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My young people - both positive it’s rife here!

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Benji13 · 25/07/2021 20:55

We have 2 sons at home still aged 20 and 24. Both now positive following bojos get out and get back to normal edict.

Ds2 aged 20 currently isolating elsewhere after visiting pals student shared house and testing positive there - double jabbed due to job and feels fine just feels bit of a cold.
Ds1 been very 🙄 sociable BUT does also travel on train to work (and works in open
Plan office) and since last week lots not wearing masks and packed in like sardines on the train soooo. He went nightclubbing last night and is symptomatic this morning feeling bloody awful, was due 2nd jab in 2 weeks.

Dh had covid last spring and me and the boys kept away and avoided it. Ds1 is isolated in his room and moaning. Keeping everything crossed 🤞 but all through this I’ve been VERY scared of covid.

I’m so annoyed feel we have been thrown to the wolves why didn’t Bojo wait until more of the kids (18 plus) were jabbed??

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Nicknacky · 25/07/2021 21:41

Ah, just as I thought.

It’s easy to shout about lockdowns lasting longer when they WFH.

Covidforever · 25/07/2021 21:43

@Sweettea1

Bojo did not force your son to be very socialable or go to a packed nightclub. Your son is surely able to check out his surroundings and decide if he thinks its safe or not.

Its not unreasonable to think that if the PM etc opens up all facilities, people will take adv of them?

After all the assumption is "it must be safe, the risk is low" or they wouldn't open them up to us?

Most young people aren't yet cynical enough to realise they are part of a huge experiment in HI, which one hopes will work.

starfish4 · 25/07/2021 21:44

In the ideal world, I'd have wanted us to wait to a later date as I have a 19 year old, who has started being very careful and not mixing with one friend who goes out regularly partying. If she gets covid now, she can't have her second vaccine which she needs to do her year abroad with uni (country won't let her in if she's double vaccinated.

Figgygal · 25/07/2021 21:44

Whether they were out for work or pleasure they’ve been out A LOT it’s not a surprise they’ve caught it
Hope they don’t suffer too much

waltzingparrot · 25/07/2021 21:44

Well that's really interesting, and quite encouraging... So your son who is double jabbed is not suffering much where as your son who is not yet fully jabbed is.

Bojo said it's time to make your own decisions as we have to learn to live with this now, but please, please make sensible, careful decisions. DS2 should probably have made the decision not to go clubbing until he'd been double jabbed.

mrshoho · 25/07/2021 21:47

@Wellbythebloodyhell

No one forced your DC to go out to night clubs or partying, if they, and you, thought there was zero chance of them catching covid, or any other transmissible virus for that matter, then more fool them, and you, for being so incredibly naive.

Honestly I think if Boris told everyone to put their hand in a burning fire many would be stupid enough to do it without fear of getting burnt

what is the point in demanding an end to all restrictions but then criticising the people who go out and make use of them? They may as well keep them closed in that case.

BareGrylls · 25/07/2021 21:48

Some truly nasty comments on here about young people who have done nothing wrong. I have two DC in their 20s both newly double jabbed. Their lives have been on hold for 18 months, both working. One in a hospital the other a teacher so both in high risk places every single day. Abided by rules to the letter throughout. I'd be delighted if they got some normality back.

Starlive23 · 25/07/2021 21:50

Totally agree OP, I can see why they tried to tie in the reopening with the summer holidays but wish more of the younger generation had been double jabbed, I'm 37 and only got my second dose last week along with almost everyone I know, so people younger have no chance. Bit shit really.

mrshoho · 25/07/2021 21:51

A few people on here just trying to excuse our incompetent government of any responsibility.

NoNobramma · 25/07/2021 21:54

We just returned from a holiday in England at centreparcs and one of the young adults with us has tested positive for covid. Interesting to see if the double vaccinated adult also with us develops it too or the unvaccinated ones…

Lazypuppy · 25/07/2021 21:57

Does it really matter if they hqve caught it? Most people are probably going to catch it, they are double jabbed and youbg so most likely to have a mild dose, feel a bit ill and get over it like most illnesses they have got in the past

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Benji13 · 25/07/2021 21:57

I think it’s also worth my pointing out here that ds2 worked through the pandemic for the ambulance service, at high risk. He’s now off to uni in sept hence the pub job for now. He’s definitely done his bit and played by the rules.

