Is anyone else feeling scared?

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I do - more so today not sure why
I’m scared of the Brazil Variant affecting the young
Afraid of getting the vaccine - what more will be found
Obviously not taking is not the smartest option - so afraid everyday I’ve not had it is a risk
Afraid to go back to work in the office

I just feel so tired and teary all the time

*ROI. Understood, most of mine live far away too. I really wouldn’t go down a rabbit hole of will you/won’t you be able to crack on from the 17th May though. Where will the justification for further bans on visiting family come from?

Scared of Covid and all the hype? No. Scared that lockdown will continue and DP won't get to live his last few months able to go to the places he wants to go? Yes. Very.

@Tartyflette excellent post

I admit I didn't read anything about the Brazil Variant yesterday, nor about its arrival in BC. But I know my friend in Calgary tells me there's a big issue with anti-vaxxers in Canada...

I'm not particularly worried about Covid, but in regards to 'getting back out there', I suspect quite a few of my friends will possibly barely leave their homes again. Last week I went for a short SD walk with a local friend around our local streets, at her behest. But she was a ball of high-alert, nervous energy the whole time, dancing on and off the pavement, changing direction if another walker appeared 200m away...It was exhausting!

I can't see her going to the pub any time this summer!

I guess I may view it differently because I'm an HCP, have been at work front line patient facing for 33% more hours than before, I sit shoulder to shoulder with different staff every single day with paper masks on, I have done the whole PPE/ventilated ICU pt 'thing' so this bogeyman isn't imaginary to me; but I know of only one person who ended up in hospital with CV, personally, and he had a serious underlying health condition. And from 140 people in our hospital with CV, we now have 4.

Oh, and I'm Pfizered up!

It's time to learn to live with this.

@largeaslifeandtwiceasugly

should be more worried about the South African variant, that is the one that the vaccines, especially AZ do not work against.

Is there any studies you can link to this?

Heres one of many links I have to studies where vaccines are effective against variants

Serum samples obtained from participants vaccinated with two doses of Pfizer’s BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine shows effective neutralization against VOCs B.1.1.7 (UK), B.1.351 (S. Africa) AND P.1 (Brazil).
t.co/CIN2wjRWV6 t.co/NpXkomE1jL

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE LINK STUDIES TO SUPPORT ANYTHING THEY SAY WHEN THEY ARE PUTTINF SCARE MONGERING SENSATIONALIST COMMENTS. IT SPREADS FEAR AND MISINFORMATION

Since returning to work (school but wfh before schools fully reopened due to role and being cv) I've actually felt increasingly less concerned about it all. To an extent I did in September initially - before we started to get a large increase in cases anyway.

But I've now had covid.
I've had my first vaccine too.

I think being back at work, surrounded and in close contact with people all day every day means that I've become less anxious about it all.

I'm really enjoying being able to see family and friends once more. This week I have sat outside with friends to celebrate DD's birthday. And I finally visited my parents, my sister and my nephew for the first time in months. I have also booked a foreign holiday for later in the year and I've booked a night out with friends in May for when places open indoors.

Although I still get short periods of feeling down (we've had an awful lot of change including 3 family deaths and me being rushed to hospital when ill with covid) I actually now feel happier than I have done in the past year.

Nope. Feeling pretty positive now. Cases down again locally and vaccine rollout going well.

I wish I could be half as positive as some of you. ☹️

I’m not scared of coronavirus at all

More concerned as to where this all leading in the short term

I'm not complacent about COVID but I'm also not scared of it if that makes sense. I wear my mask, I wash my hands. I've chosen to decline the vaccine.

I am mostly scared about the longer term social impact of all of this. People scared to be near others, scared to hug loved ones, scared to touch people. That makes me very sad.

I think from what I've read on MN anyway OP, and it makes sense, people tend to be less scared and optimistic once they've had the vaccine. In that respect we're a society of two halves at the moment.

@daisiesinmay agree re: two tier society. Also how complacent people are especially at my work when asking other people in open meetings’have you had the vaccine’ etc. Is that not considered personal medical information any longer?

@giraffelonglegs - I’ve not said a hard ‘no’ to the vaccine however I’m comfortable getting it now when studies are still coming out with one issue or the other.

Are you not worried about how you will protect yourself when everything and everyone goes a little mad from tomorrow? I am very worried about this...