Is Covid rife now ?

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Me and my family are double vaccinated and have all just had Covid, so i do have confirmation bias at the moment, but is Covid just rife now in the UK?

So many people in my company have it too, (office job, work from home and go in very periodically).

Does it seem to have spread where you are too?

Greater London. DDs friends had it after a party, all age 17/18 and some other friends after coming back from Majorca, probably partying there too.

But other than that nobody.

We had surge testing in our area a few months ago but now our rates are below national average.

My view is that now vulnerable are vaccinated, infections now mean more people gaining immunity through infection which is good news as we head towards September and the winter with schools going back and more indoor mixing.

There was lots here 2/3 weeks ago. The figures for my area are still high but I no longer know anybody with it or isolating.

I’m in Sheffield. I know of 5 who caught it outdoors at the Tramlines festival.

SE - my son & 4 of his mates tested positive last week but they had all been out together & have only had 1 jab (they are 18/19).
My husband & I who are both double jabbed & have been in close contact with son have tested negative

North west. I know quite a few people who have been pinged but I don't know anyone who has it at the moment. But I tend to have older friends so maybe we're more cautious with mixing and don't work in offices anymore? I don't know. It's all anecdotal really.
326 per 100,000 fallen from 760 a month ago.
80% both vaccines
87% one vaccine.

Yep it's rife and even people who are double vaxxed are dying so, yay! We're all fucked.

Basically the government are lying. We have no idea what's going on or why but are fed what they want us to think so, good for you if you believe it and good for you if you don't. We're all fucked either way because we don't have a say!!

Zoe symptom study estimates there are 45,911 new cases a day at the moment and 669,433 people who currently have Covid.

@Egghead68

Zoe symptom study estimates there are 45,911 new cases a day at the moment and 669,433 people who currently have Covid.

that would only mean about 1% of the UK population, so less than 1 in 75 people.

I only know of one person who has it at the moment, someone from dh’s work. I’m in the NE and a few weeks ago there seemed to be loads more people with it. I probably would have described it as ‘rife’ then, not now. Fingers crossed it seems to be settling down now.

@lannistunut

you say the government has given up - so what do you want them to do at this point in time ?

No. I live in Greater London, and the only person I know who has had it (in January 2021), caught it from an unrelated hospital visit.
(obviously cant prove that, but during lockdown, that was the only plave she had been).
Still do not know any one else who has had it, or currently have it.

Seems most of the people I know who are getting it are all vaccinated.

Yes @Helocariad. I think the 1/75 figure comes from the ONS which is always a week out of date. The Zoe app does real-time estimates.

@LysistrataVickers People will call you out for that view but who knows. It seems funny to me how the majority of people are vaccinated but have all of a sudden caught the covid after avoiding it previously for over a year. No point worrying about it, lets look back this time next year and see where we are then.

Yes. I barely knew anyone who had it last year. Know a few now.
Seems mainly from gigs, nightclubs etc. Includes double vaccinated.
I still don't know anyone who has ended up in hospital.

Yes to where we are too, so many people I know have it or have had it in last few weeks. I'm not convinced the cases are being reported though as the local cases number is stable but I'm hearing through various social circles eh kids football team, school mums, local family that there are so many outbreaks

[quote Tana433]@LysistrataVickers People will call you out for that view but who knows. It seems funny to me how the majority of people are vaccinated but have all of a sudden caught the covid after avoiding it previously for over a year. No point worrying about it, lets look back this time next year and see where we are then.[/quote]
Not funny, just a strain that’s more than twice as infectious as the original.

@Egghead68 no not funny at all I agree. I've had it.

I'm sick of the fucking propaganda.

@LysistrataVickers

Yep it's rife and even people who are double vaxxed are dying so, yay! We're all fucked.

You are far, far less likely to die if you're double vaxxed. Just one dose offers up to 94% protection against hospitalisation. Sadly a very tiny number who are fully vaccinated will die - no vaccine is perfect.

Your post is misleading and a quite scaremongering.

Dorset....seems quite rife here

Thanks @Egghead68

I don't know anyone who has it currently. Family and some friends (living a 100s of miles away) had it last winter. But then I live in a rural area that's one of the least affected in the UK.

LysistrataVickersPeople will call you out for that view but who knows. It seems funny to me how the majority of people are vaccinated but have all of a sudden caught the covid after avoiding it previously for over a year. No point worrying about it, lets look back this time next year and see where we are then

People are catching it because they are changing their behaviour, they are changing their bwhaviour because they have been vaccinated.

SE here, I don’t know a single person with it at the moment. Don’t even know anyone isolating.