My wife manages 2 covid wards, I work in children's social services. We fall into the 'work harder and longer in a more stressful environment' stereotype. Your mates wife is a total ****.

I already have a dog but just got shot of the trampoline.

I'm the depressed, anxious and socially isolated stereotype.

Go about things best you can, peek at a few stats, don't give opinions about something you don't understand and generally just keep your head down and crack on. Stereotype 4 🙂

I’m the depressed, anxious and socially isolated stereotype.

+1

Type 5: I’ve been practicing for social distancing my whole life. I’m nailing it.

I’m the depressed, anxious and socially isolated stereotype.

This.

But then that's me in normal times too, it's just a bit more pronounced right now.

Dog died. Long Covid. Professional COVID data geek. Type R.

Type 4 and 5 (see oldmanmtb2 and jam-bo above).
Haven't been to a pub for years. Like my own company most of the time. Keep my head down.

Type 6 Secretly wishing I was furloughed again but grateful to have a job.

And type 5.

Type 5: I’ve been practicing for social distancing my whole life. I’m nailing it.

That’s about right. Started out anxious last March as Mrs P was in hospital in Central London when lockdown was announced. Still haven’t been able to visit parents since Dec 2019 because of this. In which time father has had to have a lonely 80th birthday while mother had cancer surgery and now chemo. * hell.

Getting depressed and flat now. Engine in limp mode TBH. Need to work on self and plan for better times. Can I also say that I * get rantingly pissed off at those voluntarily dumb **** who don’t take this seriously, as they go spreading death, BS and conspiracy like it’s the new trend. Does that get me a stereotype niche? Type 6.75? **** it all. Too many ****ers in this day and age. Socialmedia? Antisocial morass, morelike.

My wife manages 2 covid wards, I work in children’s social services. We fall into the ‘work harder and longer in a more stressful environment’ stereotype. Your mates wife is a total ****.

Same here; Albeit I work with the guys doing vaccine development.

Longest and most stressful days I've ever seen.

Massuvely over cautious, taking it one day at a time type here.

One hour at a time a fair amount actually.

I’m sick as **** type who wants to slap deniers and those who flex the rules.

Worked all the way through either at home or on site. Struggled/struggling with home schooling, but just trying to get on with it all. Would like a dog but not paying those prices. Did buy a trampoline! Can't wait for it to be all over, would love to go the pub with mates. Stereotype whatevers next...

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I’m sick as **** type who wants to slap deniers and those who flex the rules.

Same.

I’m done with trying to understand and reason with Covid deniers, Brexiters, racists, Tories, community smashing hyper capitalists and bike haters. It’s time to strike hard and take our country back before they take our society so far right it’ll take generations to find our way back to civilisation.

And breathe.

^^Ooh, yeah. I'm that type too!

Trying to come to terms with the fact there isn't much I can do though on a personal level.😐

I am just glad that " get the flip away from me" is now seen as a public service not outright rudeness 🙂

Type 5.

I sit in my bedroom working, I sit on the sofa watching telly, I go to the shop every so often and I ride bikes. That's basically it.

Type 5 but also the type that is working in full covid environments (wards) as is the wife: trying to adhere to rules as best as possible and not socialising etc but watching everyone else around you break the rules and wondering why the **** I'm bothering.

I could let it slide previously but now I'm just annoyed. People meeting in groups blatantly. Friends we know meeting up for takeaways blatantly. I'm not perfect. Nobody is, I may stop to chat etc etc but earlier today I watched three couples get out of three cars and go for a walk together with the dogs. Zero ****s given about how they looked.

The longer it goes on the longer we have to live like this. People can't seem to be a type 5 and let thier social lives slide for a few months.

Need to learn to let it go over my head.

Taking it all in my stride as I've been prepping for this all my life, albeit my version was much worse.

I'm the wife works across a couple of mental health and dementia wards where there have been a number of deaths and im a firefighter who caught it in April and still have a number of effects now I was off work for 12 weeks as I couldn't pass the simple fitness test despite previously running ultras I also passed it on to the wife, stress with home schooling though thankfully now the kids have started at school again and now I drink much more than I did , and im allergic to dogs , yeah that stereotype

Tempted to join the current fake news politicos, worked for brexit, and many others, those stereotypes.

SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE WILL STOP COVID!!!

In reality, following the rules, wife is both testing and vaccinating over and above her job in Opthalmology. I'm wfh dreaming of when we can get on the hills again properly, while chasing a 14 year old off her phone onto the schoolwork, on a regular basis.

So, probably very like most folks. It just looks like there's lots of rule abusers about, cos they stand out.

Type 5.

I sit in my bedroom working, I sit on the sofa watching telly, I go to the shop every so often and I ride bikes. That’s basically it.

That's me too except that the "working" bit also involves a fair bit of iPlayer or Netflix (or useful stuff like household chores, cleaning a bike etc). The problem is that my workload varies greatly so some days/weeks, I can be nicely busy, lots to keep me occupied and at other times I'm literally just waiting on others to deliver and there's nothing to do.

regular human. (whatever type that is) working in health-care so no furlough or working from home . Following the rules, wish I could go out for dinner and a movie.

Go about things best you can, peek at a few stats, don’t give opinions about something you don’t understand and generally just keep your head down and crack on. Stereotype 4

Same as bearnecessities only with a side dish of depression and anger at the total ****s who can’t stop acting like complete ****s whilst the rest of us do our best

A mixture of all the sensible types i hope:
Covid positive in April last year (along with Mrs F), clear now but it was a scary time and i'm vary cautious of asymptomatic transmission now.
Working (just) in plant still, so social distancing and mask wearing is the norm now whenever I go somewhere where there are people (both work and shopping/'socially').
Trusting the science and the vaccine, glad that my dad and brother have had the first jab (both in at risk group) and waiting for Mrs F to get hers in front line NHS before i can relax internally a bit.
Avoiding social media and most news as it is wearing.
Already have two dogs (and other animals) who have kept us occupied, exercised and entertained in equal measure!
Genuinely concerned for friends and family and those who, through no fault of their own, are being put at risk by selfish, ignorant $&%!* when all they want to do is go and get the shopping in.
Riding bikes!

Stealth edit: getting a bit tired of people wishing things would go back to normal. If we could all just accept that this is the new normal (at least for the next 9 to 12 months) then this would all be a lot less struggle for everyone.

Socially isolated, just bought a turbo, depressed side of bi-polar dominating, struggling to find a job. Stereotype 7?

Stereotype 8
Generally pretty happy with the situation (mainly due to aspergers)
- I don't like being close to people so social distancing is great
- I don't have any friends so don't miss meeting anyone
- I prefer working at home
- Slightly less people around when I cycle
- Live with someone who is also not unhappy with it who has now had vaccine which is a relief

Not happy with the impact of it on most of society though as it must be awful for most people in a variety of ways and levels.

@bearnecessities

Go about things best you can, peek at a few stats, don’t give opinions about something you don’t understand and generally just keep your head down and crack on. Stereotype 4 🙂

I'm along those lines.

I’m probably stereotype 9 - something akin to Michael Douglas in “falling down” - I have a complete lack of tolerance for everyone (the majority of people in my area) that have been wilfully ignoring the guidance right from the outset and in the process, putting healthcare workers at significant additional risk.

Smug middle class work at home arsehole who still has a job.

(Still feeling somewhat depressed and groundhog Day)

I’m in the minority I feel as I empathise with the young more than anyone else in this pandemic. I feel they are routinely hated on and there is a lack of understanding of the mental damage being done to them by continuous isolation. The drumbeat of compliers is loud, we hear you. But let’s repay this damaged generation first. Their childhoods have seen damage that you may struggle to understand having had yours.

The debilitating Long Covid since March 10th stereotype.

I’m the depressed, anxious and socially isolated stereotype.

This.

But then that’s me in normal times too, it’s just a bit more pronounced right now.

I'm in the his camp.

But I'd also like to slap the deniers, and anyone who uses the terms "flex the rules".

Type 5 probs. Still working, Riding bikes and getting fresh air when I can. Trying to avoid the hoards at the supermarkets best I can. Getting fed up but it is what it is!

