Covid isn’t over.

Those getting COVID, this time, only have short term effects. Usually good after about three days.

I swear to God, if there'll be another lockdown I'll give up on humanity.

Given the choice between another lockdown or a repeat of last time when they delayed and pretended it would be fine rather than make the tough but correct decision, I'll take another lockdown please. 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 

To this day the experts are debating whether lockdowns were worth the social and economic cost. Remember poverty also kills people and we may be on the verge of extremely difficult economic times. The cost in terms of life years may yet prove to be greater from lockdown. Especially if you look at life years as opposed to lives, where life years takes into account the number of years left someone probably had to live when they died of covid / poverty.

you see Covid primarily killed the old, but poverty from lockdown will primarily kill the young who other wise would have long lives ahead of them.

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Up here in Scotland there is an independent public inquiry into Scotland's response to, and the impact of, the COVID-19 pandemic, and to learn lessons for the future.

The Inquiry has a web page asking Scots to share their own experience of the pandemic.

https://lbh.covid19inquiry.scot/embeds/projects/22570/survey-tools/24638

Is there a similar request for people to share their own experience of the pandemic in England?

My experience was totally different I think what  made me feel unsafe was being indoors all the time and feeling increasingly disconnected from the world around me. I’ve had Covid several times. Once before being vaccinated and a couple of times after. I was asymptomatic or nearly asymptomatic every time. statistically Covid was a much much greater risk to the immunocompromised and the elderly. statistically if you look at the death rates those under 40 in good health had very little to worry about in spite of the horror stories of relatively young men dying in ICU it wasn’t born out by the statistics.

I was well aware of this even before the lockdown and so I was always more worried by the lockdown than The illness.

I just don't agree that lockdown is even the biggest factor in a lot of those things. Poverty including homelessness and people relying on food banks was increasing for years before covid. The death of the high street and smaller businesses was also an ongoing trend before. I'm not saying covid didn't make things worse, but if the pandemic never happened there would still be shocking levels of poverty. It's very difficult to pinpoint how much different things are responsible because covid came 10 years into an atrocious government and around the same time as the self-inflicted gunshot wound of brexit. 

And a lot of the damage was made much worse by the repeated half measures. If we weren't pulling nonsense like putting off a lockdown under the delusion that we can just ignore a pandemic and have a normal Christmas, we would've been able to get past the worst and start recovering much faster. 

Personally, the massive problems I had in that period were much more due to having to live in a place and time where nothing felt safe for a very long time. An effectively handled pandemic strategy (including lockdowns when advised by the scientific advisors) would've allowed us to get past that faster with fewer lives lost, less suffering and less of our health service buckling under the strain. 

I just don't agree that lockdown is even the biggest factor in a lot of those things. Poverty including homelessness and people relying on food banks was increasing for years before covid. The death of the high street and smaller businesses was also an ongoing trend before. I'm not saying covid didn't make things worse, but if the pandemic never happened there would still be shocking levels of poverty. It's very difficult to pinpoint how much different things are responsible because covid came 10 years into an atrocious government and around the same time as the self-inflicted gunshot wound of brexit. 

And a lot of the damage was made much worse by the repeated half measures. If we weren't pulling nonsense like putting off a lockdown under the delusion that we can just ignore a pandemic and have a normal Christmas, we would've been able to get past the worst and start recovering much faster. 

Personally, the massive problems I had in that period were much more due to having to live in a place and time where nothing felt safe for a very long time. An effectively handled pandemic strategy (including lockdowns when advised by the scientific advisors) would've allowed us to get past that faster with fewer lives lost, less suffering and less of our health service buckling under the strain. 

yes

Up here in Scotland there is an independent public inquiry into Scotland's response to, and the impact of, the COVID-19 pandemic, and to learn lessons for the future.

The Inquiry has a web page asking Scots to share their own experience of the pandemic.

https://lbh.covid19inquiry.scot/embeds/projects/22570/survey-tools/24638

Is there a similar request for people to share their own experience of the pandemic in England?

My experience was totally different I think what  made me feel unsafe was being indoors all the time and feeling increasingly disconnected from the world around me. I’ve had Covid several times. Once before being vaccinated and a couple of times after. I was asymptomatic or nearly asymptomatic every time. statistically Covid was a much much greater risk to the immunocompromised and the elderly. statistically if you look at the death rates those under 40 in good health had very little to worry about in spite of the horror stories of relatively young men dying in ICU it wasn’t born out by the statistics.

I was well aware of this even before the lockdown and so I was always more worried by the lockdown than The illness.