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10 means you meet no one without a mask and you wash your groceries in chlorine.  No one is here is a 10.
1 means it's a hoax concocted by Hugo Chavez and Bill Gates and you invite random strangers to spit in your mouth.

I'm somewhere around 7 or 8.

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 31, 2021, 07:11:58 PM
10 means you meet no one without a mask and you wash your groceries in chlorine.  No one is here is a 10.
1 means it's a hoax concocted by Hugo Chavez and Bill Gates and you invite random strangers to spit in your mouth.

I'm somewhere around 7 or 8.

Bout the same.

Before exhausts his three syllable quota for the month.

I think we need to clarify the question.  Covid compliance to me means complying with regulations faithfully, but your example made it more about how paranoid you are.  No one is mandating washing your groceries in chlorine. 

When it comes to complying with all the rules meant to limit Covid spread, whether from the government, landlord, business owners, and so on, I think I am a 10.  The only time I broke the rules was when I forgot to put on a mask one time when going out to get lunch, but I took my hat off and covered my face with it once I realized it so that I didn't look like an asshole.

A solid 9; meet no one, kept to regulations, did wash some/most groceries with detergent.   :bowler:

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 31, 2021, 07:11:58 PM
10 means you meet no one without a mask and you wash your groceries in chlorine.  No one is here is a 10.
1 means it's a hoax concocted by Hugo Chavez and Bill Gates and you invite random strangers to spit in your mouth.

I'm somewhere around 7 or 8.

9.  I never washed my groceries, like I don't usually do stuff that has no real use when it's not mandatory.  I wear the mask in public, even though it has only limited use, since it's mandatory.  I wash my hands because it's common sense. 

I have not had large indoor gatherings in my home or elsewhere since the covid-19 restrictions began, even before, I guess, since I was really sick.  I've met friends outside this summer, with at least 2m between us, but I've not worn the mask outside.  Back then, there were basically no cases around here. 

Now, it's different.  But my attitude has not changed.  I'm careful, but I'm not losing any sleep on this.  I minimize my social contacts to make sure I'm not spreading it to anyone while asymptomatic, but if I get it, I get it.  No big deal, there's some good music upstairs now, with the mass of rockers that have died. ;)

Quote from: DGuller on March 31, 2021, 07:26:28 PM
I think we need to clarify the question.  Covid compliance to me means complying with regulations faithfully, but your example made it more about how paranoid you are.  No one is mandating washing your groceries in chlorine. 

When it comes to complying with all the rules meant to limit Covid spread, whether from the government, landlord, business owners, and so on, I think I am a 10.  The only time I broke the rules was when I forgot to put on a mask one time when going out to get lunch, but I took my hat off and covered my face with it once I realized it so that I didn't look like an asshole.

But there are measures one can take to limit covid spread that go beyond what the government mandates.  Never meeting anyone for example.  No government is mandating that.

The chlorine things comes from a Youtube clip I saw made by a doctor way back at the beginning of the pandemic.

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 31, 2021, 07:34:29 PM

Quote from: DGuller on March 31, 2021, 07:26:28 PM
I think we need to clarify the question.  Covid compliance to me means complying with regulations faithfully, but your example made it more about how paranoid you are.  No one is mandating washing your groceries in chlorine. 

When it comes to complying with all the rules meant to limit Covid spread, whether from the government, landlord, business owners, and so on, I think I am a 10.  The only time I broke the rules was when I forgot to put on a mask one time when going out to get lunch, but I took my hat off and covered my face with it once I realized it so that I didn't look like an asshole.

But there are measures one can take to limit covid spread that go beyond what the government mandates.  Never meeting anyone for example.  No government is mandating that.

The chlorine things comes from a Youtube clip I saw made by a doctor way back at the beginning of the pandemic.

But what are you complying with at that point?

Quote from: DGuller on March 31, 2021, 07:39:14 PM
But what are you complying with at that point?

The spirit of covid prevention!  :smarty:

I am responsible for enforcing the COVID restrictions.  So I take these very seriously.  I try to comply with everything.  So except maybe washing the food in chlorine, I do almost everything.  Masks, tracking software, vaccine, work at home, testing, no partying etc.  I give myself a 9.

I voted 5 because I am pretty ambivalent about mask and 2 meters distancing when meeting  people outside.

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 31, 2021, 07:34:29 PM

Quote from: DGuller on March 31, 2021, 07:26:28 PM
I think we need to clarify the question.  Covid compliance to me means complying with regulations faithfully, but your example made it more about how paranoid you are.  No one is mandating washing your groceries in chlorine. 

