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.

5

Somewhere between 4 and 5

I'm a 5 in that I think there should be absolutely no more restrictions, this is literally ridiculous now. But I won't break the law, so I will abide by rules even if I think they're manifestly stupid. So does that make me a 3?

5

I swing wildly between 1 and 5 depending on the day.

4-5

4/5

This is an amazing response

@frazzledali putting on a seatbelt does not impact someone's life in the way Covid restrictions do though. That's a very easy thing to do. Restrictions are not easy for many people.

3

4

@frazzledali are you actually comparing wearing a seatbelt with lockdowns/being forced to work from home etc?

At the moment I’m probably 4. If evidence emerges to show that there really is a big risk to children then I would likely shoot back over to a 1.

2

@SonicBroom I agree with a PP that you've worded all of the points really well- the only thing I would have added somewhere would be an option to note being really concerned about all of the damage of restrictions and lockdowns. The damage to education and lack of safeguarding for children, the damage to mental health etc.

4

3 - 4

More school closures might send me to 5!

2 at the moment.

2

3

6

1 or 2 probably but 1 isn't realistic

I just can’t function with the constant anxiety and fear for something that will never go away no matter how much we want it to.

So for my own well-being I flit between 4-5, I am mostly a 4 though.

4

@SonicBroom

This is an amazing response

I'm finding the responses really interesting, thank you for starting the thread!