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!

@fedupandgrumpy000 What do you want us to say?

If we say YES we have, you'll cry 'liar!'

If we say NO you'll say 'I knew it!'

That's when you can be arsed to come back to this goady thread you started.

Yes. 2 metre from everyone except my partner, people in the supermarket ( as briefly as possible) , the optician and the vaccinator.

@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.

Exactly this.

I’ve only been within 2m of strangers when they’ve not bothered to distance. Apart from that, yes, pretty much.

Yes, OH is a shielder, so I’ve been super careful
My mum (only close relative) lives with us, not sure how I’d have felt had I not been able to see her for a year
for those apart from loved ones

Within the law, yes.

No, We regularly break the rules.
My son has 2 friends sleep over every Friday and has since mid January. His friend attempted suicide, his mum has cancer and the whole family had shielded since last March, they didn't leave the house at all or have anyone in, even when restrictions lifted due to how vulnerable she was. So now we allow the 3 of them to meet weekly so he isn't alone.
I've also opened my door to a friend who's husband revealed a 3 year affair and left. She isn't in my support bubble but she needed someone.
Apart from that, we do stick to the rules.. but I strongly believe that Mental health must be prioritised too. Yes people are dying of covid and it's awful, but people are at risk of social isolation too. And I wouldn't keep someone at a distance if they needed support.

No. Call me a selfish fucker all you like but I've spent lots of time recently with my brother who is dying of cancer. We sat inside! I didn't wear a mask! I've generally stuck to the rules, or at least the spirit of them, throughout but some things are more important. I think anyone who calls other people a "selfish fucker" for doing the things that are right for them and their personal circumstances, is a pathetic excuse for a human being.

Completely agree @supercalifragalistic. So sick of living in a world where only covid matters.

Sorry to hear about your brother.

Yes, I think we have. No one in our house, not been to anyone else’s house etc. LIKe others, I may have stepped closer than 2 meters to a friend out walking the dogs (my only social outlet - I meet two friends to dog walk on different days).

I should know better than to open these goady threads by now. More fool me.

@SuperCaliFragalistic you are not selfish!! I'd do the same! You have your priorities exactly right! X

Nah. I’ve not wildly flouted them like having parties and hugging people, but I have broken the rules to see people in a safe way. I had my first baby in the middle of it all and I was going insane on my own. I needed humans. I’m not sorry. I haven’t spread Covid.

The people I know who are following the rules are at home on full pay
People like me who are self employed with no government help are out working as per usual and accordingly going shops etc 🤷‍♀️

100% yes. Whenever met a friend have found we started to gravitate towards each other then immediately stepped back as soon as we realised. Yes 100%

The holier-than-thous in here are ridiculous.

Would you honestly tell someone sitting inside with their dying relative, or a new mother with no support who needs help, or someone whose mental health is crumbling to dust because of the intense isolation, or someone who keeps an elderly person company, or someone who has to work to feed their families because their self employed and Rishi Sunak neglected to instigate any support for them initially, that they were “selfish fuckers” for not following the ever changing, ill-thought-out ‘rules’ dished out by the government? (Many members of which didn’t even bother follow them themselves).

They’re, not their.

I’ve had to go and see my dad because he’s housebound and otherwise would be completely isolated. Technically I’m not allowed because I’m already bubbled with MIL (who is elderly and lives alone) and you’re not supposed to have two bubbles. But what can you do when you have two relatives who need bubbles?

Yes and I don't know anyone personally has breached them.

Its boring and its lonely its the law

No I haven't and most people I know haven't either. It is only on Mumsnet people seem a bit crazy with it.

Yes, totally, because l look after two elderly frail parents who live in my house and l couldn't bear to put them at even the tiniest risk.
All food delivered, wfh, pay at pump for fuel for absolutely essential journeys only, ie school run, the odd infrequent walk with a friend in the countryside has been the full extent of my face to face social contact.
If you can work from home it is entirely doable, but horribly isolating.

I’ve broken rules on a few occasions, probably about 10 occasions this year. Meaning I’ve complied almost all the time, every day, and often haven’t done things that were allowed e.g. having friends round into the garden, going to work out of the home when that was allowed. My slip ups have included: taking a ‘isolating’ child in the car with me (they didn’t get out and didn’t have Covid) to pick up the other one who was still attending school, giving friend I’d had dinner with in a restaurant (when that was allowed) a hug (not allowed) because they were in tears over a bereavement and had had no physical adult contact for months (single parent), walking through neighbours house to admire their garden (no idea why I did that or why they asked me, I’ve never been asked before and I think I automatically said yes because I didn’t want to be rude and then thought ‘why have I done that’), non essential shopping trips to buy snacks. I’ve found it very challenging to adapt to all the changes. In lockdown 1 I was highly compliant, but so much so that I was washing my shopping and developed a fear of going out of the house. Then I forced myself to go out, go back on public transport and meet up with friends, send my kids back to school and ‘learn to live with the virus’. I’m generally a rigid rule follower, but some of the time I’ve been scratching my head to understand the risks of different activities e.g. ok to go to indoor gym without mask, not ok to go in car with 1 masked friend with windows open.

I have. I have quite a boring life

I respected most of the rules - we did have a friend round but that was to look after our kids when our youngest was in hospital. Not sure if it was allowed at the time and didn't care tbh. Otherwise not met anyone socially etc

However I dont care for the vague half made up guidance such as going out once/for an hour/driving less than exercising/'local area' - those weren't rules so I didn't pay much attention.