How Many People Have Followed All The Rules Of All The Uk Lockdowns Since Last March,

[jane1950A]

How many have worn a face mask, or just become suddenly exempt

[Bobbisox1]

His wife is in an awful way , she’s aged 10 years, it’s terrible Barsel

[jourdain2]

We have. I was exempt from the very beginning, but OH has struggled and sworn and sweated in a mask. All kids live quite a distance away, everything else stopped. Didn't have much choice really. I suppose we disobeyed in going out more than once a day to walk the dog - but we live in a very small village and met no-one.

We have agreed that June 21st is our cut-off. If rules carry on then we will become rebels and lawless - shocking!

[LadyCG]

My next door neighbours flouted lockdown at every opportunity.

[DTCwordfan]

I've been good.....a necessity I feel. This last lockdown was tougher than the first one.....

[Bobbisox1]

I thought the first one to be the toughest DT

[Deskdiary]

Jourdain has made a very good point; if Bojo buckles (and follows that despicable nasty woman in Scotland) will people continue to comply?

I’m not sure they will.

Of course the Covidworshippers will, but those of us who are more robust, and can see the absurd “rules” for what they are, I suspect will not. I know damn well I won’t.

Covid is very low risk now. You have more chance of being killed crossing the road - will you stop crossing the road?

[andres]

I have followed the rules. However infection rates are rising rapidly in our area. Hospitals are reporting an increase in admissions. Schools are thinking about extending the half-term holiday and young people are being vaccinated in droves.

[anneasquith]

Does bojo not have a mind if his own ?

[Buenchico]

I believe that I've followed all the rules and almost everyone I've seen around me (in shops, etc) seems to have been doing the same.

[Mozz71]

I've followed all of the lockdown directives.

[Jackdaw33]

Despite being labelled a buffoon, Boris is no fool. He knows only too well that to delay June 21st at this stage will send his popularity plummeting. Only an unexpected event of catastrophic proportions could justify any such move.

[Deskdiary]

I would be astonished if 21/6 isn’t honoured- and it is a case of being hornoured; we’ve done our bit, it’s now time to pay us back.

[Atheist]

Sadly, those who follow the rules are treated not only as idiots by the non-followers, but treated as dispensible by those same people. Shame on them (apart from those who are non-believers but who are decent enough to go with the flow just in case.)

[andy-hughes]

I have been saying more or less since lockdowns started that eventually, as a society, we will assimilate Covid in the same way that we assimilated flu.

It will kill a proportion of people who have health issues, or are too old to fight it, the population will vaccinate against it, and the vast majority who are unfortunate enough to catch it will have a rough couple of weeks, and get over it.

Just like flu.

The day when Covid stops being treated like The Black Death, which it is not, and evolves into a nasty by manageable virus, which it is, is coming at the end of this month, and it would be political and social folly to try and change that now.

[carolegif]

I have.

[fender62]

shook somebodys hand by accident, other then that followed the rules.

[Atheist]

Andy, I hope you are right, but I don't really think you are. I think you will regret these words in a month or two.
We'll all find out in time.
Re flu. I'm sure that those who have flu vaccine are in a minority, and that is because flu is far less dangerous than the current covid. Flu is considered a minor inconvenience in the UK ("Just a cold, or the beginning of flu?"), but real flu is a very nasty illness when you catch it. Fortunately it is far less catching than covid. The new Thai covid seems to be a combination of UK and Indian Covid, and is apparently far more virulent. In the UK the R number haas recently doubled and now exceeds 1, which means that every covid sufferer now infects more than one other person, which means that the infection will increase exponentially.
If we are lucky, the vaccine will save us from a disaster, but it's not something to be taken lightly.
Johnson is a chancer, but most people aren't; they don't want to catch it or see their loved ones catch it. Chancers take chances and good luck to them and be damned if they are mistaken, but they shouldn't take risks with other peoples' lives.

[MallyJ]

I have and so has himself....I can see no point in taking risks or potentially putting others at risk.....and I am a bit stunned to see that some people don't believe others also did as they were asked

[andres]

The thing is that you will always get people who hit out at rules and regulations. They don't like being told what to do. Always know better than everybody else.
'Full up and door shut is what we say up here'

[andres]

The thing is that you will always get people who hit out at rules and regulations. They don't like being told what to do. Always know better than everybody else.
'Full up and door shut is what we say up here'