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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@LumosSolem good point thank you. I might repeat this in a few weeks’ time and see how it changes as well

I'm between a 4 and 5.
I wear masks most of time I'm supposed to as don't want people telling me off.

I'd love to see a graph of these results!

Seems to me to be majority 4?

4/5 I only wear a mask cos I’m worried of being told off too!

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Between 3 and 4.

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29% of us answered category 4 (mode)... I'm struggling to make the barchart look good, maybe later.

And someone nabbed my old user name ,which I gave up in about 2007, serves me right...

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5 especially as there is growing evidence that it has finally evolved to a cold. The mutation it did to get to omicron actually took in the genes of the virus that causes the cold from the corona virus family.

It’s looking likely the entire nation is gonna get a cold in the next few weeks

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

Rubbish.

I am 4.5 and so is DH who is still suffering from breathlessness when he tested positive at the beginning of the year. I think a lot of people have never had to face the reality that life throws shit at you medically at any time. Covid will not be the only risk to your health and I am not going to put my life on hold for one thing that will very probably not kill me.

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I was a solid 1 until I was fully vaccinated in summer though.

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Hurry with the graph/mince pie chart please

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