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, I've abided by the rules completely. I've stayed in touch with others by email etc, have followed the guidelines for food deliveries etc (sometimes I seem more aware of the guidelines than the delivery men).
It has been a long year really.

I have now broken the guidelines. My Dad died yesterday and today a colleague hugged me. We both tested negative on our test at the weekend (we test twice a week) and have both had our first jabs. I have not seen my Dad in over a year and was unable to be with him when he was ill. I will be unable to go to the funeral. That was the first physical contact I've had with someone other than my DH or DS since March last year and I needed it BUT I will revert to my strict stance on following the rules now with a hope that the end is in sight.

[quote SimplyMarvellousDarrrrrrling]@AnaofBroceliandie blooky hell calm down, there's no need to attack people who have experienced something different to you[/quote]
This poster is coming across as aggressive on other threads.

@user1497207191

There was high compliance with first lockdown. But look at that?! It didn't work!

Of course it worked. It did what it said on the tin. It massively reduced the peak and we had very low levels of infection in the Summer. It was never intended to eradicate Covid, nor could it have done.

Exactly 🙌

CouldBeOuting 💐

No, have been doing my own risk assessment since October. From March - October 2020 did follow it exactly but now go by my own assessment.

Not 100% no, and for good reason. If we continue in a lockdown that is increasingly unjustifiable I will probably ignore the rules more and more.

@CouldBeOuting

I have now broken the guidelines. My Dad died yesterday and today a colleague hugged me. We both tested negative on our test at the weekend (we test twice a week) and have both had our first jabs. I have not seen my Dad in over a year and was unable to be with him when he was ill. I will be unable to go to the funeral. That was the first physical contact I've had with someone other than my DH or DS since March last year and I needed it BUT I will revert to my strict stance on following the rules now with a hope that the end is in sight.

So sorry about your dad

Nope, sick to death of it now...i did to begin with though

@CouldBeOuting I'm so sorry for your loss

Yes. I've stuck to the rules.

Yes. I’ve only been in my sisters house once, and that was when she became ill and needed an ambulance. She’s bubbled with her son, but he was at work.

I think it became a bit more of a free-for-all after the Dominic Cummings fiasco, when Boris Johnson basically told everyone that the rules were to be interpreted according to individual circumstances and that we should all be following our instincts!

Broken the rules three times -

1. Had a friend round for a brew when he broke up with his girlfriend (so he didn't live alone, therefore couldn't have been our bubble, but had only been in the house with her, wfh etc).

1. Once had some friends pop by to drop something off we needed (not essential, obviously) and we stood chatting to them in the front 'yard' of our terrace for about half an hour.

1. And hugging my dad at my nana's funeral last summer, I couldn't not.

Otherwise, yep. Stuck to the rules.

Yes I've stuck to it. Those who haven't are the reason this is going on for some long and certainly shouldn't be complaining. There's no such thing as self assesding tne risks during a pandemic 😈 the ignorance is astounding.

@Plumbear2 of course you can self assess a risk! I wfh full time with my DH who does same. Our shopping is once a week via click and collect where we open our boot and the shopping is out in. We wipe down our shopping once it arrives home. Otherwise zero contact with the outside world.

My parents do the same. No working outside home or going into shops etc. So I have met them every few weeks and there is no covid risk to either of us.

Obviously if I was working outside the home or they were it would be a different risk assessment.

How am I the reason ‘this is going on so long’. I’ve never had covid, never had a reason to get a covid test, never been a close contact even of a covid test.

Common sense can prevail

"Yes I've stuck to it. Those who haven't are the reason this is going on for some long and certainly shouldn't be complaining. There's no such thing as self assesding tne risks during a pandemic 😈 the ignorance is astounding."

Utter bollocks, the principle reason this is still going on is down to the UK having an utterly incompentent government, not because Tom next door went to see his gran for a cup of tea.

And it's perfectly possible to self-assess the risk of certain actions that may - gasp- be outside the lockdown guidance.

I havent.

I made a bubble with my mum, as she was single. Then a friend who I also work with so was seeing every week has been over to mine, and me to hers. She has been doing a study though so is tested regularly.

That was it, until my husbands friend became suicidal. At that stage we felt it was more important to bring him into our fold more, than leave him aside due to a bloody virus that he'd likely survive since it was almost a 100% certainty he wouldnt survive suicide.

So, we see my mum, my friend/colleague and my husbands friend. We dont hold parties, we dont make tonnes of unnecessary supermarket trips, we havent travelled anywhere other than work, we havent seen my DHs family up North, or my family in Europe.

Instead we chose a human connection, one of which to save a life.

My conscience is clear.

It's weird how many people seem to think that you can't spread the virus unless you break the rules. That is not remotely true.

No. Unless accidentally.

I think it would be difficult to state absolutely that you followed the rules. People seem incapable of distinguishing between guidelines and rules, the whole point of making somethings guidelines was so they could retain some flexibility according to individual circumstances.
There is also the issue of what the rules or guidelines meant. Leave home for essential shopping, one persons essentials are another persons luxuries. Only go shopping once a week, no consideration given to people who don’t drive or can’t afford to use their local Waitrose.
Some people had very odd ideas as to what essential services are, forgetting that utilities need to be kept going, broadband needs to be available, food and clothing needs to be delivered, animals need to be looked after.

not 100% no.

@Plumbear2

Yes I've stuck to it. Those who haven't are the reason this is going on for some long and certainly shouldn't be complaining. There's no such thing as self assesding tne risks during a pandemic 😈 the ignorance is astounding.

Absolutely. Unless someone has expertise in virology/epidemiology/etc, they're not doing a risk assessment, they're just deciding what they would like to do and justifying it to themselves with long words. I have a lot more respect for people who straight-up say " yeah, I broke the rules because I wanted to hug my recently bereaved dad" than I do for people who claim to have done a risk assessment that resulted in them being allowed to break whatever rule they feel like. If you want to break rules, bloody well own that you just wanted to.

More or less. I’ve visited my mother but she has 24/7 care needs and had my vulnerable nephew round a few times as he lives on his own near me but far from his parents and I worry about his mental health. . Daughters boyfriend moved in with us but since his furlough lifted he spends the week with his parents and weekends with us. Don’t know anyone who has fully followed the rules - our neighbours have been pretty shocking - loads of visitors.