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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and accept that some people just won’t make it

...................... I completed the paperwork on a 36 year old mother who " didn't make it". Her baby did , thankfully, but only just. And the youngest patient I've treated was 18, he arrested three times. I've lost two colleagues , both with young children, and another colleague in her late 20's has just been fitted with a pacemaker as a result of Covid infection.

Lets hope the vaccines are effective against the latest strain or there will be a lot of " accepting " to do.

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1. I'll wear a mask but I absolutely will not stop socialising.

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1. It's horrible that people are dying. I lost a friend to the virus, and it's really, really sad. But pandemics are never going to be without deaths. As a secondary teacher I have seen the absolutely hideous impact that restrictions have had on children and young people. Every class I teach is massively behind where they would usually be. Lots of children are suffering from severe mental health issues. I've heard the "they'd get worse mental health issues if their parents both died" but a) the likelihood of middle aged people dying is statistically tiny, especially with vaccines and b) I'm not even sure if that's true. I lost my mum when I was young and I was absolutely devastated but my mental health was fine - I was just really sad - that's death.

I think part of the problem is because modern healthcare is so good, we have come to expect that everyone will live to 100 and we call it a tragedy when an 80 year old dies. Of course it is sad when loved ones die, but we can't stop the world to prevent it. It wouldn't work even if we did!

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@BoudecaBains
DFriend lost her FIL yesterday after a long protracted hideous lonely death in icu from Covid.

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I am cev so I am more vulnerable but that, that aside, I'm a 4. (And on some days, 5)

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Between 3/4

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