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How worried about getting Covid are you right now?

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RealHousewifeofBarnardCastle · 16/07/2021 13:50

It’s very confusing, cases are rising, teenagers are ignoring pings - anecdotally - people with symptoms aren’t testing. Not sure how worried to be RN. Double jabbed but will it help?

How worried are you?

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RichardMarxisinnocent · 16/07/2021 14:34

@moynomore

I'm much more worried than I was this time last year. Like others, only because getting it will mess up a lot of plans coming up. Not worried about getting sick really.
Same here, it's the having to isolate if I get it and the plans that could be ruined by that. I want to get my life fully back and start to book and plan things, but I'm scared to plan and start looking forward to things in case I get covid or have or isolate as a contact and I have to cancel. I had too many things in 2020 cancelled or postponed that I daren't let myself get excited about any future plans because I'm half convinced they won't happen.
wasthataburp · 16/07/2021 14:34

Not worried in the slightest.

Strugglingtodomybest · 16/07/2021 14:37

I'm not worried, I don't see the point in worrying about it. If I worry about covid then logically I'd also need to worry about a whole raft of other diseases I may get too.

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JemimaMuddledUp · 16/07/2021 14:38

Reasonably worried.

I'm CEV and so have been double jabbed for months and will likely have a booster with my flu jab in the autumn. I'm less worried about dying from it than I was at the beginning of the pandemic, but I do still worry about complications due to my existing health conditions if I did catch it.

I'm also worried about Long Covid. Two of my team in work have it, one for over a year. It has completely changed their lives. The thought of being left unable to do my job due to it is frightening.

I am of course also worried about the impact of the restrictions on my mental health, on my DC's education and mental health, on the economy etc. My eldest DS starts university in September, who knows what that will be like.

Giveronyoursausage · 16/07/2021 14:41

I have to admit I'm more worried now but that's because my young dc have had to deal with the deaths of all grandparents within the space of a few months thanks to covid.

Mumski45 · 16/07/2021 14:43

Not worried at all. Just had it a few weeks ago and was like a bad cold really. Double jabbed so if I get again I think I will hardly notice.

Chocoqueen · 16/07/2021 14:44

More than I was, and I've been quite blasé about it most of the time (but followed the rules to keep others safe). Now I'm 34 weeks pregnant, had the first vaccine and will get the 2nd as soon as I can (I think I'll be at the 8 week mark next weekend or the one after). I'm lucky in that my employer is happy for me to stay wfh and my DH is also wfh for another month so can probably avoid easily enough. My main worry is what would happen if he gets it or has to self isolate just before I go into labour. Though hopefully by then we'll be past 16th August and we'll both be double jabbed plus two weeks.

It's tough, I do think we need to open up but at the same time it's just a things get more risky for me. I do wish they'd have kept masks though!

TheLovelinessOfDemons · 16/07/2021 14:44

Terrified, not for me, but for my DS1. I wouldn't be allowed to see him.

AnnaForbes · 16/07/2021 14:45

@Turkishangora

Not at all worried about covid. Very worried that the climate of fear that prevails with continue to trash society and shatter and decimate mental health even more, very worried about my children's education and subsequent achievement being affected by ongoing restrictions.
Yes, me too.
BasiliskStare · 16/07/2021 14:46

Not very - more irritated by rules for travel etc being changed at the drop of a hat. But I shall keep doing masks in shops / buses etc. Seems sensible.

Iknowtheanswer · 16/07/2021 14:46

I have Covid right now HmmSmile

Ipanemama · 16/07/2021 14:47

I’m not well at the moment so yes I am concerned about getting it right now. I’ve had both vaccines.

Ilikeknitting · 16/07/2021 14:48

I’m not worried at all.
I’ve had both vaccines, no point in being double jabbed if I’m still going to be terrified.

Cosybelles · 16/07/2021 14:50

My covid worry level is very low/zero right now as the chance of anything 'bad' happening is so small. I'm more concerned about how much more children will have to suffer etc.

loulouljh · 16/07/2021 14:50

Out of 100? 0.

Sick to death of hearing about it. We need to stop fixating and move on.

FAQs · 16/07/2021 14:51

@Turkishangora

Not at all worried about covid. Very worried that the climate of fear that prevails with continue to trash society and shatter and decimate mental health even more, very worried about my children's education and subsequent achievement being affected by ongoing restrictions.
This with nobs on! Also agree with the poster who said treatments for life threatening illnesses being pushed aside/delayed again. Not acceptable.
ASatisfyingThump · 16/07/2021 14:51

Not particularly worried about getting sick, DH and I are young(ish) and healthy and the kids have very robust immune systems so it's unlikely to be too bad. What worries me is that restrictions are ending just as the summer holidays are starting, no doubt so that we'll all be out with the kids and spending money, and I'm concerned that this will end with more restrictions in September.

BuffySummersReportingforSanity · 16/07/2021 14:52

About getting ill? Not in the slightest. Never have been. Double jabbed and had it more than a year ago anyway.

About life being disrupted? Mildly to moderately, but I'm not letting that stop me any more.

AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii · 16/07/2021 14:53

Nope, had both vaccines, work in nhs community and have done all through, wasn’t worried at the start and I’m not worried now. Life is short enough as it is and covid isn’t the only thing that MAY kill you. Sooner cases etc stop being reported every Bloomin day the sooner things can move on else what was the point of the vaccines? The surge testing and over reporting needs to stop. Ridiculous you could have 60,000 at football all squashed together but all the local festivals and activities round where I live have now been cancelled after Scottish announcement

PhilCornwall1 · 16/07/2021 15:13

As worried as I was at the beginning of all this, which is not worried at all.

My parents think I should be panicking, as I've been labelled CEV.

Hellcatspangle · 16/07/2021 15:13

I'm worried in the sense that I feel it's inevitable, I know loads of people who've got it locally and I don't want to get it and pass it on to my vulnerable parents. I'm not too concerned about being ill myself though.

PoptartPoptart · 16/07/2021 15:14

”Honestly I am dreading my 2nd AstraZeneca jab on Sunday more, after having flu like symptoms which I was totally unprepared for last time. I was far more ill from that then when I think I had Covid in early 2020. Gotta be done, but if I'm being honest, I've worried about no. 2 jab since recovering from no.1 jab”
I was very poorly after my first jab too. Thankfully after my second I only had a mildly sore arm so try not to worry.

Parky04 · 16/07/2021 15:18

Never worry about something I can't control! Lots of other things to worry about!

OrangeBananaFish · 16/07/2021 15:23

As much as I've ever been. Not at all. Im the same as PP, I'm more worried about what society has become. The judging and everyone thinking they know it all etc. That's what I'm worried about more. Society.

DeeCeeCherry · 16/07/2021 15:32

I'm not worried at all. I hope I don't get it but that if I do, symptoms will be mild/it won't kill me.

You only get one life, I flatly refuse to spend it in worry mode and hanging onto news reports telling us how deadly it is.

I'm careful, I'm double-jabbed and that's that, I'm getting on with life.

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