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, me and the teenager have stuck to the rules.

No visitors, no meet ups, keeping our distance, masks and doing hands. It isn't difficult.

No.

I've looked after my elderly Dad, my grandkids and kept working. Seen our DC and their partners at home. We've taken all of the sensible precautions but carried on living. Whole family is still Covid free after 12 months.

I feel very sorry for people who've been driven to hysteria by this virus.

No because that would've entailed keeping my toddler away from all children for a year and there isn't anything that would get me to do that.

A hug with a family member at a very difficult time - it was worth the risk. Nothing else aside from that.

TBH though, if I could be one of the people who didn't care as much and took a more "risky" approach to life, I would be. It's not good living life as an anxious, agrophobic hypochondriac, however much the government might approve.

Most people in the carefree group won't have caught covid (or when they have, will have had a mild illness). They will deal with "getting back to normal" a lot better than I will.

I have stuck to all the rules. I don't have the mindset to go out as yet, even though there has been a few more little rules for the better that have been made.. I have had the vaccine shot, as I am an oldie, but even so, I am still going to play safe.

I have just read on my county website, that it has been deemed, that Supermarkets, are the most unsafe places to go, for catching the virus, but maybe seems odd, with all the rules and regulations that they have made.

Yes - and as somebody who lives on their own with nobody close enough to form a support bubble with I’m now feeling VERY lonely (everybody has other people more important they want to bubble with – e.g. their sister or parents, why would they want to bubble with me? My closest friends who would want to bubble live over an hour away as do my only family).
I am luckier than some though as I have been getting human interaction at work - which I have been going to throughout (keyworker)

Yes, I have - not in the UK, in Ireland, so slightly different restrictions, but I've stuck to them, and still am sticking to them.

Meh, I've done my best. I think the nearest I got was when I met my sister outdoors and that made 9 of us rather than the 6.

In terms of risk, the worst things we have done have involved care for MIL, which is allowed within the rules. In the last two days there has been 4 carers, a district nurse, two sets of paramedics, DH and possibly a neighbour in and out of her house. I wish my life was such that I could easily keep totally to the rules.

But to me it's far more terrible that a pp is saying she darent go to the supermarket, even having been vaccinated and another relative of mine hasn't left the house forva year and I suspect never will for a virus that 99% of people survive. Appalling.

Yes, I have. 110%, if anything.

I’m asthmatic, so I have been ultra-cautious since well before the first lockdown. I live in one of the hardest-hit places in the UK so even last summer when most of the country was enjoying something close to normality and eating out to help out, I definitely wasn’t.

Yes. Definitely.

Yes, none of us are clinically vulnerable but we have stuck to the rules. My 19 year old dd didn't even see her boyfriend for more than 3 months during lockdown 1.

My 17 year old son probably hasn't followed the rules exactly to the letter wrt going into friend's houses - he has 2 that he has seen fairly often and sometimes that must have been indoors. They are friends from school and in his class bubbles.

I've seen my Mum who lives 70 miles away once in a year, and that was in September when it was permitted.

We have had no one in our house except dd boyfriend and a plumber when we had a leak.

Some friends came through the house and out into the back garden when we were allowed to socialise outside last July/August.

Nope I can't say that I have followed all the rules 100% of the time
I've had an "illegal" hug on a few occasions

Outdoor walks without a tape measure so yep got closer then 2 metres at points

My son has played with more than one friend at the playpark which means shock horror there has been more than 2 parents in the playground!

I wfh and online shop my only risk of catching it is from my sons nursery or a walk with a friend anyway
Don't regret any of the above either!

I've tried to and mostly have. I did drive (200 miles) to see my mum when it wasn't allowed she was not in a bubble with us but she needed a handhold. I drove back the same day, she hugged me as I left, her first hug in 7 months. I'd do it again in a heartbeat if it was necessary.

No ... my kids have met 2 friends not 1 , sat in a group of 7 not 6 ...decided to not exclude 1 child .... all outside - not had any visitors inside since last March .

Oh and I dashed 100 miles to take care of an elderly relative when they were discharged with no notice from hospital and had refused social services care ...though I think there’s an exemption for that

Walked twice a day not once in the first lockdown .

I think that’s it ....

I did during the first lockdown but when all that effort was pissed up the wall with eat out to help out and bloody Christmas I have looked after myself during this lockdown. I have made my own risk based decisions when meeting up with people outdoors etc.

Yes

No, I’ve stuck to them about 90%.
I’m going for about 50% atm.
But soon I’ll probably go down to about 10% at best.

No and I'm not unhappy about that.

@Waxonwaxoff0

I know people who have done similar and I've seen it lots on here too. People have been breaking the rules in ways that are unacceptable.

That doesn't mean I think what you did was unacceptable, you needed to keep your job and couldn't have done so otherwise.

Nope, and sticking to it less and less as borh my mental and physical health deteriorate

Not 100% but very close to it. My conscience is clear, put it that way.

I can 100% say we havent broken any rules, in fact we barely left the house or garden in lockdown 1

@daisyjgrey

Competitive piety.

Nauseating, isn’t it?

I know more than a couple of people who died from Covid recently. I barely know anyone who even had covid during the first lockdown, but the recent months have been nasty.

At least I can sleep in peace, my selfishness is not the reason.