I think it's made me more intolerant of anti-social people in general.

I guess I'm in the "working harder than ever, living seperatly from wife and child" catagoary.

Own a small village shop so doing 12hr days solo, wife in most vulnerable cat so having to live seperate lives.

I'm also in the "completely convinced, 💯% pro vaccine" cat - I've had too many bereaved customers come in and chat.....

I’m in the minority I feel as I empathise with the young more than anyone else in this pandemic.

I'm with you in those sentiments, I'm sure that this will prob have major implications for social change in the future as the sub 20's grow up.

Dunno if its a type, but I'm one who has got pretty grumpy and moany about petty things... and wishes everything Covid related was on ONE THREAD!

wishes everything Covid related was on ONE THREAD

It's FAR to big a subject for that, and questions like this will get lost in the thousand of reply's with zero responses.....

Just stop reading these threads?

I’m in the minority I feel as I empathise with the young more than anyone else in this pandemic.

Yep, they're paying a high price for this.

I'm in the fairly indifferent to it all camp, doesn't really affect me much. Although I did almost have a nervous breakdown when panic buying first started and I couldn't get Allbran or Earl Grey Tea. Luckily that major crisis has averted and it's back to normal now (for me).

I think it’s made me more tolerant TBH I see deniers and sceptics as just as scared as the rest of the population just reacting in a different way. They need encouragement and help not scorn

It’s FAR to big a subject for that... blah blah more bollocks

I knew my post would be too subtle for some

It goes in waves. Now and again, it gets to me like it gets to most people I think.

Mostly, I'm whatever type is 'bored and frustrated' but trying to be a positive as you can be in the face of such human misery.

I read the news once a day to keep up to date on 'the facts' as best anyone can and I follow the rules as best I can. Not being able to go to the pub, or drive to where I want to ride, or see my friends or go to the cinema or any of the other things that we can't do ****ing sucks balls, but I'm not going to be a baby about it and cry and moan, or worse, try to invent an alternative version of reality where it would be not only perfectly safe, but only right to do the particular things I want to do. Nor will I scream and shout that the things I don't do, are very clearly the only reason the virus is spreading and should be banned.

I try to avoid the main Covid thread on here, it's grim reading and frankly I sense a few, maybe a lot of posters are wallowing the misery of it all and some of the 'accepted facts' of that thread don't really seem to exist outside of it. Being really frank, a lot of people seem to want it to go as badly as possible so they've got a stick to bash the Tories with.

I haven't bought a dog, haven't bought a trampoline for the kids, or a hot tub, that'll I'll regret once it's over, in fact, knowing how my brain works, I'd actually resent them as being from 'the covid era'.

I'm in isolation now because I've got an operation next week and apparently having a general with covid is pretty dam dangerous. Post-op I'll be enjoying lock down in pain and more boredom, I can't even play the Xbox, but when I'm healed up and able to use both hands properly again, the vaccines should mean a massive reduction in deaths and hospital admissions, My Mum will be free to leave the house again and we might even get some sunshine, which is good for the soul, and bad for the virus.

No time for a dog just now, cats rule.
I have an unhealthy interest in sandwich makers, home made weapons and how best to dig traps in my garden.If there was a way to harness my anger and frustration it could power a small town.

Think I might sign up to supernova and Drac's militia.
Vive la revolution

A mix of a few up there:
NHS backroom staff, hugely busy for months (not as busy as the frontline folks, but still busy!)
Have started running a lot over the winter, biked a lot over the summer. Cautious and keeping away from other people, but frustrated about never being able to get time away from my partner (introvert and, it appears, hugely reliant on getting my own personal space and time to myself). Have 'flexed' the rules once (at Christmas) and felt shit about it; other than that, largely keeping myself to myself. Not a 'denier', but don't follow the news and obsess about it; just trying to quietly get on with my life, not interfere with anyone else, and not go postal.

It’s FAR to big a subject for that… blah blah more bollocks

I knew my post would be too subtle for some

It currently effects every single aspect of life for some people - that's hardly a small subject.

