household and left us all feeling terrible. But the pressure to return to work whether fit to or not is rampling up and my job means that I could be sent to a hospital or food production site. My Bradford score is also highlighted at every appraisal despite it being Ok.

 

*Backs away from this post slowly*

 

It's a bit different, we have a vaccine (we didn't in 2020) - we should be vaccinating all age groups as a matter of priority.

 

R kid was threatened with a disciplinary if he doesn’t attend work tomorrow, when he told them he shouldn’t be working due to being ill with similar symptoms (he works in a fridge/freezer part of a warehouse). Being a young lad, and the nice soul he is he’s scared of a disciplinary. I’ve told him to tell them to get f****d (although in a metaphorical sense, otherwise he definitely will end up with a disciplinary )

 

Christ no. It would be more than a tenner a pint after another lockdown

 

I don't mean to pry too much but do you mean that all employees Bradford scores are highlighted at their appraisals or that yours specifically is?

 

Ah! You think he is edging his bets.

 

With Covid we didn’t know what we were dealing with, much has since evolved/changed. Flu is well known about. So no lockdown

 

Why, will it get us promotion?

 

All

 

They won't do that again, be paying the last lockdown debt back for rest of my grandkids lives. If you are vulnerable stay at home.

 

Huddersfield A&E has been getting clogged up by flu patients. There was a quote last week in the Huddersfield Examiner that most of the people showing up at hospital haven't had the flu jab.

FFS I remember when you'd go to A&E if you broke a bone (accident) or chest pain (emergency). Now already busy hospital staff have to deal with people clogging the place up with a seasonal illness.

Just stay at home in bed and sleep it off.

 

Hundreds of billions was transferred into the hands of wealthy people during Covid. It's almost as if there's some weird pattern in society....

 

Well I got paid to sit at home for months like millions of others. Don't think furlough paid for it's self.

 

I’ve literally just had to google the what the Bradford score is ! I thought it was 2 nil Wilkinson & Marcelle

 

It really is like we’ve learned absolutely nothing from the pandemic.

I think my circumstances are pretty well known by now, so I won’t rehash it again.

In the rare instances where we have to mix with society, my senses are widely tuned to see and hear selfish people who don’t cover their mouths when they cough, don’t wear masks despite clearly having an illness and just general selfishness.

That’s witnessed on public transport, in a care home, hospital and service station setting, and the lack of distancing by supermarket delivery drivers is beyond ridiculous despite us being on every supermarket database as a vulnerable household.

It’s really not difficult to have a low opinion of the human race.