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How many of you will comply?

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LifesTooShortYOLO · 21/10/2021 10:34

I am interested to know if people will comply or not if they bring in Restrictions again about not mixing households, not seeing family or lockdowns etc again.
So many people I've spoken to are pretty much all of the same mindset of 'Fu#k that I'm not not seeing my family again, enough is enough and we have to get on with our lives now'
I also read this a lot on comments of articles where people are saying no they won't do it again and not see their loved ones or be told what to do over Christmas etc.

What are everyone's overall feelings as things stand right now?

OP posts:
jgw1 · 23/10/2021 13:53

Some people… you wonder how they get by on a day to day basis

Probably by wearing socks and shoes.

TheSunIsStillShining · 23/10/2021 13:53
  1. Smoking is a personal choice that doesn't affect others. Masks can have huge affects on others.
  2. Uk testing more is one thing. The positivity rate within the tests conducted are a meaningful base for comparison. ENgland at this point has a positivity rate of 9.3% and growing.

I could never be bothered/invested enough to actually look up anyone. Feel kinda smug to be of that much importance :)

ellyeth · 23/10/2021 14:13

I won't comply.

Reallyimeanreally2022 · 23/10/2021 14:19

@TheSunIsStillShining

1. Smoking is a personal choice that doesn't affect others. Masks can have huge affects on others.
  1. Uk testing more is one thing. The positivity rate within the tests conducted are a meaningful base for comparison. ENgland at this point has a positivity rate of 9.3% and growing.

I could never be bothered/invested enough to actually look up anyone. Feel kinda smug to be of that much importance :)

* Smoking is a personal choice that doesn't affect others. * Grin
Reallyimeanreally2022 · 23/10/2021 14:20

No one will be surprised to learn that the poster saying * Smoking is a personal choice that doesn't affect others. * is absolutely insistent that compulsory mask wearing should be imposed Grin

Reallyimeanreally2022 · 23/10/2021 14:21

Oh and they’re a smoker needless to say!

MercyBooth · 23/10/2021 14:21

They’re only dirty if you’re not washing them

Then why was someone i am close to told to remove his reusable mask at his hospital appointment and given a disposable one. Hardly fits with the "well surgeons manage" rhetoric does it. It proves that its not the same.

jgw1 · 23/10/2021 14:22

@TheSunIsStillShining

1. Smoking is a personal choice that doesn't affect others. Masks can have huge affects on others.
  1. Uk testing more is one thing. The positivity rate within the tests conducted are a meaningful base for comparison. ENgland at this point has a positivity rate of 9.3% and growing.

I could never be bothered/invested enough to actually look up anyone. Feel kinda smug to be of that much importance :)

Very amusing, you got some bites as well.
jgw1 · 23/10/2021 14:24

@Reallyimeanreally2022

No one will be surprised to learn that the poster saying * Smoking is a personal choice that doesn't affect others. * is absolutely insistent that compulsory mask wearing should be imposed Grin
Does wearing a mask prevent one from the toxic pollution that smokers produce? I think we should be told.
Nidan2Sandan · 23/10/2021 14:28

No, I wouldn't comply. Not seeing my friends and family screwed my mental health in lockdown 1.0, and lockdown 2.0 just about finished me off even though I had started to see people and ignore the rules by this stage. The knowing I was "breaking the rules" to see my friends was an issue i couldn't square in my head and my MH spiralled.

Never again will I allow government to dictate who I spend my time with and when. Never again will I let someone tell me it is illegal to see my own mother!!

I can wfh again, I could even go back to masks (though I would loathe it) if forced to do so. But anything else is a step too far.