When it comes to complying with all the rules meant to limit Covid spread, whether from the government, landlord, business owners, and so on, I think I am a 10.  The only time I broke the rules was when I forgot to put on a mask one time when going out to get lunch, but I took my hat off and covered my face with it once I realized it so that I didn't look like an asshole.

But there are measures one can take to limit covid spread that go beyond what the government mandates.  Never meeting anyone for example.  No government is mandating that.

The chlorine things comes from a Youtube clip I saw made by a doctor way back at the beginning of the pandemic.

By that definition I am a 10.  We go well beyond what the government mandates and Mrs. CC often sanitizes after one of the household comes back from the world.  I am constantly washing my hands and try not to touch my face - even though I am only exposed to my household.


But I am also a special case - it is more of a life and death issue for me. 

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 31, 2021, 07:16:17 PM
Before exhausts his three syllable quota for the month.

You need more?  ;)

Quote from: 11B4V on March 31, 2021, 09:04:32 PM
You need more?  ;)

Sure, stretch it all the way to four.  I double dog dare you.

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 31, 2021, 09:05:24 PM

Quote from: 11B4V on March 31, 2021, 09:04:32 PM
You need more?  ;)

Sure, stretch it all the way to four.  I double dog dare you.

Simple question, simple answer.

Whoa, eight. :blink:

Quote from: Eddie Teach on March 31, 2021, 09:21:18 PM
Whoa, eight. :blink:

Might be a good idea to get tested for concussion. :unsure:

Quote from: DGuller on March 31, 2021, 09:22:55 PM

Quote from: Eddie Teach on March 31, 2021, 09:21:18 PM
Whoa, eight. :blink:

Might be a good idea to get tested for concussion. :unsure:

Nanobots

Quote from: DGuller on March 31, 2021, 09:22:55 PM

Quote from: Eddie Teach on March 31, 2021, 09:21:18 PM
Whoa, eight. :blink:

Might be a good idea to get tested for concussion. :unsure:

Also, I have done any full contact matches since COVID hit.  :mad:

So the answer would be no.

I followed the guidelines of the University of California, and the guys in my department are not a bunch of douchebag self-centered numbnuts, so they did too.  Washing, mask wearing (we had N95s from the get-go), and even gloves in the early days when things were unknown.  I stayed away from my 83 year old mom (who also self-quarantined), and I didn't do the whole "I deserve to do this" routine.  Over 50, I made sure I was good.  All tests (we can get them regularly at the University) negative, and now I have both shots plus 14 days.

Who the hell knows if the above or luck helped out the above? However, since none of the orders were too onerous (unless you are one of the afformentioned douchebag self-centered numbnuts) I figured that being ok with difficult but not too bad orders was the way to go.

I have been working from home since last March and we generally wear masks when we go out so I guess 8. The big hole in our security is that we all made the decision that among the 12 members of the family that get together regularly we would not do any COVID stuff, we would just all sink or swim together. So far nobody got COVID so I guess that worked out ok.

Oh and my kids have been going to in person school but they wear masks all day and so forth.

A 7 I guess

A 8. I've always worked from home so that part changed little for me (except that the occasional in-person meetings I had have all been moved to remote). I'm pretty zealous and I have reduced my social life more than I probably was forced to, but I'm pretty paranoid about taking mass transit to Barcelona unless it's for a good reason (and all my social life outside family is there). But I've met my family numerous times when allowed, and had the occasional beer with friends in outdoors seating. Plus I touch my mask all the time and shit.

First lockdown a 9, now 7-8 probably. I pretty much conform to all the regulations, except for taking public transport a couple of times without it being absolutely necessary. I'm still pretty bad at not touching my face or mask, and I could probably wash my hands more often.

I won't admit to breaking any laws on a public forum.

Probably a 6-7. Never washed anything from the shops - never even thought of it until someone mentioned it and I looked at them like they were mad.

I wear a mask when I'm indoors/in an enclosed space and have done since summer last year - so before the government guidance really pushed it. I still hand sanitise a lot.

I met up with people when that was allowed - and did break the rule of six. But otherwise I've basically just followed the rules but I'm not as punctilious about distancing in shops etc this time round.

I went with 9. I've never wiped anything down (actually maybe right at the start but gave that up after the first month) but do always wash my hands after opening up any deliveries. Hand sanitiser after touching anything while out and about. I'm mostly at home with masks on the entire time out in public. I haven't been in any shops over a year barring the post office and have only seen friends a few times with socially distance outdoor meetups.

My sister in law still puts everything from outside her home in a 7 day quarantine before it can be touch/use.

It must be wonders with her 3 teenagers.

Solid 9.