Stereotype? I don't think we've had the shouting at a care home window one yet? Which was most of last year. Also organising a small funeral within regs; then missing grown offspring, lockdown surfing, travel, and our place on the coast probably in that order.

just as scared as the rest of the population

I don't think I've personally felt anything resembling fear, it's just the tedium of doing stuff to avoid passing it on.

We had already started the move pre CoVid, although we completed after lockdown 1 - now on the edge of a woodland with more great trails than we know what to do with rather than town based & we already had the dog, so probably the pioneering stereotype? 🙂

Both work mostly remotely anyway, occasional trips to the office have slowed right down again - probably been too busy but also forced us to take extended lunch breaks to get outside.

I try to avoid the main Covid thread on here, it’s grim reading and frankly I sense a few, maybe a lot of posters are wallowing the misery of it all and some of the ‘accepted facts’ of that thread don’t really seem to exist outside of it. Being really frank, a lot of people seem to want it to go as badly as possible so they’ve got a stick to bash the Tories with.

This. All very 'misery loves company'. The few times i've dipped into it, there is a lot of eye rolling & moving on, so, best to just avoid it.

Not a ‘denier’, but don’t follow the news and obsess about it; just trying to quietly get on with my life, not interfere with anyone else, and not go postal.

Pretty much this too. Would quite like to go to the pub & have a BBQ with friends as it's fairly tedious at the moment.

I don’t think I’ve personally felt anything resembling fear, it’s just the tedium of doing stuff to avoid passing it on.

Also this.

Being really frank, a lot of people seem to want it to go as badly as possible so they’ve got a stick to bash the Tories with.

What a stupid shitty thing to say.

Despite being one of the richest countries in the world we have some of the worst covid figures in the world - the fact that you can manage to shrug your shoulders and get on with it is a privilege many don't have.

I don't bother with the Covid thread either because I don't want to obsess over it but claiming that people want it to go badly is utterly ridiculous.

I’m not going to be a baby about it and cry and moan

Or display any empathy whatsoever, it seems.

I’m type 3.

Not surprised I’m the only one so far given all the queer-bashing that goes on around these parts.

Being really frank, a lot of people seem to want it to go as badly as possible so they’ve got a stick to bash the Tories with.

Pointing out how utterly useless and damaging their response has been so far isn't the same as wishing people die. The Tories own the highest death rate and the largest economic collapse and they need to made to wear it for the rest of their lives. They had all the right advice, could see what was comming (eg Italy) and chose to ignore it all relying on good old British Exceptionism as a strategy for handling a pandemic.

Being really frank, a lot of people seem to want it to go as badly as possible so they’ve got a stick to bash the Tories with.

What a stupid shitty thing to say.

Despite being one of the richest countries in the world we have some of the worst covid figures in the world – the fact that you can manage to shrug your shoulders and get on with it is a privilege many don’t have.

I don’t bother with the Covid thread either because I don’t want to obsess over it but claiming that people want it to go badly is utterly ridiculous.

I’m not going to be a baby about it and cry and moan

Or display any empathy whatsoever, it seems.

So you haven't read the thread, but you disagree with me in principle?

As for your shady, out of context quote, you sly little shit.

Im the just getting on with it stereotype which is probably 8b. I don't find myself particularly impeded by restrictions etc. Thats not to say Im not following the rules, I am, just that Ive adapted to my new way of life and moved on. If it wasn't for the dying, and the impact on my kids education and childhood and young people in general, I would not be that arsed if it stayed this way forever TBH, well, in the not-locked-down version where the economy still functions. Lockdown gets a bit tedious after a while and I don't think the economy would thank me.

I'm type 17a

Sick of those who don't follow the rules.

Sick of those who fly tip in the lane outside my house.

Sick of ****s like Lawrence Fox.

Sick of Tories.

Contemplating buying a couple of radio controlled tanks for me and the boy to play with in the garden.

Type 3.5

I'm one of the 3.5 million excluded freelancers and self-employed who don't actually exist, so apparently don't need any government support

I'm one of the lucky ones. I've been able to make something that was a sideline into my full-time job. Just as well, as my full-time job doesn't actually exist anymore and the government doesn't give a *!

