Are people still nervous about covid?

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Have been away over the bank holiday weekend, stayed in a busy hotel in a major city. We were about to go into the lift, when a couple wouldn't let us in because they said 'we are very covid conscious'! They weren't wearing masks for context.

I see the odd person still mask wearing usually under their chin but am I naive in thinking most people are living without fear of dying of covid, or barricading themselves in lifts?

Me, too. They don't own the lift.

I agree that you can't look at official numbers now. They're completely meaningless.

I wouldn't be on a list as having had COVID last week but I am 99.9% sure I did (one of the symptoms was/is tinnitus and you don't get that with other, similar viruses).

I had covid in March, it was bad for a few days and the cough lingered for weeks (felt like my head was going to explode). Then I ended up in hospital in May with a ruptured appendix - the hospital I was in insisted on every visitor having a covid test. If I'd caught covid again I would have burst my stitches from coughing so yes, I was nervous about it.

Now I'm about to start chemo but realise this is my problem so I'll take the necessary precautions.

Well I wasn't but as of today I have it for the third time and feel like garbage.

No one is asking you to. If they don't feel comfortable sharing a lift then I'm not sure why you're giving so much headspace to figuring out why and why you feel its pointless? Perhaps they had covid and wanted to be mindful!

Yes, we are cautious. DH masks whenever he leaves the house. I am watching local rates and will return to masking if they raise from current levels.

DH is extremely vulnerable to Covid and other viruses. We have always had to be careful, even before the pandemic

No and I had severe cornophobia for a long time

I had it for first this year and was ok.

Another lockdown would push me too far mentally I think. It's time to get on with it.

Although, I have noticed more people wearing masks this week

What is cornophobia please? Google has it as "fear of corn".

Pmsl!! Coronaphobia 🤣

Usually unless it's the papers broadcasting it, !most people don't think much of it, a few people I know still do think of it.

I know of 5 pp who have had Covid. recently, and they've been quite ill with it. If you are clinically vulnerable, it must be worrying to think it's coming back. I don't judge anyone who wants to take precautions, I just hope to God we don't end up in another lockdown, because I think it would polarize pp even more than they already are, and also I don't think I could go through that again!

I have Covid at the moment (had it at least once before) and it's been absolutely awful, mich worse than when I had it a year ago! Now that I am in the thick of it I don't blame people for taking precautions to try to avoid it, especially with rising cases.

It's the way some people still talk about covid like it's March 2020. They need to move on with their lives. People bleating on about how 'covid isn't gone" and "new variants" and "rising cases". Every year there is a rise in flu cases and winter vomiting bugs. We accept it for what it is and do what we can do avoid getting unwell without drama. Why is covid any different at this stage?

It is one of many diseases and respiratory illnesses.

It has a vaccine to provide some protection, just like many other illnesses.

It is, for most people, a mild illness with no lasting effects

Medically vulnerable people can and should do what they feel is necessary to lower their chance of catching any illness, not just covid.

No and i definitely wouldn't let anyone stop me getting in a lift, unless of course its maximum capacity had been reached. But for their reasoning no! I would just step in.

If they were so worried they should have used the stairs.

Out you get then!
They're welcome to be covid conscious but not on my time.

🙄

Did this couple ask you to put yourself into lockdown?

Or did you just need to wait a few seconds for another lift?

I think caring enough to post about it is far more hysterical than them wanting to ride the lift alone.

As PPs have said, you don't know their circumstances.

@SunRainStorm that comment was part of the wider discussion, taken out of context. My original post was the actual question, and I did (as explained) not do anything other than let them get on with their day. It just seemed out of place in a very busy hotel.

They also did not state they had covid, which is a bit of a leap to make from stating 'we are very covid conscious' 🙄

Bloody hope not. I've worked every day of every week (bar a holiday) since Covid and not made a penny. If this happens again my business will go under immediately as I'm only still paying back all the debt my business got in back then. Another year of this and I'll get back in the black but all it will take is a week of closure and I'm out

I am. I had it in March and it totally floored me for a month. Don't particularly want to spend another month unable to work or leave the house.
I also know a few people with long Covid, their lives are basically ruined. I don't want that either.

Having said that, I've accepted the risks and there's no way I'd be asking people not to get it in a lift.

No I’m not worried about covid. I completely understand it has impacted people’s lives for those who had it. No one in my family has been ill with it though so I feel less at risk.

I still have PTSD from how I was treated giving birth during lockdown so for the sake of my mental health, I make things as normal as possible.

I’m pregnant again and the sonographer asked me if I would wear a paper towel over my face when I explained about my PTSD. I called afterwards to complain.

I know a guy who was still getting hot flushes and palpitations a year after getting covid early in 2020. He's much improved now thank goodness.

But he has become an antivaxxer - despite being unvaccinated when he got sick. While researching long covid he fell down the rabbit hole. Nice chap though , always bombards me with videos about diet and vitamin D.

I suppose what I'm saying is : there's nowt so rum as folk.

"Another lockdown would push me too far mentally I think. It's time to get on with it."

No-one's talking about potential lockdowns except the OP.

What evidence does this NHS medical professional have that there might be further "lockdowns"? This is a strange thread.

@paradoxicalfrog I was responding to the thread content. My original OP made no mention of lockdowns, and I have referred to them once