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'm really worried I'll catch Covid.
I live with health anxiety anyway and have spent these last few years worrying about things I didn't need to worry about.
Now we actually have this very real virus circulating I'm very worried, yes. It's really put my past worried into perspective.
If I caught Covid I don't think I could mentally cope.

I've had my vaccine - despite ruminating about possible side effects ( work in healthcare).
I'm now praying I don't catch it before my second dose and it's efficacy kick in.

No. Because my mum died of covid on Christmas Day, alone.

Because my husband is shielding and I’m terrified of going through the trauma of losing another family member too soon. Alone.

So I don’t want to get it so I can protect others. My worry isn’t for myself and my own health. I’m not all about ‘me, me, me’ like the posters saying they put themselves first.

If you'd asked me 2 weeks ago I'd have said yes - but one of our best friends is now on a ventilator and I'm terrified for him.

It's really brought home the seriousness of it for the relatively young. He's in his 40s

It is hard for many people but if you still have your life you are living! 30,000 people in the UK died in January alone. 30,000! I am fed up, I hate homeschooling, my job (NHS) is harder than it has ever been and I haven't seen loved ones in over a year. So yes I get it's awful. We will get through this, but it will take far longer if people think the rules don't apply to them.

I've had mild covid and the pfizer vaccine with side effects , vaccine is much, much better.

Long covid seems to be fairly analogous with ME/CFS.

I have had a relatively soft touch of ME for the whole of my adult life. Trust me, you don't want it, don't want to chance it.

I am sat here, having been relatively cautious for a year, thinking "Please don't fuck it up now, not when the end is so bloody close." The vaccine, no matter what bits of media interpretation you believe, will make life far less scary for many.

So shut up, sit down and think your way to a better understanding of the situation.

Yes, I still care. Still being careful. Have taken my toddler out of nursery for now as we're both WFH, though he'll have to go back soon and I'm worried.

If anything it seems more scary now. I know a lot of people my age (40s) who've been really ill. People whose parents have died. One of my close friends had long Covid over summer and I do not want to experience it myself.

It is really, really shit, everyone is fed up and exhausted, but we're probably at the beginning of the end. It's not forever.

The trouble is, in order to live your life again, you risk infecting others. I’m absolutely sick of living like this, isolated in a house with 2 kids that I’ve barely left since March. A new baby that hasn’t spent time with family members. But I have done it not to just keep us safe, and I’m not particular worried about getting it, but to keep everyone I love safe until they are vaccinated. The trouble with covid is that although it is unlikely that you will end up seriously ill, you really don’t know that until you get it, and by then it’s too late. What’s the point in living through all these restrictions and then blowing it all at the last point. I understand the mental health side of things, I have suffered throughout all this. But the lives of those I love outweigh anything else.

I felt like that towards the end of lockdown1. But I know of a few women with long covid and it scared me enough to avoid going out.

You just don't know how it would affect you even if you don't end up in hospital and women are more likely to suffer long covid..

@southeastdweller

I'm worried about side affects.

Your nuts not to have the vaccine. The side effects from Covid are far worse, like fucking dying.

*You’re nuts