Not a single person following covid rules

[ruby4ever]

I kid you not, I know no one in real life that is actually adhering to COVID rules. Everyone on my social media/friends have openly celebrated Xmas yesterday despite majority of them living in tier 4 and mixing up to 8 household in one house. Everyone I know and even those I follow on social media, all got with family and celebrated like any other year. Even today everyone is mixing multiple households. I haven't seen a lot of family members as am scared catching anything and passing it on to my family. I feel like the only people following rules are those on mn!
It's got me annoyed that if everyone else is acting normal and are perfectly fine, not spreading anything then why the hell am I following the rules??? These same people didn't follow the lockdown rules either in March, they still mixed multiple households. There are elderly and vulnerable amongst them and (thankfully) no one has actually caught corona. I myself forget about the virus as I no longer watch the news, except when I go out and see everyone in masks. It's really got me thinking today

You need to start keeping better company then

Very low rules adherence among my friends (London)

Most people I know seems to be following their own rules. They arent mixing as normal, but still mixing. I know a small handful of people who have completely ignored them and thrown massive gatherings but most I know have allowed people into their home but socially distanced, and people who had maybe 4 house holds round for Christmas not 3. And I dont think changing tiers will make them change their own made up rules. However they would always draw a line somewhere.

It does annoy me when I hear people saying "I'm just using common sense" as it seems to only be applying to their safety, no one seems to be considering the bigger picture.

But I guess people following their own rules is better than not following any rules what so ever.

I'm not a covid police. Of course there are some circumstances its needed or reasonable to break the rules. But a desire to have a house party isnt one!

My sister is in Australia in medical profession, she says their cases of virus are fewer because there is huge distances between centres of population and zero road links to other countries so they can exercise greater control more easily. Every country had a different population profile so it's really hard to compare.