No. Just seems stupid to me to be going around and getting infected and then doing so repeatedly. I never mentioned anything about lockdown there and didn't mean to imply that being out of lockdown was stupid. Some people don't have any choice, when having to go to work etc., and some are just unlucky to get the virus. However, given the lack of precautions people are taking, going around apparently as if normal life, no mask-wearing at all and not following what even the official public health guidance still says, doing this and getting infected does seem rather silly to me and people are not taking what measures are sensible that they could be doing in order not to be infected, so I do think many people are being infected because of their own fault and by doing things that I wouldn't risk, although people are just unlucky still and catch the virus despite taking all precautions, they are clearly many that are not doing such thing and can't properly be said to be unlucky.
If, despite taking all precautions they can, people still get the virus then that is unlucky and not their fault. However, (a) I doubt many people actually are doing this as it seems virtually everyone else is now going around as if it is completely back to normal (except when forced otherwise in medical settings etc.) and the sensible people are the ones in lockdown protecting themselves against all this; and (b) there are people that say they were taking all precautions but I am nearly convinced if I could have had video camera recording everything they did, I could immediately identify some tiny and pedantic failing that they did that is how the virus got through (so wasn't pedantic at all) which is something that I could almost never do (I can't claim to be perfect because I am not) and almost incapable of committing such failure since, apart from one momentary lapse as everyone can have when not fully concentrating, otherwise I am always aware of everything around me, at least when I need to be when not in my home (obviously don't need to take precautions here apart from not touching the quarantine before time or else washing my hands thoroughly after and not touching face, eyes etc. as the virus otherwise isn't here in my home if it is here at all - it is outside that I need to be aware and take precautions - I can drive and forget it when driving as safely in my car with a mask but... why do people get out of cars without a mask and then only put one on afterwards? Strange, they walk past people without and it is things like this that are potential for transmission even if thought to be unlikely, and I am all for shutting unlikely events off as they occur quite frequently somewhere. Numerous "unlikely" events have happened in recent years despite being supposedly unlikely.
I did in fact hesitate over writing "stupidity", so it was carefully thought about and considered and it did describe the fact it does seem stupid to me to be behaving as if it is normal life all back when away from home, which is what many people seem to be doing. I didn't say, or mean to suggest, anything about being in lockdown and I don't think being out of lockdown is stupid in itself, merely something I wouldn't do especially in the light of the continued infection rates that have increased risk and never brought it down to any level at which I could leave, other than for essential purposes, and my essential purposes extremely limited indeed, truly essential, as I don't do exemptions including having no need to do any that are considered to be socially desirable as I have no such need and no need to win friends or be influenced in any other emotional way as I am completely objective. I am, whilst constrained heavily being in lockdown, in some ways more free than I was before as no need to please people anymore, although clearly not free to call any individual "stupid" on here and I didn't do so. Just the completely normal life behaviour that seems stupidity to me given the fact there is still this virus here. And goes back to one of my original points, that people seem to have this cognitive dissonance of accepting and knowing the virus is here, on the one hand, and yet behaving completely contrary to what they know to be true by behaving as if it isn't and somehow thinking holding the most huge gatherings in my lifetime was what should be done - it is groupthink that's what it is, and the dismissal of myself and calling me mentally ill is part of the proof of it. I expect to encounter people in denial not accepting this is what it is, because this shows that it is in itself.
People do something because other people are doing it, and are uncomfortable at being the only ones wearing masks when no-one else is doing so. As soon as someone else puts one on, it makes them more comfortable to do so and be doing the right thing in a pandemic. I quite deliberately wear a mask by my own these days, having no need at all to fall in with any crowd or be influenced by it on some social basis, and quite a rebellious act of mine now, that forces people to be unable to deny the reality that it is still a pandemic, which is why they probably dislike it so much, and don't like being reminded of the truth. It may be why they go about in seeming normalism denial of it, the behaviour contradicting what they really know and something people perhaps need to do on an emotional level (as ever yet again) whereas I could almost never not know Covid wasn't here and behave contrary to it as just almost impossible. Or in fact many people wrongly assume I have Covid and are likely to give me a wider berth, which suits me fine as it gets them to be socially distanced and thus reduce the risk of them giving me the virus.
