Acceptor
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Lockdown has worked because, against all expectation, there turned out to be many more Accepters and Sufferers than Resisters (the three pandemic personalities identified by King’s College), in the Uk
From an article in the Spectator
Which group would you put yourself in?
Acceptor
Acceptor I guess. Doesn't mean I wont have a moan though!!
Accepter, and quite enjoying it really.
Definitely an accepter, the risks are not worth taking!
Accepter . After seeing my nephew a Doctor via FaceTime looking so exhausted from a thirteen hour duty on the Covid wards
If you could see the exhaustion and sadness on his face there would be no one against lock down .
Accepter but becoming rapidly ungracious in my accepting as the weeks pass. Fed up with my own company and reliance on others to keep me supplied! Judging by the amount of traffic on the A419 yesterday there are thousands of non accepters and those who think its quite fine to go out for a jaunt with the wife & 4 kids. Where exactly are they going? (Daughter reported after a bike ride)
I'm a 65 year old accepter and happy to be so.
Also voted both for Brexit and the Conservatives.
I have my 30 year old son and 26 year old Dil living here too, they are also happy accepters and also Brexiteers and vote Conservative. Really can't see what age has to do with anything tbh more a state of mind. I'm disabled but not especially vulnerable but my son appears to be fit and healthy but has an issue with his lungs as he keeps getting Pneumonia but so far undiagnosed as to why. Moneywise I'm helping them out with reduced income.
Accepter, and the “R” number (effective reproduction number relating to virus transmission) is now below 1.0 - because most people have heeded the advice. All I’m being asked to do is stay in my own home. It’s been quite easy all things considered. (Groceries delivered, prescriptions delivered,).
I know others have found it harder and I honestly don’t underestimate their mental health concerns.
Liz1965.This isn't a criticism
Everyone has a different experience
Some see little evidence of those not observing lockdown therefore think everyone is fully on board. So whilst I understand fully it may seem abstract it feels very real here.I myself and two immediate family members are recovering from the virus. We had no contact as different cities
And DD nurses those desperately ill and dying of CV.So it feels all too real sadly.
Cassandra I can only begin to understand your frustration. When I have seen on the news the idiots who insist on travelling great distances for a day out in our county national park I've been exasperated to say the least .
Accepter.... the Government are setting the guidelines to help a d protect us ...... 
Accepter. I do like a wee rule to follow.
Accepter with a swirl of resistance
Well, I have moved back and forth between the three categories... currently I am beginning to feel duped and lied to... I guess because I am in the fortunate position of not having been directly affected by the illness and live in a low risk area it’s becoming more and more abstract. It has become so political that honestly I no longer know what to believe about the virus...
Accepter and living with an accepter, which makes it easier!
Accepter but hating it. Not a sufferer as probably defined but definitely getting tetchy with each other in our household, dread how difficult shopping is and hating the loss of freedom. Didn't suffer from depression before but now having bad days.
Accepter: and still upbeat and loving the peace and quiet, shopping is so much more pleasant now.
Agree with Washerwoman. I am an Accepter. I live in a UK holiday area (having made a living in later life looking after holidaymakers). I appreciate that in many ways this makes me very fortunate - but one huge downside is that we have only one hospital in the whole county with only a handful of critical care beds.
It has made key workers in this hospital and in local care homes very angry to see second home owners and/or members of their families ignoring government instructions and flocking in. One lone surfer who decided to take the opportunity to have an extra holiday got into major difficulties and tied up some of our very limited resources needed to help local Covid sufferers.
Two others (young, healthy, active) have caused real resentment by tying up online local supermarket deliveries during their stay which are badly needed by our old and vulnerable local people. some of whom have found it very hard to access these. And there is fear that strangers from urban areas where the virus has been more prevalent can be carriers without knowing it.Some people, it appears, have no consideration for anyone but themselves.
Yes green-eyedgirl meaningless. I refuse to be identified in any category I do not fit in.
I'm an acceptor. The premise of the lockdown made sense to me right from the start. I didn't make any preparations, it seemed to me that we would obviously be allowed out to shop. The stockpiling thing was ludicrous - before rationing I saw an enormous woman and her two enormous children piling all the eggs in our local small supermarket into her basket. Unless she was going to 'candle' them them they would be well stale by the time she got to eat them! A little research would have assured her there was only going to be a shortage of a particular few things.
This 'research' may be a bit of fun, but is absolutely meaningless.
Clearly many of us who are 'acceptors' as evidenced on here are not Tory voters.
It was based on a sample of 2,250 people. ? Age demographic.
Far too broad.
Good job it wasn't medical research, would have been discarded at the first hurdle.
I started as an accepter but am changing into a sufferer.
Definitely an accepter
Definitely Acceptor.Haven't read up on Resistor traits but judging by behaviour of some there should be a Rebel .DDs both finally had enough this weekend and both spoke to neighbours nearby. 3rd weekend in a row one lot had a bbq and gathering and lots of noise and drinking. Other household had loads of family over last weekend and yesterday 2 vans turned up with mates to collect their son with all their bikes and off they popped.Both are key workers.One ICU and its soul destroying to know some people think a)they're a special case and b)don't care and can't for what is essentially a few weeks do what most of us are doing and limit as much as possible the spread of this virus.
Accepter- it is necessary For the record not older or rightwing
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