Compliance with Covid restrictions has fallen to levels not seen since last autumn, with a particular drop among those who’ve recently been vaccinated, according to the results of a new Ipsos MORI survey. Six in 10 people aged 55-75 say they are not completely following the rules. Covid vaccine uptake in this age range recently hit 95% and 12 million people (also mostly within this bracket) have had two doses. The Ipsos MORI survey found that while compliance has fallen the most in recent months among those aged 55-75, this age group is still more likely than others to claim to be following the rules relating to Covid. Here are the key findings.
A new survey by Ipsos MORI shows the number of Britons who say they are following the Government’s Covid lockdown rules completely has fallen from almost half (47%) in January 2021 to just over a third (35%) now. A further 36% are following the restrictions nearly all of the time (up from 31%) while 21% are following most/half of the time (was 16%) and 6% less than half/hardly at all (little change from 4%).
Claimed adherence to the rules reached a peak in January but has now dropped back to the levels seen last autumn.
Among those aged 55-75, the number of people following the rules completely has fallen from 58% in January to four in 10 now (40%), perhaps related to the success of the vaccine programme among older people. However, overall this this age group is still more likely than younger Britons to say they are following the rules.
The Government feared that Brits would take Covid restrictions less seriously after being vaccinated and has sought ways to keep people frightened of the virus. At the beginning of April, a Government source told the Telegraph that a poster campaign was being drawn up telling grandparents (including those who’ve been vaccinated): “[If you] hug your grandchildren there is a chance you are going to infect people you love.” These findings from Ipsos MORI suggest that people are more likely to believe that the benefits of resuming normal life outweigh the risks after they’ve been vaccinated.
The survey also looked at what people will be comfortable doing when lockdown restrictions are further eased.
Once restrictions have been lifted, Britons are most comfortable meeting friends and family outside of their household (77%), with another 5% who say this is already back to normal. Overall this is an increase of eight points since February. Seven in ten (71%) would feel comfortable visiting their GP for non-Covid related issues. Two-thirds (66%) feel comfortable shopping in both supermarkets and other shops.
Six in ten (58%) workers say they will feel comfortable returning to work once restrictions are lifted, 16% say this had already returned to normal. Parents are also more likely to say they will feel comfortable sending their children to school (66%, up from 55% in February), 8% believe this is already as it was before the pandemic hit.
A majority of Britons say they will be comfortable going to the hairdressers (59%), taking holidays in the UK (61%), having people working in your home (55%) and staying overnight at a friend or family member’s house (54%). Around half would be happy visiting an indoor museum or exhibition (51%) and going to bars and restaurants (50%).
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“The Government feared that Brits would take Covid restrictions less seriously after being vaccinated”
Hold on a goddam minute. Weren’t the vaccines sold as “the solution” which would deliver freedom from coronavirus and lockdown only a few short months ago, not just by the government but by nearly all of the media (including, sad to say, lockdownsceptics)?
If the government wants to find the reason for this turn of events, perhaps it should take a look in a mirror.
This is the mask slipping.
The biometric tracking ID, monthly jabs, and permanent medical martial law were always the real goals.
Bingo!
So ‘vaccines’ for Covid will not set you free?
Let me think about that!
No, but the Vaccine Passport might give you some freedoms.
I’ve still got the ones I always had, thanks.
Yes, vaccines were sold as the way out of lockdown so the government decided to shift the goalposts again.
3 weeks to save the NHS (wasn’t it supposed to be saving us?!?)
I had a conversation with an elderly relative to today about non-essential retail opening in my region later in the week. They said they would like to go to the shops but worried about them being crowded and not being able to social distance. I had to point out to them that they were vaccinated – they wouldn’t need to social distance. The brainwashing of the elderly has been so incredibly successful.
My other half works in an elderly assisted living facility, had exactly the same discussion with a resident there. This lady was, in her working life, a nurse – but admitted she hadn’t thought of that. I suppose bring barraged by fear for over a year takes its toll.
Why is people not being afraid always presented as a “problem”? To be solved by yet more lying, ridiculous propaganda? When it was SPI-B propaganda that got people scared in the first place?
So no statistics on how few younger people are following the rules. Interesting.
25% of ‘young people’ are ‘completely following the rules’, I’d be surprised if anyone is completely following the rules now – 100%. But that doesn’t mean that most people aren’t following the rules – 71% say they are completly or nearly always following the rules.
Most people tell polsters what they want to hear and additionally want to be thought of as law abiding citizens, even if they are not.
Funny! I always tell lies to pollsters as I take the view its non of their business in the first place.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-autoantigen-narcolepsy-mimic-protein-swine.html
Extract from Daily Expose
“The next deception being broadcast by the mainstream media in the UK is that there are so many patients needing oxygen across India that there is now a shortage. This simply isn’t true. There has been a shortage of oxygen in India for at least the past six months but the Government have not done anything about it.
An article released by ‘Quartz India’ confirms this in which they describe how 150 district hospitals across India have been waiting for oxygen generation plants to be built nearby since October 2020, but nothing has materialised.
So the situation you are seeing broadcast on your television screen has not arisen because there are vasts amounts of people requiring oxygen, it has arisen because there has always been a shortage of oxygen across India.
So what about deaths? Well the latest data shows us that on the 24th April 2021 2,767 deaths were attributed to Covid-19, the highest to occur in India so far. But let’s put that into context, with a population of 1.4 billion that is just 0.0001% of the population. And to put it into further context India sees on average 25,270 deaths per day from all causes.”
