Anyone past caring if they get this wretched virus anymore?

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I don't want to catch it and will follow all rules, but i'm thoroughly beaten down by it all now. Day after day, week after week, month after month with nothing to look forward to and nothing but misery, death and destruction everywhere on the news.

When things eventually open up a bit, hopefully not long after Easter, i'm going to live my live again as much as I can this summer, even if it means I might get the virus. I want to see my elderly relatives once they've had the second vaccine dose. A foreign holiday is out of the question this year and even concerts and festivals are a pipe dream at the moment, but something simple like a drink in a pub feels like paradise.

I may not get the vaccine until late summer or Autumn, but i'm not just going to write off another summer, when we'll be in for another grim winter (at least weather wise).

This isn't living.

I don’t care, but then I think we had it as a family in March last year. Me, dh and mil all ill with classic symptoms, kids no symptoms. Was rife in this area at the time but no testing. Dh tested for antibodies at work a few months later and was positive. Kids will have missed 9m of the last 12m of school for what??

Definitely not!

I still have leukaemia, people with blood cancers still have some of the very poorest outcomes

Yes, I’m thoroughly sick of the limits of shielding (I dream of having ‘only’ lockdown restrictions)

But yes, the upshot of dealing with all that for 11 months and not having an end in sight is that I am living

Too many have died

I don’t want to see that figure keep rising. I know it will, but by the fewer the better

And yes, lockdown life is still life for living

Desperate to avoid it here
a) I wouldn't want to pass it on to 10 year old ds who is medically vulnerable.
b) I need to be well to care for ds.

We have been shielding ds for nearly the whole year, it has not been an easy year, but we have made it as good as we possibly can, and will go on doing the best we possibly can.

Dh and I will get the vaccine (me as a carer, dh in the over 50s) but we are hoping and praying there is some progress on vaccinating children, so that ds and his sisters can be vaccinated.

I don't give a fuck and certainly won't be getting the vaccine (I've been offered it already).

Welcome to Boris's Britain of 2021, everyone - fucked for many years to come.

I am avoiding it more now. Nasty thing. Don't want to give it to anyone.

Why did you refuse the vaccine, south?

I'm worried about side affects.

Nope... I don't want the virus, and to be honest I am a homebody, an online shopper, have a part time job in a pharmacy, am semi retired, and am not one for socialising/holidays, so not having too much trouble simply muddling along.

(other people have other views and situations, and I respect those too before I get told how lucky I am)

Having seen the damage long Covid is doing to previously healthy people in their 40s and 50s, I’ll still try to avoid it as much as possible, thanks.

@southeastdweller

I'm worried about side affects.

I'm quite a long way from being offered it so don't have to decide yet. Can I ask which side effects your worried about, I've read threads about them and heard from friends and no one seems to have had anything more than a couple of days feeling rough then back to normal. My own parents had none at all

What else have you heard about?

I did think this today yes.
It will be a long time till I get any vaccine.

@southeastdweller are you not worried about the side effects of COVID? Or do you normally react badly to vaccines?

No and no.

Don't want to give it to anyone and still keeping to the rules though.

Ready couldn't give 2 shits about it
Think I had it in march anyhow before the hysterics started

No. I'm ECV and don't have the able-bodied privilege of being able to think that. I'm fed up of shielding and not going out but I have children and they need their mother alive if at all possible, however fed up I am.

Do you worry about giving it to anyone else @southeastdweller? Do you work in healthcare?

DH got it. Was ill but no worse than his usual chest infections that linger on for weeks. No SD at home and I didn't get it at all (tested negative).

Given that I didn't get it when DH was coughing all over the place at home I doubt I will now.

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@southeastdweller are you not worried about the side effects of COVID? Or do you normally react badly to vaccines?[/quote]
This is part of my thinking too, I've never had another vaccine apart from childhood ones so have no idea how Id react but all I've read suggests that the effects of covid and long covid are much worse than sore arms and headaches but I wonder what @southeastdweller knows that I don't.

It's hard to decide.

Oh my good god, what is with all these questions? Is this an interview? Please do all as you wish as will I, putting myself first!

This isn't living

Of course it is, life is just shit sometimes.

I'm worried about my mum (in her 50s) getting it, and my grandparents. Me, not so much, would rather take my chances and enjoy this coming Summer as much as I can. I'm fit, healthy 20 something, it would be highly unlikely for me to die from it.

Given the choice I'd choose not to get it but I'd say that for any illness. Got hand, foot and mouth that year, it had very similar symptoms and I felt awful for months. Wouldn't have wanted to lock people down over it.

I agree this isn't living.

I'm fed up and couldn't care less if I got it. I'll still follow guidelines religiously but only because I have to, begrudgingly. Now I've had the vaccine though, less likely severely.

@Ch3rish really? You might want to update your tetanus.