What lockdown rule is the toughest rule to follow?

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In your opinion
I would say a few months ago having family members around.

Personally wearing masks and practically socially distancing. There often just not enough space plus brits suck at queuing neatly actually.

Being on the same page as DH. I feel like a constant battle keeping to the rules especially with his family who couldn’t give a shit.

At the moment the self isolating / testing with symptoms that have proven to be a cold bit that we have all had to take days off work and school and been unable to do anything has been v stressful
Would have been a million times better if test had Been available day one of symptoms and the 24 hour turn around

Physically socially distancing from pupils at school, and not sharing resources. It’s very difficult to keep your distance in the classroom, and not handing out papers, notes etc is a hard habit to break.

Not being allowed out at all.
Am in Italy, thankfully that stage was very brief. It wasn't even that I particularly wanted to, it was just the idea that I couldn't even if I did if that makes any sense!

My teenager not being able to see friends. Or having to miss school in her gcse year because her sister had a cough

For me, the disparity between the nations. My mum lives in Wales, I'm in England. Under Welsh rules, she'd be allowed to see her granddaughter without social distancing but under English rules, because I'm already in a support bubble, she can't.

In Wales we can have 4 households mix but ONLY if we classify them as a fixed set of 4. All 4 have to have the same group exclusively.

So not friends if your family already are the 4.

I can see my mum, my mil. But my mum also sees my other sister, who I see. But she sees her ex. And my mil sees her kids. And now we've not got the exclusive 4 family group anymore.

So it is too hard to do and doesn't get followed.

Not meeting family

By that i mean my children

Ive pretty much kept to the rules though...it was the first 6 weeks that were hardest

Wearing masks

Masks on public transport.

Weirdly I'm finding the rule of six a much tougher prospect than the "full" lockdown.

It was OK when we had to stick to household groups, only go out for exercise etc. I had blessings to count then, was wfh, with a good relationship, nice DC, who had left school, so no home schooling, a garden and some nice local walks.

Now I'm back at work, I finding that I resent the social restrictions much more and I'm also suffering FOMO because I'm not sure I'll make the cut for many people's group of six. I'm also anxious about how to decide who to leave out for things I organise.

*Nice children who had left school but still lived at home.

Not seeing your children must have been indescribably tough RufustheSniggeringReindeer

Thank you finny it really was

It was only ds1 but now dd is doing a foundation course it will be her as well if it locks down

You just worry, both ds1 and partner struggle with mental health and kept asking to come home and obviously we kept saying no

When one of them got very ill with a non covid illness we told them they could come home but couldnt leave til lockdown was over

But i agree with you generally...i am so so glad that the children weren’t younger, it would have been incredibly difficult

And part of me would rather we locked back down again so i didnt have to keep counting to 6! 😀

Finny I'm the opposite - I don't have "best" friends but tend to see people in small groups. So only being able to have 1 person over meant that I didn't. Whereas I would invite 2 or 3 over.

I'm not finding any of the lockdown rules particularly hard to follow per se. I'm missing the things I can't do any more due to the rules (going to work, going to clubs etc).

Masks.
No contest the rest is easy for me, I'm quite anti social, don't like crowds of people,not a hugger.
The only people I want to see are my immediate family, parents and brother. And them only in small doses.
That said we are in the Midlands and go on local lockdown on Tuesday and it is so nice to be able say sorry no visitors against the law rather than trying to find an excuse.
Masks though, I can't bear the feel the look so I have just stopped going to the shops. My fear is that they will be made mandatory in primary schools, then I'll have to resign from my TA job but we can live on DHs salary so I'll just be bored rather than destitute.

The 2 m rule when talking to someone. I can't visualise the distance when I'm talking to someone and inevitably end up closer than 2 m. But they clearly have the same issue as they don't move further away either.

Masks. I understand the reason for it but I find it hard to communicate with people wearing them, and I also find such a visible reminder quite upsetting

Keeping the kids from grandparents. And I'll admit I've broken this one at times. All my mum (70's) wants to do is cuddle her grandkids, see her grandkids, have them to stay. We can't bubble with them because my parents are still together. I think it's unrealistic to say no to contact for such close family, but no one seems to be talking about it. Which might be because no one is doing it

The social isolation for my children. I don’t know if my 4yo could do it again. I was very worried about her during April and May.

Social distancing. Desperate to hug my best friend and get back to my am dram which is my passion. Really struggling without it.

I find masks at work quite tricky, just on off on off on off.

Other than that the hardest bit for me is all the people who don't follow the guidelines, I find it a bit awkward.

For me, the worst thing was gyms not being open. I realise however that I am very fortunate and many people had a much worse experience of lockdown than me!

No foreign holidays. I live for 'em.

Being screwed over by those who dont follow the rules.

We would be closer to normality if it wasn't for them.