Can anyone say they have 100% stuck to covid rules for the last year?

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Just out of curiosity, can anyone say they completely have? e.g. no meeting up in groups slightly more than 6, sneaking the odd visitor in, not keeping a 1m distance when socialising, going out more than once a day in 1st lockdown... etc etc, just interested to know really!

Yes and it's really helping to see how many others on this thread have been too, despite the odd poster saying we've given in to hysteria or whatever.

My parents are in a different country and i haven't seen them for 18 months.

It's all been really hard but we were personally, very seriously affected, quite early on and that put it into perspective for us. We have lost friends and and it has been awful.

There are some very understandable stories on here and I can see why people have bent or broken the rules at times... but for me I couldn't do it.

From March to May 2020 yes 100%

From then on - honestly no.

No. My sister lives with my parents and wouldn't be able to understand why nobody sees her so I pop around once or twice a week.
My parents also provide childcare for my other dsis and my dd helps out after school.
All 3 families have mitigated the risk by limiting contact with others, working from home, wearing ppe etc. My biggest risk is doing the supermarket shop and people refusing to give space, pushing past without consideration.
I gave up buying a valentines card for dh because of the crowds around them every time. I tried four times during one shop but everytime people reached around me.

After trips like this, or when a couple of dh colleagues tested positive then we all stay away from dsis for 10 days.

We also hug.

First lockdown I was petrified and stuck to the rules , the last 2 I haven't.

Yes, I 100% can.

And if everyone had we'd be much further along the road to being Covid free but saying that around here doesn't go down very well!

At the end of the day I wanted to come out of this feeling like I'd done the right thing for everyone, not just myself or my family.

No....
I know one person that’s had it ( she worked as a carer) and she’s fine after a week.
I live very very rurally.
I’ve lost ten people the last year because of suicide or failure to get the medical treatment they needed

Yes

I don't think that I've actually broken rules, no. I probably did go out more than once a day occasionally in Lockdown 1, but it wasn't actually against the rules: just a recommendation.

I do tend to be very health-anxious, because of past experiences of long-term ill-health in myself and family members. Before it became clearer that momentarily being within 2m of someone in the street is not a major cause of transmission, I was one occasion both panic-stricken and furious with someone getting scarily close to me: didn't they know about social distancing; were they trying to kill me, and worse, would they succeed in doing so; etc... Then I looked again, and found that the non-social-distancer was MY OWN SHADOW!

No, I don't keep 2m. I see family indoors and out. I travel further than necessary for a walk occasionally.

I haven't when it comes to my kids mental wellbeing. I've allowed my children to play with thier friends outdoors this time round, as my daughter really struggled during the first lockdown. I don't feel guilty in the slightest.

Yep absolutely apart from last Monday when someone I'd asked to service my boiler, waltzed into my house, declared he didn't have a mask and asked where it was. I was too to tell him to go away so I sloped off upstairs and let him breath on DH (who has had his first jab) instead.

*and asked where it the boiler was

Yes.

No. And I've been pretty much inside for a year due to shielding
But I broke the rules as I needed my kitchen tap fixing. Choices were a workman (no idea whether they had Covid, no idea whether they followed rules etc) or my dad (had already had covid, know exactly where he's been)
I went with my dad, he came over and fixed my tap while I opened all the windows and hovered in another room, then he left

@trappedsincesundaymorn I'm so sorry for your losses,your post made me feel sad Of course you did the right thing on all counts.

@SuperCaliFragalistic Spend as much time with your brother as you can and are able to. Absolutely nothing selfish about it

Yes, I’ve stuck to the rules completely.

99.9% I gave my mum a hug outdoors 2 days before Christmas. Apart from that have followed the rules completely

I haven't, I've met up with my family, looked after my nieces and I've travelled for exercise.

I haven't met up in big groups or had parties or anything which I think is more important.

No because my cat went missing and a neighbour and my family helped to rescue him.

My dad had paramedics called to him and I entered my parents house wearing a mask and keeping a distance.

Yes. I had coronavirus almost a year ago and I’m still unwell. There’s no way I’d go out of my way to risk getting it again. I was just as scared as when I had cancer.

Yes. 100%

Yes 100%.

Yes.
And lost both my parents without being able to see them in the residential home other than for a few minutes at the very end (no touching etc 😢)

Yes
Oh hang on....my married daughter used our loo the other when we were not home as she was passing for desperate...
I've not held my children in my arms since Christmas Day ...they live in the same town as us.

I'm a teacher ....I wanted to keep my family safe

No. But by mistake not design. I haven't actively gone out of my way to break the rules but there have been times when I've forgotten. The worst was probably when I met my brother at work to give him something he had had delivered to our house and then he offered to give me a lift home (10 minute drive) which I accepted.