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?

No. Though I will be masked in the tube and any crowded places. I did my shopping online before Covid anyway as I hate shopping. I am not a pub person but have been meeting friends in cafes.

@MyCreateIsUsernamed

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.

This in spades.

@blackwych "taking personal responsibility" is a crock of shit in this context. Most of the arseholes using it have no clue what it means.

I'm in Scotland; which currently has the highest rate of new covid infections in Europe. We're both at vulnerable age and conditions.

Since we were fully vaccinated we go out and about, avoiding crowds, observing social distance, hand hygiene, wearing masks in enclosed spaces. Both back in the world of meeting other people in safer conditions. Whenever we go to socially spaced but potentially risky environments (GP surgery, hospital outpatients) we observe additional precautions ( a shower and change of clothes on return home).

As part of ONS research we get monthly swab tests (for infection) and blood tests (for antibodies). So long as we have positive antibodies we'll keep up our current regime. Visits to quiet shops and selected eateries, private outdoor activities.

Meanwhile we keep up a regular supermarket home delivery; that's our back-up security for a future sudden lockdown. We'll still wear masks in enclosed spaces and use sanitisers and wash hands .

At the moment, yes because I don’t want to end up having to self-isolate as a contact over summer! Once that requirement goes I am fine with crowded places. I miss crowds.

Nope, I can't wait for restrictions to end and am delighted about the end of close contact isolation. I will be enjoying public spaces with friends and family.

We will carry on with what we are doing now including only going to outdoor places to eat or drink and visiting shops at quieter times. I will be keeping my mask and prefer to social distance with strangers anyway. I don't want 10 days at indoors at home with covid and ds if I can help it.

@secretllama

No. I wish the media would stop going on about cases too as I don't care.

I think it is important to report cases, although they don't necessarily need to be headline news. It is important to give people the information needed to judge their own person risk. Particularly if we are left to 'personal responsibility'

No, happy to be out in public and busy places. I'm not vaccinated, either.

@GoldenOmber

At the moment, yes because I don’t want to end up having to self-isolate as a contact over summer! Once that requirement goes I am fine with crowded places. I miss crowds.

They’ve just announced that from mid Aug if you’re double jabbed you’ll do a pcr rather than isolate, if you’re negative there’s no isolation for close contacts.

No. I will continue as I'm going now, just without a mask.

Yes, I’m double jabbed but my teens aren’t. I’d hoped we’d be able to have a summer of doing things they had missed out on last summer in the city (shopping, museums, galleries, restaurants, theatres blah) but it looks like we’ll be stuck doing outdoor things again.

I’m an older MN-er and I won’t be going anywhere crowded if I can help it. I have got used to having shopping and groceries delivered, it suits me fine! I probably will have the occasional pub meal as before, meet up with family indoors or out but I’m not going out of my way to do anything else.
I used regularly go into town, not particularly interested in returning to doing that, I don’t miss supermarket shopping one bit!

@Treezan82
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I think that is very unrealistic though isn't it? To live the rest of your life avoiding getting ill.*

     Millions of us with longterm serious medical conditions  are long used to "spending the rest of our lives avoiding getting ill".   It's just a change of mindset;  new habits that become so automatic they  are no hassle at all.   Long before covid   countless people have radically transformed their  lives to stay alive;  changed jobs, diet, lifestyle, hobbies,  social activities .

       It's a price  worth paying , and guess what, you might even find  those transformational  changes  make you a much healthier, happier  person with a more fulfilling life. 

       Covid is going to launch ALL of us into a total re-evaluation of what really matters in life and society.  A re-examination and shake-up  of  attitudes to   work, education, health, housing ,  diet, spending, medical care, consumerism, community  awareness and support. 

       Don't be scared of change.

Yes, I'll be avoiding them. I hope we don't end up in a mess for the new school term in Sept. And I'd like the NHS to catch up a bit.

No, worked through the majority of lockdown, customers not keeping distance properly was the norm. Spent so much time in the workplace amongst crowds of people getting too close but couldn't see family or friends. So done with it all now. That said, I don't blame people who want to continue with masks/distancing if that's what they want to do. It's their choice at the end of the day. We've had no choice for all these months, masks worn for hours at work, struggling to hear, see, breathe! No more.

Reading some of these responses, it's clear that some people will never feel safe to go out normally again. This isn't a sly dig or me being smug but I just really struggle to understand what more people want in order to feel safe again once they've been double vaccinated and the proof is showing its working (I'm not speaking about clinically vulnerable people).

[quote MyCreateIsUsernamed]@blackwych "taking personal responsibility" is a crock of shit in this context. Most of the arseholes using it have no clue what it means.[/quote]
Agree with this. Also don't want to have to self isolate
I will just think twice about every situation. Doesn't mean I won't do a range of things, just probably not as regularly as I would have done pre pandemic

@CuckooCuckooClock

Yes. If no masks and no social distancing and no limited numbers then my family will certainly be avoiding a lot of things this summer.

And next Autumn and next winter and next spring and next summer ....and repeat

Or you could just get on with your life knowing you are vaccinated and unlikely to get covid or if you do only mildly

@secretllama

Reading some of these responses, it's clear that some people will never feel safe to go out normally again. This isn't a sly dig or me being smug but I just really struggle to understand what more people want in order to feel safe again once they've been double vaccinated and the proof is showing its working (I'm not speaking about clinically vulnerable people).

I honestly think people want covid free. However it's been said by many of the scientists that we will never be covid free. It will become seasonal, with one variant or another constantly with us. It's really sad how much fear people have to live their lives now. Too much fear-mongering has happened during this pandemic via the media and it's changed so many peoples views.

Not at all. We eat out 8-10 times a month, go to gigs, theatres etc.

Yes.

It's ripping through schools, while society pretends there's nothing to see now. Just hoping to get to the end of term.

I was out in my city this weekend. Personal responsibility is a joke as very few masked in shop queues now.

No, I’ll just be getting on with things as normal. Looking forward to being able to browse mask-free in shops again; might finally be able to buy some clothes that fit properly.

Ripping through schools?....ffs it's not the plague. Mild cold like symptoms for children

"but I just really struggle to understand what more people want in order to feel safe again once they've been double vaccinated and the proof is showing its working."

I don't want to self isolate for 10 days which would mean severely autistic ds having to stay inside for 10 days as he can't go out without us. Cases are high so the risk of catching covid is high. The biggest risk is ds bringing it home from special school which we can't avoid but we can avoid other high risk situations.