Is it time to ditch the term "Lockdown" and replace it with "COVID Restrictions"?

[317 forever]

Moderator note : posts #1-#3 originally in this thread

Complete waste of time trying to get anyone to lockdown anymore, even locally, the dam is broken.

It doesn't really feel as though we are in a lockdown anymore. Sure, there are a few activities unopen to us eg visiting leisure centres or nail parlours where there is a risk of social distancing being unattainable. Plus there can be a need to queue at busy shops for example. Otherwise, we have regained most of our usual freedoms now.

 

[Mag_seven]

It doesn't really feel as though we are in a lockdown anymore. Sure, there are a few activities unopen to us eg visiting leisure centres or nail parlours where there is a risk of social distancing being unattainable. Plus there can be a need to queue at busy shops for example. Otherwise, we have regained most of our usual freedoms now.

I would agree - there are no longer any restrictions on leaving your home more restrictions on what you can do when you do leave your home e.g. not meeting up with more than 6 households outside etc.

 

[Bletchleyite]

I would agree - there are no longer any restrictions on leaving your home more restrictions on what you can do when you do leave your home e.g. not meeting up with more than 6 households outside etc.

Bozza did hint that even this would be dropped on 4th July, replaced with a law of no gatherings of more than 30 and advice on the other matters, though it would be a condition on pubs being open that they enforced it. There was a statement he made along the lines of "it's time to stop things being the law, and to start giving advice" or something like that.

 

[Jamesrob637]

From Saturday onwards I'd say.

 

[adc82140]

The "lockdown" word has been incorrect since the start. The only country to impose a lockdown was China, and then only in Wuhan, where people were physically stopped from leaving buildings. It's been Covid related restrictions everywhere else.

 

[HSTEd]

Perhaps "Permanent Coronavirus restrictions" would be accurate, but politically untenable.
After all the lie of the brief lockdown remains an article of faith for the political class.

 

[route101]

I suppose . Tomorrow im getting the bus to the shops . Would do that on a normal day.

 

[Nicholas43]

The "lockdown" word has been incorrect since the start. The only country to impose a lockdown was China...

Totally agree. Some vulnerable people were advised not to leave their homes at all, but never physically prevented from doing so. Under the original March regulations, in all the UK countries you could leave your house with any reasonable excuse. In England you could go for a 30 mile walk. 'Muddled Covid-related juju' would have been my preferred term.