Young people

[2021ismyyear]

So next week we will all start mixing again in the uk. Who are the people that will be mixing lots... young people! They have missed out on so much, making up for list time. I don’t blame them.

I noticed this week, my local town was busy, it’s bloody impossible to get a table for food (outside), people have been up booking soft play and other local attractions.

Surely, the Indian variant will just grow and grow in these younger people (below 40). I’ve not had my vaccine yet and am just in this group.

Ok I know the young people probably won’t die. But some might. And what about long Covid? Won’t increased circulation in the unvaccinated mean more chance of another variant?

I don’t really know what this post is for. I guess I just feel the government probably know what will happen but are being quite vague. I support opening up again I am just trying to weigh up risks and preempt what might be coming.

@Waxonwaxoff0

I'm 30 and unvaccinated. Not worried at all. Rather take my chances than carry on with this half life.

Same. There is more to life than covid. There will be nothing to open up for. My local high street has been completely savaged.

Waxonwaxoff0
I'm 30 and unvaccinated. Not worried at all. Rather take my chances than carry on with this half life.

Me too. What is the point of staying in quivering indoors for another year! People die all the time from a myriad of other illnesses. Once the vulnerable have been vaccinated and we can protect the NHS, life HAS to get back to normal.

I dont get why it is depressing that we are gambling again because of course we have to a little bit. This is new, the variants are new and the effects of waiting I think in the longer term are more now than actually taking a risk and moving forward.

Because what else can we do - those who make up the largest proportion of hospitalisations and deaths have had 2 doses and the vaccines seem to hold up so far to all the variants out there. This isnt going away - it has been admitted that it is now endemic.

The government are aware that things might rise a little but what else can they do - we cant continue living like this.

@eandz13

Some young people still die of the flu. We still expose ourselves to the ever mutating variants of it every time we go out, we expose ourselves to the risk of then developing pneumonia or bronchitis, which can leave scarring and subsequent chronic pulmonary illness that needs permanent medical management. I'm not trying to be arsey, I completely understand everybody's concerns, I don't particularly want to be ill either, but at some point we're going to have to just live with it alongside us. It's not going to go away. At this point I think MH issues from social isolation are far, far more dangerous.

Indeed. We need social contact and a mix of environments to maintain healthy immune systems.

My elderly MIL has only left the house for medical appointments for over a year now. My concern now she's been vaccinated is not so much Covid as any routine winter infection as her immune system has had so little stimulous for the past year and counting (she's in the EU so much slower progress on vaccines and a later winter/ spring wave) We've reached the point where I don't know if she'll be capable of restoring her little routines again, and she's aged several years very rapidly.

For young people, the risks are low and they have a better chance of immunity/ resistance from life in education/ workplaces anyway.
The social, health and economic costs of keeping shut down are far higher for u40s and especially u25s than the individual risks of the virus.

People are free to take up the returning opportunities or decline if they are not satisfied with the risk/ benefit.

I’m 33, moderate asthma. Still not vaccinated. I’m not worried at all. I don’t anyone who is in my age group. My friends & I spent all evening planning get togethers at houses, softplay, cafes over the coming months! We are all so excited.

80% of us have had covid in my close circle of 15 friends. Ranging from very mild (me) to quite poorly but no lasting damage for anyone and we all recovered in a couple weeks.. a few of us lost Grandparents to covid which has been rough & one friend lost a very close friend in her 40’s with complex medical stuff going on. We understand the risks & we feel the loss but we all equally feel life has to move on for the rest of us. None of our lost relatives or friends would want us to continue to live a half life in fear. Tomorrow isn’t promised, life is there to enjoy!