When will people be happy to start living with the risk of catching Coronavirus?

[wakeupitsabeautifulmorning]

Considering there possibly won't be a vaccination for quite some time, if at all, but things are going to have to start returning to normal for the sake of everything else - economy, education, other health issues etc. There is currently so much opposition to easing out of lockdown, people will have to get back to work and schools cannot be part time for years (childcare issues plus the massive impact on disadvantaged dc, plus the dc not engaging in home learning). Spoke to a few people today who are horrified at the thought of a return to normal as they are frightened of catching the virus. I was a bit surprised a they were under 35 with dc (no known health problems). It's like they think it's just going to miraculously vanish.

Besmirched
“have already spent 2 yrs scared shitless that cancer will come back and take me away from my 6 and 9 yr old boys. Can you imagine how I feel now?”

I think that you must be utterly terrified. You have my upmost sympathy.

Utmost

Went back to work, doing school runs and started meeting friends and have just accepted it now. Totally different feeling to being quarantined at home for 10 weeks. Especially the school runs!

Now.
I think the govt need to be frank with us about where new infections are occurring, that will help us properly risk assess how likely we are to come into contact with anyone who has it.
Lockdown was to flatten the curve. And we have. Now we need to concentrate on getting things moving again and protecting those who need it.
I controversially think that we are heading into the area where the cure will be worse than the virus.

I have now this week. As has my sister, her best friend, and my best friend.

now!!!

We've been getting on with it.
Using caution, risk assessment, and hope to counteract fear.
Also steering clear of some very, very anxious friends and relatives.
So far, so good.

@Bsmirched that must be incredibly hard. So much to consider, I really don't know what I would do.

@wakeupitsabeautifulmorning

It's the school thing that's annoying me the most. The current home learning is unsustainable but I can't see Unions allowing teachers back in any way to enable normal education to resume. It's incredibly worrying.

I'm a teacher, I've been in school just fine. It's not really the unions preventing teachers from going back, many teachers have been in the whole time and are back full-time now, teaching bubbles according to the Government guidelines about which year groups they've chosen to send back in.

When the Government decide to send all year groups back, teachers will be there unless they have a medical reason not to, just like all other workers in England. But the Government won't choose to send back all year groups to schools as normal just yet, because they're still telling schools to social distance, just like the rest of the country is doing.

I do worry about the virus, but I think that's fear of the unknown mixed in with worry about my DH, who suffers from anxiety and wouldn't cope if I were to even get sick enough to be in bed for a few days. We'd have to get my parents involved and they're in the older category. So I just do what I can with lots of handwashing and anti-bac and showering when I get in from work. Hopefully, after more restrictions are relaxed I'll be able to relax too.

I'd have been happy weeks ago. I'm prepared to catch it, think that's it's best if I do get it sooner rather than later.

I'm on the extremely vulnerable list and sometimes I think I should just go out and catch it so I'll either live or die and my family can get on as normal.

Well they'd have to work out whose pants and socks are theirs all on their own...

But then people on here would say that's selfish because the ventilators should be free for fit people.

Or they say it's all the shielders' fault that the country had lockdown.

Either way I'm a selfish cow for having a rare disease.

But hey it's not every day you get a free Fray Benton pie and chicken meatballs delivered to your door.

Mustn't grumble.

I think the govt need to be frank with us about where new infections are occurring

^absolutely, I don’t believe that they don’t have that data. There are been many comments from about the epidemic in care homes (& hospitals) driving the R rate & Neil Ferguson said that community cases are spilling out of care homes (I assume from residents to carers then their families etc). I think we have a right to know where the risks lie.

Now . As a key worker nothing really changed for me anyway .

I'm ready now, have been for about 3/4 weeks.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Now. I think the govt need to be frank with us about where new infections are occurring, that will help us properly risk assess how likely we are to come into contact with anyone who has it. Lockdown was to flatten the curve. And we have. Now we need to concentrate on getting things moving again and protecting those who need it. I controversially think that we are heading into the area where the cure will be worse than the virus.

This!

We're finding out more about this virus all the time. I'll probably feel happier when:

• we know a lot more about it and how to treat it
• we know how to pinpoint from an early stage which cases will turn serious
• we know more about the long-term effects (hopefully that it's not like dengue fever where a second infection is more dangerous)
• levels of infection are generally lower and testing and tracking is working well (so I can get a good idea of how likely I actually am to run across someone infectious in my local area, and whether or not my local hospital has capacity)

On top of that, there are all the personal factors like what the costs/benefits are for me personally in avoiding a situation in order to avoid covid, and what my personal health is like.

We all accept a risk of car accidents when we drive, but that doesn't mean we're going to be happy getting into a car with dodgy brakes. So we accept a baseline risk of being in a car accident but not an infinite risk - we want it to be as low as possible. It's the same with this.

I have had enough; I am moving into a very deep depression now. I can not have DC here full time any more. I can't have noise around me every second I am awake. I need to go back to normality for my mental health, for my marriage.

The risk to my family is so small. Get the kids back to school now. I am so worried fo their mental state and their education.

I need to go back to work. I am fucking over it.

I think schools should fully open from September and those parents who are shielding and don't want their kids to attend should be able to home school but those who do should be able to access ft education again. This is not fair on the kids long term.

I wasn't particularly worried about myself, but my 17 year old dd has severe asthma. I do worry about her. I was willing to allow her to begin to go out a bit until today. I live in an area which has just announced the highest number of new COVID cases in hospitals since mid April. It's also been going back up daily for the last 2 weeks. I want to keep her close to me until we know whether this is a blip or a new trend

Since a few weeks back, I accept I will die one day and if it's this virus, old age, disease, accident it's going to happen and so I prefer to enjoy my life to the fullest everyday I can as you never know.

Infact only two weeks back I was driving, exiting from the roundabout and a car was overtaking a driver in a 2 lane road. Had it not been for a quick reaction he would have hit me head on and he was going very fast. It would of been nasty.

I cycle alot and amount of times I've come close to being hit...

I guess all this gives me a different perspective on how I view it.

Re schools, every single member of staff in my primary school is back doing their full hours, so I think it's unfair to say unions are blocking this. The guidance precludes us from admitting any more year groups. I'm happy to be back but appreciate I'm fortunate to be young, a healthy weight, not pregnant etc. At least half the children have mentioned spending time with people outside their families in the past few weeks (things like getting hair cuts, not socially distanced)...

Now

Now, right this minute!

Now!

Now.