Are you still worried?

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It seems as though Mumsnet has calmed down since people were being told they were murderers a couple of months ago.

I’m cautious. I don’t know if CV is going away and things will return to the old normal or if it will come back with a vengeance in autumn.

Not worried at all. Never was.
Still following all the guidance but I think being a teacher has has helped as I was going out to work on the rota all the way through.
I actually feel less at risk in September as my class is the same 27 children each day, during the closure we have had up to 42 keyworker children ( before wider opening limited groups to 15) some different each day.

There were a lot of mixed messages and worry back in the day, along with schools being closed, furloughing, and and lockdown. No wonder people were concerned confused and worried, and expressed it here.

I am concerned about complacency now. But we shall see if the numbers increase with international travel through the allowed zones.

Travel brought it all around the world in a matter of weeks. That is my concern now.

I'm still worried but not enough to stay home. I have been out and non some non essential outings. Unless I really need something it's not worth the stress of getting something wrong by mistake.

I think we will be living with this for years so I don't know how willing I am to curtail eating out, shopping etc for years. So infrequently doing normal stuff is better than feeling miserable

My peak 'worried' was as schools shut. I'm a teacher and we felt like the orchestra on the titanic playing as the ship sank. Staff were going off ill, less and less kids attending. Coming home, feeling under the weather myself, just unnerved me. When they announced the cancelling of GCSE and A Levels I began sobbing. It felt like a dystopian horror film. It was a month before I left a 2 mile perimeter of my house, had all shopping delivered and just went into a bubble.
After that I went into work and realised the world was still turning. We were past the peak and I calmed down to normal levels then.

Now I have to remind myself to be cautious as things are going back to normal ish very swiftly.

I think people need to remain cautious but at the same time you have to live your life. I have been terrified about getting it but then I tested positive last Saturday. No idea where it came from, it is most definitely still out there. I have been fine for months and then managed to catch it somehow.

I think eventually most people will probably get it, unless they find a vaccine. This is something we will have to live with. There is no way to eradicate it and many people get mild symptoms; they may not even know they have it. Things have to open up again and it will be up to the individual whether or not they take the risk. I really feel for those who are shielding and the elderly

@WinterAndRoughWeather where did you get the info that very few are going into ICU? It would be really good to hear that.

I should probably be more worried that I am (BMI 40). But I’m going out and about, a lot. Basically taking advantage of the low virus rates in the community - I won’t be out and about in he winter when all the bugs are doing the rounds.

Currently more frightened about next years GCSE’s and the proposal to not remove any of the course content (so kids somehow have to make up 14 weeks missed work in about 3).

Keep an eye on international travel. That's where it all started to migrate all around the world within weeks.

Are there quarantine restrictions in all our airports and ports for arrivals from those countries outside the agreed zones? I very much doubt it. Are arrivals from non agreed zones barred or stopped? I doubt it.

Watch this space. And the reopening of pubs and everything.

I know we can't stop things reopening, but a bit of common sense, a mask, SD and so on would help, but the message is lost on many now.

So there will be the cautious, and the devil may care. Wonder what the outcome will be?

Yes, I still have blood cancer.

So I remain concerned

Biggest peeve is that people don’t keep 2m from strangers, even when there is adequate space. It’s only been 3 or 4 weeks since the advice against daily outdoors exercise was eased for us, but now it’s difficult to remain at a safe distance,

I'm not scared of Covid but I'm fucking terrified of the "new normal".

And of spiralling into depression and anxiety because of it.

I was terrified at the start of lockdown. Got furloughed and hibernated. Going back to work made me face up to normality again and I am careful but not worried anymore. Glad I calmed down, it wasn't a way to live.

Have never been worried about the virus. Extremely worried about the economy. This is going to be one big shit storm.

Yes I'm worried but not just about the virus. I'm worried about autumn and winter the kids returning to school only to be sent home with a sniffle. These last few months have been torture on the brain due to my husband being diagnosed with skin cancer thankfully he was treated and now been given the all clear. My mil is basically dying and being nursed by us at home and not receiving the medical attention she requires.
I'm worried about my children's mental health and they're future. We lost a family friend to covid at 34yrs of age so we are still being cautious as we have to be.

I'm not the nervous wreck I was in March and April but I'm still worried. I'll go to the odd shop this month but I'm still lying low and avoiding mixing with people.
I certainly won't be going back to the gym for a long time yet. And I love my gym classes. I think I'll feel better by next Easter.

I am cautious and won't be going back to the gym for a while yet, however, i have a friend who works in a massage parlour (brothel) and she says they will be opening from next week... she says she won't be going back until there is a vaccine but there are lots who will.

I was terrified at the beginning of lockdown. I'm no longer very fearful of the virus but am struggling to cope with normality again. I found the lockdown very hard to deal with. I've lost my job and my future is uncertain. For the first time in my life I've contemplated whether my life is worth living.

4 months of fucking staying at home with 2 very autistic teens with no support and a wfh husband and I'm just bloody pissed off with it all.

@Lemons1571

Here’s a Reuter’s article from a couple of weeks ago that sums up some of it:
www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lessons-special-re/special-report-as-world-approaches-10-million-coronavirus-cases-doctors-see-hope-in-new-treatments-idUSKBN23X1I5

Tl:dr - even in the US where infection rates are increasing, death rates are falling as doctors have found (and are still finding) ways to treat it successfully, particularly intervening before people need to go on to ventilators. You can find articles from the various European news organisations that paint a similar picture here.

Worldwide, doctors are more confident there are ways to cope well with any second waves.

I was absolutely erratic at the start of this: totally obsessed watching too much media. Anxious, not sleeping well (I am generally not an anxious person- I have no idea what happened to me mentally)

Middle bit of lockdown went back to my usual self- happy, make the best of situations etc etc.

Now- started waking up again in the night 3am onwards in the past couple of days. So I'm tired, bad tempered, want to throw home school out of the window, have sky news constantly rolling in the front room so i know what's going on. Not healthy and I am starting to feel like I did at the beginning of all of this!

I've never felt worried for myself or anyone in my household, we aren't in any risk groups. I'm a little worried for my DM, who has some medical conditions, but she's being very cautious. I've been going out every day to parks or riverside walks, and recently to places like playgrounds and zoos as soon as we've been able to. I'm looking forward to museums and pools opening again.

I’m a little worried about covid but I’m much more worried about the long term effects of lockdown, especially if we have further widespread lockdowns.

My peak 'worried' was as schools shut. I'm a teacher and we felt like the orchestra on the titanic playing as the ship sank.

That's exactly how it felt.

I'm worried about returning to secondary teaching under these conditions. I saw something today about the virus being airborne and I'm terrified. So yeah, I'm scared. If we could continue to be as we were a few weeks ago then I'd feel safer, but it isn't any way to live if it isn't necessary.

I just want to keep my family safe at home.