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?

What's worrying is that people are considering starting to take more precautions now! Why on earth did it take you so long!

@Chocolatebox11

Just out of interest, at which point are you going go start learning to live with it? It’s not going away. If you still don’t feel safe after 2 vaccines then when will you?

My thoughts exactly

Many people here will be cautious.
But back in Real World 60,000 fans are going to be Wembley,

Homeschooling will be back with avengance by October!

Very unlikely in my opinion.

Drama llama

@LawnFever in our area there is a much lower take up only 40 per cent of adults have been vaccinated with both doses. The kids are all catching it and whereas with previous variants their friends weren’t catching it far more close contacts are testing positive. So if one of mine gets it then passes it on to the other two that’s another potential 30 days of isolation.

It’s all well and good us going on public transport and busy places with both vaccines but every place we take the kids is potential exposure.

I will definitely take precautions.

I was never risk adverse & won't become so now.

I'll be cautious, I'm double vaccinated but it's only 60% effective against delta and I don't want to have long covid or worse.

People are so impatient with this, pandemics can last years and this one won't be any different, trying to go back to a normal life in the middle of one is putting your head in the sand. Cases will sky rocket, and the more cases there are the more opportunities the virus has to mutate further away from the vaccine.

If I was Boris I would keep it as is, or even restrict further, until all adults and teenagers are double jabbed by september. It's a massive gamble for the sake of 8 weeks he's taking and could be the undoing of the brilliant headstart we had with our vaccine programme if young people are left crippled with long covid.

I won't be.

I've just taken my daughter and a friend shopping to a big mall.

Next week we are heading on holiday and are going to pubs and restaurants and then the children will be socialising like mad all holidays.

I cannot wait.

@MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously

I want cases to be going down, not up and I want my child vaccinated. Then I'll go back to normal.

Genuinely curious as to why people want children vaccinated. For them it has been a serious illness. Flu and the winter RSV (which hospitalised my DD in Dec 2019) are far more serious for young children, yet we've never locked down or isolated them from those. RSV ripped through schools in the winter of 2019/2020 and around half our school were off sick.

I just find it baffling that people are still not feeling able to live freely after the double vaccine and possibly already having had Covid (I have had it btw)
The scientists always said cases would rise once we opened up, which they are, but hospitalisation and death have remained very low. Surely we have to let the vaccine do its job now, don't we?

I’ve already moved an appointment which was scheduled post 19th to pre 19th because I’m not comfortable being in inside with people without masks.

I will certainly not be going out frequently or indoors until this 4th wave has subsided. I’m double jabbed but I don’t want to a) end up in isolation as a contact or b) end up having to isolate myself because I catch it (albeit likely to catch it mildly due to vaccine). I’m not scared of Covid but I don’t want isolation to ruin my holiday.

No.

Sorry that should have read Covid has never been a serious illness for children.

No, not worried. So pleased bubbles are going, isolations are going and our children will be able to get back to some normality bar the odd test here and there. Chuffed to be honest.

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

Yes, cautious here as well.

@OliveTree75

Homeschooling will be back with avengance by October!

Very unlikely in my opinion.

I am ever optimistic but realistic too so will inevitably prepare a spare room as additional office/study just in case as blended working at home living at work and remote off site schooling looks likely yet again unless younger children are also double vaccinated to have some hopeful protection against Indian Delta (Plus) and Peru Lambda or any other evolving mutating variants. Less outside fresh air living in autumn and winter months.

@curlyLJ at the moment it looks like the vaccine is my teens only chance of having a relatively normal exam year, without constant threat of isolation.
I'll take the tiny health risks of the vaccine to guarantee that, just as much as - if I was given the choice- I'd take the risks of Covid over self isolating and any further curtailment of DS receiving a face to face education.

I don’t agree with the term ‘ripping’ through schools either. Most kids either don’t know they have it or have very mild symptoms. Parents and vulnerable people at home will be double jabbed.

I do understand if you believe the vaccine won’t have worked for you and you are CEV then maybe you’d avoid crowds.

However, for healthy double jabbed people? I also wonder what more people want? Covid will always be around and we’re lucky to have vaccines that turn it in to a mild illness for most (even without vaccines it was mild for many, we’ve just upped that chance even more).

Wonder when they’ll stop reporting daily cases?

No, I won’t. I’ve had enough of it all now and want to live my life normally.

@colourchanginglipstick

I live in Scotland and avoid all indoor places simply because I hate wearing a mask...if I was in England I might start going to some again soon!

DITTO - but not holding out much hope for us to be honest. But I'm double vaccinated (which I took as we were told it was our way out of this) and look forward to 'getting on with life' when I'm permitted to.
Think our FM will use the next two or three weeks to see what happens in England before making any decision

@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).

Exactly, some people seem to think that Covid will go away and then they can resume life, at what point will they understand Covid is here long term?

I do feel for people who are worried but at the same time they can’t expect other people to not live their life freely.

i’m all for people making their own decisions, and if people want to avoid public places or wear a mask then go for it but don’t call others selfish for wanting to live a more normal life.

[quote rookiemere]@curlyLJ at the moment it looks like the vaccine is my teens only chance of having a relatively normal exam year, without constant threat of isolation.
I'll take the tiny health risks of the vaccine to guarantee that, just as much as - if I was given the choice- I'd take the risks of Covid over self isolating and any further curtailment of DS receiving a face to face education.[/quote]
The govt have announced today that from 16th August, isolations for under 18s who have come into contact with a positive case, will cease.
There will be no further disruption to education, thankfully!

Wonder when they’ll stop reporting daily cases?

Sooner the better. The government have made it clear they aren't really focusing on cases anymore, the public need to stop doing so as well. Hospitalisations - of those being treated for Covid, not people in hospital for something else who happen to test positive - should be the reported numbers now.

Nope. I would happily have lived normally at all points of the pandemic.