Poll: Have you broken the rules? (and WYBU)

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Inspired by a suggestion on another post (about whether more people are breaking the rules than MN discussion suggests), here is a poll:

YABU: I have never broken the covid rules
YANBU: I have broken the covid rules at least once (even if it was in a tiny way).

Honest anonymous answers!

I know it should be in the Coronavirus area but there is no voting facility there. Feel free to discuss if the results show people are BU or NBU.

We are in our holiday home in a lower tier, but we didn’t mix at Christmas with anyone, waited 10 days until kids had left school, and taken our tier here, so not going anywhere inside.

I am in an illegal support bubble with my best friend. We haven’t met in our homes, but we do meet up indoors (allowed by the regulations) and I will always give her a hug. We both suffer from MH issues and rely on each other. To us, it’s a calculated risk.

I have a support bubble which includes both my parents and my husband’s parents, as I had a baby by emergency c-section a month ago.

I know this is a breach of the rules but I’m not sure how we would have coped, physically or emotionally, without help from both of them. I don’t regret it and would do the same again every time.

Hmm
Is this another article for the DM?
No I haven't, have you?

My family ignores covid with another family. We go into each others’ houses. It has been lovely to socialise normally with someone during this year of distanced family and friend relationships.

I fraternised with my friend inside my house, without any social distancing.

He lives alone and hadn’t seen another human being in person in 4 months. I don’t give a fuck just how against the rules it is/was, I’d do it again.

Same friend went from his tier 4 home (that he’s been in 24/7 most of the year) to his tier 2 parents’ house for Christmas.

I dare you all (those who just keep screaming STAY AT HOME from their privileged pedestals) to judge him, from your comfortable houses with generous gardens and your secure, public sector WFH jobs.

Nope, because I’m not selfish and irresponsible.

Whatever bullshit excuse you come up with to break them isn’t acceptable.

We did in late October - were moved to tier 2 and there were no covid cases in our village or nearby. Literally none within a 5 mile radius.
Went to a friend's house for dinner (with DD).

Not a chance now, it's covid-central here and we're doing nothing social at all. People are being generally good and they need to be at the moment.

I’m in tier 4. Went to a friends for drinks over Xmas

I have. It was justified to me, I don't care if it wasn't justified to anyone else.

I haven't breached the rules in any significant way but do often meet up in groups larger than 6 outdoors for walks and have given lifts in my car to friends. No one has been in my house since march except my dad once over the summer. I visited a few people over the summer but socially distanced properly. I don't judge anyone for taking small, calculated risks to offer support to others or bring small amounts of happiness. The people who report their neighbours for minor breaches are the worst type of people imo.

On the app so can't vote.

Yes have broken the rules - occasionally we have dinner with IL's who do some childcare with us and we plan to spend NYE with them.

We view it as the risk being the same as them looking after DC every week.

We restrict other activities to ensure their looking after DC is not compromised

Went to my parents 9 hours before Christmas Day.

Yes l work with my friend with no social distancing..care home. We have been in cars together and had coffee in each others homes.

Tier 4 met my parents in park on Christmas Day to exchange presents. 40 mins max but our whole Christmas had been cancelled- it was outside

I shagged the covid testing man in the makeshift testing shelter

Is that breaking the rules?
The yellow coat was so sexy.

Didn’t abide by distancing rules when first lockdown was lifted, went to my friends house with 5 other people and had a bbq.

SIL and her family stayed over at Christmas and left Boxing Day morning.

@OxfordwillsaveusbyFebruary

Nothing turns me on more than rubbing my tonsils with a small stick

Yep I've broken and bent the rules occasionally. Mostly not though. Wish I had more friends who were up for breaking them tbh, in this weather is getting pretty lonely.

I have broken rules but only in a minor way, we swapped our meeting householdsday over Xmas but it was still just 1 day. Also have a bit of a grey area childcare bubble between 3 houses (the parents are each using just 1 house which complies with the wording). Feel like we must have done other minor things too but we're generally pretty careful so struggling to think! We did temporarily form a support bubble with a friend for a holiday in September which i think you aren't really meant to do?

I see my parents and disabled sister once a week. They are in a childcare bubble with my other sister and dd still goes over to help.
Dh is socially distanced at work and didn't catch it when other colleagues became ill, I work from home and my teenage dc only leave the house for school and college. Ds1 only goes to the shops when needed.
We ensure the dog is walked daily but stay socially distanced.
Dbil works from home and dsis is tested weekly. She is probably the biggest risk factor but is very careful.

Our numbers have been very low and whenever we have felt we could be a risk (outbreak in dh workplace,etc) we stayed away.
Now numbers are rising sharply, the situation has changed. Dsis won't be sending her dc to dm, we will also stay away.

Yes, I've been hugging them all when we meet and have been slated on here previously for this, being blamed for spreading it. We are all symptom free so far though.

Yes I have and will carry on doing it as I'm not gullible to believe the rubbish regarding Covid. The rules make no sense and the figures of those dying are lies. They admitted it themselves. Our hospitals arnt swamped either but people needing life saving treatment are being refused it. I am sorry for the families whose loved ones are dying of untreated conditions especially cancer and heart issues!!!!

On Christmas Day we ‘bubbled’ with my 2 sisters families (allowed in tier 2)
Then my parents came into the (large) garden and we had a glass of bubbly together (they brought their own glasses and drink) in a distanced way.
We were allowed to meet them for a walk I think and just seemed silly and no greater risk to see them in the garden. They didn’t come in for the loo or anything

I haven't broken the rules. I also don't think the rules even go far enough - we didn't mix with anyone over Xmas because it seemed like insanity to do so.

I'm sure I'll be called a nazi by some covidiot in a minute

When my mum dropped dead a few months ago, we (me, siblings and dad - so 5 different households) met up at my parents house and sat with her body for a few hours before the coroner came for her body. No social distancing.

Would do it again every single time.

We haven’t - but we have a child at school so that seems a bit odd.

And it’s not nonsense and lies. My nieces family thought that and she ended up very ill and the colleague (who didn’t ‘believe in it’ and went into work after travelling to a family party) is still in hospital on a ventilator. She could kill my sister with it as she is ill as it is.