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Covid has just been forgotten about then?

419 replies

washthem · 05/04/2021 08:27

My in-laws are acting like it's all disappeared over night.

Travelling to london, going out for lunches and dinners in people's houses etc.

They're vaccinated now so I suppose they don't mind.

They've all but invited themselves around to ours in a couple of weeks time!

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wasthataburp · 05/04/2021 10:35

@GrubbyGruber

I think some people are worried that there may actually be an end in sight and they will have nothing to occupy themselves or post threads about anymore tbh.
This! I think there might be a lot of people scared about the end of restrictions
Sansaplans · 05/04/2021 10:36

@BeardyButton

UK data saying 1 in 13 children who have COVID are experiencing long COVID.... but all that matters is that people get to ‘crack on’ and get back to normal, right? I despair!
They're also saying a lot of children have had it without any symptoms at all, so how did they arrive at 1 in 13?
B33Fr33 · 05/04/2021 10:37

I don't really care what vaccinated people do - they can just do it away from me and everyone else who's chance of getting the vaccine is vanishing into the distance now that the Tories have secured their voting pool. Wink

Armi · 05/04/2021 10:37

@AndromedaGal

How long do you expect/want ppl to hide under the duvet for though?
See, this sort of language is also unhelpful. I don’t know anyone who is ‘hiding under the duvet’. I know people who are following guidance and laws whilst continuing to go out to work. I have been teaching teenagers in poorly ventilated, small classrooms, for example. Just because you don’t wish to catch or spread Covid it doesn’t mean you are ‘hiding under the duvet.’
Steptoeshorse1965 · 05/04/2021 10:37

@washthem

My in-laws are acting like it's all disappeared over night.

Travelling to london, going out for lunches and dinners in people's houses etc.

They're vaccinated now so I suppose they don't mind.

They've all but invited themselves around to ours in a couple of weeks time!

Things cannot go on as they are forever, whatever the outcome, we simply cannot. Life has to resume normality at some point, and the sooner the better.
Unsure33 · 05/04/2021 10:39

The risk is more to you than them if you have not been vaccinated ?

They can still catch covid and pass it on ?

I would just be careful .Thats all .

5zeds · 05/04/2021 10:39

But the low risk healthy were doing it to protect a) the older/vulnerable and b) the health service. Now that that’s been done, the benefits of lockdown are very minimal (and the costs extraordinary). your mistake is thinking “Now that that’s been done” it’s NOT done, it’s very nearly done. Stopping before you finish is like driving up a steep hill and then parking before you get to the top and forgetting to put the hand break on.

wasthataburp · 05/04/2021 10:39

I'll tell you what, the responses on this thread have lifted my mood no end! I am so glad people are not crucifying these people for living their lives. Good for them and I hope more are doing it.

TheKeatingFive · 05/04/2021 10:40

but all that matters is that people get to ‘crack on’ and get back to normal, right? I despair!

All you’re ‘despairing’ at is basic human nature. But crack on if it makes you feel better.

Most definitions of long Covid are pretty vague and encompass symptoms that are totally expected in any post viral infection.

Lockdown isn’t a pause button, it’s time you don’t get back.

Is it the slightest bit surprising that older people, who don’t necessarily have many years left, don’t want to spend more time isolated and cowering indoors? Of course not.

dividedwefall · 05/04/2021 10:42

It's so nice to hear of people shaking off the fear and reclaiming their lives.

SakuraEdenSwan1 · 05/04/2021 10:44

And? If you want to hide away @washthem that's down to you, expecting others too do the same in unfair.

Jaxhog · 05/04/2021 10:44

If you ignore the rules then we can all look forward to another lockdown. On your head be it.

TheKeatingFive · 05/04/2021 10:44

your mistake is thinking “Now that that’s been done” it’s NOT done, it’s very nearly done.

I’m not advocating opening the nightclubs just yet, as should be clear from my posts.

But vaccinated people spending time with small groups of other vaccinated or much less vulnerable family/friends indoors. Something that most other countries never banned in the first place.

