As numbers go up, will you be avoiding public places?

[Twoforthree]

I will certainly be cutting back on visits when numbers rise higher, even though I’ve had it and am double vacinated. I really don’t want to be ill again. It wasn’t pleasant.
At the moment I’m taking the risk but when masks are relaxed and if/when numbers are higher, I’ll be restricting my movements. I know I’m “low risk” but I still don’t want to be ill in bed again.

Anyone else?

After a year and a half of job loss, bereavement, isolation, mental health in the toilet

seriously.. it has been shit, but I still took my kids on a European holiday last August, last October, had a staycation at Easter and in May (pretty shit but hardly isolation) and we are booked for the summer.

It has never been " a year and a half" in this country.

It has been awful and restrictive, but making it worst than it actually was is not helping anyone.

but it's so flipping tedious. People being bored or fed up is not a valid reason to stop or carry on with restrictions one way or another.

Tough really those who want restrictions can implement their own. It’s changing whether you find it tedious or not.

As for worst part ‘lack of resilience’ posts are up there.

Hopefully people won't bother to go on their holidays either because of this, then it is less busy for others.

[quote PromisingMiddleagedWoman]@deydododatdodontdeydo I agree. It’s not Covid itself that is “ripping through schools” but rather the disproportionate response to covid that is having severe implications for schools.

It’s simply not the case that huge numbers of children are at home, seriously ill, bedridden with covid etc. It’s more that government policies have mean thousands of healthy children are at home because someone in their (sometimes massive) bubble may have covid.[/quote]
Agree. My brother works in a school and yesterday 38% of the kids in his very large secondary school (1000 plus kids) were isolating. He can't see them staying open till end of term.

I won't be avoiding public places at all, if I catch it I catch it. The stats are in my favour and it will be most likely like a bad cold

"In riskier environments there may be a higher level of airborne virus."

Yes, but changing clothes? The vaccine gets in through the orifices on your face mainly doesn't it? So why wash clothes unless you're worried about surface transmission?

@MarshaBradyo

but it's so flipping tedious. People being bored or fed up is not a valid reason to stop or carry on with restrictions one way or another.

Tough really those who want restrictions can implement their own. It’s changing whether you find it tedious or not.

As for worst part ‘lack of resilience’ posts are up there.

What I find tedious is people pretending that it was so hard for them it must be the only reason why we should handle the pandemic their way.

Embarrassing lack of resilience in this country indeed.

@MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously

blackwych as soon as cases go up significantly and start to affect DDs school, I will be keeping her at home, regardless of what govt policy is at the time. I hope the govt decides to vaccinate children.

Is your dd vulnerable??? If not god only knows what kind of mental issues you’re storing up for the future.

@EffOrf

Hopefully people won't bother to go on their holidays either because of this, then it is less busy for others.

Here’s hoping!

Embarrassing lack of resilience in this country indeed.

Not at all. It’s been very long here and other places have found it hard.

But you seem determined to feel this way so I’ll leave you to it.

If you want to keep restrictions go for it.

@kindaclassy

After a year and a half of job loss, bereavement, isolation, mental health in the toilet

seriously.. it has been shit, but I still took my kids on a European holiday last August, last October, had a staycation at Easter and in May (pretty shit but hardly isolation) and we are booked for the summer.

It has never been " a year and a half" in this country.

It has been awful and restrictive, but making it worst than it actually was is not helping anyone.

A lot of people weren't able to travel in August though. Many countries reinstated quarantines in July and August last year after seeming to open up in June. I haven't seen my family since 2019 because I moved abroad and the main part of lockdown for me is enforced working from home and that's been going on for a year and a half for me, the only break being in September last year.

@EffOrf

Hopefully people won't bother to go on their holidays either because of this, then it is less busy for others.

Let's hope, last summer was a breeze to go abroad, but I am not sure this year will be that quiet unfortunately.

@MarshaBradyo

Embarrassing lack of resilience in this country indeed.

Not at all. It’s been very long here and other places have found it hard.

But you seem determined to feel this way so I’ll leave you to it.

If you want to keep restrictions go for it.

