Double jabbed - how safe do you feel?

[PuzzledObserver]

Coverage in the press today about advice to employers being slimmed down - basically it will be up to them to do their own risk assessments and decide on policy in their premises. Also coverage (and a thread already) about Govt plans to make Covid passports compulsory for access to pubs, clubs and restaurants from the Autumn - to encourage take-up of vaccines among the young.

If you are double-jabbed - how safe do you feel and are there things you will still not do?

I am double-jabbed on top of having had Covid. I am happy to meet with small groups of people indoors, but keeping a reasonable distance. I will continue to avoid crowded and cramped places, and to wear a mask on public transport and in shops. The mask is more to protect others in the unlikely event that I am infected.

My logic is that Covid has more chance of overcoming my immunity if I’m exposed to a lot of it all at once, e.g. the crowded stuffy indoor setting, so that is to be avoided. Whereas a ‘glancing blow’ of Covid from a short exposure is unlikely to overcome my immunity. If anything, it will remind my immune system of who the enemy is, and strengthen it.

To be honest not very. I'm not living in fear (living in fear or not giving a shit are the only available options on here) but I really do not fancy covid. I hate being ill. I'm still going out for food and to the gym but crowded bars and theatres are off my list for the foreseeable future. I will mask on public transport but probably not in shops.

I don’t use pubs anyway and will avoid restaurants until case numbers are way lower. We are keeping our masks as relaxing everything with case numbers higher each day doesn’t feel the right decision.

my only "fear", I said elsewhere, is people being angry or terrified about transmitting covid.

DH predicted actual violence between those who demand masks and those insist they aren't required - in public places.

MNers seem very terrified -- that latent terror makes me feel very unsafe.
Except when I recall MN never represents real life.
So hopefully my fear of the angry or terrified is misplaced.

I'm also afraid of people insisting on performative behaviour to avoid giving/getting covid, but I acknowledge that's annoying not scary.

Net effect, I feel cautious about the future levels of fear & anger behaviour from others.

Double jabbed... Been as careful as I have always been - careful and def not reckless imo.
Tested positive a few days ago.

Gutted.
And am quite ill.

Safe enough, will still have to wear masks for work. Do lft twice a wk and pcr once a week.

I will continue to wear masks in crowded places and on public transport. I am double jabbed

Not safe at all. There's been so much fuss and misinformation about this virus that I no longer trust anything I read. I've done what seemed logical to me - I was offered vaccination, I took it. Apparently I'm now going to be magnetic, infertile and marked out for death as soon as I catch a cold, and it's all a plot by lizards who look like the Queen. Or something.

What the fuck. I'm keeping my mask, using hand sanitiser and staying the fuck away from anyone I don't need to be near.

The government are now starting to change their messaging on ‘freedom day’ because their polling is telling them that this week’s announcements landed badly. The public are more cautious than they expected.

I feel as safe from Covid as I will ever be. After 15 months of being very cautious due to my asthma, it’s time to start living again.

If I’m honest, I’m still a bit anxious in crowded places, but I recognise that I just have to get on with it. I went on the tube last week for the first time since before the pandemic and I'm fine, so onwards & upwards.

Not safe but safer.

Tbh I think it's inevitable I'll catch it at some point, just have to hope that the vaccine helps. Not particularly relishing the thought though.

@30degreesandmeltinghere, can I ask when you had your second jab? Hope you feel better soon.

4 weeks ago tomorrow for the second jab. 11 weeks before that for the 1st.
AZ and I am 50...
Thanks for the good wishes!

I was never particularly worried how we would deal with Covid as a family.

Now DH and I are double jabbed I am even less worried although I know there is a reasonable chance we could get it and have symptoms. We also have 2 children who I don't believe have been infected yet.

