Any CEV people not shielding?

[SammySueTwo]

After following the press coverage on Evusheld and how the UK government has decided that vulnerable people are not worth protecting, I have seen many vulnerable people are continuing to shield.
I'm on immune suppressants so one of the 500 thousand CEV. Not had my autumn booster yet (but had all 5 jabs - don't know if I made any antibodies.)
I've been reading about people strictly shielding still. With teens this has not been possible for me - now I am wondering if I am being a fool and should stop indoor contact? Articles have made mention of families separating to protect themselves and people living in solo isolation since 2020?
My consultant's advice was to be careful but that people on my medications have had covid and been ok. Of course I could just stop taking them?
I would like to know what other CEV people are doing right now?

Gosh what an awful way to have to live.

Has your friend been advised that covid is an airborne virus that doesn't live on groceries and post ?

Transplant patient here, so on 500,000 list and had my 5 vaccines. I stopped at Christmas - decided I needed to live life again. Eventually got covid - it was very mild, so I turned down the antivirals. My family all had it a lot worse than me tbh.

Me too

I'm still very careful and 5 jabs in but not shielding, nope. Lots of Dettol spray in the house, open windows, and I still wear a mask in supermarkets.

Funnily enough I had to take my mask off the other day in an NHS hospital - musculoskeletal physio. But right next to open windows and again everything was sprayed down. I'm not missing any more hospital treatment.

What's so different about covid from flu though, real flu?

Sorry
Just read your post properly about flu season.

DH had a SCT during the pandemic. He shielded for a while after that but now he's just going about life normally. He's had covid and was fine.

My daughter is CEV and shielded in 2020 she was in 6th form at the time so was off school anyway due them being closed, pretty much back to normal now, has had covid twice and was fine even she’s had 4 jabs. A friends husband has had a transplant and 5 jabs and they barely go out.

Conversely, I have two colleagues one with mild asthma and one with "small lungs" who are both still paranoid about getting it - masks in meetings etc etc.

I'm more worried about Long Covid than Covid tbh.

Magnetic

thats so sad to read

my Nan literally walks with an oxygen tank 15 hrs a day due to emphysema

she’s had covid 2 x no issues and she walks around with canolas up her nose FT

Your friends reaction is surely ott? Even cancer patients are not advised to react like that

Immunosuppressed, five vaccines to date but was never advised to shield. I only went to the supermarket once a week in 2020 and WFH. I live ‘normally’ now as I feel the risk of serious illness is far less now.

My mum was on the shielding list, and is elderly and very immune compromised. She caught covid a couple of months ago, and was poorly but recovered faster than she did from her vaccines.

I shielded until I’d had my second jab, then stopped (steroids and immunosuppressive meds) as I work in schools so would have had to give up work. Back to normal now, I’ve had Covid twice and five vaccines.
Life is for living, I found shielding very very tough on my mental health.

I shielded throughout 2020, and gradually stopped in 2021, I got covid anyway and I caught it in hospital when I had numerous other health issues. I was so ill I basically don't remember having it.

I think one of the most dangerous aspects to this was that narrative above that 'if she catches covid it will kill her'

That is deeply irresponsible for someone to be told that because there is no way of knowing. I do wonder how many medics actually made comments like that to patients though because I suspect that a lot of people were not actually told this but have taken upon themselves to say that they were told this because it gives them justification to live a very limited life

Wasn’t on the original shielding list but got added to it due to treatment late 2020. Never properly shielded as continued shopping and meeting outside but avoided going to church or indoor gatherings at university. Stopped doing that around this time last year and just kept to places with open windows. No longer doing anything and have had Covid. Was given the anti viral treatment and it wasn’t any worse than a pretty bad cold.

I shielded during the first wave due to chemo although I and my consultants suspect covid caused my illness - autoimmune not cancer. I've had five jabs, everyone in the house apart from the smallest is jabbed and we've continued life since then. The ones at school managed not to get it even when at one point 24 in smallests class had it and I had numerous stays in a covid riddled hospital

Eldest tested positive this week - i think from a football match but who knows. He's pretty much stayed in his room (his choice) and we've provided meals and sanitised and no one else so far has it. (I'm glad cev still get free lfts) We have said he doesn't have to but he works from home anyway so it hasn't been a massive chore.

Life is too short....exist or live. an easy choice I would imagine.

Sort of.
Had Lymphoma last year and chemo was stopped part way as I caught COVID, was terrified and it fucked with my mental health as I isolated away from CEV husband, DC caught it too, they recovered within a week, I took about 3 weeks to recover.

Out the other side of chemo now and still careful, we'll go to movies but only the first showing of the day when it's likely to not be busy, only eat in pub gardens if we go out but I'll mask up if I go into a shop anywhere. We've had all our vaccinations too.

I work from home so large percentage of time I am naturally shielded but when I venture into higher risk public places I do wear a mask

I was on the shielding list from the start, have had 5 injections, immune surpressed etc.. impossible to shield with teenagers in the house, it arrived a few weeks ago, the inevitable happened and I caught it.

I was given the antivirals relatively promptly, followed by antibiotics and steroids. Three weeks later I'm almost back to feeling normal, didn't die (obviously) and if it wasn't for the secondary infections I would have been better within a week with the antivirals.

I'm not too keen to get it again though!

I just had chemo and on CEV list now and very careful but have spent a week in Cornwall in self catering and went out to open air things, on boats etc, three other similar weekends away before this year. A few lido trips. Other than that mainly indoors and away from people. Only had covid once but ended up in hospital.

I did shield for a good proportion of the first year but after that decided I needed to get out there. Unfortunately now I'm struggling with long covid but it is what it is and I can't regret living. It's rubbish though because it's made me terrified of getting it again 😢

My son only shielded after his chemo. We took the train to Birmingham for his post chemo check up. WBC count was back up and he hasn’t shielded since. He has had 3 jabs and wont have anymore.