To wonder why Covid is so rampant atm?

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As title really, I know so many people that have it at the moment and cases are really high here, which is odd as we've had nothing but glorious sunshine here for the last couple of months really.

I thought it was a bit more dormant in the summer, especially if people are outside more in terms of bars/ restaurants etc which they certainly have been here due to the weather. Is it because the children haven't broken up yet I wonder?

Are cases high in your area atm?

I'm not going anywhere with it. I can't even get out of bed! It is no joke.

If you had just waited a minute you would have seen my apology below your post. No need for the swearing at me though.

I have contacted mumsnet to remove my post as I had read it wrong.

There's a whole COVID board on here.

People are still catching it outdoors. Parties and festivals are like germ soup.

As others have said, people don't care. They're encouraging others to go to parties, on flights etc whilst positive.

Most aren't testing too so are ignoring symptoms or telling everyone they have hayfever.

Makes you wonder if our vaccines did anything at all

An absolutely sterling job in preventing serious illness, saving millions of lives.

Most of my friends have never tested positive- us included although we think we had it early doors.
This seems to mean that some people must be getting it multiple times and that having had it before doesn't provide any immunity. But death rates and hospitalisation rates are not a cause for concern, so nor should we be overly worried about the high volume of cases.

Nope nothing, that's why we're all still in lockdown, furloughing people and wearing masks for our daily trip to Asda. Oh wait...

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"Makes you wonder if our vaccines did anything at all...."

We'd have overrun hospitals and high death rates without the vaccines.

My adult DD had it in March and has just got it again. She's mixed and had my GC overnight but they haven't, luckily. Two of my other DD's work in hospitals and they are seeing younger patients in for surgery who thought they'd had mild Covid, but have needed greater oxygen support post recovery, which has meant an extra day admission, because they've got slight lung damage, even though they didn't feel particularly Ill with Covid. Covid often makes the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer's much worse. It's the effect on the brain that is starting worry researchers.

Don't be ridiculous! People aren't getting very ill and dying as much but the vaccine never claimed to stop transmission. Plus most of us had our boosters by November so weakening by now I'd assume.

And?
There are boards about step-parenting, pets, christmas, education, work etc. Some posters decide they'd like a wider audience in order to seek opinion.

We mixed indoors over the Jubilee weekend (spent a lot if time outdoors too). DH caught it that weekend - and he wasn't the only one that did from the venue we were at. Then DS & I both tested positive 3 days after DH so inspite of our best efforts to avoid him it was too late as he'd clearly infected us the day before his positive test.
We were due to go on holiday (UK) and could still have gone but we chose to do the responsible thing and not risk infecting anyone else - so we stayed at home. DS worked from home (his office policy requires him to stay away from the office for 5 days).
Tbh none of us were really ill and pre covid would have gone to work with the mild symptoms we had.
But everywhere you look life is back to normal. Hardly a mask in evidence. So not really surprising that it is spreading. But for most people now it is fortunately a very mild illness.

It's rampant because everyone has stopped taking precautions against it. The whole country is now living life as if Covid no longer exists. But it does, so infection rates are soaring, as you'd expect.

This, unfortunately.

People are fed up of restrictions, starting to go back to public transport, live entertainment and no one gives a sod.

LFTs have to be paid for if you're not clinically vulnerable or patient facing and PCR tests facilities are winding down.

Cases are high where I am right now (London).

I just had it for the third time in 7 months. Every time I have had it it has taken me about 12 weeks to stop feeling hugely fatigued, having heart palpitations and brain fog - and every time I have got it again almost immediately after I start feeling better. I am very frustrated.

It is impossible to avoid as I have primary school age children. I don’t want to be stuck in this cycle forever.

Makes you wonder if our vaccines did anything at all

Of course they did. If we hadn't had the vaccine, the situation would be infinitely worse. The vaccine greatly reduces the chances of catching Covid - it doesn't eliminate it. It also tends to reduce the severity of the symptoms. A lot of people who would have been extremely ill pre-vaccine got away with either mild symptoms or no symptoms, which is hugely valuable.

Thank you.

I think there’s the answer. If people are able to ignore symptoms or pretend it’s hayfever then we’re clearly at a point where we should be carrying on as normal. If it was a very serious illness then it would be impossible to do that.

Harry styles concert in Manchester last week!

No, you plank. Thats how she caught it. She didn't go there with it.

Course the vaccines are working…. to a point. Very few in ICU and we are seeing more cases in hospital currently so it’s obviously spreading again. They weren’t even made for this variant but still seem to be holding up against serious illness for most which is amazing. Covid is changing quickly all the time so eventually vaccines possibly won’t work at all and may need tweaking again.

I haven’t had covid and I work with it in hospital and have been around people in close unmasked contact who later were positive and never caught it. Is that the vaccine or my own immune system? Who knows. But I’ll be having my booster if us NHS staff get one in autumn.

Covid isn’t going away but it’s not seasonal like flu and will continue all year round and can do some damage long term even with ‘ mild’. so I’m not sure the repeat infections and wave after wave will do us any good for our future health. Unsure what the answer is though. Maybe better ventilation in schools/hospitals for a start. Proper research, long covid support and planned vaccination schedules. But for now everyone’s just pretending it’s turned into a cold and all is good and normal.

Day 6, first time I’ve had it. CEV. Feel rubbish!
I suspect have picked it up from lovely dog Walker who is also a teacher.

Don't be ridiculous! People aren't getting very ill and dying as much but the vaccine never claimed to stop transmission.

At the start of the vaccines, this very much was the claim.

Didn't last long though.

They have undoubtedly prevented lots of vulnerable people ending up in hospital, but don't appear to have had much of an effect on people getting it. I had it last August, six weeks after my second jab and felt crap for a few weeks then made a full recovery. I fully expect to get it again this summer because we're in another wave, and I am fully socialising. What I'm not going to do is hide from it, and I don't see any good in me getting continually jabbed to "protect others" either. Fair enough if it did actually protect others, but people still get it anyway, so they can get themselves jabbed.

And if you had read the entire thread "you plank" you would have seen that I sincerely apologised as soon as I was made aware that I had read it wrong.

I had covid over Easter, the only symptom i had was a dry tickly throat at night. Was shocked to have a positive result

Since then I have had continued bugs an issues - currently battling a nasty chest infection, have had thrush twice, gallbladder issues out of the blue....could be a coincidence but I was that annoying person who got one cold a year and that was me done, this isnt normal for me.

Infection rates are far, far higher than March 2020 and January 2021, and yet deaths are not over 1000 a day, or anywhere close. You rarely hear of young, health people dying of Covid anymore - it's killing people who were, sadly, likely to die of any nasty virus they picked up and whose bodies are at a point where they can't fight it. That's what vaccines did.