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 (polishes )
Easier to do it when you're a billy-no-mates estranged from family
(takes off and downs instead).

Lockdown 1 yes. Lockdown 2, mainly yes but I had a baby and like fuck was my mum not meeting him so she came to stay for a few days (she works in a hospital and gets tested twice weekly but frankly I would have done it regardless). Lockdown 3 not so much. I have been to my mothers house a few times and I have met up with siblings in parks so the kids can play together.

I am pretty much over it to be honest, now that the most vulnerable have been vaccinated. It has been proper shit having a newborn in these circumstances.

I think we are at the stage where we need to risk asses for ourselves. Not having a massive 30 strong bbq in the garden or anything. But deciding for yourself what is an acceptable risk.

@LowlandLucky

No i haven't. My Father is the early stages of dementia, he lives alone and i managed to get carers in for him twice a day for 20 minutes each visit. I have to shop, cook, clean and do a host of other things for him. The Government expected me to leave him to his own devices, basically let him die of starvation. So yes i broke the rules because i had no choice.

You have always been allowed to provide caring duties! You were never expected to abandon your father.

No.....we formed a support bubble with my parents even though it isn't allowed. My husband works very long hours and I am a sahm. I was really struggling with my mental health and we decided it was better to form a bubble. I am Clinically Extremely Vunerable, so have kept to the rules otherwise.

However we have "bumped" into a friend at the Park with her kids who are both in school with mine. Technically not allowed either but we socially distanced and kids sit next to each other at school everyday so I can't see how we were risking anything.

@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.

This ^

Nope - I got a bus back once when I walked too far

Thassit 🤷‍♀️

No.

I volunteer at a Food Bank, support vulnerable people when social services seem to not care and leave it all to the voluntary agencies and visit my very elderly (90s) parents.

No. I worked in a supermarket at the start so was at risk there but none of us caught it so am now seeing 1 friend indoors and saw my folks at Christmas.

No, regularly ran with a friend when this wasn’t allowed (Wales) as felt safer. Allowed my son to return home from uni when not technically allowed to but he had just had covid and finished his isolation. Have visited my mum who is 70 and living alone but not my bubble as she’s bubbled with my aunt, but she has been struggling with lockdown.

Yes - close family members are vulnerable, and I work in a job where I could potentially transmit it to them if I am not careful.

Yes, absolutely.

YES

No.

I’ve allowed two of my colleagues (who are also friends) into the house on a few occasions on the grounds that I work in close proximity to them every day in a school so it doesn’t make any difference. I’ve given people tea and soup in my garden. A few friends have driven over to go for a walk with me when technically they’re not meant to drive.

Oh and my partner and I formed a support bubble with one very depressed friend in the first lockdown before they were a thing because he’d have been in much more serious danger from a mental health crisis than covid.

I have definitely significantly reduced the amount of social contact I’d normally have, and followed the guidelines closely, but also I’m human and have slipped up / relaxed the rules on occasion. I’ve been very diligent about masks and handwashing , haven’t gone further than my home town and kept trips to the shops to absolute minimum.

Nope

No.

I've seen and offered support in person to both my parents (they live separately).

My sibling's relationship broke down so I've helped them with moving house etc.

I've been out of my immediate local area to take photos.

I've been to the shop just to buy chocolate.

No. A neighbour bubble I formed would be tenuous, but with good reason. A newly widowed woman and a new mum. I’ve also had a friend/colleague in my home to support her in a review of her OH report. She’s attempted suicide and I felt being together for the call was warranted, and I’m glad I did it.

Well I thought I could, in all but those walking past me ignoring distancing, until the supposed covid police enforcement person said I was breaching "local" by walking for greater than 3 miles away from my home. So I guess that makes me as much of a dick as those going to parties. Or holding them, like my delightful neighbours

Yes.

Especially so as I’m a teacher so around a lot of people during the day, and so I’m very wary of being around others outside of school in case I’m spreading something.

It makes me so sad to see how many people haven’t followed guidelines. I’ve not seen my elderly parents for 18 months 😔

I can't. My mum hugged me when I told her I was pregnant last month.

Wrong I know but neither of us had been in contact with anyone else in the weeks before. People can call me selfish if they wish but I have finally come out of such a terrible time with my mental health and sometimes you just need your mum.

I have probably unwittingly broken the 2m distance rule from time to time, though I do try to adhere to it.

Otherwise, I have complied.

No, and I don’t know anyone who has.

Yes I can safely say I have. It’s wearing a little thin now I have to say.

Not remotely.

Yes.