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If you haven't been vaccinated (out of choice)

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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 19:30

How 'safe' do you feel?

Are you minimising your potential risk of covid?

How different is your life now than in typical years to 2019?

I think I'm mainly curious about whether people's life is different anyway after the last 18 months....
I know mine is. I went shopping yesterday and struggled with the lighting, the lack of available seating etc ... And I'm unlikely to be keen for a repeat experience for a while, so the way I spend my time is likely to be a lot different anyway, without even taking covid itself into consideration...

Are differences because things are slow to start up? because you've formed new habits anyway? Out of not wanting to contract covid/have to isolate/anything else.

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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 19:31

The quotation sort of comes from a comment I read about how people who have been vaccinated might feel a lot more secure or and about now...

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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 19:32

Sorry..question

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illuyankas · 15/08/2021 19:37

What do you feel? Are you vaccinated or unvaccinated?

Sanblasamor · 15/08/2021 19:41

I won't be getting vaccinated and don't feel any different to 'before'. I've had covid and have antibodies for now. I do anything I would do before.

XenoBitch · 15/08/2021 19:42

All the things I would consider unsafe to do is stuff I never did anyway (nightclubs, mass gatherings etc), so life has not changed too much for me.

illuyankas · 15/08/2021 19:51

Those who chose not get vaccinated, do you think you still feel safe if the vaccine take up was so low in UK and cases are soaring like they are in certain states in US at the moment?
Or you just don't think covid isn't real or just think it's just a flu, and don't realise you are lucky that you are protected by other people who took the risk?

XenoBitch · 15/08/2021 19:53

@illuyankas

Those who chose not get vaccinated, do you think you still feel safe if the vaccine take up was so low in UK and cases are soaring like they are in certain states in US at the moment? Or you just don't think covid isn't real or just think it's just a flu, and don't realise you are lucky that you are protected by other people who took the risk?
That is not what OP is asking, and I am sure they wont appreciate their post being derailed into a bashing of the unvaccinated... like every thread where an innocent question is asked turns into.
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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 19:54

@illuyankas

Those who chose not get vaccinated, do you think you still feel safe if the vaccine take up was so low in UK and cases are soaring like they are in certain states in US at the moment? Or you just don't think covid isn't real or just think it's just a flu, and don't realise you are lucky that you are protected by other people who took the risk?
This sounds like it's being asked in a very critical way..... I won't be answering as I feel it will detail the thread.
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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 19:54

Derail. Bloody autocorrect.

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Mantlemoose · 15/08/2021 19:55

DP's answers:
How 'safe' do you feel? Perfectly
Are you minimising your potential risk of covid? No
How different is your life now than in typical years to 2019? I lost my job due to covid so financially very different, otherwise, not.

Mantlemoose · 15/08/2021 19:56

@illuyankas

Those who chose not get vaccinated, do you think you still feel safe if the vaccine take up was so low in UK and cases are soaring like they are in certain states in US at the moment? Or you just don't think covid isn't real or just think it's just a flu, and don't realise you are lucky that you are protected by other people who took the risk?
Yes No
Mantlemoose · 15/08/2021 19:56

My answers - double vaccinated, feel a bit of a mug for doing so, was literally terrified into it. Will not be getting any booster.

sylbunny · 15/08/2021 19:59

@Mantlemoose

My answers - double vaccinated, feel a bit of a mug for doing so, was literally terrified into it. Will not be getting any booster.
Why do you feel like a mug?
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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 20:02

@XenoBitch

All the things I would consider unsafe to do is stuff I never did anyway (nightclubs, mass gatherings etc), so life has not changed too much for me.
Thankyou.

I do go to gigs. We went to two in February and March last year and suspect DH brought covid back from one of them.

I guess my life is naturally smaller because being indoors is still a bit shit (shopping, dining out) and I've found brilliant alternatives that I'd rather be anyway up to winter....covid or no covid.
But it's the change of pace I've the last 18 months andfinding new things that's causing the differences rather than any health worries.

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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 20:03

@Mantlemoose Flowers

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illuyankas · 15/08/2021 20:03

Mantlemoose, why do you feel like that? Who terrified you into it? There are so many people adamant not to get it. When you got the vaccine, you made the choice yourself. Get it or not get it, it was ultimately your choice. Feared to get it because you can't do things, it's still your choice, you took it because going abroad/ whatever is worth the risk?

namechangeandNC · 15/08/2021 20:05

I feel no more safe having been vaccinated, as I never felt unsafe before.

XenoBitch · 15/08/2021 20:10

Actually, I did do more pre-Covid (like sit in a cafe for hours and draw, that sort of thing) but I wont do it now... not because of Covid but for being judged for hogging a table for ages, especially when many cafes just wanted people to stay for the bare minimum time. Maybe things are back to normal in that respect, I don't know. My own poor mental health lately has kept me home and isolated anyway, and it is hard to get back to normality. That would be the case even if we were not in the midst of a pandemic.

MaxNormal · 15/08/2021 20:11

Unvaccinated here. I don't feel unsafe and never have throughout the pandemic. I'm not having it for medical reasons but fortunately those are not ones that increase my risk of having a bad outcome with covid.
I appreciate it's not the same for everyone.

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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 20:13

I felt worried for the first 3 weeks last year and not since.

I'm glad people have vaccines if they feel they want them.

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JurassicShay · 15/08/2021 20:17

Not vaccinated and nothing has changed for me.

I'm not that sociable so in the last 18 months I have been to our city centre twice, A trampoline park once, & pub once. The local villages & corner shop a few times a week.

I haven't thought about safely really. I did at the beginning as I was pregnant and the first few months of baby's life I was paranoid she would get poorly but that was probably post natal anxiety.

IfIwasablackbird · 15/08/2021 20:18

Unvaccinated and I feel safe, not because of the amount of other people who are vaccinated either. I wouldn’t expect anyone to take part in a medical trial for my benefit.
I bf my DS who has serious allergies, I won’t risk his health when nobody knows how it might impact his health. Yes, I have spoken to multiple doctors about this.

XenoBitch · 15/08/2021 20:19

@Buzzinwithbez

I felt worried for the first 3 weeks last year and not since.

I'm glad people have vaccines if they feel they want them.

Same here. During those first weeks, I was a shopping washer, someone who leaped into the road to avoid someone, got changed and showered after every shop visit.
boringbrain · 15/08/2021 20:20

Unvaccinated here. My life is different because I can't visit my family abroad. I don't want the vaccine yet but I'm not adamant to not get it at all. I'm waiting for the single shot vaccine Janssen but they probably won't give it to my age group anyway 🤷‍♀️

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Buzzinwithbez · 15/08/2021 20:20

@XenoBitch

I'm sorry to hear that things are a struggle at the moment. For what it's worth, the chain cafés were quite quiet when I ventured into my nearest city on Saturday and would have been fine to sit and draw.

The sense I got, comparing how eerily quiet my last visit there was last March when the anxiety was palpable was that people were relaxed and happy and keen to enjoy a day out.

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