VE Day spike

[stuckindoors77]

Today is two weeks since the VE Day celebrations which seem to have got quite out of hand (from accounts on here, Facebook and in the news) are people still expecting there to be a spike in the numbers of cases today? If the predicted spike doesn't come do you think that will have an impact on the next lockdown easing move?

I'm really crossing my fingers for no sudden spike (numbers have been better all week) and that will eventually mean small groups are allowed to meet out of doors.

What do you think?

@Oblomov20 I'm exactly the same. I hardly ever get ill. I've had mild colds in the past, had a sickness bug last year which was the first one I've had since I was a kid and only lasted a day. I've never had anything more serious than that. DS is the same and has never had a day off school through illness.

We've been fairly lax throughout the lockdown. We go out every day, aren't militant about social distancing, don't wear masks or gloves at the shops, don't wipe shopping or quarantine anything and don't wash our hands any more often than we usually do. No signs of the virus yet from either of us.

Then I read about people who have caught it and they haven't been out at all since lockdown. Are some people just more susceptible to viruses than others?

I suspect if DS or I catch it we will have it mildly or be asymptomatic. Not a guarantee but we just don't seem to catch anything even when we've been around other people who are ill.

WaxOn, love the user name. We are the same.
Actually, I'm even worse, don't wash hands that often, pick up and carrot off the floor and put it in the pot for steaming, when prepping food, if anything falls on the floor I don't give it a second thought.

So, when am I going to get covid?

Isn't now the best time to get it?

Sometimes I think I just want to catch it and bloody get it over with. My mum has had it and she was moderately ill but has recovered fine so that has put my mind at ease a bit.

Not everyone is going to catch covid.
The indications from London is that it might start to burn out once 15-20% of the population has antibodies. But we'll know more over the next few weeks, as more people go back to work and use public transport.

Yes, there is likely to be a spike. But you won't see it yet as too soon - there is a large time lag in results from testing as well which you haven't figured in.

The spike will only be visible some weeks in retrospect.

I’m not sure VE Day celebrations can be blamed for the next spike tbh. Many people celebrated VE Day with appropriate social distancing. Of course SOME people had to go overboard.

There are way too many pics of people blatantly disregarding social distancing guidelines at parks, beaches, cycle tracks etc to pin a surge of CV on VE Day celebrations.

After reading the posts on this site it seems people are happy to flout “The Rules”.