The Cons of Lockdowns

Have you ever thought about how pointless a lockdown is? Lockdowns have done nothing for us in this past year. Right now, we are in lockdown and the cases are still rising. We are almost having more than three thousand cases every day and here we are in lockdown. Think about health, children can’t even go outside to talk to friends and mental health issues are rising. Now that Doug Ford extended the lockdown, we can only go out for groceries and a little walk in the park. It’s like hibernating, first we go out, get some food and then stay inside and then go again for food. I will be discussing the three cons of a lockdown.

Cases Rising

As you know cases are rising and we are getting about three thousand cases every day, ever since lockdown has started, nothing has changed. Doug Ford has put us on lockdown for months now because of the increasing number of cases. With all the changes taking place, there is still a lockdown going on. Since lockdown is boring now, people are going to unnecessary places that they don’t need to go to at this time like for example parks, shopping and bars. Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford are not giving enough warnings to people to stay at home. Since they are not giving enough warnings, people who were listening to lockdowns, those people are not listening now because they are not scared. Lockdown is just sitting at home and not seeing your friends and family, which is mentally affecting people because they can’t see people they trust or have a relationship with.

Mental Health

Mental health issues have been a big problem ever since this virus has started. We are now in lockdown and because of it, we can't see friends or family. With everything switching to online, these changes have been hard. I know how it feels to stay at home and doing everything online. I have been sitting at home for almost about two years and I know that I’ve changed a lot in the past years. Before the lockdown, people knew that we can’t go outside because of coronavirus. Later when the lockdown was confirmed, everything changed, people started to take pills and medicine because of anxiety, depression and eating disorders. The top doctors are putting us in lockdown but mental health issues have increased by 36.4% - 41.5% in just one year.

Screen Time

We all know that our eyes are tired every day. We all either have school or work. Sometimes there are important things like school or work but everyone’s screen time has gone above and beyond, kids have nothing to do at home so they just go on their devices but it’s not their fault because kids have that kind of energy that makes them want to go outside and play all day. We always have homework or any kind of important work, but we have to do it on our devices which ruins our eyes and then ends up with headaches. I know people say that you should buy “Blue light glasses,” but how does this help? Wearing glasses makes you tired after you take them off because you wear something for a long time and then you get tired of it. We have to sit in front of our devices for school or work but all the blue light is going into your eyes and makes your eyes very tired and exhausted.

Pros of Lockdown

People think that if we stay inside then cases would decrease but humans are not understanding that people are sitting inside and losing themselves and that people are taking drugs just to calm down. I know what people mean by if we stay inside then cases would decrease, but people have been inside for too long and nothing is helping. Just because Doug Ford shuts the province down doesn’t mean that cases are going to decrease. There are still factories out there that are still working and there are about one hundred cases from just one factory. Doug Ford needs to step up this lockdown because this lockdown is not helping anything and he has to think of something else because this is what his job is for.

Conclusion

Think about this question again: “Do you know how pointless lockdown is?” Lockdown can affect many things such as environmental jobs, mental health issues and safety measures of screen time and many more. Lockdown is destroying our community and I think that lockdown is pointless, thinking about all these reasons now is very complicated for so many people in this world. So I think that lockdown needs to be stopped before this turns into a bigger problem.