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.

@UnicornMadeOfPinkGlitter- we were all ill a few weeks ago but it wasn’t Covid. Same has happened to lots of our friends, terrible flu like summer colds - multiple tests for many, all negative. There is a lot of stuff going around at the moment. I am happy my preschooler got a cold to be honest. She needs to build some immunity. Fingers crossed you don’t have Covid…

I don’t feel that safe. Will continue to avoid crowds indoors and wear a mask. Will not be going inside shops, pubs or restaurants. I’m my suburb, cases have been below 3 for months. They are currently at 12.

Seems like this is supported by the majority according to this poll.

I don’t feel all that safe. I feel very let down by the government because I think stricter border controls may have prevented Delta getting in and out of hand. I feel even more let down by the fact that they are abandoning all caution on the 19th and going for “personal responsibility” instead. The problem with this is that you see all the “I’ll do my own risk assessment” types who will not keep their distance or wear masks, so if you want to wear a mask yourself in the supermarket or wherever, it’s not going to do much good if loads of others are wandering about unmasked. I’m worried about this. I also don’t feel as safe as I thought I would when I got double jabbed. This is mainly because of the rising case numbers and the fact that we have an unvaccinated school-aged child.

I’m not a hermit - I go running with people and I also go to karate - but I don’t feel all that safe. I know a lot of people who have (or have recently had) covid and they were all double jabbed.

Safer, but keen to avoid catching it. Keen for my DC not to catch it. DD gets quite ill with a cold, so I'm worried she would really be knocked. I had really nasty flu about her age and then developed CFS/ME. I'm worried there may be a vulnerability there somewhere (one of my sisters also was diagnosed with ME at a similar age).

Safe, but then I was never very worried anyway. I'm 40s, fit and a healthy weight - pretty sure I had Covid in the first wave last spring, and it was like a bad cold for me. My worry has always been giving it to someone at higher risk than me, and as everyone around me has been double jabbed I'm now relaxed about that too. No, I don't want to get ill, but I don't want to get flu or norovirus or sepsis either, and I don't live my life in a state of anxiety in case I get those in a normal year.

I had no wish to go to a crowded bar, a football match, Wimbledon centre court, or a theatre before Covid, so I'm not about to rush out and do that now. I will happily browse the shops though (in a mask), go out for coffee, meet friends, and do pretty much anything outside that doesn't involve close proximity to crowds.

Do I feel 'safe'? Yes, I suppose I do, but I don't want to catch Covid and then have to isolate for 10 days, and I certainly don't want to have to contact my kids' schools and ruin the first two weeks of umpteen families' school summer holidays!

For myself I feel pretty safe I just worry about passing it to 17 year old Ds.

Double jabbed Dd tested positive a week ago along with 9 classmates and unlike her non vaccinated friends had no symptoms. Another friend who has had 1 jab got mild symptoms. The rest have been pretty poorly.

Every few years or so I tend to get a flu type virus that knocks me for six for a few days. If Covid becomes like that for me I can cope.

4 of my dc also have it. One I have let go stay with a +sibling so haven't seen her... All spread out at home as some are -.. Terrible times...

I'm single jabbed currently so I benefit from both the reduced risk of not being in one of the highest risk/age groups who are double jabbed because they are at more risk than me.

And I have have one more vaccine than the unvaccinated so I have more protection than several million people.

Purely on vaccine status I am objectively low risk and pretty sanguine about the government abandoning all protections and showing us what "living with covid" while the kids are off school looks like.

I feel ok enough not to change my behaviour from normal.

Double jabbed, late 40s I must be low risk.

I've never been overly worried about catching it but I think that's because I've pretty much carried on as normal throughout. No masks or social distancing possible in my job. My daughter caught it at Xmas and it was mild for her and I didn't catch it then and that was before being vaccinated. Being vaccinated now means I feel pretty safe.

I feel safe enough. Happy to go to pubs, events, weddings etc. Time to move on for me and accept it will still be here in one form or another for the foreseeable future.

I am double jabbed, but won’t be going in crowded shops and will be wearing masks still. Just because I am jabbed doesn’t mean I won’t get it, and I don’t want it however mild a form it maybe in

I also do it to protect vulnerable family members

Not very. Work with schools with many bubbles closed. One DHT seriously ill, her DH hospitalised. One DHT, pregnant and her DH has died - heart attack caused by COVID. All double jabbed.

Anecdotal of course - and small sample.

I worry what the next couple of months hold. I think we could be in for a really rough time.

Dh and I both double jabbed (2nd doses in May) and have both tested positive this week after DS got it from school. We have both been feeling pretty rough with cold/flu like symptoms but I guess it would have been worse unvaccinated.

I have never felt ‘unsafe’ as far as Covid is concerned. Probably helps that I had it in the first wave (it wasn’t pleasant, I got over it).
I have continued to follow the rules to avoid potentially passing it to others, but have never been concerned for myself.
I can’t wait to get back to the office, if they ever let me. My house is not suitable for having two of us working from home and it’s encroaching on our home life.

Fairly safe. But I still won't be going to restaurants, hairdressers or the gym. If I needed to isolate it would annoying.

I've never been fearful, as such. I've idly considered the chance of getting seriously ill, but never been scared.

I barely go anywhere to catch it that way. My biggest risk is the kids bringing it home from school. DS was exposed, but didn't get it, earlier this year.

I'm currently arguing with myself internally about wanting fewer restrictions vs protecting the vulnerable. I'm not convinced right now is the right time to relax restrictions is where I'm currently at.

Very safe, but like others, I did before I was vaccinated. I'm a teacher in Italy, in a region which always had very low infection figures anyway. Precautions and restrictions we're in place from the go-get to protect us, and there was high compliance.
What would worry me would be passing on the virus to someone else and making them seriously ill. I still SD from my 90 year old in-laws for example. We go to their house, obvs, just are careful

I don't go in pubs or nightclubs, so I'm not overly bothered.
I'm otherwise statistically unlikely to get very ill. I'll still avoid being around people if I can, but I'm not going to lock myself away.

Dc and dp tested positive and have been mildly unwell this week. I had a test yesterday and it came back as negative (no symptoms). I am double jabbed and hoping to avoid getting covid this time. If I managed to get unharmed I will feel rather safe.

I'll be double next week, dp is double. The only thing that concerns me right now is one of us coming down with it or an immediate family member and it messing up our wedding in six weeks because of isolation. I've never been concerned about us catching and being ill, we're very low risk, but I've been more concerned about me having to isolate as I am self employed and cannot simply drop my business for ten days without far reaching consequences, and not just short term financial.

I feel safer but not safe . I will carry a mask and wear it on public transport and where I have to go inside a place that seems very crowded . Where possible I will.maintain distance from people though that is pretty impossible to do reliably if you are going anywhere where many others won't social distance ( ie most places) as social distancing only really works of majority are practising it as much as is practical .

Safe as I will be.
I'm not worried for me.

Very safe (single jabbed, heart condition but not CV). I felt pretty safe prior to being vacvinates though. My risk of hospitalisation was somethimg tiny like 0.04%. Like most people.

I really do not understand all this hysteria in healthy people under 40 😐 Grow a backbone and get on with your bloody lives!

I do have a cev 3 year old who I am crossing my fingers for. She is obviously not going to ne eligible for the vaccine any time soon. However, I really believe we have to balance the risks of Covid with the risk of our children missing out on normal human experiences and education!