Where are you with covid anxiety?

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On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being not at all anxious, pretty much getting on as normal and 10 being dreadfully anxious with it still having a huge impact on day to day life where are you?

I'm definitely around a 1 or 2 but I work with people and know people who are turning down invitations to events and still incredibly worried. I was just wondering how common each opinion is.

1. Caught at work march 2020 and ill for 16 months, still not completely back to normal, beginning to think I never will be! Just grateful to be alive, many nhs colleagues my age are not!! Was a very healthy 62 year old, never even had flu despite working for years in hospital on wards and A&E. Was very anxious initially going back to work as felt if I got it again I couldn't cope, but haven't got it again yet and now, other than having to wear PPE it just feels like normal at work. Still unsure about wearing masks in supermarkets, sometimes I do sometimes I don't. Tend to look and see how many are. I know they don't protect the wearer from first hand experience 😕so just wearing out of politeness/consideration for other people's feelings. !

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I'm more anxious about wearing a mask and restrictions being reintroduced.

1. I've had covid and it was mild for me. Obviously we don't know what the next variant will bring but there's no point worrying about that before it's happened.

Catching it 1. I am asthmatic, fully vaccinated, my DH and one of my DSs have had it and I didn’t catch it.

The repercussions of it, I.e more lockdowns, complete division of people over vaccines, not being able to ever go back to normal, constantly having to subject my 2 year old to PCR tests because he’s a toddler and they tend to get everything going, about 5 if I think too much about it.

I was a 9 as all my kids have it now so I’m concerned DH and I will get it and not be able to look after them. It’s going down to a 5 but still concerned we’ll catch it. It’s the unpredictable nature of it and I do not do coughs well! I had a bad virus that lead to months of coughing about 10 years ago so that is my biggest worry. Ds out of isolation and he had a good week of feeling crap. Youngest DD is the worst. She had a massive coughing fit and felt she couldn’t breathe yesterday and so it took a lot of calming her down. She’s had a really high fever and sore throat. I’m hoping that’s her over the worse.i middle daughter just shrugs when you ask if she’s ok. I will feel less anxious when the virus is out the house quite frankly. Then anxiety may go down.

1 for myself & kids.

For my mum, more like an 8.

For myself and our youngsters, 1. For (double vaxxed) CEV husband who’s now required to travel to cities occasionally for work, 4 or 5.

I have fully accepted that, as an older primary teacher, I will catch Covid sooner or later. I am hoping that I will not be too severely ill, as I am double vaccinated.

I worry about giving it to my frail elderly parents, whose risk despite double vaccination is still pretty high (interesting death rate graphs from Chris Whitty at the latest press conference), so i only visit them at the end of school breaks to minimise this risk. To a lesser extent, i also worry about giving it to others in my community, so I wear a mask to protect them from the risk that I pose to them.

Anxiety over my risk is probably therefore a 2. Anxiety over the risk I pose to vulnerable others, probably closer to a 4 or 5.

1 about getting it, 3 about elderly/vulnerable relatives getting it (all have had it before and are fully vaccinated so not super anxious any more) and 5 or 6 about restrictions being re-introduced.

7 but I’m in the middle of fertility treatment and waiting on possibly-cancer biopsy results for DH so really don’t want to catch it just now. And I’m a secondary teacher and it’s rife at work, double jabbed staff succumbing every few days, kids off in every class, still no masks in school and it feels like the govt have promised to keep schools open but made no efforts to make that feasible in terms of mitigation (no masks, no bubbles, protocols for ventilation in our school have gone from paying someone on site team to to round early am and open all windows etc to leaving it to teachers, so it isn’t happening because we’re rushed off our feet and lots of people forget). I feel really fed up.

1. No anxiety, l have worked throughout in a busy supermarket, seen very little impact, my routine has stayed the same, son carried on working in bank, and younger already successfulmy hone home schooled . None of us have yet to come down with it, l don't listen to the news, or read newspapers and tend to stay off most of the corona posts on here as l can't relate to them at all. Everyone l know is very calm about it all and just getting on with life.

1 I’m not anxious about it and haven’t been all along (for myself, I have been worried for my parents).

1, as I have Covid right now 2nd time around. Horrible 48 hours but feeling a lot better now, much shorter bout this time.

