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.

3

Im not so worried about my severely autistic 15 year old who can't be vaccinated unless someone is willing to sedate him first (chicken... Egg)

I do worry about my elderly parents and, as I possess some basic empathy skills, despite the autism genes, other people's parents. I'm also in my 50s so deemed vulnerable, anyhow.

So I will put up with a mask (though I appreciated the few months I could remove for a while when my glasses were too steamed up to see or my face was itching) and relish some social distancing.

I'm pissed off atvthe effect it's had on my 18 year old, though. He's become an obese shut in.

3.5

5

And if schools shut again I will probably lose my shit along with 15yo.

4

I was a solid 4 until Omicron and now edging back to a 3

4

Is the difference between 4 and 5 masks?

5

2 is closest but I also want investment in ventilation in schools, I'm not happy accepting high transmission in school, but I don't want schools to close.

3/4

I was going to say 5 until I read the last bit of it, yes I'm totally over it however I have started wearing my mask again in shops when they were reintroduced last week and will wear it at the pantomime.

4

3

My main concern is a functioning NHS

4/5

4

2

2, leaning towards 3.
Am in Wales and we still have masks, plus vaccine passports, school bubbles, have to isolate until PCR comes through if you or a household member have symptoms so not that much has changed yet towards restrictions being lifted.

4, and have been throughout most of the pandemic.

4

1

2

1/2

4

4