Do you think it is possible to not catch Covid 19 and last out until a vaccine?

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Assuming that you are not shielding or not leaving the house, do you think it is possible to get through the next X number of months without catching it or are you resigned to it being inevitable?

With a school age child and working in a school, I think it’s inevitable for me.

I don’t worry about it though.

Hoping so but depends if dS gets it at school.

Hopefully I can, me and DP (who's working from home) are pretty much stay-at-homes.

Yes it does depend what you do for a living of course - I do work with the public but in theory socially distancing, but then there are numerous door handles to navigate for example.

Obviously depends too on how soon a vaccine is available to us ordinary folk - I am not a priority.

I’m expecting to get it over the winter at some point. I hope we don’t but with kids at primary and secondary and myself working in a school, I think it’s unlikely that we will get away with it.

I think we’ve already had it in March.

Well I seem to have never caught the flu in the last thirty seven years so I remain hopeful.

I hope so. I thought I'd read that door handles and the likes aren't a bif2route of transmission (not so many fomites) it's airborne, so it's proximity to infectious people who breathe, cough, sneeze in you. Or you walk into a cloud of their sneeze.

Yes. Cases are rising but the overall % of people catching it is still tiny.

I'd like to hope so, but I have two school children and a husband who is a hospital consultant.

Teacher here in Ireland. Already got two covid close contact alerts ( which means being tested) but told as we wear masks at school we ate immune.

Hopefully, as I work in a care home.

Yes door handles are obviously not as much risk as f2f with an infected person or a big cough nearby - particularly if you wash hands/sanitise after opening them.

I hope all the shielders can avoid it as much as possible.

I'm going out a bit, but limiting where I go and being cautious. Am reasonably optimistic, but realistic I could pick it up on an essential trip to the doctor's or somesuch.

But still worth reducing risk where possible I think!

Or you walk into a cloud of their sneeze.

This is gross, covid or no covid

No, two people I know have had it. One who is a bit of an isolate anyway, he only went to the shops and to get petrol.
The other is a stay at home mum, who’s DH works from home, again only doing the school run, no shopping.
I think everyone will be exposed to it, but some will have natural immunity.

If the anti body tests are an accurate guide to who has been infected it must be easy not to catch it. Daughter is a hospital Dr, worked in a busy general hospital throughout including treating patients who subsequently tested positive and she had a negative ab test a couple of months ago. She lives with us and we haven’t been ill either. DIL a primary teacher in school teaching key worker and vulnerable children part time and back in full time now also hasn’t been ill. Husband ftf teaching postgrad students since June also hasn’t had it as far as we know. I think there must be other factors in play or it can’t be as infectious as they say.

Yes, but dodging the bullet will be much easier for anti-social people who WFH and don’t have contact with children or students.

I’m hoping to be one of them...

If everyone were to catch it, and the nhs was to remain fully functional, then it would take ten years to cover everyone...I am hoping for vaccine and treatments well before then !

DH worked outside the home throughout lockdown. Unless we had it before March, we haven't had it to our knowledge. (Like many people, we did have a a Covid like illness last Winter).

I don't think it's inevitable. The numbers are actually quite small. In our area it's something like 25people per 100,000 in a week.

Of course it's possible. I will be quite surprised if I catch it myself. If people follow the rules and wear masks, etc etc I think most of us will escape it.

I barely go anywhere other than for walks in the countryside with the DC's but with all of them at school I think it's inevitable. I also have an underlying condition so feel this awful sense of complete dread 24 hours a day.

I have one child at school, one in nursery on a hospital site where about 70% of the children have at least one parent who works in the hospital (as DH does). I'm going to be spending this Saturday interacting with hundreds of international students.

I suppose that means we have a higher risk of catching it than some others. I still don't think it's inevitable. I would be surprised if I did really. But I never really catch anything so my opinion is a bit skewed.

I think there's a reasonable chance of not getting it, I haven't so far! I'm not particularly concerned if I do, it's one of those things.