Don't do the chlorine stuff, but I do quarantine non-perishables for a couple days. Compulsive hand-washing/sanitizing.

Only meet people socially outside.

Masked always (FFP2) unless I'm in a well ventilated area and either there's nobody else about or I'm in the process of ingesting something.

You guys are way overvaluing yourselves.

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 08:40:14 AM
You guys are way overvaluing yourselves.

Hmm? I'd rather not get sick and/or die.

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 08:40:14 AM
You guys are way overvaluing yourselves.

Well it is an arbitrary rating. Maybe I am actually doing far worse :hmm: of course what the actual rules are here in Texas is always confusing with federal/state/local recommendations.

But nobody in my house got COVID so there is that :contract:

Quote from: garbon on April 01, 2021, 09:05:07 AM

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 08:40:14 AM
You guys are way overvaluing yourselves.

Hmm? I'd rather not get sick and/or die.

:hmm: I meant, 9s - 8s - 7s?

Iorm gives himself a 9 but goes maskless around people (to eat) and meets people socially.

Celed gives himself a 8 and visits his family!

Compared to you they are 5s, maybe.

Well, I interpret "compliance" as in "following the rules", and without a doubt I'm an 8 on that.

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 09:13:02 AM

Quote from: garbon on April 01, 2021, 09:05:07 AM

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 08:40:14 AM
You guys are way overvaluing yourselves.

Hmm? I'd rather not get sick and/or die.

:hmm: I meant, 9s - 8s - 7s?

Iorm gives himself a 9 but goes maskless around people (to eat) and meets people socially.

Celed gives himself a 8 and visits his family!

Compared to you they are 5s, maybe.

Yeah I guess I am a 5. But, again, what are the actual rules here in Texas? Not even sure.

Texas still has rules? I thought your governor took them all away 2-3 weeks ago.

Want to see a list of rules of Quebec's Red zones? It's a woozy.

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 09:25:46 AM
Texas still has rules? I thought your governor took them all away 2-3 weeks ago.

Want to see a list of rules of Quebec's Red zones? It's a woozy.

Even then it was not like they were being enforced, they were just kind of suggestions. It was mostly up to each municipality/county to actually have COVID standards and I am not even sure what they are where I live, where my parents live, where my sister lives, or where my workplace is. Everybody just kind of does what seems to make sense.

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 09:13:02 AM
:hmm: I meant, 9s - 8s - 7s?

Iorm gives himself a 9 but goes maskless around people (to eat) and meets people socially.

I don't eat out that much. Twice in the last year really, during the lowest of the lows last summer. Nobody has come to my place nor have I been to someone else's (not even my folks').

I mostly take the mask off to drink coffee or another beverage and usually put it back again immediately. Always outside and keeping the distance, upwind if I can. I also avoid times when there will be more than a handful people around.

Quite frankly, I don't know a single person who goes beyond what I do.

I went with a 6.

Early in March (when case numbers were still low) we made plans to visit my mom in Calgary last weekend.  I think we've seen her in person twice in the last 12 months of Covid, and both times were quick outdoor-only visits.  Case numbers are definitely climbing again (yay third wave!), but we still went down and stayed at her place.

We've never washed groceries and the like, which I think has been born out by the subsequent research - Covid is an airborne disease.  The courthouse is fully open and I still go to work every day, although some steps at social distancing and mask wearing happen.

I'm just hoping to run out the clock and get my vaccine.  They opened up the category I'm in this week (people with "eligible high-risk underlying health conditions") for those born between 1957-1963.  I'm a 1975, so maybe n a couple of weeks?

I wear mask at all times, even outdoors (which is mandatory over here), and only take it out to drink/eat - which I only make maybe once every weeks, with my mother, since she's taking the isolation very badly  (plus our dog dying hasn't helped matters). Always outdoors, I haven't been inside a restaurant (except to pay the check) in a year.

Haven't been indoors with any friend since June last year - only family. And the last time I mingled with somebody other than my parents it was last Christmas, and we still didn't break the rule of six.

Never did the washing of groceries and shit, because it has always struck me as a bit of nonsense, never seen evidence that surface transmission is a thing.

I follow recommendations. Of course, since I'm in Sweden, the recommendations aren't completely nuts.

Quote from: Tyr on April 01, 2021, 05:06:51 AM
I won't admit to breaking any laws on a public forum.

No need to worry, you've already admitted rule breaking by having your father over at your new home for extended periods*. :P


* presumably helping out with renovations.

Quote from: Sheilbh on April 01, 2021, 05:17:54 AM
Probably a 6-7. Never washed anything from the shops - never even thought of it until someone mentioned it and I looked at them like they were mad.

