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!

Totally disagree that anyone who didn't is a selfish fucker. There is more going on in the world than Covid. Not everyone has lives that include Co habitees, or a garden, or good mental health, or circumstances that let them use the bubble rules to alleviate any of the above issues. There are many genuine reasons why people may have broken the rules, not the least of which is common sense regarding real vs perceived risk and human compassion. I saw my partner throughout after 1st lockdown . Not constantly but every few weeks. We can't live together, can't bubble so we are breaking the rules when we do see each other, but we've been a couple for years, live apart for good reasons and are not prepared to turn things on their head for a nonsensical rule. Other than each other, neither of us saw anyone 'extra' so we have not risked spreading it any more than we would do if we lived together and one if us brought it in from the shops. This is not the plague and a balance needs to be struck.

Yes however, I work overseas so have travelled back and forth within the Law with my legal documentation. 🌺

I have I think. I may have inadvertently got closer to someone while at Tesco once or twice, but that's it.

Nope! I have a dog, he needs walking.

Otherwise, yes. As far as I can tell I haven't even squeezed any of the covid guidance.

@oldwhyno

No, not 100%. But I would say in all important respects, 99.9999% though. "Transgressions" like walking side by side with somebody closer than 2m never really bothered me.

If you're one of those people that crosses the street a hundred yards in advance, vaults a railing, dramatically flattens yourself against a wall or chooses an entirely different supermarket isle just to avoid coming within 2m of somebody for perhaps less than half a second, well sorry, I think you're, at the very least, utterly daft.

Similar. Also we have bent the rules on a couple of occasions BUT no-one in the family has had COVID, or been admitted to hospital, or even seen a doctor.

I think anyone who says they stuck to the rules 100% is fibbing. 95%, I would believe.

No, I haven’t

Tbh I have just continued as normal and so have my friends and family... for example seeing each other when possible

Law yes, guidance no.

No. I've broken the 'law' by driving more than five miles outwith my area and sat in mum and dad's house. Even hugged them. Shoot me.

Not 100%. We did during the first lockdown, but it was phenomenally tough and I’ll admit we’ve bent them in places since. We have a childcare bubble with my in laws and we sometimes send the children there for a day at the weekend to have some time to ourselves, so not for work! We’ve also committed such shocking acts as meeting up with a friend and her daughter on a field (when neither child was in school during the most recent lockdown) and letting our children run around a totally isolated field on day 13 of 14 days isolation due to a popped bubble in DD’s school.

Not 100%, no. Broke the rules by having more than one childcare bubble. I don't feel guilty as it was either that or lose my job.

Not fully.

Nope
No big parties but certainly breaking the guidance if not then law. For example, meeting my parents outside last may a few weeks before it was "allowed". Not sticking to social distancing in my grandparents house when we were allowed to go inside. Meeting with 2 other households at one time in the summer, rather than just 1. Letting in laws into the house for a few minutes.

@AgnesNaismith

Yep 100%

Not because I’m showing off or I want to be a dick, but because I think anyone who didn’t is a selfish fucker.

Covid is not the only thing that matters. And it is OK to sometimes put yourself before others.

Last summer, we socialised with two other families at different times outside. One of these groups was 7 people total (4 adults, 1 teenager, 2 under 10s), and the other was 8 people total (4 adults, 1 toddler, 3 under 10s).
This would have been legal in Scotland for example, where children don't count.

@Waxonwaxoff0

It is not okay to put your "need" to have dinner with friends for example over the actual life of others. What a crazy thing to say.
The fact you don't know if your actions have killed or given someone long covid making them suffer for months, years or even their entire lives doesn't mean it's okay. Follow the rules and you're unlikely to be the reason anyone else suffers. How is that not worthwhile?

[quote justcannotwithyou]@Waxonwaxoff0

It is not okay to put your "need" to have dinner with friends for example over the actual life of others. What a crazy thing to say.
The fact you don't know if your actions have killed or given someone long covid making them suffer for months, years or even their entire lives doesn't mean it's okay. Follow the rules and you're unlikely to be the reason anyone else suffers. How is that not worthwhile?[/quote]
Where are people saying they have had dinner with friends? You have no idea of the circumstances as to why people broke the rules. As I said, I broke them otherwise I would have lost my job and sorry but I'm not willing to do that when I have a mortgage to pay and a child to feed.

Yes. Very much stuck to the rules in both letter and spirit.

Three members of my family are front line NHS staff. It would be hugely disrespectful to them if any of us had broken the rules.

I think I have, although a few times I've gone in shops (I work in a town, so not an extra journey) specifically for items that aren't essential eg M&S hot cross buns .

Yes

But the virus doesn't know the rules. It's not the case that so long as you only do what's allowed you're safe. You could keep the rules 100% and still get it and pass it on or you could break the rules quite a lot and not have it or be connected with anyone who has. Whilst people have been asked to continue with certain jobs, like teaching or supermarket work, I wouldn't condemn them for (with the consent of all involved) seeing their loved ones in a private garden or even indoors, especially now.

Yes - absolutely.

How sad that those people who are trying their best to save others, are accused of polishing halos.