4 about coping at work (hospitals). It's just such a long infectious period, makes staffing incredibly difficult and there's not very many of us.

About 8.

DD(19) is CV and has been advised by her various consultants to carry on shielding. So she's not leaving the house at all and fully intends to live like this forever if needs be, as her anxiety at seeing maskless people not social distancing makes her feel extremely unsafe (which it is tbf). And yes, it is a shit way to live but she has PTSD from getting ill over and over again for the past 6 years, so has been advised to avoid unsafe and traumatic situations.

I'm slightly less drastic but wear a n95 mask indoors and socially distance everywhere and will do so for as long as I need to as it's no hardship for me. And won't go to cinemas or theatres etc.

Older primary teacher. Just want to get it over with in a way - while I’m recently vaccinated.
I’m uncomfortable about children being in when their families have the virus (especially as nobody tells us) but I also cannot do all the stop start school again - so on I plod.

@Robinred81

Probably a 2. I don’t really give it much thought anymore but I am still slightly cautious of catching it when in very busy places such as big shopping centres. If I’m somewhere that isn’t particularly busy I give it zero thought

I'm the same, but I never liked crowded places anyway.

I was a 10, went down to a 5 after being DJd.
Then caught covid. So I feel pretty unlikely to get it again any time soon.
I'm a 1 now but unfortunately DH is vulnerable and much more cautious so a lot of things I'd like to do now I can't do with him.

Hovers between a 1 and a 2. I had what I'm convinced was covid very early last year, before the first lockdown (and before testing etc, hence not being totally sure). It was like a lingering, weird cold for me although I had all the 'classic' symptoms (plus some of the other mentioned ones).

What worries me, much more than covid itself, is the ongoing and subtly building narrative around the NHS 'not coping' and with this particular government in power, what that means for future privatisation of the health service. I'm lucky in that I can afford private healthcare; I know many, many people who cannot and I can see a two- or even three-tier system manifesting within the next five years or so.

1. There is always the possibility (as it is for everybody) of catching something from somewhere my body cannot then cope with.
2. There is always the possibility (as it is for everybody) of dying suddenly.

I kept to the rules, though.

I have two at secondary school. One's just gone for a pcr after a positive LFT, the other had Covid last year. I'm more anxious about their education (y11) and the opportunities they are missing still.

We are 48, go to gigs and cinema. It's when, not if, for us with two teens I feel.
Also, I work in education (business side) so can't avoid mixing.

I've gone from around an 8 or a 9 last year to around a 2 or a 3. I'm still taking some precautions but I'm living a fairly normal life now, going to work, accepting invitations etc. Being doubly vaccinated has helped a lot, and I've also reduced my own risk factors by losing a lot of weight.

Some of my family are still being extremely cautious, but most people I know are now mostly back to normal. Sometimes I wonder if we have all become too complacent, but equally, I wonder what will need to change for the ones who are still being super cautious.

I'm about an 8. Diabetic and disabled with a long term health condition. I'm double jabbed but worry about DH working in a customer facing role, DD1 at college and DD2 at school. I pretty much only leave the house for my numerous hospital appointments and am a nervous wreck the whole time I'm there.

I need to get my head round covid being here forever and deal with the anxiety!!

I’m not overly worried about catching it anymore. I’d still rather not and I’m vaccinated but feel it will happen at some point. The vaccinated people on the ward I work on who have had it since vaccination have been ok. Some felt worse than others but all back at work within 2 weeks. Lockdowns were hard for me, in my area where we were in tiers type restrictions early and nothing reopened bar shops after the November lockdown so I’m more than ready I’m ok to live with it but carefully. I just wish it wasn’t causing as many serious illness and deaths still.

I’m still anxious for my vulnerable older parent so I’m still careful around them. I still wear masks on transport/shops. Figured if it helps with the nasty viruses emerging at the minute it’s a bonus.

I’m asthmatic, so before my first jab I was at 8-9 on this scale, eg washing / quarantining groceries, avoiding anywhere crowded, only going to supermarkets in the evenings, not seeing friends & family indoors etc etc.

Since having my second jab, I have relaxed significantly. I have flown, used the Tube, been to outdoor sporting events, eaten in pubs & restaurants etc, but I’m still not quite ready for gigs / nightclubs etc. Probably 2-3on the anxiety scale.