On scale of 1-5 - where are your views on COVID?

[SonicBroom]

So it’s nearly two years and none of us want things to be the way they are. However, it still feels like people are pretty polarised in their views looking across threads and conversations, so I was wondering quite HOW polarised people are?

Please therefore indulge my highly unscientific mini-survey to see roughly where people sit. If I have nothing better to do then I might even add up all the numbers at the end and make a pretty graph .

Please just reply with 1 to 5 in respect of how you feel about what we know at the moment (which is largely that omicron is more transmissible, no certainty over severity yet but even if less severe could result in higher impact due to greater numbers).

1 - I’m worried about what COVID will mean for me / my / family / society and willing to take any precautions necessary including full lockdown with school closures

2 - I’m worried about what it will mean and I’m willing to take precautions including restrictions on social gatherings but want to be able to mix between households and prefer schools to stay open, although I know transmission among kids will be high.

3 - I’m on the fence, I don’t mind a few restrictions but I’m not that worried and really don’t want anything that curtails my life too much. I’ll go along with whatever I’m asked to do though.

4 - I’ve had enough, I don’t think we’re at much risk and don’t want any major restrictions or disruption to my life / social life. I’ll do what I absolutely have to on the face of things but otherwise will quietly get on with doing things my own way.

5 - I’m completely over it, it’s utterly ridiculous how worked up everyone is getting we just need to get on with our lives and accept that some people just won’t make it. I’m not going to bother paying any attention if I’m asked to do something I don’t want to.

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@BoudecaBains

and accept that some people just won’t make it

...................... I completed the paperwork on a 36 year old mother who " didn't make it". Her baby did , thankfully, but only just. And the youngest patient I've treated was 18, he arrested three times. I've lost two colleagues , both with young children, and another colleague in her late 20's has just been fitted with a pacemaker as a result of Covid infection.

Lets hope the vaccines are effective against the latest strain or there will be a lot of " accepting " to do.

@BoudecaBains I hope you don't mind me asking - was the 36 year old mother vaccinated? Do you see any vaccinated pregnant ladies with normal BMI seriously suffer of Covid? The death you describe is tragic in any case of course (and you seeing it or trying to prevent must be incredibly hard) - it's just to understand my own risk as I've been trying to conceive. I'm 40, BMI 21, no known serious health issues, vaccinated in the summer and booster booked for next week. Midwifes told me back in October I should be fine if vaccinated.

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1 but only because i have a ecv child otherwise id be a 2

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Between 3 and 4.

So this took off! Keep them coming and I’ll pull together a summary in the next couple of days

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1, but I live in NZ, in an area of my city that has 95% of people over 12 double vaxed, and the vast majority of those people agree with vaccine mandates, and severe restrictions on what unvaxed people can do, because why the hell should their right to chose what they put in their body, override the right of those who have taken social responsibility, and not only thought of themselves, to avoid getting an often dangerous illness.

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2 based on current vaccine performance

Between 4 and 5. I won't break the law but won't blindly follow guidance e.g. if masks aren't mandatory in a place then I won't use one.

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