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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After a bottle of wine about a 10 though

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None of the above. I'm concerned about covid for the vulnerable members of my family and friends ( and the wider population of course).

I think a one size fits none approach to restrictions is not working - we now have vulnerable kids or the children with vulnerable parents being threatened by school fines.

I've had enough of it - of course I have but because of the policies have contributed to people's mental and physical health declining. - a family member now has decreased mobility because benches were removed, meaning he couldn't get out for a walk last winter. Rules of 2,6 etc outdoors was stupid and pointless and contributed to people's isolation.

I think I most fit 4, though I don't believe there's universally very little risk.

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@mynameisnotmichaelcaine

4. It's horrible that people are dying. I lost a friend to the virus, and it's really, really sad. But pandemics are never going to be without deaths. As a secondary teacher I have seen the absolutely hideous impact that restrictions have had on children and young people. Every class I teach is massively behind where they would usually be. Lots of children are suffering from severe mental health issues. I've heard the "they'd get worse mental health issues if their parents both died" but a) the likelihood of middle aged people dying is statistically tiny, especially with vaccines and b) I'm not even sure if that's true. I lost my mum when I was young and I was absolutely devastated but my mental health was fine - I was just really sad - that's death.

I think part of the problem is because modern healthcare is so good, we have come to expect that everyone will live to 100 and we call it a tragedy when an 80 year old dies. Of course it is sad when loved ones die, but we can't stop the world to prevent it. It wouldn't work even if we did!

Absolutely with all this. Totally hit the nail on the head.

I swerve about a bit covering 1-4. Have never thought 5. Most often I hover around a 2.
For me it’s one of the more exhausting aspects not being sure how I feel sometimes but then I pull myself together and realise that’s because we’re not entirely sure how best to live with this as a society.

This is very interesting! I'd like to see the graph!

I comply due to my work as does DH, but left to our own devices we'd both be a 5.

This is not over at all and pretending it is and expecting to be able to carry on without managing our waves is naive and wreckless.

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@Thewiseoneincognito

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This is not over at all and pretending it is and expecting to be able to carry on without managing our waves is naive and wreckless.

But even when we "manage our waves" it has carried on so where would you be happy to stop?

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