You are spectacularly missing my point. I am not defending restrictions for the sake of them.

I am just stating that a poster being "bored" of them is completely irrelevant, and people whining constantly are tedious. Especially in this country.

@kindaclassy DD lost her job at the start of first lockdown and still hasn't found another. Those who rely on some sections of hospitality for their livelihoods haven't worked for a year. Theatres, music venues and other cultural venues that haven't been able to reopen. Are you saying that your local live music venue is open? Your local nightclubs?

Lockdown and restrictions haven't fully ended, that's why it was big news yesterday that they would be on the 19th. People couldn't meet up with loved ones for months. I think people have shown tremendous resilience in the face of a truly terrible time.

Looking forward to simple things like going to a gig or a play is not the same as a lack of resilience.

Well they’re lifting now so who cares?

Those who don’t like it will have to lump it.

I think we’ve shown huge resilience too Vampire as a collective. Huge sacrifices for a prolonged period

Children and adults

Not everyone drives, and that means taking public transport to visit people and go on holiday. I can't imagine we're alone in not having seen grandparents for well over a year because we've not wanted to risk catching anything with all the travelling on the way, and they're not near enough to meet outdoors anywhere.

We've been lucky in both our jobs allowing us to work from home, but otherwise it's been a very isolating pandemic.

I plan to revel in the company of my fellow human beings! I am looking forward to it!

@MarshaBradyo

Well they’re lifting now so who cares?

Those who don’t like it will have to lump it.

Actually sensible people will continue to be careful;

For many people not much will change.

In fact, people who are vulnerable will have to be more careful than before, is that what you meant by "lumping it"?

@MarshaBradyo

I think we’ve shown huge resilience too Vampire as a collective. Huge sacrifices for a prolonged period

Children and adults

Definitely. I'm not the sort of person who says they're proud to be British but I'm definitely proud of my fellow countrymen, women and children!

*In fact, people who are vulnerable will have to be more careful than before, is that what you meant by "lumping it"?

What I mean is I no longer have time for people who go on about lack of resilience. They can lump it afaic

If you don’t do this then I don’t include you.

Yes, to an extent I’ll avoid crowded spaces because I have long Covid... More likely to pick up minor infections if recent history is anything to go by... coughs and colds deplete me totally these days, and if I were to get COVID again my life would be even worse than it is now.

I intend to avoid testing my resilience with long covid, new vaccine resilient strains and passing on risk of same to immune suppressed relatives so yes, I will leave crowded indoor places to others. This is an experiment I do not intend to be part of but I guess others are less risk averse.

@Baystard

IRL I don't know anyone who doesn't want to return to normal life

It still won't become normal overnight though will it? It was never normal to have 25,000 (and rising) people contracting any nasty virus every day. It won't be normal until you can go out to participate in normal activities without the strong chance of going home with a flu-like illness.

Yes, quite. People keep giving it all the 'other illnesses exist too, did you stay home to avoid them?' spiel. Well, no I didn't. I'm 45 years old and have always been healthy, hadn't had a day off sick in 5 years prior to getting COVID-19. I hadn't had flu since I was 7 years old, didn't bother with flu jabs, didn't need to worry about common illnesses. Such are the privileges of the healthy.

COVID-19 is a very unpleasant illness, it floored me (13 days off work and a month's phased return as I was too exhausted to do more, several colleagues similar, one was off for 14 weeks with post-viral exhaustion, these were all 'mild' cases not requiring hospitalisation).

If I have to test the efficacy of my vaccines against another round of infection, fine, what will be will be. But I'm not rushing to do so.

@MarshaBradyo

I think we’ve shown huge resilience too Vampire as a collective. Huge sacrifices for a prolonged period

Children and adults

I agree. In fact most people are understating how awful lockdowns and restrictions have been for them personally IME.

I'd go as far as to say that claiming people have not been resilient is an affront to those who have been especially affected by the pandemic and lockdowns, and shows a real lack of empathy and understanding to those who have lost loved ones/lived with the fear of being CEV or having loved ones who are. Imagine having lost a parent or spouse to covid and coming on MN to be told how lacking in resilience you are.