I wear a mask when I'm indoors/in an enclosed space and have done since summer last year - so before the government guidance really pushed it. I still hand sanitise a lot.

I met up with people when that was allowed - and did break the rule of six. But otherwise I've basically just followed the rules but I'm not as punctilious about distancing in shops etc this time round.

<_<

Not so keen on that, after all it doesn't take much extra effort and can assuage any concerns the other person might have,;one doesn't want to inadvertently worsen someone else's lock-down mental health issue does one?

Also it's a sign of mutual respect, when I'm out in the countryside and encounter walkers/riders I go right to the other side of the lane/road, as it costs me nothing in effort and I think is a respectful thing to do in these strange times we live in.

Ah, those times when going out of your way to avoid people was rude  :lol:  :cry:

Yeah - distancing on the street has long gone in my area of London. Although that may just be because I go to the shops at the same time as everyone else so when they're busy. It's not like lockdown 1 when you went outside and the streets were so empty it was like being out on a weeknight past midnight.

And obviously there's normally security controlling how many people are in a shop. I'm not back to browsing the same shelf as someone else or reached across someone or anything like that. But in lockdown 1 it would basically be one person per aisle - that's gone from me and everyone else.

I think everyone still basically keeps a metre away from each other when queueing to go into the shop or at the till - but all my shops are like Tesco Metro size so if you need stuff in the areas by the tills (toiletries mainly <_<) it's more or less impossible to distance.

I think I will probably take extra care now because I know that people who've been shielding are now being allowed out which is great.

Quote from: Sheilbh on April 01, 2021, 10:56:37 AM
Yeah - distancing on the street has long gone in my area of London. Although that may just be because I go to the shops at the same time as everyone else so when they're busy. It's not like lockdown 1 when you went outside and the streets were so empty it was like being out on a weeknight past midnight.

And obviously there's normally security controlling how many people are in a shop. I'm not back to browsing the same shelf as someone else or reached across someone or anything like that. But in lockdown 1 it would basically be one person per aisle - that's gone from me and everyone else.

I think everyone still basically keeps a metre away from each other when queueing to go into the shop or at the till - but all my shops are like Tesco Metro size so if you need stuff in the areas by the tills (toiletries mainly <_<) it's more or less impossible to distance.

I think I will probably take extra care now because I know that people who've been shielding are now being allowed out which is great.

I think it might just be a 'symptom' of me, I'm so used to have to go to places avoiding rush hours, traffic and by going via quiet, oft unseen ways that I end up being in towns when they're at their most quiet.

No and it is a fair comment. But I have tried to keep my "normal" schedule as much as possible even while I'm now mainly staying at home. So I go to the shops at lunch, or just after I finish work for the day or on a Saturday morning. Those are always annoying busy times. They're not as busy as they were pre-covid but they're not far off.

And all the shops around me are the inner city "quick" supermarkets not a big one - which are always one in one out when I get there.

I use masking and hand hygiene when out and about. Whenever clusters pop up here that have general transmission (that is they're finding random people outside of quarantine) my guys stay in our family bubble and don't meet their grandparents, etc. Otherwise I don't think too much about covid because the biggest, most effective measures adopted here are the border testing and quarantining of incoming travelers. We do get some leakage because of assholes and morons hence we're putting all incoming travelers into prison camps "quarantine hotels" effective today. We've gone full New Zealand. :hmm:

Quote from: Sheilbh on April 01, 2021, 11:36:13 AM
No and it is a fair comment. But I have tried to keep my "normal" schedule as much as possible even while I'm now mainly staying at home. So I go to the shops at lunch, or just after I finish work for the day or on a Saturday morning. Those are always annoying busy times. They're not as busy as they were pre-covid but they're not far off.

And all the shops around me are the inner city "quick" supermarkets not a big one - which are always one in one out when I get there.

All supermarkets around here seem to have given up on restricting numbers.

Chiming in with what you've said about natural ventilation, I think some of those express stores aren't so bad if you look at internal volume vs the size of their entrances; there's a tesco express 7 miles away, that I can take two pace into, pick up a paper, walk another 8-10 to get milk and within another dozen or so, I've done the check out and exited the shop.

Also probably without having to have breathed in.   :D

I still don't understand why pensioners feel the need to do their shopping at rush hours, when they have no work hours constraints.

Less so these days, to be honest.

Quote from: Legbiter on April 01, 2021, 11:49:56 AM
I use masking and hand hygiene when out and about. Whenever clusters pop up here that have general transmission (that is they're finding random people outside of quarantine) my guys stay in our family bubble and don't meet their grandparents, etc. Otherwise I don't think too much about covid because the biggest, most effective measures adopted here are the border testing and quarantining of incoming travelers. We do get some leakage because of assholes and morons hence we're putting all incoming travelers into prison camps "quarantine hotels" effective today. We've gone full New Zealand. :hmm:

Leggy, good to know things are going well.

