For the ones who haven’t had the vaccine yet

[AnxietyDrivingMyLife]

And there is a few months to go are you worried about the relaxing of the rules? I’m worried as to how to protect myself..very worried I’ll catch it this time

Husband is having his next week 🥳
I’m group 8, so looking at April.

Our youngest, 18 is asthmatic but not on oral steroids (which is the CV criteria now, it’s changed and inhalers aren’t considered) so won’t get his for a while.

We’ll carry on being very careful until he’s jabbed. He’s been brilliant looking out for his dad so we’re not going to risk him being unwell now if we can help it.

I think it's a little unfair to say that about people in group 6. They have been put in that category, so for that fact alone, I would imagine it would make them more concerned because they have been told they are more at risk.

This.

Group 6 have been told, since March so almost a year, that they are vulnerable to should do more than the average person to,avoid getting it.
When you've had that message drilled into you for a year then of course you feel more vulnerable and more concerned about catching it.

Yes I am actually worried about it. I am in my 40s and am worried because ICUs have been filled with people in this age group. I am worried that as everyone else relaxes the rules, it will be the unvaccinated still at risk. Maybe not such a high risk of dying but any hospital admission or long covid would be really nasty. I am not going to be relaxing anything myself until I've had the jabs. Like a PP I have no family support here either.

I feel similar to you op. Maybe not anxious but definitely apprehensive. I’m in the minority though, I’ve had a ton of invites to weekends away, holidays, nights out, parties for when the restrictions allow ever since the road map was announced and I feel a bit overwhelmed

I’m certainly feeling apprehensive about the coming weeks. In many ways I am fortunate as I am in group 9 so should be vaccinated within the next couple of months. But I have teenagers who will be back at school before that, and I have an ongoing but undiagnosed lung condition that leaves me with a permanent wheeze and cough. I take a steroid inhaler but have been told I’m not asthmatic. I am concerned that my already weakened lungs wouldn’t cope with COVID. So, yes, I am worried.

I appreciate that we cannot stay in lockdown indefinitely but it concerns me that so many people are so determined to get back to ‘normal’ - there are many steps between those two extremes and I would hate to think that those who are so blasé about COVID might exacerbate the problem by seeking a return to old normal too quickly.

@GoldenMalicious exactly- I genuinely don’t understand the attitude of ‘going back’ to normal. Leave the pandemic take any life experience- good or bad , yes you will and can come out of it but are you the same as you went in? No- the experience has an impact- it has changed you- you have reassessed and readjusted you’re life/self accordingly. You cannot ‘go back’ - you go forward with the current norm in mind...
This blasé attitude is going to cause more misery than anything else- why is nothing approached in a measured manner? It’s either I’m going to party and drink my body weight or it’s lock down for ever- nothing in between?

At this point I’m more concerned for my mental and emotional well-being than I am about catching covid so no, I cannot wait for some normality.

It’s either I’m going to party and drink my body weight or it’s lock down for ever- nothing in between?

Is it? That’s not an attitude I’ve encountered amongst any of my friends and family.
Everyone I know is keen to see their loved ones again. To do the things they enjoy... hobbies etc. To go out for meals, go for a drink in a bar for example. My family live abroad so yes, I’m keen to be able to travel again as I haven’t seen them for over a year. This isn’t ‘extreme’. It’s their life, the life they enjoy. To say ‘normal’ is an extreme is really bizarre to me.
Just because people are keen to get their lives back, it doesn’t mean the pandemic hasn’t changed them in any way.
People should not be demonised for wanting to get back to normal.

Why are you worried? Are you clinically vulnerable? Can't wait to get out and about personally and hope they lift things sooner.

I’m fine to go at pace of relaxation

The dc are priority so I’m glad that chimes with first relaxation

@WarriorN

The ones wanting to get out and live again are the people I'm concerned about.

Go and live, I am, but follow the rules and have consideration for others who don't have the choice to stay at home but don't yet qualify for a vaccine.

Just because I want to live my life, doesn't mean I wont be following the rules in place at that time.

Yes I’m worried they will let infections soar. Lone parent early 40’s with kid in nursery that was already closed on and off. Minor health concerns make things more worrying and scared of caring for child if become seriously ill. So nothing major but all adds up to really really don’t want any of us to
catch covid and at same time can’t avoid engaging with risk. Numbers were high enough already so don’t want it to increase.

@duckme the vulnerable haven't mostly been vaccinated. My dad was vaccinated last week he's 69, his girlfriend hasn't been yet, my friend was vaccinated a few days ago, she's 58 with health issues. My sister is in heart failure, 48 and not been vacinated, I haven't been called up for it either yet, I'm 38 and also ECV. Theres many others in the same vote, I think they are going off ge s well as vulnerabilities first looking at who has been vaccinated but I could be wrong just going off what I have observed. But please don't assume the vulnerable have mostly been vaccinated.

*ages

A friend’s daughter, with no health issues and only just 40, has been called for her vaccination today.

I’m not worried at all but I do plan to continue to be safe even with the relaxed rules eg hand sanitiser, wiping down trollies, social distancing etc.

Yes I'm worried too. Both my adult daughter and son both have it but they don't live with us. My son who is vulnerable who does live with me has had 1st vaccination.
I think I'll be still washing hands, mask wearing and social distance for at least the next year whether I've had vaccination or not. I just assume everyone is potential carrier

I’m worried yes about being seriously ill or worse. My son and daughter will be back at school and college but we won’t be seeing any other people apart from that. I’ve bought some taffix and we’re all using that apart from my 5 year old.

I was worried last year. But then I got Covid, I'm not really worried anymore

I’m not worried about catching the virus at all. I am worried that the virus has caused so many people to lose all sense of proportion, and to completely forget how to view and balance risks in their lives.

Maybe it’s because covid is a relatively new threat but I find it utterly bizarre the number of people petrified of dying from it, when the chances are so so small. Yes these same people aren’t petrified of having a car crash, developing cancer or a million other things that are probably more likely to occur.

“Why should the perfectly fit and able be punished more
We are already being shunted to bottom of vaccination list , let us have our Spring and enjoy the nice weather and see friends and family.”

Little bit harsh - we’ve all done our bit protecting each other and medical staff. Comes over a bit as if you think the vulnerable are not worth very much compared to the fit and healthy. I’m
economically active, my child’s carer and also like going out and enjoying the sunshine. I didn’t choose to be vulnerable and cause all these difficulties for fit and able bodied, you aren’t being punished. We are all living through a very difficult time.

I’m more worried about mutations that escape the vaccine putting us all back to square one. A worrying one has popped up in LA. I read an article in which the virologist said that it only takes the LA strain to meet the Kent variant for it to be like a virus lottery win. If we’ve put everything on the vaccine to get us out of this surely we should do everything possible to lower the chance of a mutation that will make vaccines useless.

Yes, because I have been unwell with long covid since the first wave (March 20), if I get it again I don't know what it would do to me. Have been housebound most of the year due to heart issues resulting from having COVID. Spoke to Gp and I am not on any priority list and will be getting the vaccine with my age group (30-39).

Ps, I had no underlying conditions.

Not worried at all and looking forward to life going back to some kind of normality. I’m a late 40s obese smoker (working on changing things), my DH had covid in October, for him it was not as bad as flu he had a few years ago but the tiredness is ongoing still (long covid I suppose).