Covid restrictions - are you adhering or not?

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Have you been sticking rigidly to the rules, with no ifs, buts, or conditions?

Yes, I've followed to the letter.
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38%
Kind of, I'm being sensible and reducing contact with people.
47
58%
No, I'm carrying on regardless
3
4%
 
Total votes: 81

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Skub wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 3:26 pm An old sometime biking buddy of mine has been a covid denier and anti-vaxer from the very outset and the lockdowns really impacted on his perhaps already delicate mental state. He was prone to outbursts in the street,railing against folk with masks and the whole social distancing bit.

I haven't seen him about for a few weeks and his wife stopped me today to say he'd tested positive and while he appeared to be getting better,he's taken a downturn and is in a coma in intensive care. The only hospital available was 70 miles away in Coleraine.

He'll not get much sympathy from most folk,but I'm personally sad he's having to learn the hard way.
It is sad. Yes, some anti vaxxers deserve at least a smack in the head. But then there are people that are struggling in life in general and all the things to do with Covid have made that worse :( :(

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I'm on local FB group and often get anti vax nutters moaning. Got one today who was way off the scale. Had a look at her profile and she's a complete cabbage. These are just 2 of dozens of stuff she puts up and other muppets agree :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Well, if the head of Covid taskforce was up for a beer in lockdown, then I reckon I'm about on the mark when I say that nobody, for all their protestations, adhered 100% to the overly-restrictive rules.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-60001927
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gremlin wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 4:43 pm Well, if the head of Covid taskforce was up for a beer in lockdown, then I reckon I'm about on the mark when I say that nobody, for all their protestations, adhered 100% to the overly-restrictive rules.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-60001927

If everybody simply apologises and says they are "truly sorry" it should all be OK.

The police and enquiry teams can stand down.
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I'm going to a germ warfare convention tomorrow. AKA kids Party. Already been two cases of Covid amongst this group of kids too. :shock:
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Good luck, two of my colleagues are off/lateral flow testing as their plague pits have brought Auntie COVID home.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:12 pm I'm going to a germ warfare convention tomorrow. AKA kids Party. Already been two cases of Covid amongst this group of kids too. :shock:
Good luck. It was a wedding that did for us just before Christmas.
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It was a wedding that did for a son and his family two weeks ago. His wife told me that it was a mini super spreader event. ;)
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:12 pm I'm going to a germ warfare convention tomorrow. AKA kids Party. Already been two cases of Covid amongst this group of kids too. :shock:
Dodged this bullet.

"How?" you ask. Baby D tested postivie on an LFT before we went :lol:
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It's finished. Finished. And you can forget all that silly mask wearing bollocks too now.
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Boris, Sir Kier, Djokovic and now the head of Credit Suisse: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60019735

Seems that everyone either broke or misinterpreted the ever-changing rules at some point. We're gonna need more pitchforks.
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gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:19 am Boris, Sir Kier, Djokovic and now the head of Credit Suisse: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60019735

Seems that everyone either broke or misinterpreted the ever-changing rules at some point. We're gonna need more pitchforks.
I think to an extent 99% of us did.... but obviously we didn't get caught... or people don't care enough about us..
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gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:19 am Boris, Sir Kier, Djokovic and now the head of Credit Suisse: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60019735

Seems that everyone either broke or misinterpreted the ever-changing rules at some point. We're gonna need more pitchforks.

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Travelling just got a bit easier and cheaper....

Covid travel tests to be axed in England for double vaccinated
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60109945
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gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:42 pm Travelling just got a bit easier and cheaper....

Covid travel tests to be axed in England for double vaccinated
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60109945
I've a wedding in March in Cornwall so that's good for us.
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Yorick wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:47 pm
gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:42 pm Travelling just got a bit easier and cheaper....

Covid travel tests to be axed in England for double vaccinated
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60109945
I've a wedding in March in Cornwall so that's good for us.
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Yorick wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:47 pm
gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:42 pm Travelling just got a bit easier and cheaper....

Covid travel tests to be axed in England for double vaccinated
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60109945
I've a wedding in March in Cornwall so that's good for us.
Free beer?
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gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:08 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:47 pm
gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:42 pm Travelling just got a bit easier and cheaper....

Covid travel tests to be axed in England for double vaccinated
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60109945
I've a wedding in March in Cornwall so that's good for us.
Free beer?
Bloody hope so. Our room is £180 one night.
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We all had covid in Dec. This morning my daughter tested positive on an LFT. FFS. Hoping it's a false positive but more time out of school till we get the PCR back.
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Daughter (8) was only clear of Covid on the 17th Dec.

Just got PCR back and she's positive again just over a month later. FFS.

Luckily as per December's round she's fine at the min, few sniffles and bouncing off the walls bored.

So assuming we're just as likely to get it again in the next week or so. Joy.