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!

@Cassilis

Very much so. Perhaps someone is canvassing to send out certificates and stickers?

No and I don't know anyone in a very large circle that have either.

Nope.

99.99% of the time I have exceeded them though, and as an employer we stringently went way over the minimum too, so I've indirectly contributed to the compliance of a dozen other households too.

However given my cat died three days before I was reunited with my parents outdoors, like fuck was I mot hugging them. I intended to socially distance when staying overnight with them within the rules later, then my other cat died suddenly too, and that time my mum was the one to start the hugging.

Can't say it weighs on my conscience.

Yes I have, and my family have.

Nope I did the first lockdown. But not so much this one.

Yes

Yes.

Yes. BAME and DH is vulnerable. I wasnt going to take a risk. He has been vaccinated now and I can see the light at the end of the v long tunnel.

Aside from meeting my parents for literally ten minutes in a petrol station and flinging Christmas presents at each other (and hugging them) we have stuck to the rules. I'd love to be able to go and see them, but the right thing to do, is to stick to the rules.

We live in a fairly small town and have genuinely bumped into friends when we've been out for a walk. My DH works in the same place as half a dozen of our friends, and DD is at school with their children so we're pretty much a bubble - even so we've never met outside of work or school intentionally.

Yes. 100% and so has my entire family and extended family. But I hate myself for doing it because the whole thing was so badly managed and farcical. And will get the experimental vaccine only when I can't get on a plane without one.

Yes. Fed up with it, but yes.

Yes i have stuck to the rules, at my age it would be very foolish not to.

Yes, 100%.

From March till July me and my family did. Apart from the odd nighttime walk we stayed in. After that I was told for my mental health to go out even if it was to do the food shop. So I have . I wear masks, gloves whatever but I go out. I isolated for a year in 2018 thanks to chemo I won’t do it again.

I have pretty much stuck to them, but:
Haven’t kept distance when outside walking w friend - I try to face head on not to the person.
I have sat distanced on a bench w friends before it was allowed.
Husband and I have met (accidentally and arranged) another couple and walked w the wife/husband separately.
When we were allowed to meet outdoors in pub rule of 6 we were not sitting apart (can’t remember if you could).
Also got a lift home from couple friends after eating outside in a pub. That was just after 2nd lockdown.
I have had two v brief hugs - one was from friend on side, other was from boss at time and it was unsolicited (she should’ve known better!).
Have allowed teen son to meet more than one friend outside.

However haven’t allowed anyone into the house since end Oct so before the 2nd lockdown. Cases were still fairly low here then.
I wfh and get shopping delivered, so that’s not an issue. Barely been in an indoor setting for weeks and when I do I’m fully masked up. I wouldn’t intentionally break a rule if I thought it’d make the slightest bit of difference to my catching Covid.

I've started visiting my parents again - going to their house every Saturday. I give them both a big hug when I leave. We aren't in a bubble.

I've recently been to a couple of different friends' houses for a cuppa and a catch up.

This lockdown has gone on long enough and people are sick of being told what to do.

Yes, I'm clinically extremely vulnerable, so its quite literally been stick to the rules, or risk serious illness, or possibly death.

Yes.

@florentina1

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

They aren't doing it to "save others"! 🤣 How ridiculous can you get!

They're doing it for themselves and their families. Fine. Thats normal. They just won't admit that and pretend it's for the benefit of total strangers whilst calling total strangers selfish murderers.

Not 100% but we’ve been sensible.
I’ve used both sets of grandparents for childcare in lockdown 3 as I had no choice, it was that or unpaid leave. I’ve also seen my brother and sister in law. I don’t begrudge anyone making measured decisions about their social contact any more. It’s been 12 months and I definitely don’t see steady streams of visitors around where I live.
A friends teenager sat out with his friends in the street and someone called the Police on them - I really wonder what kind of person would do that.

Yes, we have.

There have been instances of walking past people less than 2 metres from them I can recall.

I wonder what the figure for members of the cabinet is?

Me!

I go to work and that's it apart from handing my parents shopping over in the garden. Think I've been in about 5 shops on the last year. No one has been in my house and I've been in no ones house.

No.

If I had my mental health (which is fragile and very carefully managed) would be in tatters.

No. I had a baby 3 months ago by c-section, followed by a serious illness and further surgery. Formed 2 bubbles with both sets of GPs because we needed more support than one set alone could realistically provide. Everyone has otherwise stuck to the rules. Not sure what we would have done otherwise, don’t feel guilty about it at all.