Totally unscientific poll on covid and lockdowns.

[KenDodd]

Just thinking about yourself, nobody else you might pass covid on to. Would you rather just take your chances against covid and not have any lockdowns? Bearing in mind you might have no access to healthcare if you needed it. Please just think of yourself and your own health, nobody else.

Yanbu - lockdown
Yabu - I'll take my chances against covid

I haven't voted myself because I'm not sure.
If I was young I would definitely vote to take my chances against covid.

Nope, of course not. There's no good way yet of saying who will or won't get long covid, which is what I'm most worried about. Being out of action for even a month would be pretty difficult for our family and keeping the house, kids at school, etc.

Can I ask how old you are?

I’m 27 and very fit and healthy. I know that’s no guarantee but I feel like I would be ok if I caught Covid.
However my family include several vulnerable people so there’s no way I would risk their lives.

I'm 46 and female. The chance of me dying of Covid is so low that I would absolutely be prepared to take my chances. It's only from a sense of social responsibility that I'm obeying the lockdown rules.

YABU. I'm 51, obese and have asthma. I don't want to get it. I don't want my fit healthy kids to get it. It's a nasty beast of a virus and we need to slow it down while we work out treatments and vaccinations.

I'd also feel like shit if I ended up in hospital needing care and filling a bed.

I don't think we should all stay in and never leave the house. I do think that all the unnecessary fun stuff needs to stop.

We need to toughen up and live with fewer social and leisure activities for a few years. Save the jobs and businesses that don't rely on cramming people into small spaces, ditch the ones that do.

Restart in a few years when stuff has settled down a bit.

Nobody's voting though! I was hoping to keep a tally. As I said, please just think of yourself. I know many, many people would take their chances but want lockdowns to protect others.

Just to balance things out a bit. I’ve just had covid. I’m 40 yrs old with no health conditions. Without wishing to sound flippant, I’ve honestly felt worse with a wine hangover. I felt tired (not so tired I couldn’t get out of bed), had a headache that was eased with paracetamol for 3 days and I had the cough for about a week. To be fair I did feel a bit puffy in the chest for around a week and like I was quite unfit but I thankfully never had breathing problems and the minute my cough stopped that wheezy chest feeling completely lifted. One and a half weeks on and I feel fully recovered. I know nobody knows how they will react and I realise I am very fortunate compared to others but I also think it’s important for people to hear less scary accounts of having covid.

@SocialBees I feel the same I'm 46 and female. The chance of me dying of Covid is so low that I would absolutely be prepared to take my chances. It's only from a sense of social responsibility that I'm obeying the lockdown rules
Personally, I would take my chances I think. But I also think I/we have to think about the more vulnerable amongst us and that is why I am doing what the government asks of me (in the same way that I vaccinate my dc -herd immunity to protect those who can not be vaccinated because of other medical issues).

I can't see a vote? I'm on the app. This is my answer though.

Yabu - I'll take my chances against covid

Ordinarily I'd definitely take my chances but I'm pregnant so the potential lack of access to healthcare if I had a bad case makes me more nervous. But tbh it was hard to choose when voting, I don't feel that worried about getting it.

Yes, I'd take the risk.

I'm mid-50s. My kids are grown and flown, and much as I love them they don't depend on me.

I'm probably medium risk. Non-smoker and no health conditions but I am obese and not particularly fit.

I'd rather still live with the time I have left, and do the things I still want to do, than be stuck in my home with my mental health getting worse by the day. I see little point in a life that can't be enjoyed. That's not living to me.

I see little point in a life that can't be enjoyed. That's not living to me.

I actually know a couple of very elderly people who agree. They don't want to shield even though they're very vulnerable.

57, mild asthma, yes I'd take my chances.

I’m a healthy and fairly fit 36 year old so I would rather take my chances

not sure. how is sweden going without full lockdowns etc?

@Lostinacloud

Just to balance things out a bit. I’ve just had covid. I’m 40 yrs old with no health conditions. Without wishing to sound flippant, I’ve honestly felt worse with a wine hangover. I felt tired (not so tired I couldn’t get out of bed), had a headache that was eased with paracetamol for 3 days and I had the cough for about a week. To be fair I did feel a bit puffy in the chest for around a week and like I was quite unfit but I thankfully never had breathing problems and the minute my cough stopped that wheezy chest feeling completely lifted. One and a half weeks on and I feel fully recovered. I know nobody knows how they will react and I realise I am very fortunate compared to others but I also think it’s important for people to hear less scary accounts of having covid.

It is important to hear this so thank you

I absolutely don't want to get it I'm afraid of the long term possible effects that are now being seen I have (hopefully) many years ahead I don't want to suffer because of it. Liklyhood might be low but I've been in 3 car crashes these were also unlikely.

I would totally take my chances. I'm 29 and have asthma, but overall the likelihood of being severely ill is tiny.

I'm saying this as someone who is being horribly effected by lockdown.

I'm 43 and ECV and I think I have already had it. We can't go on having these lockdowns forever.

If life was going to be normal again then yes, I'd take my chances for sure.

It's very hard to separate your own chances from other people's though, even mentally. Because I would only want to take my chances with Covid if life was like it was in 2019. My biggest social pleasures are things like packed theatres, vintage clothing rummage sales and travelling. So I wouldn't risk catching Covid for some kind of 'half way house' like shops and small gatherings. But it's impossible to have 2019 life without putting millions of people at huge risk. Even in my imagination, that's hard to take.

Don't think voting is enabled?

YABU, will take my chances but glad we've had the chance to prove working from home is perfectly fine. I'm 28, fairly fit and healthy.

As my username says I am in my fifties and would take my chances against the virus although I have beaten it once already (have had positive antibody test but veins not good enough to donate plasma).

@SocialBees

I'm 46 and female. The chance of me dying of Covid is so low that I would absolutely be prepared to take my chances. It's only from a sense of social responsibility that I'm obeying the lockdown rules.

Same here, little older. I’m 99% certain I’ve had it once. It’s about not passing it on to someone who passes it on to someone... Until someone dies.