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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4, very close to 5

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@lljkk

Piechart was definitely way to go why didn't I think of that Up to & including tootiredtospeak.

Largely fed up bunch of viperidae

Ace pie chart. Thank you for compiling

@lljkk

Piechart was definitely way to go why didn't I think of that Up to & including tootiredtospeak.

Largely fed up bunch of viperidae

Love the mince pie chart thank you!

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4 and actually think Omicron could be positive news, as a milder strain. Not worried at all this time round (other than people overreacting).

5 but I've been jabbed 3 times now and had covid, caught from my 5 year old not from Asda. It's not pleasant, and I have asthma but was no breathing issues. It's very unlikely to kill you off, so just get on with life.

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[quote Warhertisuff]@Thewiseoneincognito

Re your list of when we can get back to normal, even if we were hypothetically able to achieve that for Covid, we wouldn't be able to tick all those boxes for a range of other infectious diseases, notably flu, been also norovirus and RSV - the vulnerable will still be at risk from these.

Presumably we should therefore keep restrictions until every disease that disproportionately affects those who are vulnerable (ie every disease!) is controlled and we can live on a sterile and disease free planet. After all, why protect only for Covid?

There's unrealistic, and there's totally batshit unrealistic... and I'm afraid your list falls into the latter.[/quote]
Hmmm we’ll see, but in the meantime can I suggest you copy and paste my list and refer back to it every time lockdown looms over the coming few years, perhaps tick off which points we’ve made progress on and which we haven’t.

Then you’ll see why Covid specifically is a global concern and no matter how much you try to kid yourself that it’s ‘batshit unrealistic’ we inevitably always end up back at this point. Always.

That’s not some lockdown loving doom mongers mantra, it’s the cold hard truth I’m afraid.

I want to say 5, but honestly, probably a 4.

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Between 4 & 5.

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@Stuffin

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.

@Stuffin - I wrote that post, quoting a medical professional who had listed some really tragic cases she had been involved in. So you had taken my comment out of context when you said it was "rubbish".

However I would say for me it is not at all the case I don't realise medical health issues may come up and get you any time, as you suggested. My father died at 58 of a stroke. On Friday night we were sitting around the table together, Saturday morning he had the stroke, by the Tuesday he was gone.

I've had pneumonia, glandular fever that left me with a platelet count so low I was nearly hospitalised, then a broken arm, a broken leg, I was head-butted in the face by drunk/drugged man - needing stitches in my face and x-rays for potential brain injury. I've also had lifelong asthma meaning feeling breathless has been a yearly occurrence for me, whenever I get respiratory infections - sometimes needing x-rays to ensure it wasn't the pneumonia returned.

So it isn't at all that I don't realise quite how fragile life can be. I think it is the exact opposite which is why I'm perhaps more cautious than most.

What would be good is if people could just be a bit kinder in their posts. Not dismissing people's views as "rubbish" or telling them to "give their head a wobble" (another poster not directed at me, but v unnecessary comment in circs of OP query).

Dealing with this situation for us all is hard enough without being unnecessarily nasty in replies.

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