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Valhalla17 · 25/07/2021 21:59

They're jabbed already, so what's the problem? Sorry to hear they are unwell, and hope they recover soon....but the vax isnt a cure. We all know this surely by now.

Wellbythebloodyhell · 25/07/2021 22:04

what is the point in demanding an end to all restrictions but then criticising the people who go out and make use of them?

I'm all for things re opening and restrictions lifting but I'm not stupid enough to think that it means I wont get covid should I choose to partake in higher covid risk scenario.
Everything closed = media instills in us that we'll all die if we dare to step outside for anything that's not essential. Everything open = media promotes freedom day its over let's all party. Yet we're very quick to say we most definitely are not "sheeple" The MSM and Government propaganda have played a blinder during this whole pandemic and we all fall for whatever narrative they are spinning that week. Frightening tbh.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 25/07/2021 22:06

I mean, you've got to be really stupid if you think everything's OK because Boris says it is.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 25/07/2021 22:08

@Wellbythebloodyhell

what is the point in demanding an end to all restrictions but then criticising the people who go out and make use of them?

Who actually thinks that though?

I'm not scared of Covid at all. Doesn't mean I think I'm invincible to it, it means I'm happy to go out and take my chances with it, whatever the consequences may be. I expect a lot of people feel that way.

vegas888 · 25/07/2021 22:13

So he went out, feels fine but just a bit cold. So would it be preferable that we all hide at home and let all businesses go bust?

herecomesthsun · 25/07/2021 22:22

All businesses are not going to go bust if people exercise a bit of caution.

Missedopportunity · 25/07/2021 22:31

A lot of young people don't want to be vaxxed. Only about 55% of 18 - 29 group have had the first dose and there's tons of appointments available so you've got to think 40-45% are not going to be vaccinated. This is the age group your sons are mixing with. Would you want the whole country to lockdown until this 40-45% have a change of heart, which might be never?

ballsdeep · 25/07/2021 22:34

@DownWhichOfLate

Personal choice, isn’t it? Just because things are open doesn’t mean you have to go to them.

Exactly. Bojo is incompetent, we all know that. However , he didn't force your son to go clubbing. I'm Welsh, and am currently holidaying in Wales and the sheer amount of people who don't wear a mask really pisses me off. It's mandatory here!

Wellbythebloodyhell · 25/07/2021 22:35

*Who actually thinks that though?
*
Clearly OP does as she blames Boris for throwing young ones to the wolves.

Twintwix · 25/07/2021 22:38

Not sure why you think you've been thrown to the wolves? Your sons are healthy young men - Covid isn't a big risk to them at all.

Wheatfromchaff · 25/07/2021 22:42

Economy over lives? Bollocks. Anyone with half a brain can see that shutting the economy indefinitely is going to cost far more lives. There isn't a magic money tree.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 25/07/2021 22:48

They have played by the rules throughout but he’s now told them all is ok - freedom day 🙄

Who told them all is OK? I mean, I'm no Boris fan but he really didn't say that

User3456 · 25/07/2021 22:48

Really sorry to hear both your boys have caught it OP and I hope they are both better soon and that you manage to avoid it.
DS (teenager, not old enough for the vaccine) caught it last week from school (he hasn't been anywhere else and me and his dad have both tested negative). It's been a horrible time.
Government have absolutely been reckless, as they have been all the way through. If they had wanted to send a message of caution without harming the economy they could have at least kept a mask mandate in shops, public transport, offices, secondary schools and health settings. Plus the work from home if you can guidance. It doesn't cost them anything or damage the economy.
I can only conclude that this is their plan and they want people to catch it - they think it builds herd immunity (obvs it doesn't, vaccination is the way to do that) and they don't really care much if they cull a few old, ill or poor people in the process.
I do worry about long covid etc and think it's unethical and dangerous of the government to let it rip. I think it's going to be horrendous in schools from September. They're sinister.
DS was quite poorly for a few days, not going to lie I was a bit worried about him, however he does seem to have recovered ok, me and his dad are double vaccinated and seem to have avoided it (so far so good anyway, touch wood etc). I hope that's reassuring to you.
Sorry as well that the 'be kind' message so popular last year has been mislaid by other posters on here. Your two sons are poorly and you are understandably worried about a virus that's caused massive problems around the whole world. The odds are that things will be fine - but that doesn't mean it's unreasonable to be worried about this. You're right to be both angry with the government and their repeated mismanagement of this, and concerned for your family. Wishing you and your family all the best - chances are it will all be fine, fingers crossed.

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