In reality, it's been the busiest and most creative time of my life. Because it has had to be

But I also spend each day thinking 'there but for the grace of God' as I read stories like this and look at my friends who work in the health service and see the enormous strain they're under.

I also want to do unspeakable things to *s like Laurence Fox.

So you haven’t read the thread, but you disagree with me in principle?

I drop in occasionally for a quick look and decide it's not for me. Never seen anything remotely like what you're suggesting though. I think your interpretation says more about you than it does about anyone else, but hey if looking down on other people is helping then go for it I guess.

As for your shady, out of context quote, you sly little shit.

I'm not really sure how it's out of context.

I'm going to claim the same one as Harry the spider there. The tanks is a great idea.
I'm basically missing seeing people but also avoiding others as much as I possibly can, also finding ways to make people keep a distance while outside. Have found a pollution face mask works for running and keeping people clear. Might go for the full tramp effect if I think that would work better.

DualIncomeNoKids, both in secure, if not particularly well paying, jobs.
Trapped in a groundhog day cycle of eat, work, netflix and feeling thouroughly bored of it.

Mood varies between miserable and very miserable.

Pre march, I probably had at least 5 days out of every 7 where I would be doing something for entertainment that is currently shut or illegal.
The novel fun of zoom quizzes, and exploring local riding has long gone.

Only thing that keeps me going is hoarding my money and annual leave in the hope that fun things may be permissible this year to make up for it. If not I may go jump off a tall building, just for the excitement.

Sometimes wish I was a doctor or had a brood of kids to homeschool, just to have something to challenge me.

And then I think that my/our lives are still better than pretty much anyone else's in all of human history, apart from perhaps the baby boomers; and have a bit of a word with myself.

or had a brood of kids to homeschool, just to have something to challenge me.

You really don't!

Really ****ing angry and quite bored.

Pissed off with generally every other stereotype; those that suggest no one should go anywhere, those that deny it, those that think the government are doing no better or worse than any other elected party, those that refuse to wear masks where they should, those that begrudge people from concrete jungles from coming and walking near us in the countryside, those that take it too far, those that regurgitate the shite from the shit newspapers as if it is gospel, the BBC for becoming just another sensationalist tabloid, the lot.

That said, I feel very sympathetic towards those that are anxious/scared/shielding/doing their best/not having the life they should be (16/18 year olds)/will have to pay for it for the rest of their lives.

I'm currently mostly frustrated that people are turning on each other for the current situation, blaming a minority of people not following the rules, rather than the actual cause - our elected shit-for-brains government that doesn't care about people, with policies that don't do enough, and too late, whilst taking the opportunity to channel more money to their friends and donors, and pointing at ordinary people. I despair.

Direct your anger to where it should be going, and remember this when next voting.

Direct your anger to where it should be going, and remember this when next voting.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I would seam some (a bloody lot) are so blinkered and entrenched in their hate for the conservatives, that they actually feed of it. Like Labour are the saviours of the planet. I have voted every way, over the years. Red, blue, green, yellow are all idiots some more than others. Do you honestly think magic grandpa , or that mad cow Swinton would have done a better job? Bojo has not done the best, but I don't think anybody anywhere has nailed it. Come out of your blinkered echo chamber of red mist and tone it down a bit. FFS

Do you honestly think magic grandpa , or that mad cow Swinton would have done a better job?

Yes. Hell, Theresa May would have done significantly better.

BTW your response is both ageist and sexist, while telling people to tone it down, bravo!

Bojo has not done the best, but I don’t think anybody anywhere has nailed it.

New Zealand? Singapore? Taiwan? We are literally one of the worst countries in the world for Covid figures, by any measure - and we had advance warning, and we are an island. People making excuses for this government is like some weird form of Stockholm syndrome.

Bojo has not done the best

Which leaders of which countries have done worse? Not only has he and his ministers "not done the best", but currently they are doing everything they can to put the blame back on the public... the government acted late at every occasion, and now want to blame us for the effects of that poor decision making by a part time PM... the radio ads for "stick to the rules, or people will die" really grind right now... when we are seeing the worst death rate in the world because of government decisions... and a repeatedly absent leader.

