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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:
MintJulia · 12/12/2021 18:18

1

but I'm about to start chemo which will hit my immune system so I'm more risk averse than normal

Chickenkorma64 · 12/12/2021 18:20

2

SSOYS · 12/12/2021 18:25

3 maybe. Actually I’m fine with some restrictions such as masks (although I don’t like them) so perhaps a 2 for that, but I’m completely opposed to others, such as school closures and the isolation of people in care homes and hospices, where I’m more of a 4.

Geppili · 12/12/2021 18:32

2 the hospitals are really stretched thin

Benjispruce5 · 12/12/2021 18:35

@MintJulia good luck Flowers

Fireblanket · 12/12/2021 18:38

4

MintJulia · 12/12/2021 18:40

thx x

dementedma · 12/12/2021 18:40

4

theworldsgonefeckingmad · 12/12/2021 18:48

5

LowlyTheWorm · 12/12/2021 18:51

4

Didn’t stop seeing my family over first lockdown. Won’t stop again.

ineedaholidayandwine · 12/12/2021 18:52

4

Benjispruce5 · 12/12/2021 18:59

Well done @LowlyTheWorm Hmm

Mistyplanet · 12/12/2021 20:09

5

TallulahsCurse · 12/12/2021 22:00

5

Libertaire · 12/12/2021 22:02

5

I no longer give a toss about a single word Johnson says about anything, including covid.

IncessantNameChanger · 12/12/2021 22:05

3/4.

I'm doing what I'm asked but feel like a five. I am fed up but dont see why I'm special and need to act like a dick. I wear my mask because it's the right thing to do more than I believe it's going to save my life.

OrinoccoFlew · 12/12/2021 22:08

2

CheesePleaseLoueese · 12/12/2021 22:08

I was a 4 but now edging towards a 5

steppemum · 12/12/2021 22:12

I can't put a number.

I don't care about getting it, and think we need to live with it,but my husband does statistics around Covid. He is very worried about the NHS collapsing in Jan/Feb due to the infectiousness of omicron.

Not worried about people getting Covid, but very worried that if my Dad had a heart attack, he would die as the hospitals aren't working.

I would say we need to re-open those Nightingale hospitals, but there aren't any staff

Hoolihan · 12/12/2021 22:15

3, edging to 4.

FindingMeno · 12/12/2021 22:15

4

abw94 · 12/12/2021 22:29

4

Inastatus · 12/12/2021 22:35

4 verging on 5

Sosososotired · 12/12/2021 22:55

4

Chatterboxy · 12/12/2021 23:10

3