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.

TheHauntedWood But not every country has such high numbers of infections (and I don't believe it is just because we are testing more. Vaccine efficiency will hopefully improve over time. There are other diseases we have been able to vaccinate against to a certain degree.

Unfortunately in the UK we seem to be happy to have such high number of infections circulating with very little restrictions.

If we can work to keep infections low, then we buy the scientists time to get vaccine efficiency up and the vaccinators to travel.

Mumsnet is full of people insisting vaccines and masks make absolutely no difference to transmission. The vaccine is far more effective already than we had hoped. It's not going to prevent every case, but it can dramatically slow the spread (vaccinated masked people are less likely to pass on the virus). There's far too much shrugging of shoulders and not enough taking responsibility for others.

1. I believe in protecting children and vulnerable people from harm. I'll act in the national interest and do whatever I can for my country because I'm a patriot.

Even though lockdowns are a failure of covid policy, and if your covid strategy is any good you don't need them...

if things have been allowed to get to the point where a lockdown or school closure is the only option left then I would support it.

(But hope for a more effective covid strategy in future.)

Because uncontrolled covid is worse than any covid control measure.

And because it's not about me and what I want.

It's about what's necessary to combat the virus.

There are only two sides here:

Humans.

Virus.

We're all either helping one or the other.

Some days 4, some days 5.

If I were in the UK, I'm closest to 4. About 3.75.
That is, I think masks in indoor public places for this winter are a good thing, but most other measures should not be happening.

Seems like 4 is the most popular answer on here.

4

3 I've always been middle of the road.

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3.5

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Gosh. No wonder there are so many infections and people dying in the UK. I'm kind of surprised to be honest as I always thought that having been through a world war British people would put on a brave face, pull together and do what is necessary to try and limit the spread of Covid. It's actually a different type of war if you think about it. And you don't even have to pay for Antigen tests either. No wonder the NHS is under severe strain.

3

Chart of responses please

I want to be 4. I’m actually 1/2. Vulnerable family member on chemo. We’ve been shielding since March 2020.

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3.5

1/2

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