Absolutely. The India narrative is just that: a narrative because the media here can’t find anything more local to scaremonger about. Repulsive hypocrisy also from the twittering idiots who never gave a flying f### about the half million TB deaths a year, or indeed any other cause of death, but are suddenly in some sort of sexual froth over Covid sadlideaths.
According to Worldometer figures, There are 117 countries with a higher death rate than India. One of those is the UK.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jaysanchezdorta/status/1386408146374209539/photo/1
I think this is at least as significant as the growing protests. For every person who protests the restrictions, there’s 10 who simply don’t follow them; and for every one of the latter, there are at least 10 who follow them selectively, learning to manage their own risk.
according to the same survey – 71% of people were following government rules all of the time or nearly all of the time. Down from a peak of 78% – but still very high – 6% say they aren’t following any rules.
I suspect the number who tell lies is higher still.
So do I, but what’s the truth?
Yay, just yay.
Received a photo from my sister yday, visiting family she hasn’t seen for about seven months. Two grandchildren under the age of five and there they all were wrapped up in coats, hats and scarves under blankets in the garden (they all looked frozen) reading them a bedtime story, because… They’re not allowed to meet indoors.
Absolutely fkin ridiculous, I can’t believe we’re related.
My Sister-in-law went to see her elderly mother in her care home over 400 mile round trip. She called in to see her sisters nearby and go to the loo (she was desperate!) and they wouldn’t let her in as “it was against the rules”. Jesus! what have we come to?
I really didn’t think that people like this existed!. The evil despots in government have really played their part well, however, I have little sympathy for the brain washed.
Stay Safe. Don’t ki11 your grand-child.
My mother is completely brainwashed by the BBC. wears a mask in the garden. she keeps texting me begging for me to get the jab. over a long series of texts with her I’ve turned her fear of the virus into anger at the government for wanting to jab children
I think anger is a healthier emotion than fear
She’s even stopped wearing the mask
Well done!
That is the way forward, little by little step by step until the trickle becomes as flood.
Witness Saturday’s March in London
wish I could get that result with my relatives – they were gobsmacked last week when I told them that research had demonstrated the much touted fomite transmission was a myth. I had to stop there – I knew if I tried to tell them any more like asymptomatic transmission wasn’t a thing they wouldn’t be able to handle it.
If you feel uncomfortable doing nything whatever that was normal before the bollox, you should go home, get under the bed, and bloody stay there.
A million times yes. I wish the terrified would follow their own mantra and ‘STAY THE F AT HOME’. They told us to do it often enough. If lockdown is so great, why don’t they just lock themselves down and leave me the f alone.
Absolutely, if bozo cancelled all restrictions tomorrow I wouldn’t care if some people still chose to wear masks, jump out of my way in the aisles or, better still, just stayed home.
… and just shut the f. up.
The youngest group gives me some hope for the future.
“The Government feared that Brits would take Covid restrictions less seriously after being vaccinated”
Those upon whom the future depends – the literate, numerate, brainwashing resistant and intelligent – never took the ‘restrictions’ seriously.
Wow. Not in the home of the brave. Here the most devoted adherents are the young, literate, numerant elitists.
On a related matter, here’s something I was discussing with friends outside a pub this lunchtime. I caught Covid in November, I’ve had my first jab, and I’m due my second one on Tuesday.
If Dido Harding’s super-efficient T&T team hears that someone else in the beer garden today has tested positive, do they really expect me to self-isolate? (I understand that the answer to this question is “Yes”, which is a bloody good reason for not taking the whole thing seriously!)
I’d be comfortable doing all those things in the last paragraph (were they available to me) and I haven’t been vaccinated.
That word – “compliance” – something about it rubs me the wrong way.
It’s as if some new rule has been declared from on high, from some moral super-stratum, upon us “little people” who don’t know what’s best for us! Very infantilizing.
The vaccines were sold as the “solution”, but it’s all a matter of timing, isn’t it? It’s possible the vaccines are not quite the silver bullet they were originally hailed as, and it’s almost coming to a time when the government can start to creep in that revelation, as the vaccine uptake has been so high and one cannot “un-vaccinate”.
If they had introduced this fact earlier on then their one-eyed objective of vaccinating the nation may not have come to fruition.
If the vaccines are not powerful enough to counter the effects of a bit of human mingling, hence the implied need for continuing restrictions, then whence it’s role of re-establishing our freedom?
Just like all over-sold commercial products, it don’t quite “do what it says on the tin”. Either that or it does do what it says on the tin, but the state would like to find more reasons to keep us restricted.
It’s worth remembering that it’s not just Covid-battling measures that have taken their toll on human liberty. Other bills, such as the SpyCops bill and the new Policing bill (nothing to do with viruses), all also have in common their assault on civil liberty and their intrusive authoritarian over-reach.
We have had visitors to our house throughout. OK fewer than normal and the same ones, but we have continued to have what we regard as essential social contact. Am noticing my neighbours started doing the same in recent weeks. The ‘rules’ are ridiculous and I am treating them with the contempt they deserve.
Is it the vaccines or people finally waking up? I’m afraid of the answer.
Here in deepest darkest Suffolk there were people in their eighties and beyond out defiantly walking, with or without dogs from the start. I had plenty of sceptical, cynical and sarcastic conversations, especially with other people who’d had something very covidlike around the end of 2019.
When masks first came in, most people wore them in shops then ripped them off in the street.
The third lockdown did something totally bad. There were terrified looking people masked in the street, some double masked. If they were that terrified why not stay home?
It took a while for the paranoia to subside. Now people walking the “wrong way” in the supermarket have become commonplace. Very few masks outside of shops and people walking in the park and elsewhere being suitably sociable. Currently the main topic of conversation is “have you had your vaccine yet?” so not entirely back to normal