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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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LadyCatStark · 16/07/2021 15:32

It at all but I am worried that I have a mole type thing on my leg that’s getting bigger and I can only get a telephone appointment in a months time at the doctors…

youdontnome · 16/07/2021 15:33

I was very very I'll with covid last year. Been double jabbed, think that if I got it again it would not be so severe. Can't do anything to prevent it anyway, it's just me and my key worker husband here, he obviously gave it to me last time so I can't avoid getting it if he gets it again. I spend no time worrying about it, you've got to get on with life. I think for the sake of the younger generation and the economy we need to open up.

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 16/07/2021 15:36

I've just finished isolating. Although I won't be going anywhere yet as I'm still not feeling 100% just been told the milk I've been putting in my coffee all day is off as well so smell and taste aren't great!

I'm actually glad I've got it over with. My grandad has terminal cancer so although everyone is double jabbed it's still been a bit of a worry of mine

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SpringRainbow · 16/07/2021 16:36

I’m not worried about getting Covid, chances are I will be perfectly fine. I know there is a chance I won’t be, but it’s a very slim chance. I’m just as likely to get hit by a bus or something.

I am constantly worried about one or all of us having to isolate. I am constantly on edge looking for signs that one of us might be unwell and therefore having to test.

The stress of testing and isolating is just mentally and physically draining. I am so sick of never getting respite from it.

I am hoping that next school year is better but it’s looking like it’s going to be just as rubbish and stressful.

Absolutely dreading what the rest of the year will bring.

opalescent · 16/07/2021 16:55

Not at all worried about covid.

Very worried about all the rules and restrictions continuing to fuck up plans and everyday life for me and everyone I know 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Vanillaradio · 16/07/2021 17:58

I'm not at all. I've had it (asymptomatically but positive test) and I'm double jabbed.

Gilead · 16/07/2021 18:56

Just said on another thread, ds (36), double vaccinated, has it. Temperature, flu like symptoms, headache, lost his sense of taste and smell and the cough and wheeze started today.

Vintagevixen · 16/07/2021 19:33

Deeply unworried, exactly as I have been all along.

More worried about the disruption to DD's education over the last year and a half TBH.

battlestyle · 16/07/2021 19:34

I've never been very concerned about getting it. I've been double vaxxed for a while and I did an antibody test a few weeks ago which was negative - despite using public transport, having a DD in nursery and going to lots of indoor venues and toddler groups.

StepladderToHeaven · 16/07/2021 19:36

Not concerned at all. I'm in my 40s and double jabbed. I know there's a tiny chance that I'd have it badly, but the risk isn't high enough for me to worry about.

Redhotchilis · 16/07/2021 19:41

Not even slightly concerned about getting it.

Slightly concerned about having our life controlled for even longer as the months go by, crap isolations ruining plans that are all well deserved after almost a year and a half of this rubbish Angry

wjg65ka · 16/07/2021 19:46

I'm worried about me or DH testing positive before my csection. I'm worried about having it during that time as I was so poorly after having DS1 I can't imagine throwing covid in the mix

Youdiditanyway · 16/07/2021 20:27

Not arsed. I’m 28, no health conditions, I’ve had my first jab and waiting for my second in about 3 weeks. Think I’ve already had it once last March, it was before mass testing so I’ll never know but I had a constant dry cough that was so bad I couldn’t sleep. That was my only symptom though.

I’m over it now. Deleted the app, will be turning notifications off on class dojo when they break up so if they’re told to SI over the holidays they won’t be. One life, might be dead tomorrow so I’m not wasting it sitting at home anymore. It’s made me depressed.

baldafrique · 16/07/2021 20:33

Concerned I will have it for the birth of my baby and/or that my partner will have it and not be able to be there at the birth of his child.

PTW1234 · 16/07/2021 20:34

Mid 30s, had a terrible few years after contracting glandular fever in my teens. Hospital appointments etc, so worry about long covid etc.

I am only weeks away from my second vaccine so really limiting my contact with people as I haven’t bloody gone through all of this to get it when I am almost at the finish line!

*yes I know vaccines are not silver bullets, but I live in a hotspot where schools are closing in full due to cases, local shops are closing due to staff isolating/catching it, and wards are filling in hospitals etc. Post vaccine I will still do my best to limit the spread, like wear masks and social distance.

billiebeeme · 16/07/2021 20:37

Not worried at all.

user1471453601 · 16/07/2021 20:37

I'm not worried, I'm frightened. My sis and bil, both double jabbed are just getting over it. The area I live in has about 500 per

From Monday, the little protection this government allowed me (masks and social distancing) is no more.

Enjoy your " freedom" those of you who have agitated for it. Much good may it do you.

50k cases a day, and they decide now is the optimum time to remove any and all restrictions? Words fail me.

Direstraitsmates · 16/07/2021 20:38

Not worried other than worried I'll get it again and have to self isolate and my DC will have to self isolate. I don't care about getting a virus. I care about my DC being isolated from school, their friends and their clubs yet again. I worry about their mental health.

Silkiecats · 16/07/2021 20:43

Not worried. Worried about kids education and mental health.

TabithaTiger · 16/07/2021 20:45

I'm not worried about getting I'll, but I really don't want to have to self-isolate.

The rising cases and hospital numbers worry me though. I think it's becoming obvious we'll be back in some sort of lockdown by September and I really don't want that.

Milesbennettdyson · 16/07/2021 20:47

I’m not worried at all. I’ve never worried about catching any particular one illness over another.

delilahbucket · 16/07/2021 20:48

I'm not worried about catching it and being ill, I'm more concerned about isolation. No one is designed to stay indoors for ten days straight and I have a business that I cannot simply drop just like that without it costing me dearly. Sure the SEISS payment will cover lost income in the interim, but if I have to start cancelling orders from customers I get penalised by the sites I sell on and it could cost me my business.

wellingtonbear · 16/07/2021 20:49

Not worried at all. Had Covid mildly last year and double jabbed.

nc8765 · 16/07/2021 20:49

Not worried. Never worried. Had it before, am now I double jabbed.

Thurlow · 16/07/2021 20:54

Like many others, I’m not worried about it in the sense of being ill. But I’m hugely worried about the effect it is having on society and the economy and how much worse it might get.

I’m writing this in isolation because my pre-schooler has been told to test because he has a cold, and the first test was ‘inconclusive’ because, no shit Sherlock, testing a young child is almost impossible. My older DC may miss important things this weekend, events and parties that were just beginning to make her life feel more normal after the car crash of the past eighteen months, if the test result doesn’t come back tomorrow morning. The effect on children is almost cruel now. Oh, and my emergency service DH has just been put into isolation because someone at work tested positive and it’s literally impossible, with the budget cuts over the past decade and the staff shortages due to isolations, for them to social distance at work, so now there’s somewhere in the UK which is down to its bare arse for that emergency service for that shift for the next ten days.

And that’s just what has happened in the past 24 hours.

That’s what I’m worried about. That that becomes a new normality in the UK.