How does your outlook on lockdown correlate with your personal financial situation?

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I’m interested to understand how peoples attitude to lockdown aligns to the circumstances they (and their immediate family) find themselves in.
Post below your position on lockdown/ restrictions followed by the financial impacts/ employment position you find yourself in.

I’ll go first:
Against Lockdown measures/ no financial disadvantage suffered, working from home.
 


I've been fortunate enough to have been working right through - been in the office since May. I'm concerned for the future of the economy generally - I would favour targeted lock downs of hotspots rather than a blanket one. My views are probably coloured by the fact that we live in rural area where the virus isn't spreading that quickly.
 
I've locked myself down due to my Covid risk factors (apart from taking the bairn to school and picking him up), redundant from tomorrow.
 
look out piano said:
I've locked myself down due to my Covid risk factors (apart from taking the bairn to school and picking him up), redundant from tomorrow.
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How many are in the bairns bubble, I was shocked to hear that there were 50 and 56 in two schools, one a mates wife works at the other the school of a work mates son.
 
joemcdokes said:
How many are in the bairns bubble, I was shocked to hear that there were 50 and 56 in two schools, one a mates wife works at the other the school of a work mates son.
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There are about 29 kids in the class, then obviously whoever those bairns mingle with at home (which terrifies me tbh).
 
Unless work brought the triple time overtime back I wouldn’t be any better or worse off than before. Maybe less money spent on beer.

Aside from the pubs shutting and not being able to play Sunday League again I wouldn’t notice any difference between the last lockdown and the new one so pretty ambivalent
 
joemcdokes said:
How many are in the bairns bubble, I was shocked to hear that there were 50 and 56 in two schools, one a mates wife works at the other the school of a work mates son.
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In our place the bubbles are around 300 for each year group (give or take).
 
Made a fortune during lockdown as missus wfh in triple time overtime.
Myself ,fully expect redundancy post xmas, the current and forecasted expectation make my position unviable.
 
I’m very lucky in that my job is secure, and also very lucky in that my lass just got a new job straight after being made redundant from her last place after being on furlough since March. I’m not really any better off financially because we only moved into our new house last December so any money we saved by not having a holiday or going out as much etc has went on the house.

I absolutely don’t want another lockdown and dread the prospect of it happening.
 
I’m working from home.

Im better off as I’m not spending on anything outside of the usual bills. No nights out, no coffees, no new clothes, no petrol.

Id rather I had nowt in my pocket and had been able to have nights out and catch ups with friends and family though. Money in your pocket means fuck all if you don’t get to spend it on things and people you love.
 
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