Would you be more or less compliant, knowing then what you know now?

[BlowDryRat]

Thinking back to March last year...

• Terrifying daily images of Italians dying on hospital floors.
• Empty supermarket shelves.
• Thinking we'd be locked down for a few weeks and all the kids would be back to school for summer term.

I was due to get married the weekend before lockdown. We postponed it to September over safety concerns. If I'd known then what I know now, I would have just gone ahead.

How about you?

MissMatchedClaws

“I'd have pressured DH to use his key worker status to keep our daughters in school.”

Do you work too?

@lockdownbreakdown

I would have bought shares in Amazon and zoom then paid off the mortgage.

This.

I lost my lovely DH in November to COVID-19. He was a fit healthy 62 year old. We were careful and have no idea where he caught it.

Please comply with the rules. This virus doesn't alway act the way we expect

I'd have complied to the rules still, but I'd have gone to see family abroad in the summer. We considered it but decided to wait until the numbers got lower. Now I have no idea when we'll see them, and DS has never met any relatives.

I would tell Boris Johnson to not spend millions on a track and trace system and instead give it to the NHS, where it is actually needed!

My story is honestly too weird to believe but I swear its all true.
2019
On 24 Nov I had weird eyes. Like an eye infection, only not crusty and yellow and itching, instead they felt like grit was in them and then the membrane peeled from my eye surface. I made emergency appointment that day leaving the nursery after collecting my dc and feeding them and got a late appt. On the way there I phoned the nursery and told them that I thought I had a viral eye infection and please consider disinfecting around the cloakroom if there were things we touched.
The gp said it does look strange, but no, that's not possible, only sars and rare zoonotic diseases do that.Takes a sample and says he will have it tested for staph. Gives antibiotic eyedrop script to begin immediately.
Didn't get better. Got sore throat and cold and 5 days later its a bad couch and fever. Dc also poorly but I was wiped out for 5 days with fever. Tryng my best not to spread it despite constant calls from nursery about dc attendance.
Then, fever broke. Few days just feeling rough. One day of feeling better. Then the next day my tonsils are down and lose my voice. It's now 14 days since the infection began.
My dc seem better but each have 2 or 3 random herpetic whitlows appear on their fingers and foot.
The next day, I have the worst migraine of my life along with vomiting with no nausea. Bizarre experience.
The day after that, hearing loss and severe earache in both ears. The pain mounted until one ear drum perforated. Ear spent next two weeks leaking and still doing so after new years. It took until March to recover my peak flow.

That is not even the weirdest part

The strangest part was meeting a gorgeous neuroscientist, falling for him and enticing him, (hehe!) from London to Cornwall to come to my home for dinner.
He arrived on the day I was feeling better, I cooked for him and we sat down and had a conversation along the lines of how we both felt a sense of deja vu but in reverse, as if pulling forward through time and I said something big is coming in 2020, something serious, it is going to make everybody wake up and it will be eventually the making of us.
He said "like a war? "
And I said no... not a war... thank goodness... it will be bad though... then things will be good... he agreed that he had had the exact feeling... we agreed it felt it would begin in March

Seriously not lying and I absolutely do not know what to make of it and do not tell people about it in real life just me and him know but we have the texts from afterwards to prove it!

@Msmcc1212

How afraid you are of Covid should make zero difference to your actions.

Friend of a friend had to wait 2.5 hours for an ambulance. THAT is a direct consequence of the spread of Covid. THAT is what is bloody scary.

Any one of us could need health care at any time (a trip down the stairs, a lurking aneurism, a heart attack, a car accident).

You might not give a rats arse if your friends nan dies prematurely but everyone is effected by an overwhelmed health services. No one is immune to that!

AND it isn’t just 80 year olds (who incidentally have as much right to life and are just as important as anyone else and should not be ‘left to die’ prematurely because someone somewhere wants to socialise) who are dying...

sbuhb.nhs.wales/news/swansea-bay-health-news/covid-deaths-tragically-hitting-new-high-in-swansea-bay-hospitals/

This was before Christmas so goodness knows how things are now.

Honestly, I despair that still people are focusing on the individual risk to themselves. Any unnecessary contact with others runs the risk of infecting more people that then overwhelms health services.

You are most infectious BEFORE you have symptoms.

The new strain is 70% more infectious.

There is NO excuse for needlessly ignoring the rules.

I’m usually much less shouty in my posts but today I’m feeling angry at the selfish behaviour of some (the bunch of people in a minibus travelling to Snowdon from Milton Keynes for example)!

But to those doing their bit - thank you.

So your answer is you would still be compliant now

TLDR:

So no, I would not do anything differently, I always felt I had immunity fron dec 2019, and over- followed every rule for others' sake but always had takeaways and never disinfected my food shop!

I think I would have gone back to work. Been off on maternity and sickness because my body tried to give up during last pregnancy.

Looking at everything schools have been through these last few months I wish I was there to help.

I'd have just done what I'm doing now.
Sticking to the guidelines, nothing's really changed and I'd have just kept on keeping on.