Do You Obey The Current Lock Down Restrictions Only Because Of The Threat Of A Fine?

[dave50]

Do people obey the current lock down restrictions simply because they don't want to get caught and fined or do they feel they have a moral obligation to obey? How many would break the restrictions in order to visit family and friends if it was not illegal to do so? Personally I admit that I would have probably made a personal judgement of the risks involved and gone ahead with visiting family if we considered it safe but of course we can't because it is illegal.

[New Judge]

Your household sound exactly like many I've noticed in my area, ummm. People in and out (mainly family) all the time.

//I can't stop my kids coming round...//

Why not? Don't they know they are not supposed to?

I don't believe much of the drivel that spews forth from the government but one thing I do believe is the information given on the likely sources of virus spread. One of the most common is spread within homes where people from different households meet up for prolonged periods. There is still a high number of new infections each day. It can't be from pubs and restaurants, I doubt much of it is from shops or public transport. That leaves workplaces and homes. People go to work then they go into other people's houses. It ain't rocket science.

Preventing the spread of the virus even under these lockdown conditions is futile because people do not adhere to the rules. It's about time the government realised this and developed a different strategy.

[chrissa1]

I’ve stuck by the rules completely. I can’t wait to see my twin granddaughters who I haven’t seen since Xmas 2019. :-(

[ummmm]

NJ - I do my sons washing at the weekend. They get their mail sent here. They need to pick it up. They aren't going to come in without speaking to me. They do keep their distance. Never touch me though.

It's so difficult, do I tell my son, who is at uni, that he can't come home?

We got a delivery yesterday. One package for us and one for next door. They came round for it, OH handed it over, the weren't 2 meters apart and we know nothing of who they've been socialising with. It's a minefield....

I'll still carry on doing what I'm doing. I'm sticking to the rules, I have no control over other adults.

[New Judge]

//It's so difficult,...//

Yes ummm, I quite agree. I wasn't taking a pop. I don't know how long the government expects people to live like this. First it was to protect the NHS. We did that. Then it was to buy time for a vaccine to come along. We did that. Now it's to prevent new strains emerging. We can't do that. So the government needs to adopt a strategy that involves living with Covid not locking people away from it.

[eve1974]

I’m sticking to it because it’s morally correct ... and because I can’t see us getting out of this covid mess unless we stick to the advice.

I would however break rules if I felt the circumstances warranted it.

(For eg a few weeks ago I travelled about 2 hrs away because a friend had been victim of domestic abuse .... I believe that was exceptional circumstances n I’d prob have belted a cop if he’d tried to stop me !)

[Peter Pedant]

I am not a great breaker of the law
and wdnt really choose the internet to unburden myself of guilt

[New Judge]

// ... and because I can’t see us getting out of this covid mess unless we stick to the advice.//

And I can't see us getting out of it even if we do, eve. The government is not only moving the goalposts, it changing the game. I think it will reach a point when they say so long as we have Covid in the country, we must suffer the sort of restrictions we're seeing now. And since we'll always have the virus we'll always have the restrictions. The only hope is that sufficient MPs get together and say enough is enough and force the government to change tack.

[douglas9401]

ummmm may just have happened upon the solution we've all been searching for to ensure compliance.

Minefields.

[queen 1954]

I obey the rules for the sake of my health and others.I go to town once a week to get my food and also work 2 days a week,i can't work from home.Last sunday was my birthday and as i live alone my daughters my support bubble so was lovely to be able to visit her and celebrate.I don't even think about the fine as i am following the rules,my 91 year old mother got covid last year and we don't know how she survived it being so frail but she did.It's a small price to pay and although it's boring and lonely it has to be done.

[bluemoon1]

I'm sticking to the rules at the moment because they are making it so bloody difficult to go anywhere and it's very cold.

[woofgang]

NJ as i understand it, part of the point of vaccination is to give the virus less time and space to mutate or vary or whatever the term is. As I understand it, individual viruses, once they exist, don't mutate. The mutation happens when the infected person makes and new virus particles. If the person's immune system fights off the virus then it has a shorter time to make variations so less variations are made. Even if the vac doesn't prevent infection, the concept is that its shortens the period of infection so less new viruses are made and shed and maybe also lessens the amount of virus that is made during an infection.

[Barmaid]

The chances of us seeing the police round here are slim to non existent. Even having reported a suspected crime several times they didn't turn up for 2 months. So we obey it because we do not wish to endanger others.

We could easily get away with murder out here, but we choose not to. We haven't seen our respective families in months.

I get what Ummm is saying tho.

[Ken4155]

I am sticking to the rules. I'm still going out to work but i am only decorating houses which are unoccupied or are large enough that i don't have to see another soul during my working hours. I am due to price up a 3 storey full house decor at the weekend and, if we agree the price, i will tackle the job a floor at a time, insisting that i am left alone to do so. The family will have to use a floor i am not working on.

[emmie]

i am sticking to the rules as they stand, can't do much else to be honest. the weather is keeping me in doors much of the time, online shopping means i don't have to do essential food shopping. haven't seen family since last year, and no idea when will get to see them this year. see a friend sporadically, but that is all.

[New Judge]

I get what you say about mutations, woofy. But I don't see how that ties in with this question. The government seems intent on keeping the country locked down until the virus, along with any mutations, have disappeared from the face of the Earth. If it isn't intent on that I don't now know what its strategy is. It seems to have entirely lost the plot. In the last six weeks over 13m people have received one dose of the vaccine. By the end of March, assuming the current rate is maintained, well over 30m people will have received the jab - almost half the entire population of the UK and that would include almost everybody over the age of 40. More than 99% of the Covid cases involving death or serious illness have been in those over 50. Yet the government is still prevaricating about whether people will be allowed to go on holiday in June.

So just what are the criteria that need to be achieved before the country is released from this torpor? Does anybody know?

[emmie]

no i don't have a clue when we will be released from this madness...

[emmie]

Barsel post is worrying where care home deaths are at an all time high, even though the residents seem to have had the vaccine.

[Chipchopper]

No, to protect myself and others.

[Bobbisox1]

Obeying is being sensible

[bobbinwales]

//The government seems intent on keeping the country locked down until the virus, along with any mutations, have disappeared from the face of the Earth.//
Thats not the intention at all. Your obviously not listening to the briefings NewJudge