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

777 replies

SonicBroom · 08/12/2021 22:48

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 Grin.

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.

OP posts:
PlainJaneSuperbrainthe2nd · 09/12/2021 14:35

3 - Desperate for schools, nurseries, parks to stay open

cloudcett · 09/12/2021 14:40

4

Heatherjayne1972 · 09/12/2021 14:52

5

BogRollBOGOF · 09/12/2021 15:12

5

I tried wearing face coverings including visors but had to stop when the overwhelm reached the point of self-harming in the supermarket. That falls within the government's criteria of exempt. I naturally swerve superflous places where they are required.

I have broken stupid, pointless laws/guidence like climbing over fences into playgrounds in June 2020 to spare my 7yo from depressive behaviour, letting a classmate come round for a birthday the day after they sat by each other in school, driving to scenic spots for walks and having the audacity to supervise a child playing with a friend for exercise. These have compromised the health of no one and only been to the benefit of our mental and physical health.

I will not put my children through the harm of "remote learning" again. It takes months to undo it each time.

I have with mild reluctance got my third jab promptly.

MarmitesMyMate · 09/12/2021 15:20

5

zafferana · 09/12/2021 15:21

4/5

And delighted so many other people seem to feel the same way.

StrongerThanA90sTrend · 09/12/2021 15:28

4.5

time4anothername · 09/12/2021 15:30

why didn't you specficially name the healthcare system and its workers as a category to be worried about OP?

CovidCurious · 09/12/2021 15:33

3

Thumbcat · 09/12/2021 15:34

4

usernotfound0000 · 09/12/2021 15:36

I was a 5, news of Omicron pushed me back to 4 but following news of it being less severe, I'm probably back at a 4.5 now. I would never be rude to people and will wear a mask and keep distance from people, but really that's it.

ManyManyBiscuits · 09/12/2021 15:41

3
DH is 1 though

AnnoyedByAlfieBear · 09/12/2021 15:54

2.5

Lostmyway86 · 09/12/2021 15:56

I was at 4. Then I caught covid. I'm kid 30s, extremely healthy, no health conditions. It has floored me and I'm day 7 in bed struggling with breathing. As such, I am now at 2.

ThatScottishLass · 09/12/2021 16:01

3
Especially now most people are jabbed and if they find out the new variant really is milder then even more reason to calm down a bit.

ThatScottishLass · 09/12/2021 16:03

@Lostmyway86

I was at 4. Then I caught covid. I'm kid 30s, extremely healthy, no health conditions. It has floored me and I'm day 7 in bed struggling with breathing. As such, I am now at 2.
Sorry you're feeling so bad. Do you have an oximeter? My dad started feeling like that around day 7 and ended up having to be admitted, he's fine now but it's good he went in when he did so look after yourself ok?
herecomesthsun · 09/12/2021 16:05

It totally depends on the level of risk at any one time.

I'm willing to follow CMO advice but am also looking forward to my children's Christmas concerts etc. and very glad they have had a good term at school.

bunanarama · 09/12/2021 16:06

4

alexbury · 09/12/2021 16:07

With omicron I've gone back to a 1 from a 2.

It now seems so transmissible that if we wait until we really know another Lockdown is absolutely necessary, it will be far too late and numbers will be through the roof / hospitals overwhelmed. ^

Can't get the genie back in the bottle...^

Lostmyway86 · 09/12/2021 16:10

Thank you, yes I do. I've been monitoring daily. Levels are OK I just can't do anything without becoming short of breath. Difficult with a 1 and 2 year old....

Confusedandworried321 · 09/12/2021 16:11

Between 3 and 4, depending on what I’m being asked to go along with. Small inconveniences like face masks in shops, public transport, when walking round the office etc, not a problem for me. Covid passport, also not a problem as I’m fully vaccinated. Booster jabs, yes bring them on.

But no no no to any closures whether that be schools, hospitality etc. And no to any restrictions on other social mixing.

Confusedandworried321 · 09/12/2021 16:13

My DH has recently had covid, not hugely unwell but certainly not asymptomatic (tiredness, cold symptoms, temporary loss of taste and smell) and no one else in the household caught it. That’s made me think, what is all this even for? I didn’t catch it from my husband who I live with and shared a bed with.

Itsbeenalongweek · 09/12/2021 16:13

3.5

alexbury · 09/12/2021 16:15

@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.

This.

People who actually know the reality - or who have close colleagues badly affected with Long Covid - won't be voting 4 or 5 imho...

MLMshouldbeillegal · 09/12/2021 16:19

Between 4 and 5.

Obviously I can't break into premises which are closed, or force my way past the bouncers into the theatre without showing my covid passport (Scotland). And I've had 2 jabs, and a booster.

But I'm not stopping seeing people, i'm not following Nicola Sturgeon's advice to take a Lateral Flow every time I leave the house, I'm not limiting where I go and who I see, will not be stopping teenagers having friends in the house and I won't be stopping seeing friends either.