During the late Autumn before the pandemic I really encouraged a younger acquaintance of mine to follow through with her travel plans and tour the Far East.

She set off in the November and got to Thailand/Cambodia etc. Apparently she made to New Zealand, her original final destination, but I'm now wondering if she's praising or cursing me for it?

I've not been on social media to find out.

Quote from: mongers on April 01, 2021, 12:06:57 PMShe set off in the November and got to Thailand/Cambodia etc. Apparently she made to New Zealand, her original final destination, but I'm now wondering if she's praising or cursing me for it?

New Zealand's had a great pandemic, relatively speaking.

Quote from: Legbiter on April 01, 2021, 12:46:12 PM

Quote from: mongers on April 01, 2021, 12:06:57 PMShe set off in the November and got to Thailand/Cambodia etc. Apparently she made to New Zealand, her original final destination, but I'm now wondering if she's praising or cursing me for it?

New Zealand's had a great pandemic, relatively speaking.

Turns out that being a remote island at the end of the world that regularly is forgotten on maps has its benefits. :P

Quote from: Syt on April 01, 2021, 12:56:48 PM

Quote from: Legbiter on April 01, 2021, 12:46:12 PM

Quote from: mongers on April 01, 2021, 12:06:57 PMShe set off in the November and got to Thailand/Cambodia etc. Apparently she made to New Zealand, her original final destination, but I'm now wondering if she's praising or cursing me for it?

New Zealand's had a great pandemic, relatively speaking.

Turns out that being a remote island at the end of the world that regularly is forgotten on maps has its benefits. :P

Are you talking about Iceland, or New Zealand. :unsure:

Yeah.  :lol:

Although the total shambles on the border in many European countries is still atrocious. Totally fucking up there just means cascading superspreader events with paralyzed societies and windrows of dead oldsters.  At least the Brits have a competent vaccine rollout as a balm. :hmm:

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 09:13:02 AM

Quote from: garbon on April 01, 2021, 09:05:07 AM

Quote from: Grey Fox on April 01, 2021, 08:40:14 AM
You guys are way overvaluing yourselves.

Hmm? I'd rather not get sick and/or die.

:hmm: I meant, 9s - 8s - 7s?

Iorm gives himself a 9 but goes maskless around people (to eat) and meets people socially.

Celed gives himself a 8 and visits his family!

Compared to you they are 5s, maybe.

Ah yes, I agree that I'm far away from others as I'm literally a recluse.

I'm basically 1 notch above wherever alfred russel is.  Maybe a 3?  I wear my mask when I'm out of the house, I try to stand 6' away, but I really don't give a fuck for my personal status at this point and I eat out about as much now as I did before the pandemic.  I didn't come down with covid while my wife was coughing her lungs out in the bed next to me, at least not in an antibody-generating manner, and I've been fully vaccinated since that.  So whatever.

Not very zealous? a modicum of zealous? I wear a mask when I go into any building really, as I understand that offers me plenty of protection. I wash my hands whenever I return to the house. I do not socialize at all and I exercise alone. But I do those things anyway in more normal times.

I got vaccinated at the earliest possible opportunity and I'm vocal about the benefits of doing so to anyone who will listen to me.

I do got to work in a busy restaurant 4 days a week, I wear a mask the entire time I'm there, as do all of my colleagues and I wash my hands constantly as do my co workers. Guests do not wear masks while dining obviously, but they do when they arrive.

I've been tested a couple of times and negative both times.

Thats about it. I imagine in a way if Republicans and their media ecosystem hadn't decided early on to make a public health challenge a part of the culture wars we could have taken moderate precautions in January and February, like widespread mask wearing , and saved countless lives and peoples livelihoods. Oh well.

Quote from: fromtia on April 02, 2021, 01:09:23 PMI wear a mask when I go into any building really, as I understand that offers me plenty of protection.

unless you have a N95 mask, it offers you near zero protection against covid-19.  It does protect others from you, however, in a moderate way.

Quote from: viper37 on April 03, 2021, 04:08:38 PM

Quote from: fromtia on April 02, 2021, 01:09:23 PMI wear a mask when I go into any building really, as I understand that offers me plenty of protection.

unless you have a N95 mask, it offers you near zero protection against covid-19.  It does protect others from you, however, in a moderate way.

Hasn't this been debunked a long time ago?  Even surgical masks protect you to some extent, even if they're mainly designed to protect others from you.