Would you change how you are acting if rules were dropped tomorrow?

[Northernbeachbum]

As in Covid still as it is now, would you change your actions?

Personally I'd risk assess everything. I might actually get to see my mum who lives too far away to meet half way but other than that I cant see much changing for me. I'm not vulnerable at all but I wouldnt want to be the cause of the spread any further. Or maybe I'd leave it two weeks between seeing different friends just in case but maybe I'd risk the odd cafe trip with friends....just a musing really. I wondered if others would do the same?

No I wouldn't. I'm mid 50s, I wouldn't take risks.

I wouldn't change anything, no.

Yes! I would go into my friends houses, they would come round here like we did in the summer.

I would throw all the bloody masks in the bin straight away!

Absolutely. I would go shopping in person if I didn't have to wear a mask.

No. The 'rules' are a blunt tool. I'm carrying out my own risk assessment reflecting my own personal circumstances.

I would be OK with DD meeting up with a small number of friends in our or their back garden. I would plan for our household to completely quarantine for 14 days from when DD breaks up from school on 18th December so that we could visit my parents who are in their eighties and who we haven't seen since the summer (or since last Christmas in DS's case).

@Medievalist are you already doing that now (no judgement, just curious)

Oh I'm with you all on the binning of the masks, I hate the damn things! I wouldnt yet though as i feel it helps people feel safer (whether they are, I'm unsure)

Yes. I’d let my children socialise out of school with the children they’re at school with all day.
Presumably if the rules were dropped my children’s extra curricular activities would resume (currently haven’t since match) and toddler groups would reopen... I would definitely utilise them as my 22 month old hasn’t socialised with a child his own age since March.
I would see my parents indoors (both early 60’s and work full time, one as a teacher and one as a nurse).
I’d go away for a night with DH.
I’d go for a meal with friends.

And I’d burn my masks.

Yes I would, I’d meet up with friends for drinks or meals at home or at pubs and restaurants. I’d go to the theatre or cinema.

I'll continue wearing a mask for another 6 month even after the vaccine, and we've agreed we will continue with Click and Collect for a while longer as well so we don't have to go inside supermarkets. Doesn't bother us in the slightest.

We're doing the same re our own risk assessments, just quietly. It doesn't always mean we break the government guidelines, often we are more cautious. It's the arbitrary, non practical rules I really can't cope with.

Just to note this would never stretch to any of us going out with a case of COVID or failing to isolate with symptoms.

@daisychain01

I'll continue wearing a mask for another 6 month even after the vaccine, and we've agreed we will continue with Click and Collect for a while longer as well so we don't have to go inside supermarkets. Doesn't bother us in the slightest.

Why have you decided on the arbitrary number of 6 months?

I’ll not be wearing masks for a second longer than they’re mandatory either.

I would continue distancing from my elderly grandad but that's all. I'm following the rules purely to protect others, I'm not scared of Covid myself so I would happily go back to normal.

Yes. We'd have more flexibility with when we could travel to see family.

I'd see friends. Now we can't meet indoors and it's too cold for outdoors to be appealing, I'm seeing hardly anyone, and the ones I do see it's only for a quick walk or something.

Would also go and see my parents at the end of the Christmas holiday so my DC have had time to self isolate beforehand!

I'd also like to go back to work, but that would depend on other people doing the same thing (don't want to sit in an office on my own).

I’d wear masks a bit less but that’s it I think

Yes. I wouldn't wear a mask anymore and my child and I would be able to see our friends inside.

I'd go back to exactly the lifestyle I had before.

Which is not highly sociable, tbf.
However... my elderly parents would not drop any precautions, so I still couldn't see them.

Let kids socialize with school friends. See my village friends in pubs and restaurants - we've all got kids at local school so exposed to the same risks.

Yep. Would be at the pub if it wasn't closed.

God yes, I'd stop wearing masks

Probably not.

I'd still take the precautions I'm taking now, until my vulnerable loved ones have been vaccinated.