Mpox: how worried are you about the possibility of another pandemic?

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With the recent detection of a more infectious strain of mpox in the UK, how worried are you about the possibility of another pandemic? Would the country ever accept another lockdown?

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00:00I think with Covid, so fresh in the memory of a lot of people, and what happened in that,

00:06anything now that the P-word, pandemic, is used,

00:12and people remember it as monkeypox, M-pox, same thing, sounds scary.

00:17I just couldn't go through it, I guess. Not after the last time,

00:20where everybody's queuing up in the morning to get food.

00:23And I've got to stay at home because I've got asthma.

00:27And I've got a shield, I've had to shield and everything the last time.

00:30I don't think I could go through all that, I guess.

00:33I think the country would need a lot of persuasion to accept another lockdown,

00:38because so fresh in the memory of what Boris Johnson did,

00:44the decisions were made, the scientists, the doctors,

00:48because they had no real benchmark to go on.

00:51No, it was like, it was called for. Maybe it's like, there's not much to do about it.

00:54Even the people that put the rules down, you know what I mean?

00:57Sometimes you just have to let chef fingers get out, you know what I mean?

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