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?

@Twoforthree

I don’t want to be ill again. It was horrible. Isn’t that a good enough reason?

I think that is very unrealistic though isn't it? To live the rest of your life avoiding getting ill. Ill in general or just ill with Covid? Have you never had flu or norovirus? They are horrible bugs too but they don't stop people living their lives through fear of getting it again.

Theatre tomorrow music festival in a few weeks. I want my life back!

No. I ain't gonna live forever, I just want to live while I'm alive.

I won't be going to crowded places for sake of it. I owe the friend who's been my support bubble for so long and whose husband is clinically vulnerable some degree of caution.

I'm booked for a c section in two weeks and don't much fancy having it without my partner present, so we're both isolating/shielding until then. I'm worried about the rise in cases and have friends who have been vaccinated and then gone on to get covid. I've had one vaccine, DP has had two. I just don't feel safe.

@Treezan82

No - I'm vaccinated and have my 2nd dose in 2 weeks. If I avoid public places when fully vaccinated then when would I stop avoiding them? What are we waiting for?

I would be waiting for the cases to go down a bit. I know a couple of double vaccinated people with covid who are quite poorly. Not hospital poorly but off work for 2 weeks and counting poorly. One of my children has only been into school for a day in the last three weeks as covid continues to circulate. Vaccines and lower levels of cases and I'd be good to go.

Yes.

no.

or at least if I avoid going out it won't be because of numbers

@Foobydoo

I will be taking some precautions as I am CV. I wont be going to indoor crowded places. I am concerned about 'personal responsibility' because so many people don't give a shit. I am also worried be a being given the summer off but will need to pay with a winter lockdown which will be awful.

Exactly this. I'm not CV but will be doing the same. I honestly think we will have restrictions back by September.

I'm worried about my teenage child. She's got no protection against a highly transmissible disease that can make people seriously ill. If she was vaccinated I'd be more inclined to get back to normal. As things stand I feel it's irresponsible to take her to crowded places

i'lll mainly because I'm due to go on holidays so want to avoid any restrictions. if I wasn't then no I'd not

No I want to do things while we're allowed in case we end up in lockdown again.

No.

DH is ECV. Although we are both now double jabbed, we will be listening to his medical experts.

Whilst I welcome a return to more freedoms, I'm not looking forward to those with no concept of personal space getting too close again. I don't mind a bit of social distancing. I don't need to feel the breath or body heat of strangers in queues.

No although I will still wear a mask in crowded areas for now (indoor only) or on public transport

Yes, CEV husband, CV myself and DS. We haven't been incredibly worried lately and have been getting on with our lives, but if the government aren't going to do anything at all while cases rise and rise we will have to be a lot more careful. I can't understand why the government can't see that high cases means that people won't be out spending in droves.

Yes, I'll still be cautious, I'm still wearing my mask and washing my hands, which I'll continue to do regardless.

I'm still going to get shopping delivered and avoid crowded places until I've been double vaccinated.

I'm not willing to become part of a problem if I don't need to be, BUT this is my personal choice (and privillege) and honestly don't give a shiny shit what everyone else does (apart from coughing on me, don't do that).

No way. We’re in greater Manchester and to be quite frank after the last year or so my mental health is now pretty vulnerable. We will be/have been getting back to our lives while we can. As a childless (not by choice) couple and with family living far away we didn’t qualify for any bubbles of any kind and we’ve both been stuck working from home. It’s been too much. I know people are anxious but I’m sorry, had it gone on much longer I’m not sure where I would have ended up.

Yes, have had both vaccinations but I will be avoiding busy places as much as possible and wearing a mask when I can’t avoid them. I haven’t been in a pub or restaurant, or to a concert or museum, for over a year, so I can wait a bit longer. I am group 6 but don’t consider myself especially vulnerable. I am, however, very very concerned about long covid and I will do all I can to reduce my risk of catching it for that reason.

Hell no. I’m double vaccinated but even before I had my second I was going to the gym regularly, meals out etc. Life is for living and once my parents were fully vaccinated I’ve been doing what I please.

As a pp has said, you could get ill from so many viruses. My toddler DS was admitted to hospital recently with a respiratory infection. I’ve been horrendously ill before with norovirus or similar. There are other viruses!

for anyone with a vulnerable child, that is just the worst situation to be in and once again it seems like little thought/priority has been given. I really hope vaccinations are given to anyone under the age of 18 who is CV soon.

Am also worried about totally unvaccinated DS2. The most crowded place he will be expected to go is school. Does taking personal responsibility include taking the decision that your child would be safer not going to school?

I've had Covid and still feel exhausted 6 months later, I don't want to catch it again.

I'll stick to outdoor things, pubs, restaurants, have friends in the garden, go to the shops when it's quieter not at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon. I will wear a mask on public transport. I won't be going to the cinema anytime soon.

Nope I can't wait 😁😁

Fully vaccinated but fully expecting to catch it at some point, either now or in 2,5, 10 years etc so I don't mind 😁

I'll be avoiding crowds now we're in the third wave and people have just had the green light to do what the hell they like. If I lived in a country that emphasised collective responsibility rather than so-called personal responsibility - which is meaningless talk in the context of airborne infectious diseases - I'd be behaving differently but well here we are.

There are so many reasons to be cautious -
reducing incidence of long covid, protecting those with clinical vulnerabilities and enabling them to have a degree of agency/life opportunity by mitigating the spread are chief rn - and so few reasons to do away with all precautions ("I don't like masks" doesn't count). If behaviour and sensibility in public spaces doesn't take account of any of that then I'm not going to go into said spaces unless I have to.

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.