What ever they do, it will be the wrong thing. There is no precedent for what is happening. Especially for the red brigade. And If you believe magic grandpa would have  saved the day............................................................................

...............................................................well that says it all!

My list of politicians that would have done a better job would be as long as my arm... and includes many current and past Conservatives. If, for example, Jeremy Hunt had been PM, I have no doubt whatsoever that fewer people would be dead right now, and more of our economy and education open. There is nothing inherent in the UK situation that should mean that we are topping leader boards for suffering the worst effects of this pandemic... it is all down to a PM missing in action at key points when the country needed him most, his inability to get across his brief, and his unwillingness to take actions in a timely manner... and timing really counts with a virus like this... a few weeks late putting measures in place means that they have to stay in place for months longer than they would otherwise. He has made us suffer both the worst health outcomes and the worst economic outcomes of all comparable countries.

Oh and I'm ageist and sexist now. Oh dear

What ever they do, it will be the wrong thing. There is no precedent for what is happening. Especially for the red brigade. And If you believe magic grandpa would have saved the day………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………well that says it all!

This

Forgive me for not paying any attention to somebody that can't make a coherent argument that stands up to any scrutiny.

Come out of your blinkered echo chamber of red mist and tone it down a bit

I'll be honest, there's been moments when I can see why it appears like that.

But then someone points out that Australia haven't had a death since September and I think that even allowing for my any-colour-but-blue tinted spectacles, and the geographical and demographic difference between here and there, there's no way that the government that has given us the worst death rate in the world, probably the worst economic damage in the world, and according to the BBC today approaching 100,000 death certificates with Covid listed as a cause should not have their consistent failure to act in the best interests of the country, at the second or third time of asking rammed down their throats.

1 in 1000 people in the UK have died of this pandemic. And it's rising rapidly.

All opposition parties, the press and the public should be holding their feet to the flames for this.

And I'd feel the same way if a Labour government I voted for had made the same catastrophic disaster of it.

If, for example, Jeremy Hunt had been PM, I have no doubt whatsoever that fewer people would be dead right now, and more of our economy and education open

God help me but I feel you are right.

I feel dirty now, and not in a good way.

And I’d feel the same way if a Labour government I voted for had made the same catastrophic disaster of it.

Yup. I don't think 'magic grandad' (hur hur) would have made a particularly great job of it TBH but this government have been literally one of the worst in the entire world, and the fact that some people want to keep making excuses is frankly bizarre.

God help me but I feel you are right.

+1

What ever they do, it will be the wrong thing

Yes, it pretty much has been so far. Vaccine rollout is going okay though although we are more desperate for it because of the mismanagement of the last 11 months.
If a Labour government was in power and doing the same actions I would also say that they had ****ed it up too. The person who is blinkered is you...

God help me but I feel you are right.

I have a long list of Conservative past and present MPs who would have been diligent and active in the interests of business and individuals during this pandemic, even if I disagree with them greatly politically. Someone else has already mentioned May. It's not a Left/Right thing... it is about the double whammy of a leader not up to the job who will only allow sycophants in his cabinet. He wants all the power and decision making for himself, yet also want weeks off at a time from being PM, and has failed time and time again to make decisions in good time. The whole nonsense about having all kids in school buildings for ONE DAY this term is just the most recent example.

So again... the public are not to blame, remember that... Johnson is.

The public who voted for him are.

Those I know that voted for him are all very pissed off with his half present, always late, actions since the election, as regards this pandemic... even if they agree with his approach on other issues.

Don't blame the pubic... they made a whole series of choices on all sorts of matters when they voted... blame the man not doing such a crucial part of this job... he's failing everyone.... including those who voted for him, as well as those of us that did not.

It's been widely known for years that he was a lazy, amoral, lying narcissist who's only concern is self-advancement - no-one can say they weren't aware.

Anyway this is just turning into the same as all the other threads so should probably either get back on topic or be closed, IMO.

Bojo has not done the best, but I don’t think anybody anywhere has nailed it.

to say the Johnson hasn’t done the best is underplaying it massively We’re currently the worst performing (death and damage to economy) nation in the world bar none... literally anyone could’ve done a better job (even Magic Grandpa)