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We were bored and decided to watch the UK news. They just said that the lockdown there may last for 6 months. Wow!

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They said things will take up to 6 months to get back to normal. They'll loosen the lockdown measures as needed within that time
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@Quizzical I'm a little worried as to how people will react.
Quizzical · 46-50, M
@SW-User We certainly live in interesting times...

The most worrisome thing in my opinion is the fact that we can now be sectioned under the mental health act at the say so of only one doctor. That's one of the 'powers' I'm half expecting to not be reverted back.

Any naysayers or 'dissidents' can now be locked away on medical grounds.

Given the restrictions in our freedoms because of the 'war on terror' and now this situation I honestly think we are inching ever closer to a 1984 scenario.
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@Quizzical The mental health part is scary. The amount of extra work for social care is astounding already. I'm lucky as my job is secure and stable. But I'm dreading the damage that we will all have to undo when we go back. I'm scared, absolutely freaking out about two of the kids in my class who I doubt I'll ever see again.

Johnblackthorn · 56-60, M
6 months is the shortest projection and unrealistic, 2 years is nearer the reality.
Quizzical · 46-50, M
@Johnblackthorn Such is nature.

I may be cold hearted, but I've never seen the sense in preserving the weakest links in a chain 🤷‍♂️
Johnblackthorn · 56-60, M
@Quizzical it's something that we do for all the wrong reasons.
One of the most annoying aspects of my job is tree preservation orders, they essentially mean we cant harvest prime mature timber, it has to stand there while time destroys it.
Sometimes our priorities are a bit skewed.
Quizzical · 46-50, M
@Johnblackthorn They are
YMITheWayIM · 46-50, M
Better 6 than 18.
CovertStranger · 56-60, M
6months? That's not a lockdown...its a shut down
doughgirl · 51-55, F
that's crazy
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@doughgirl Not if you want people to live
I live in the US but that sounds about right.

Our lives are going to change-perhaps permanently--so drastically!

Music, anime and comic cons have already cancelled that were to be in June and July! Pride events are cancelled in cities.
Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M
Yep. I move to a city in 3 months so there goes me finding that job or going to any lectures lol.
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