At what point will you just stay home?

[king1]

I don't get this 'live life to the fullest' thing. I do that whatever the circumstances, if I am restricted in some way I deal with it. Lessons leaned after years of disability, years of family raising and caring, years of budgeting to get what I need - there is always something challenging me, and if I let it stop me my life wouldn't have been nearly as interesting...

I suspect most of us are like that. It isn't a fear thing, it's called being sensible.

I agree, so often that word "cower" has been used here by those advocating for more freedoms, as if their taunt will somehow inspire others to take that risk... 
For me personally, I'm a homebody so I see no need to take excessive risks to my health in some vain attempt to lead someone else's starry eyed view of a fulfilling life...

[harm_less]

I don't get this 'live life to the fullest' thing. I do that whatever the circumstances, if I am restricted in some way I deal with it. Lessons leaned after years of disability, years of family raising and caring, years of budgeting to get what I need - there is always something challenging me, and if I let it stop me my life wouldn't have been nearly as interesting...

I suspect most of us are like that. It isn't a fear thing, it's called being sensible.

So essentially what you're saying is that life is a compromise, and the more years you tick off the greater the amount of compromises, and responsibilities, you need to factor into your life.

It seems the rabble in Wellington are oblivious to this. They shirk any responsibilities and expect life to continue unencumbered. Bring on the plague for them to enlighten them to societal reality.

[SueDonim]

I was still working (in the health sector) during the first lock down and it was terrifying. Now that I don't have to "go to work" (ha ha - busier than ever, just not sitting in traffic for 1.5 hours a day!) it is great to be able to avoid people when I want to, which is most of the time anyway. We have never felt a need to socialise and I can still go out and do what I'd normally do anyway because it rarely involves other people. Grocery shopping is the biggest risk, but we always have enough non-perishables for three weeks in the camper, and have just utilised its fridge for some extra fruit and veg so that's OK for a while. So I can be a happy hermit. DH has a couple of week's work with another person at the moment, but its outside so should be safe.

I feel for people who don't have a choice, and those like videomonkey who are having to cope without enough help at the moment.

[Magoo]

yes, the mandates impact us all.
from kids to care homes. none of us are thrilled with it.
these are not machiavellian measures, they are an effort, just an effort, to contain the spread of the virus.
a virus we know little about, circumstances and consequences.
do we really want to find out down the road that indeed to virus had spread and mutated and now we have a couple of thousand kids and vulnerable to show for it?
i dont care if we find out later we were wasting our time, or that we over reacted, or 'freedoms' were lost and butts were hurt. ive no problem saying im wrong. i have to do it all the time.
never with fatal consequences.

[Olive]

yes, the mandates impact us all.
from kids to care homes. none of us are thrilled with it.
these are not machiavellian measures, they are an effort, just an effort, to contain the spread of the virus.
a virus we know little about, circumstances and consequences.
do we really want to find out down the road that indeed to virus had spread and mutated and now we have a couple of thousand kids and vulnerable to show for it?
i dont care if we find out later we were wasting our time, or that we over reacted, or 'freedoms' were lost and butts were hurt. ive no problem saying im wrong. i have to do it all the time.
never with fatal consequences.

Well said.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Life is a compromise. It is part of the negotiation we each make in order to survive. To fail to understand that reality may be why so many people find life a bit of a struggle.

It may even be a mental illness. As in an inability or failure to grasp reality...

[Lilith7]

Life is a compromise. It is part of the negotiation we each make in order to survive. To fail to understand that reality may be why so many people find life a bit of a struggle.

It may even be a mental illness. As in an inability or failure to grasp reality...

Like those people in the USA who genuinely believed there was a child abuse ring operating in a pizza place.
Extreme gullibility at the very least.

[Magoo]

Dunning Kruger effect

[Underwhelmed]

Really tired of people saying they are over it. Yes, that will make it all go away.

I agree with the posters about taking sensible precautions as I expect to catch Omicron at some point, but preferably not when the health system is pushed to the max.  Not sure what daily number will tip me into staying at home but malls, cafes and pubs are already no-go zones. There are far too many "exemptions".

Does anyone know if there's info online about positive cases broken down into suburb?  (Already found the DHB vax and booster stats).

[C_T_Russell]

I will keep an eye on cases in our area, if we get hundreds per day with clear evidence many are in hospital, then I will likely start working from home.

[girlgeorgina]

i still have to go to work, my job is impossible to do from home. until the bosses tell us they are closing the doors due to too many cases affecting our staffing numbers, i will still go about my normal life. i am very much a homebody anyway, other than op shops and groceries, we dont go out much. but i am living life as i normally would, other than having to wear masks and scan in.

[Oldfellah]

I have a heart condition that is fixable (semi urgent, there words not mine) but I have to wait at least 2 to 4 months to get it sorted, so for me I am going to go out less except for groceries etc. Just potter around home and unfortunately avoid things that I would normally do,  cant afford to have my heartbeat racing away on me 

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I am a bit like that with these bad bones. Getting around hurts. But I have had this challenge now for decades in some form or another and have learned ways to feed my soul that don't actually require a lot of physical adventuring. I married a very physically driven man, he had to be moving all the time, work or play. Forcing someone like him into a more concentrated smaller world would change them totally and it simply cannot be done in a short space of time. Like my blasted bones giving me decades to learn how to live with the life I have, people need time to adjust to the new life the pandemic effect is bringing to us. Perhaps that is why we are seeing these social tantrums starting, because not everyone is learning the lessons at the same speed.

But learn them we must, because life just isn't going to go back to the way it was.