Bristolians Answer: Are you worried about an MPox 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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00:00Yes, I do. If the circumstances were that severe, I think they would. And I hope they

00:14would. I know the ramifications are absolutely massive.

00:17I don't think you ever know when it's going to happen. I mean, we've had things since

00:21the plague, if it goes back to that. So you do get these things coming up all the time.

00:27I think you've just got to take precautions and that's it. You can't worry about it. You'd

00:32die worrying otherwise, wouldn't you?

00:35My nephew's a doctor of infectious diseases and he actually was one of the small group

00:44that saved Boris, and that's the truth. He was. He never got mentioned in dispatches

00:50and he's not bothered about it.

00:51I mean, people criticise what was done, but who knew what to do? I mean, everybody would

00:57have made mistakes, I think, on that.

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