(Yet again right now, I am hearing someone on the news claiming we are coming out of the pandemic - people have been claiming this for months and months now, but showing me no evidence that we are actually doing so - the WHO statement will not do as that is not evidence, just what they said and they've now gone political for me on that - or even people claiming us to have already come out of the pandemic, whilst the truth is that we are going more and more into the pandemic again right now as infections are once again rising in another wave that shows we are part of the pandemic that is ongoing worldwide and our more infections again are part of it. Maybe some people in lockdown are aware of these facts and maybe why they are staying it in as it is getting more dangerous again right now, and more so for people not yet caught up with their boosters that don't resolve the transmission issue anyway as Omicron able repeatedly to infect and vaccines put behind by other people's behaviour in normal life for almost the whole of this year - I don't know, I am not sure when people generally upped and left lockdown sometime earlier this year, all I knew is that the risk remained throughout at unacceptable levels by increased amount of infected people in society, and myself keeping watching the ONS infections survey and paying attention to the data and acting according to it throughout and never any point at which it became safe, instead the situation simply deteriorated in Omicron as yet more infections and now attempted normalisation at these levels that are causing more deaths and disability than before and seem to be having us accepting more and more each year in the vaccinated era from now on in - I may have said this all before.
By April, people started then suddenly claiming, retrospectively, that we were post-pandemic which came as complete out of the blue to me and hasn't been true ever since as we've simply been going into and out of waves and back into more Covid again therefore all year and constantly in the pandemic and it has been more here than ever at points this year, more in the pandemic than ever with the highest infection levels to date and we are not coming out of the pandemic right now, especially as people on a mass scale in this country are doing no change to complete normal life behaviour to ever be doing so, we are right now going back more and more into the pandemic at this stage, due to the fact infections are rising again into another wave and therefore right now for me is a time to be even more staying in lockdown and not coming out and, even when the wave eventually goes back down, which this time I see as not coming down to the start but instead a further wave, the winter one yet to come, this is just the autumn one, still possibly two further winter waves after this one, this is the stupidity of going complete normal in which vast numbers of people seem to be in, even when infections coming down still at high rate and not the end so logically same position when up the wave as down it, until it reaches the start point, which I doubt this next one will, and certainly when infections now on the way up is the very time for me to remain in lockdown more so right now and wait for it to pass, even though I know people in this country are doing nothing and just causing wave after wave after wave, so I am waiting for this to show itself as an unsustainable way to keep going, which this winter might amount to the total calamity and devastation to end all the madness to me.)
As the wave is now here (barely after the last one) and infections rising again, the truth that people won't like and keep being in denial of when being shown on the media is that we are not coming out of Covid or the pandemic at present, instead we are currently going more and more into Covid once again and are going more into the pandemic right now as a wave within it of prevalence of the virus here in this country as part of a virus present in numerous parts across the world, therefore a pandemic. And no I am not allowing the WHO to redefine pandemic in terms of deaths being caused, which had reduced across the world but are probably going back up again or if not now soon, as I am not accepting redefining the meaning of the word "pandemic" as being a way to ending the pandemic given that people have failed to end in any other way and now seem intent on trying to redefine in terms of deaths as a way to then say they have "ended" it when in fact they have never done so. The WHO did mention deaths gone down, but that's not the definition.
People think I am conspiracy theory here, but look at official bodies and the false claims and misinformation/part information that they provide regularly, as it is information that is, often, there to make the organisations look good and to serve the interests of the organisation (it actually says so in the media policy one organisation released to me), rather than provide the full truth that is not in their favour. It is more rare that an organisation will admit to a fault and apologise (over the unusual issues I always have, that are public interest general issues and not individual complaints of bad service), I got one apology once but only after some inquiry had already been done, so no loss to the organisation probably in simply admitting the outcome of the official inquiry anyway and not over anything of real substance it seems to me, and I know I am on point and hit the nail on the head as anything like that results in omission entirely to address the point: silence tells me that I have hit the nail on the head, when every other matter is addressed that deflects from the point and gives the PR line of the organisation. It is now long-running experience away from here and my view formed on the basis of that experience and not a conspiracy.
Anyway, I am still in lockdown and right now, when infections are rising once again, possibly into a worse wave as doing into winter and behaviour currently one of three explanations as to why this is happening, it is possibly the worst time for me to think of coming out of my lockdown: it seems to me more and more justified at this stage as we are going into both more Covid and the pandemic right now, at the very time other people are continually claiming the opposite with no evidence and instead wishful thinking it seems to me... I've no evidence that we actually are coming out of Covid, unless people are using the word "Covid" in some strange sense that doesn't match reality, as we are in fact going into more Covid and Covid since there are showing to be more and more infections here every week right now and therefore more reason for me to be even more cautious than I am and I can't be any more cautious than already staying in lockdown except to not drop my guard and especially right now ensure I remain in it, as the infections are creating more risk right now and I'm not going to let my vaccine next week, which will reduce my risk by some unknown amount again, but really the risks from infection including mild infection, then putting back risk anyway by infection levels rising so increases the chance of getting the virus and is offsetting it so remains still at risk and no change: still in lockdown.