Does anyone think about Covid anymore?

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Feels like measures have sort of.. disappeared. Virtually no precautions whatsoever anywhere these days , not even light measures

My CEV mum doesn’t even mention it or bother with a mask anymore.

It’s like it’s gone away but obviously it has not.

I would avoid a CEV person if I had any illness. Why would I bother to test if it was covid or not?
Same with work; if I'm ill I stay home. I don't want to spread my germs, Covid or otherwise.

No. Doesn’t enter my head now.

I see to test to visit my mam in her care home but they’ve stopped it as well now.

It's still doing the rounds, but appears to be very much milder than it was originally. I had a cold last week, as did my sister. Her and her husband both tested positive for COVID. I didnt do a test, but when I heard she had tested positive, I mentioned this to the friends I was going to meet. We still met, but at an outdoor venue not an indoor one.

Its not high on my list of concerns, but I don't want long COVID, or be responsible for causing it in someone else.

Still suffering from fatigue 4 months on, so, yeah...

You're fortunate if you haven't had this. I sense a lot of sneering on this thread about people who still think about Covid. I hate all you sneerers; I am ill and you want to pretend everything is fine now.

Not really. Might have had it the other week though. Coughing like a bugger and taste was a little off.

I'm sorry about your Nan. A relative of mine passed away last month and COVID is listed as a secondary cause of death. She too caught it in hospital but because of her general frailty and poor health was unable to fight off the COVID.

I know about 10 people who have Covid at the minute, no-one hospitalised but a few poorly in bed for days. Its on my mind because its being mentioned, but I don't worry about it.

I do wish I didn’t have to think about it.

I have no response to the covid vaccine, so I am still having to be really careful.

I don’t want to leave my DD13 without her mum. So I mask up, avoid indoor unventilated settings and am still WFH.

Clinically extremely vulnerable people are 7.5x more likely to die from covid. The inquiry agreed an interim report should be produced about the effects on the vulnerable. Over a hundred people are still dying a week from it. It isn’t over and I’m working to avoid becoming a sad statistic.

My household of three all had covid for the first time about three weeks ago. I'd not thought about it much for ages before then. Thankfully we've all recovered with no issues.

My dad died recently. We’ll never know but he may not have died if he hadn’t caught covid in hospital.

But covid restrictions also mean that he missed out on seeing his grandchildren in the final years of his life.

Yes, I wish I had the luxury of not thinking about it.

I'm CEV and immune suppressed. I have had it twice in the last 6 months and each time has left me bed bound for weeks. (And that's a lucky escape really as many with my condition are hospitalised)

I still test if I get symptoms because I need antivirals if I get it. I get sent free tests

But I need to work and my children need to go to school, so I guess repeat infections are inevitable now.

It seems hospital acquired COVID infections are still a major risk factor.

I've just had it and it knocked me off my feet for a week. Still coughing and short of breath. So whilst it doesn't scare me I definitely think it should be treated like any other unpleasant infectious illness such as flu or norovirus. It's not the sort of thing I'd want to pass on or catch, particularly for those who are vulnerable. so think we should try and avoid passing it on if possible.

I’m thinking about it today as have spent the day in bed feeling crap with it 🤒🤧

Not day to day. It doesn’t worry me any more than flu does. I wouldn’t test myself unless I was planning on visiting someone severely immunocompromised. Which currently I don’t, but I may in the future

@Newusernameaug

oh do behave!!

prople died, a LOT of people.

ridiculous, insensitive, stupid post.,

No

But wouldn't you cancel meeting up even if the test was negative? Surely whatever your DD has isn't something you'd want to pass to someone CEV.

Given the advice to still isolate if possible for 5 days, I'm always surprised when people I work with always test positive on Monday morning. Probably just a coincidence right?

I am still amazed we were so compliant, and did as we were told except my NDN who hosted a garden party on Good Friday in Lockdown 1.

I'm intrigued by the comment upthread by the poster involved in the Public Enquiry. I didn't know about that and will Google, unless she can say more?

Yeah, but only because I have to wear a mask for twelve hours a day at work.

I don't wear masks or distance to the extent I was. I still test if I have symptoms though, mainly because my mum and nan are both CEV & I don't want to pass anything on to them. I'm not sure my nan would survive another bout of it.

Yes, I have to think about it before visiting my CEV Mum in her care home so I've done a lot of tests and still test. I've somehow escaped it (touch wood) despite living and going out and about in London and having been in close proximity at home, at work and out socialising with people who were suffering or incubating it. Can only conclude I'm in the 20% or whatever it is who don't get symptoms.

I don't think about in that I'm relaxed about not masking and just going about my business.

I do think about it as I'm still fatigued from Covid a year ago, not as severely as some with Long Covid, but enough to just not have any oomph. I had about three/four terrible months and have got better but it would be nice to feel well rather than exhausted all the time.

I don't fancy getting it again as severely as last time but I'm not doing anything differently as I can't control the rest of the world and personally I prefer to take my chances and live the life I can right now, even knowing I risk post-Covid fatigue.

I am more concerned about my teenagers having repeat Covid infections than having repeated flu. It's a nasty and unpredictable disease, and there's quite a lot of evidence that many many people are now feeling bad, or having increased stroke risk, or having neurological or MH issues connected with Covid but may not realise they are due to that. So, long-term, I think the effects of Covid have yet to show if it's going to be an infection every year.

I never thought about it much even at the height of the pandemic, except in the sense that I wanted a vaccine found and for the restrictions to end. But I was never afraid of the virus as such.

Now, I don't give it a thought. Haven't done for well over a year.