SmidgenofaPigeon · 05/04/2021 10:46

Yes that’s a good point actually- I think the U.K. and the ROI were the ONLY countries in Europe that actually banned you from seeing family.

TheKeatingFive · 05/04/2021 10:46

It makes me feel we weren't all in this together

We never were. The cost/benefit ratio of lockdowns for healthy under 40s was always ridiculously out of kilter.

Hophopandaway · 05/04/2021 10:48

This is why the old and CV shouldn't have been vaccinated first. It should have been those in work and with school age children. They need a bit of risk or stick to stick to rules and that risk was death from covid. Now they are getting to live their lives risk free whilst those who will pay for it and sacrificed the most are unvaccinated and still risk covid. It makes me sick.

5zeds · 05/04/2021 10:50

How is But vaccinated people spending time with small groups of other vaccinated or much less vulnerable family/friends indoors. any different than if children and young adults who also “don’t get it as much, and are often asymptomatic” had met their friends throughout? They DIDN’T do that because they wanted the early vaccinated to be as safe as they could be and for us to have the best chance of keeping it that way. The last leg of any endeavour is always the hardest.

CaesarsDream · 05/04/2021 10:50

Good for them. Tenacity!

I've started living my life again too. As soon as more restrictions are lifted, I will be taking full advantage of my civil rights.

I've already planned:
Our (UK) holiday.
Restarting swimming/sports for DCs.
Nights out with friends.
Family days out.
Recommencing with my life changing goals.

We eventually need to learn to live with this. Tenacity!

Ivy455 · 05/04/2021 10:51

Good for them, it's about time people stopped going along with this utter nonsense.
Although it's totally your call if you don't want people in your house.

TheKeatingFive · 05/04/2021 10:51

This is why the old and CV shouldn't have been vaccinated first.

Fgs are people still beating this drum?

Hospitalisations/deaths/pressure on health service, these are the things that matter and age is the key determinant. Because the U.K. vaccinated older people first, these are plummeting. The data speaks for itself.

TheKeatingFive · 05/04/2021 10:53

They DIDN’T do that because they wanted the early vaccinated to be as safe as they could be and for us to have the best chance of keeping it that way.

And now the vulnerable are safe through vaccination.

There was never anything like such a pressing need to keep the non vulnerable ‘safe’ in this way.

Meanwhile, lockdown costs mount and mount and mount.

toocold54 · 05/04/2021 10:56

There's nothing wrong with any of what they are doing.

You can’t meet up on people’s houses yet.
I am as frustrated as the next person but lots of people are getting vaccinated now so it’s only a matter of time until things go back to normal. I couldn’t cope with another lockdown.

sunflowertulip · 05/04/2021 10:56

These threads are so irresponsible. Most of my friends are still following the laws and guidelines, but this sort of thing makes me feel like a total mug. I'm not scared (or vaccinated yet) but trying to do the right thing. Makes me think why bother. But, as I tell my children, we can only control our own actions and behaviour.

AndromedaGal · 05/04/2021 10:57

@Armi

Sorry but some ppl are hiding under the duvet, terrified to resume any semblance of normality - take the pp up thread whose uncle was in tears because he was scared to meet up with the kids in case they caught it. I’m not saying everyone experiences this level of fear but some are, and it’s ruining their lives. It’s very sad

CouldBeOuting · 05/04/2021 11:00

@AndromedaGal

How long do you expect/want ppl to hide under the duvet for though?
I’m not hiding under the duvet. I’ve been going to work, in a school, with no PPE throughout the whole thing.

BUT I’ve been following all the rules as well. Haven’t seen our daughter as she doesn’t live with us (and is too far away to meet outside). Haven’t seen FIL as he is vulnerable. Have only seen friends on zoom. Couldn’t see my Dad while he was dying (in another country).

I, DH and DS have all had our first jab but we are still following the rules and will continue to do so. I’m sorry but people who don’t do make me angry. If I catch covid it will probably from school - from one of the children who will have caught it from the sleepovers and parties that they tell us about. THATs why I can’t risk breaking any rules - because of those families I am dangerous to my own family.