Very safe. I did even before I was vaccinated

I seem to stay in the same circle of friends and have been okay so far. I guess time will tell. I wear a mask to go to shops etc and am in Scotland so think I will do for some time

I am double vaccinated as is dh. Ds2 who is 19 has had one vaccination and dd who is 15 has not been vaccinated.
We have all been very ill this weekend. I started feeling ill on thursday and by Thursday evening could barely climb the stairs to go to bed at 6pm. I spent all day Friday drifting in and out of sleep with a cough and my body aching so bad.
Sent for a pcr test that arrives today. I have had a lateral flow that is negative but will edit further the pcr to come back before o go out or back to work.
Dd started getting ill on Friday and dh is ill today.
So yes I will still be cautious when we can return to normality. I will still wash my hands and sanitise and wear a face mask.

I can’t believe I’ve got through all of these months of working in a school that has been open fully throughout and not even gota cold and now when I’m vaccinated feel so rough.
My second vaccine was in may so long enough ago to be at full protection.

I am double jabbed and in my 40s. I have 4 children who attend school. I am still very careful with hand washing and will
continue to wear a mask. I am not particularly scared of getting Covid and have never been, but I want to do the right thing.

I think this virus is endemic and will be around forever - more worried about how it has complicated life in so many ways, how it is so political and how I will see friends and family (lots in different countries).
So I think the existence of the virus makes me feel unsafe but that has less to do with health and more to do with its effect on societies/history/politics. It is all very confusing and the rhetoric in different countries is so different and random.
I don’t even know if being exposed to the virus might actually boost my vaccine immunity… so just utterly confused. It doesn’t help that many other nations are looking at the U.K. in disbelief at the moment - because I have so many friends abroad I keep being texted etc. about what is going on here.

Not very. Am based in the North East and cases are over 700 per 100,000 which is as bad as Christmas. Mostly being spread by unvaccinated school kids. I’m a cv teacher. I have 2 primary age children one of whom is also cv. My husband is cv and I care for my elderly mum who is ecv. People are still getting ill who are double jabbed and hospitalisation are rising. I think relaxing restrictions when only half the population is vaccinated is utterly irresponsible.

Double jabbed, but I'm a teacher, so will pretty much inevitably catch it anyway sooner or later (quite possibly I've already had it asymptomatically anyway - colleagues have had experiences ranging from no symptoms through 'had worse hangovers to be fair' to seriously ill).

I'm resigned to it, & hoping the vax reduces severity at least.

I have worked on the NHS frontline all the way through. Have had COVID without even realising it and am double jabbed months ago.

I am safe as I will ever be…both for myself and in terms of my risk to others.

We’re in Scotland where the pace of easing is different. Both DP and I are double jabbed as of this week - me with Moderna and him with Pfizer. I’m happily going out for lunch/coffee but wouldn’t fancy a busy bar on a Saturday night for example. I agree with pp that it seems inevitable we will all catch it. Hopefully the vaccines will stop it being too severe.

2 of my DS’s are just in the middle of / finishing their 10 day isolations after positive tests. DH and I are double jabbed and haven’t caught it despite not taking any precautionary measures inside the home in the last week. Bizarre. Meh. I just feel that covid is here to stay and will swirl round us for years, but we can’t all start jumping 10 feet out of each other’s way in the lounge ad infinitum. Just gonna have to crack on tbh, we’ve got a vaccine, what else can we do?!

Not very safe as 4 double jabbed people I know have had covid in the last few weeks and have been really quite ill.
I try to remind myself though that this is never going away and that the jabs don’t prevent you getting it, they just help to prevent very poor outcomes

As safe as I’ll ever be. But I don’t expect to be “kept safe” by anyone else from a virus doing what a virus does

Feel great. I’m not living in fear anymore. I’ve been mixing at work throughout as a key worker and been exposed on multiple occasions and not been unwell.

I'm quite anti social anyway so I feel quite safe and free going about my daily business.
I'm using covid to avoid having to visit the mother in law so if she asks I'm petrified 🤣 but seriously I'm feeling comfortable going shopping,eating out ect but will wear my mask in crowded areas because although I probably wouldn't end up in hospital if I did catch covid I'm a cater for my son and I couldn't do that properly if I was ill x