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white_hart) wrote2021-08-10 07:43 pm
Risk tolerance (222/365)
I know that I am pretty risk-averse, and it's also been long enough that I've almost forgotten what it was like to do those things; doing them now would feel strange and new, which would require more impetus than I can muster up in the face of ongoing pandemic "is it actually safe to do this?" anxiety. I do wonder whether I am being excessively risk-averse, though I don't get the sense that many of my friends are doing much more than I am.
Anyway, this is really just a preamble to a poll!
I live in the UK, and I would currently:
use public transport to commute
18 (37.5%)
use public transport for leisure purposes
21 (43.8%)
have a drink at a pub or cafe - indoors
17 (35.4%)
have a drink at a pub or cafe - outdoors
39 (81.2%)
have a meal at a pub, cafe or restaurant - indoors
20 (41.7%)
have a meal at a pub, cafe or restaurant - outdoors
36 (75.0%)
go to a shop for essential purchases (however you define essential)
45 (93.8%)
go to a shop for non-essential purchases/to browse
24 (50.0%)
go to the theatre
8 (16.7%)
go to the cinema
7 (14.6%)
meet friends in an outdoor public place
44 (91.7%)
meet friends in a garden
46 (95.8%)
meet friends in your or their house
35 (72.9%)
I wouldn't do any of these things
1 (2.1%)
I live outside the UK, and I would currently:
use public transport to commute
8 (50.0%)
use public transport for leisure purposes
6 (37.5%)
have a drink at a pub or cafe - indoors
1 (6.2%)
have a drink at a pub or cafe - outdoors
9 (56.2%)
have a meal at a pub, cafe or restaurant - indoors
1 (6.2%)
have a meal at a pub, cafe or restaurant - outdoors
8 (50.0%)
go to a shop for essential purchases (however you define essential)
15 (93.8%)
go to a shop for non-essential purchases/to browse
5 (31.2%)
go to the theatre
0 (0.0%)
go to the cinema
2 (12.5%)
meet friends in an outdoor public place
13 (81.2%)
meet friends in a garden
13 (81.2%)
meet friends in your or their house
9 (56.2%)
I wouldn't do any of these things
1 (6.2%)
*at the moment my kindle TBR pile appears to be going through a significant growth phase
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My answers are very conservative because I am spending most of my "indoors with others" budget on ice skating and therefore avoiding almost everything else except essential shopping (although we are now shopping in our local supermarkets again rather than only getting deliveries). I'm much more relaxed about doing things outdoors though.
Another factor is that two of my household are under 16 and therefore there's currently no plans to vaccinate them. If that changes, or if case rates locally drop back to where they were in mid-May, I'll expand my risk tolerance a bit.
If I wasn't skating at all, I would probably be prepared to visit a cinema or theatre and consider taking public transport more often, but I might need to take a while to work up to it. I made an exception to take the bus with the children recently and the bus ended up getting way fuller than I'd expected and I found it very stressful. I only really coped by reiterating to myself that it was a short ride and the children and I had masks even if not all of our fellow passengers did.
I wrote about coming up with a simplified set of rules for myself at end of June and it hasn't really changed except case rates are much higher now.
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