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

[CrazyToast]

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.

Yeah I see my boyfriend regularly.

There's breaking the rules, and breaking the rules...

We happened to meet another family at the playground (each two adults one kid) not by design, but we chatted, at a distance while the kids played (same school bubble).

MIL popped over before Christmas to drop off presents (outside, because Tier 4) but she came in to have a wee. And the left again (no stopping for tea or anything).

So have we taken the piss? No.

Have we broken the rules. Yes.
So

@ktp100

The results of this poll quite clearly show why this shitshow is dragging out so long.

Absolutely fucking shameful.

Don’t feel ashamed about going about your usual everyday life whilst taking as many Covid hygiene precautions as you can. You can only do what you can. Virus will spread regardless. I’m not going to risk rent arrears and not feeding the kids so as a family we take the least destructive route. We think about others where we can, but within limits. Apocalypse survival mode.

I gave my mum a hug in August. Twice. We aren't able to form a support bubble.
That's it. I didn't see her from February to August and I haven't seen her since.

No I haven't broken any rules. Haven't felt the need.

Oh and I hugged my uncle Jim in Asda yesterday, but that was a complete accident and I felt absolutely horrified after!

No too busy working

@Saltblood I find your comments absolutely shocking. Many countries have managed to suppress the virus by people individually being responsible. You seem to have taken your neighbours flouting of the rules as a licence for you to do what the hell you want. A friend of mine hasn’t seen her disabled child since March and I place that squarely on the shoulders of people like you - with a positive case in the house but who carried on shopping and working.

My parents look after my daughter and every so often I go inside their house and have a cup of coffee when I go to collect her.

I haven't broken the rules. Whether I agree with them or not, it's what we're being advised to do. And I've made sacrifices to do it. Some people are incapable of making personal sacrifices unfortunately.

Tier 4. Saw relative with cancer for first time since March on Christmas Day. Outside. distanced. Masked. 15
Mins. Two
Small breaches - front garden. Four of us - two households.
That real life seeing of each other’s faces was important.
Other than that have basically been behaving as I did in full on lockdown throughout.

No I haven't but I have ignored the governments 'advice' on several occasions.

Ended a 10 day quarantine 4.5 hours early.

So yeah, I did. It was for something very important and I'd do it again.

Yes we have. We've been for walks with friends and their kids when we have a 5 yr old, 2 yr old and

Yep we had our one day of Christmas meeting on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day. Whoever made the one day rule has clearly never worked shifts at Christmas.

@Saltblood

Whilst my young Positive son who contracted it from another friend at school and the rest of us were isolating for 14 days, husband carried on going to work, shops, etc. and travelled into a now Tier 4 area to work. He did wear a mask and sanitise hands.

You should change your name to bloodonhands.

Total disgrace; I hope for your sake karma doesn’t exist.

Seeing people who are under severe distress who absolutely need support is NOT breaking the rules. This is allowed, and rightly so.

I haven't broken the rules. Because knowing I've done my bit and having a clear conscience is important to me.

I broke the rules.

I formed a support bubble with my SIL's household the day my DP died. I didn't realise that they were already in a support bubble with MIL, and none of us understood that one household could only form a support bubble with one other household.

However, MIL (82) hadn't been beyond her front gate from the start, and has been scrupulous about disinfecting everything etc and SIL's family have been similarly on the case. Given this, we opted to spend Christmas together and each had our own bathroom to minimise risk.

And I have been equally obsessive, at every stage and tier we've been in. Apart from DP and our "bubble", I've not had any social contact indoors and have only met one friend at a time out of doors.

I’ve continued to see my close family. We don’t see anyone else though even when we are ‘allowed’ to meet up with other households. Obviously still a risk with kids in childcare and food shopping but I’d rather do that than eat out with 5 friends occasionally then feel I can’t risk seeing my family for weeks.

In Scotland here. Accidentally hugged my mum in July once I was allowed to sit in her garden with her. Was leaving and just did what I normally would.

Sent DH over health authority borders to meet my dad in a car park to socially distancley swap Christmas gifts. No contact but technically against the rules.

Other than that nope we have done everything we can to stay within the rules.

@Saltblood

Whilst my young Positive son who contracted it from another friend at school and the rest of us were isolating for 14 days, husband carried on going to work, shops, etc. and **travelled into a now Tier 4 area to work. He did wear a mask and sanitise hands.

No surprise that it is ‘a now Tier 4 area’ with behaviour like this. Reprehensible. Actions like this are responsible for people dying. How can people live with that?

A few times me and DP have been working from home the whole time m, haven't been pubs restaurants etc. We have a friend that lives alone that the same applies to. Unfortunately for him we are the only people he's had face to face contact with since March. I can't imagine what that would be like.

Yes. Kept things as close to routine as possible for my ASD child. Exclusions were made for this in April, but I'd have carried on regardless anyway. Services to help us had been cut to the bone before covid. The self same people responsible for those cuts were then expecting us to make life harder still? I don't think so.

I'm actually finding this thread almost amusing. We have a million and one threads on at the min all focusing on "how dare the Govn consider closing schools" etc and yet there's a thread here where 75% of people are breaking rules that are set up to be the maximum socialising you do.

I'm sorry people are struggling,I really am and there are some really heartbreaking circumstances detailed on here. But going outside and mixing when you or your household have tested positive, refusing to "be controlled by the Govn" () or ending quarantine periods earlier WILL increase the number of cases and everyone else's risk.

I'm hoping people realise that everytime you meet up or go outside you're increasing your and your loved ones risk. It'd have to be super important for me to want to risk my loved ones struggling to breathe in hospital.

I fear for our future society when there is so much selfish behaviour and recklessness being shown.

As for going shopping and work when there are positive cases in the household, there are simply no words. Washing hands won’t have don’t anything.