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 think about it often. Especially about all those who have died senselessly or been permanently disabled by covid. My mother, who is not at all elderly and was in good health, had a stroke days 4 days into her mild covid as it caused an immune response that thickened her blood. She's now on anti-platelets for life.

That was last summer and it was thankfully a mild stroke, but she's now terrified to get covid again and has had to limit socialising indoors. I also know a number of people with long covid. They really should make more frequent boosters available to everyone as after 6 months they're just not as effective.

No. I don't think about it.

No

It completely depends on the circumsances.

My DP is having treatment for advanced cancer. I don't want him to get Covid and the drugs make him more vulnerable.

My father is in his late 90s and I don't want him to get it either.

My adult children test before they see us or their grandfather.

We avoid mass 'gathering' like crowded pubs o cafes, but will go into quiet ones.

Yes I do but not obsessively.
I never thought about it obsessively tbh.

I’m still suffering with long covid and the exhaustion that comes with it.

I also work in a school and we get 5 days off if we test positive because we have so many vulnerable students and so if someone is feeling poorly they test to rule it out.

We knew it would soon settle and it’ll soon be part of life but some people just went into full panic mode and thought we were going to be in lockdown forever.

I love thinking back to lockdown as it seems so unreal now.

There was a video of street cameras from around the world and every street is almost deserted.
I also re-watched tiger king and did a Joe wicks workout and it felt so weird.

Of course we do. But life has to go on. Yes, it's a bit of a worry - but Influenza, pneumonia to name but 2 are also life threatening in certain circumstances and for some people. But we got on with life before Covid and we need to do so again. For many vaccines have made a difference, treatments are better and individual risk has to be weighed for each of us. I am so sorry for those who are immunosuppressed, for those who can't have the vaccines etc, I really am, but in those circumstances ANY viruses are a problem.

For information my OH and I both have had Covid and I also had Pneumonia in 2016 which had me in the HDU of the Cardiac unit for a week. Living is a risk and Covid has been added to the risks - but we need to learn to live with it

Also, hopefully the research into long covid, will give answers and better treatment options for all those people suffering from post viral conditions.

My mum's in a care home and they've all just had covid last month. None of them were really ill but they all felt off and, for my mum, it contributed to other illnesses. Shes having her covid booster tomorrow. I obviously worry about her and my relative has leukaemia so I have to be thoughtful and aware around him too.
So I think about it a lot but I do live my life as normal, travelling in this country and abroad. I don't want to live in fear so I take sensible precautions and enjoy my life.

I had it during Christmas, but I don’t think about it to be honest. I just accepted it you might catch covid like cold now

For my own opinion, it is something I'll never forget. My child was just shy of a year old when lockdown started and her first birthday was sadly a very lonely one for us. She has speech and development delays that covid certainly won't have helped. Its a period in life I'd happily forget in all honesty as her dad had an affair breaking lockdown regulations and ran off too🙄 very little support for us in that time.

However, we have both had covid now and I'm aware and try to forget of how half her life was spent around masked people, all the experiences she missed, time missed away from family, many lives lost. Obviously you don't forget, but I don't fear covid as much now we have had it and I'm happy that she gets to see more of life as 'normal'. I would be happy to follow regulations for nervous people or appointments etc., but the rest I try not to think about.

Not really. I'm unvaccinated by choice and I've had Covid once last year (very mildly).
I get angry when I think how we were played so ridiculously.. the Government handled the situation terribly and have blood on their hands.

Dear Lord. It is now well recognised and evidenced that all the so-called "preventative measures" were a complete and utter waste of time. (With the exception of vaccination, of course). Worse, they caused untold damage to the economy, education, mental health, transport, hospitality, young people etc etc.
Why on earth are people even still thinking about this minor illness?

I think about the aftermath.

The cost, people's businesses, mental health, relationships that have have been destroyed due to lockdowns.

I think about how all the lies the media, the government have finally came out and how they've got away with frightening people with inaccurate bodged up statistics and death rates.

But covid itself? Nope

I have Long Covid these last 18 months so I hate Covid. Wasn't even confined to bed when ill. For some people it's life threatening and we still don't know who and why.

same as me. was absolutely knocked sideways with it after nothing for the last 3 years

Yes this is more likely to cross my mind

Yes I do but probably not in the way you mean.

My dad died in 2021 after catching it in hospital. He was only 68 I think about him and the way he died everyday.

I do, but I know people with compromised immune systems.

I do because I assess people with covid all day every day! I triage them for anti viral medication

I'm the same but I've never had it.

Yes - because I had it recently, ended up in hospital for a day, and only weeks later am actually feeling normal again. I have a planned weekend away next weekend and hoping I have enough energy for all we have planned.

I think about it regularly. There are a lot of things in my life that were affected by it e.g DD’s mental health. I also still do tests if I feel unwell and is supposed to meet vulnerable people or have medical appointments. I’ve actually done one today for the appointment tomorrow.

Yes, I work for a charity where we have CEV children and young people, we still temperature test and have outside visitors wear masks in our setting. Also my sister has Downs Syndrome and is CEV. She was hospitalised when she caught it with a secondary infection of pneumonia and developed sepsis.

No. Chucked all my masks out ages ago. No intentions of wearing one ever again unless forced to.

Yes I woke up with a sore throat in the night and also this morning and did a test. Negative so far.