MercyBooth · 23/10/2021 14:33

Where did I say I smoke?
"Regardless of me smoking or not, do you realise that giving up smoking is something that has nothing to do with public health? Let's say I smoke. I give up smoking. I might reduce my risk a tiny fraction, but until I have to send in my kid to a school with 0 mitigation measures it is totally meaningless.
And also - me smoking or not won't have any affect on the spread of covid within a community.
Personal risk mitigation, yes
Having masks on by everyone will limit spread in the general pop. Me giving up smoking or not won't mean a thing in term or limiting spread"

Goodness @TheSunIsStillShining "giving up smoking has nothing to do with public health" Really? So if i ASed you i definately wont find any "protect the NHS rhetoric in your posts right? And what the fuck was the smoking ban that came in in 2007 all about then if not public health. I think you are the one whose mask has slipped. Protect me protect me Protect meeeeeeeeeeeeee

MercyBooth · 23/10/2021 14:37

@RunningOnFumes So why dont the 76% just don their masks then. Why do they need to wait for Boris to tell them to do it

Daisy829 · 23/10/2021 14:43

@Nidan2Sandan I completely agree with everything you’ve said. My mental health took a bartering & im still on meds now. Looking back i can’t believe that it was illegal to see my mum and dad. I was so scared but now i feel sad that we lost that time. Happy to wear masks, distance etc etc but I won’t stop seeing my parents again. It’s just cruel.

RunningOnFumes · 23/10/2021 14:45

@MercyBooth (1) some of them will be (where I live, masks still usual/common) (2) wearing mask benefits others more than yourself - so I would guess some are happy to wear one, but only if others also mandated to do so.

jgw1 · 23/10/2021 14:45

[quote MercyBooth]@RunningOnFumes So why dont the 76% just don their masks then. Why do they need to wait for Boris to tell them to do it[/quote]
Because Boris is our leader and he got us an amazing Brexit deal wot got done.

ilovesooty · 23/10/2021 14:48

@theDudesmummy

There are a lot of "tad annoying" things we have to do or choose to do for the common good.
Not much point in mentioning the common good to people who've already said that they care very little about wider society.
ilovesooty · 23/10/2021 15:01

@jgw1

Some people… you wonder how they get by on a day to day basis

Probably by wearing socks and shoes.

And not having smudged make up. Heaven forbid that should happen as a result of a basic mitigating measure. Hmm
bluejelly · 23/10/2021 15:04

A lot of people hated not seeing their parents during lockdown. It's understandable. But what's way worse is seeing your parents and giving them an awful disease. That's why I was happy to follow the law then, and would be again.
Laws without reason are infuriating but there have been extremely good reasons to prevent people mixing in the last 18 months. We shouldn't lose sight of that.

TheKeatingFive · 23/10/2021 15:11

But what's way worse is seeing your parents and giving them an awful disease.

People should be at liberty to take their own risks on this, especially with vaccinations in play. You can die of lots of things that aren't covid. My parents certainly don't want to spend the last years of their lives separated from their loved ones.

ilovesooty · 23/10/2021 15:11

I think restricting people from seeing their families should be an absolute last resort. Mandatory mask wearing, masks in schools, WFH, making households isolate with a positive PCR, and vaccine passports should all happen before that's considered again.

Treblebass · 23/10/2021 15:15

@bluejelly

You might be happy not to spend quality time with your parents but a lot of people aren’t. Particularly when they haven’t got time on their side anyway.

Time is precious, and we will never comply ever again. They will not keep households from mixing.

TheKeatingFive · 23/10/2021 15:17

Time is precious

Exactly. People act like you can pause life and pick it back up later. You can't. It's time you don't get back.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 23/10/2021 15:23

@bluejelly

A lot of people hated not seeing their parents during lockdown. It's understandable. But what's way worse is seeing your parents and giving them an awful disease. That's why I was happy to follow the law then, and would be again. Laws without reason are infuriating but there have been extremely good reasons to prevent people mixing in the last 18 months. We shouldn't lose sight of that.
But what if the parents wanted to see their family? If they are able to make their own decisions then let them.
XenoBitch · 23/10/2021 15:28

But what's way worse is seeing your parents and giving them an awful disease.

Or not seeing your parents and they die from something non-Covid related. Something that could have been prevented had you been allowed to see them.

Gilly12345 · 23/10/2021 15:33

I will comply.

Last Christmas was lovely, for once we stayed at home, relaxed and didn’t have to spend time with family and rush around to different houses and also was great not hosting and spent a lot less.