To ask regarding COVID - what does 'we just have to live with it' look like in real life?

[Fay2121]

I keep hearing the phrase.

What is the reality of 'we just have to live with it'.

You know how we "live with" colds and flu? Like that.

As above - like all the other viral illnesses.

I mean aren’t you bored of it yet? Come over to the dark side where there are other topics of conversation.

What's your reality of living with it? Mine is as previous posters

Teachers with no access to LFTs unless they pay for them out of their own pockets, coming to work with a temperature and flu symptoms, battling through 10-12 hours of a highly stressful day because apparently it doesn't spread in schools, only hospitals and prisons

"You know how we "live with" colds and flu? Like that"

It's more like a pneumonia and in some cases TB. But yes, while we know its effect on public health, there is no alternative.

You catch a virus, you feel a bit ill for a few days and when you feel better you go back to school or work. Like you did all your life, prior to 2020.

Wish it was just live with it.
Adult dc in care home, and fucking coviid is still running our lives.

We live with all kinds of illness/disease. We don't take extraordinary public health measures to deal with the rest of them.

Our household is just going through it for the third time since the academic year began. Each time I’ve had it, it has wiped me out. The children have varied between asymptomatic and now being under the long covid clinic.

I’ve now had it twice this year alone. I’m mid forties and that’s more times than I’ve had flu in my entire life. I’m triple vaccinated and still wear masks in crowded spaces, as well as work from home. I agree we have to move on and live as normally as possible but I really don’t want the last six months on repeat forever.

Is this a trick question? It just means go about your life as we did pre-2020. And if you get an illness that incapacitates you then lie down unless and until you feel able to get up again.

Yes, good to hear that some are treating it like a cold or flu.

I suppose I was thinking about it based on the news this morning of over a 100 flights cancelled as the airline have too much staff illness and not enough time to get new staff security checked to replace them.

Airlines don't usually cancel a 100 flights because staff have a cold.

Airlines don't usually cancel a 100 flights because staff have a cold.

But we'll live with it!

You catch a virus, you feel a bit ill for a few days and when you feel better you go back to school or work. Like you did all your life, prior to 2020

This. I'm genuinely not being facetious to say that I don't know a single person to have been more than run of the mill unwell with it (three chilrdren different schools, both sides of family, DHs colleagues, friends, neighbours etc). I can't think of anyone we know who hadn't had it yet at least once, and no one has been badly ill.

Yes, of course, some unlucky people are more seriously ill, but life has to go back to normal eventually. Vaccines are here. Mortality rates are low. Everyone who says life shouldn't be back to normal, when exactly will you be comfortable returning to normal? What else is going to change?

@LardyDee

Airlines don't usually cancel a 100 flights because staff have a cold.

But we'll live with it!

That's what I'm trying to find out, I wasn't affected by a cancelled flight for my much anticipated holiday, but 1000's have been.

I feel really sorry for them, imagine the kids....

Well, that’s living with it, in some respects, isn’t it? Living with it means dealing with it, acknowledging that it circulates and that sometimes people are going to get ill and take time off work.

Living with it doesn’t mean ‘no one will ever get ill again’.

@Fay2121

Yes, good to hear that some are treating it like a cold or flu.

I suppose I was thinking about it based on the news this morning of over a 100 flights cancelled as the airline have too much staff illness and not enough time to get new staff security checked to replace them.

Airlines don't usually cancel a 100 flights because staff have a cold.

I think the difference is that with a cold, usually most people are well enough to work. Some people with covid are well enough but others aren’t and those who aren’t, might not be well enough for several days (or even longer). Covid (omicron in particular) is much more infectious than a cold or flu so more people are catching it. That’s why airlines (and trains etc) are cancelled.

My life is complete and utterly normal
Same with my children

It’s bloody amazing

I'd be interested to know if businesses who are shutting because of cases are still testing and requiring staff to stay home if positive, even if outwardly well.

*My life is complete and utterly normal
Same with my children

It’s bloody amazing*

Yes, same here

Living with it like this will mean it will spread really quickly. People will go onto work if they are unwell if they can.

I've not been able to move for 7 days ...

What do you think we should be doing OP?

@Invasionofthegutsnatchers

Teachers with no access to LFTs unless they pay for them out of their own pockets, coming to work with a temperature and flu symptoms, battling through 10-12 hours of a highly stressful day because apparently it doesn't spread in schools, only hospitals and prisons

Surely if unwell they phone in sick. Teachers get sick pay. There's no need for them to work when unwell.

More staff absence, more child school absences, more people with long term medical issues.
Not just more than there used to be before 2020, but also more than there needs to be now, because of a lack of willingness to take any of the simple measures available to reduce transmission.

Try working in a school and then say we're living with it effectively. It is chaos. So many teachers off unwell that we are again having to send year groups home.

I'm genuinely surprised by how high Englands rate continues to be when you don't have to test nor isolate. Are people still routinely testing, not including those who must for work (nhs) etc?