Are you changing your behaviour?

[smmudge]

So despite the fact that Covid cases are rising again at an alarming rate, and around 1000 people a week are dying from it in the UK, some people are acting like its all over.
The mind boggles.

I think because trying to avoid covid now is like trying to hold back the tide. The govt policies aren't so much "we don't care if you get it" more "we want you to get it". At some point as long as you're not super at risk, you just stop fighting it.

Also because from my point of view the reason to stay safe was not to pass it on to higher risk members of my family, like my parents. They're in their 60s but retired year before last, if anyone has been going out socialising the most, it's them! My dad's got a positive result now a couple of days ago, not surprising really, he probably caught it at a gig he was doing at a local folk festival. What can you do.

 

[_Russ_]

What can you do.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I recommend getting Twat tattooed on your forehead

You are coming across as very judgmental towards posters that are only doing what the majority of the people in the country are doing, perhaps you should wind your neck in?

 

[_Russ_]

Fuck the majority, High numbers don't equal high quality

 

[Pickman's model]

So despite the fact that Covid cases are rising again at an alarming rate, and around 1000 people a week are dying from it in the UK, some people are acting like its all over.
The mind boggles.

like the management at work who have got rid of all the mitigation measures put in place

 

[Pickman's model]

I recommend getting Twat tattooed on your forehead

how's that worked for you?

 

[_Russ_]

how's that worked for you?

What? suggesting Twats get themselves labelled?...not very well, why d'you ask?

 

[Voley]

I'm still working from home, avoiding big gatherings, wearing a mask. Saw Bill Bailey is on in Plymouth next month - I would've gone normally but not yet ta. I went in to the office last week and was in a little room with 7 other people and thought 'Nah, I'll be giving this a miss till after Xmas'. I'm lucky to have this option.

Don't mind having people I know round the house but we're not hugely sociable tbh so that's fairly rare. I don't go to pubs so that doesn't bother me.

It all seems very much in the balance to me right now. I wouldn't be at all surprised by rates getting really worryingly high by Xmas.

 

[xenon]

No.

 

[Elpenor]

No. Don’t go to pubs / cinema etc at moment. Maybe go round someone’s house once a month. Happy to stay at home and be safe.

 

[Pickman's model]

What? suggesting Twats get themselves labelled?...not very well, why d'you ask?

i wondered what changes you'd noticed in how other people treat you since you adorned your face so.

 

[Supine]

Sat in a pub and had a pint with a group of mates. Feeling ok until one of them said 30 people caught covid in the local drinking club last weekend. I left sharpish

 

[Aladdin]

Working from home.
But all my colleagues are back on site. Unfortunately the fully vacc crowd think they can meet up sans masks for lunch and there are 4 staff out now with covid.
Plus a new staff member is upsetting people by not wearing a mask and going around spouting anti vax nonsense. They're very young and live on facebook and Twitter.

Depressing... that a young teacher can be so absolutely thick.

Eta Quite ftankly if I were onsite I would absoutely rip them a new one!!
The guidelines and rules are still in place in schools here. Teachers wear masks. This idiot is wandering around asking why staff are wearing masks?...

 

[weltweit]

I am still wary. Some at work have stopped masks, I continue in the main.

I don't attend my club though which is a loss, but I don't think it is safe yet.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Nearly the only one at work wearing a mask (small unventilated venue), still wearing it in shops and on public transport and busy indoor places.

 

[spring-peeper]

No, no changes in my behaviour.
I never was one to go to the movies (too expensive), or eat at restaurants (prefer to take it home to eat).

Being from Ontario, Canada, we will be wearing masks until at least March 2022.

It was nice to attend outdoor activities with the Grandchildren, last year all outdoor stuff was canceled.
It is nice that the Santa Claus parades will be back this year.

 

[RileyOBlimey]

I’m going to wind in pub visits…however, I’ll still do the odd cinema trip. Apart from that’ll hibernating. Fuck getting long covid.

 

[Cloo]

I'm still WFH. I've been in 3 times since September, 2 weeks apart, but now I'm expecting I probably won't go into until spring, barring one small team get together before Christmas (which I would probably call off if numbers look apocalyptic). I'm still wearing masks indoors in public including in places not mandating it, even when the only person. I have 3 sets of theatre/opera tickets booked in next fortnight, but not booking anything ahead for sooner that April, but obviously if numbers look better before then, may book sooner.

Like RileyOBlimey will probably do cinema as TBH I never go just as something opens and if you go at other times there's usually only a few dozen other people in the whole place at most, quite often fewer than 20 so it's relatively low risk.

Restaurants will probably stick to local ones on weeknights over winter, as again, there will usually only be a few people there anyway.

Basically, as long as there isn't total lockdown, intend to do quite a lot of dinner/tea parties from now until spring, inviting over one lot of mates at a time, at most every other week. That should be relatively low risk but makes things 100%+ better than last winter. Drop me a line if you'd like some lower-risk winter socialising and can make it to North London (caveat: I do have two kids in the plague pits school)

 

[StoneRoad]

Having had a decent look at the recent figures. I'm not at all happy. The government doesn't seem to care, maybe even wants people to catch it ... leading into the winter, this seems murderously callous ...

Nope, not changing the level of precautions I'm taking.
If anything, in the past month or more [six weeks, probably] I've been even stricter with masks etc.
I might be more open to visits a couple of weeks after I've had my booster [more than six mths after my second AZ jag].

Still having groceries delivered, and I'm WFH with only rare visits to the workshop.
Any trips [went with OH to a local hospital for tests several times recently] have used our own car and we have picked the very quiet times to collect new glasses.
Continuing to avoid shops, public transport, cafes ie crowded places generally.

 

[rutabowa]

TBF, I'm acting like it's all over.

I go to the pub, gigs, football etc. I'm double jabbed with my booster due. I can't live any other way.

It's nice not to have to go into work though.

More or less the same tbh

 

[weepiper]

Still pretty cautious here. My teenage sons wear masks all day at school and on the bus there and back. I and all my colleagues wear a mask all day at work. All of these are still mandatory here but I think we'd be doing them even if they weren't. Me and my eldest (at uni) are double jagged, my sons are under 16 so can only have one but they've both had it. We still don't let customers into the shop where I work, they stay at the door behind a chain and we do business across it with them outside. We are a team of seven people one of whom is type 1 diabetic and we really really don't want it coming in the shop. Of the seven of us two have caught it separately (both from their girlfriends) and each time we managed to avoid spreading within the shop because we are all lateral flow testing at least once a week and they immediately stayed away from work. Bikes coming in get sprayed in Zoflora and the card machine etc gets regularly disinfected. There is no immediate plan to change any of this. We don't want it, and it's not inevitable even if you have kids at school and work in retail, I am evidence of that.