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.

Couldn’t care less now … wash hands regularly and use anti bac but always did … just getting on with life.

A lot depends on personal experience I guess. Sorry to those who have lost someone close due to covid.

I had Covid in December, felt fluey for a week or so bit no cough or breathlessness. Managed to isolate within the house so only I got it.

As I said previously, the biggest impact for my household has been on the mental health of DD so I am desperate for normality for her. DH is a pessimist and is convinced we will be under restrictions again over winter. I am (naively or not) refusing to even consider this is an option!

Covid itself--not personally worried at all. I'm sure I'll get it and I'm sure it'll be a cold.

The societal impact of the pandemic does worry me a lot.

Number wise, I see you are asking about fear of the virus itself. I guess I'll give a 2 out of 10.

I was quite anxious and avoiding large gatherings, busy shops etc but now have Covid so I might be a bit more relaxed in a few weeks!

I expected to catch it once the kids went back to school but didn't expect it to be in the first week of term!

I was not concerned, in fact I'd become quite complacent. But me, dh, and one of our dc currently have it and it is horrible. Me and dh are double vaccinated. Dc is only 8 and although no symptoms, he's been wiped out for a week and looks ill and has hardly ate.
I don't want this again, and I am fit and healthy. I dread to think what it could do to my parents for instance.

April 2020 - now - anxiety about covid = zero

February - March 2020 - anxiety about covid = probably 100/10
I was genuinely terrified that civilisation was about to nosedive into apocalypse, we'd all either starve, be irradiated by nuclear power station meltdowns or killed off by marauders if covid didn't get us first. I literally could only manage to sleep an hour a night and force myself to eat a few mouthfuls of food a day at this stage.

Ironically, I might have had covid pretty much asymptomatically in late March/early April '20... I had the tiniest tickle in my throat, slightly "bleachy" airways (no worse than walking into a freshly cleaned public toilet) and a couple of night sweats where I woke up in the middle of the night drenched as if someone had chucked a bucket of water over me. Otherwise felt 100% fine in myself.

In the wider socio-economic/political sense, probably about a 4 now. Concerned about how it all intersects with supply chains, Brexit, the lorry driver crisis, container ship shortages, health passports etc etc, could be in for a bumpy couple of years.

1 for the actual virus but prob a 2/3 for the disruption catching it would cause.

2 or 3 for catching it (again). Last time I was pretty unwell for 6-7 weeks and unable to work at all for 4 of those. I'm a teacher and don't want my exam classes to miss out on me teaching them for that long this year. I was definitely too ill to work though, so if I catch it again and have similar symptoms I won't be in. I still have some symptoms 9 months on (mainly my sense of smell is not right).

Mostly though I'm not too worried in general life - still wearing a mask in shops, transport etc. The only thing I won't do is book international travel but that is through concerns about rules changing or catching it abroad and being stranded. I regularly chose to holiday in the UK pre-covid though so I'm not that bothered about going abroad.

Zero

1. Practically been living a normal life as possible since March 2020. I did have covid April 2020- I was lucky in that I was over it within a week. Not a single colleague of 20plus people has caught it- and we are in West London in a "highly" affected borough. I've had constant warnings from those who are more on number 10 about catching it again, vaccinations waning, insisting on mask wearing etc. I'm really not being complacent or in denial. I'd rather not live my life in fear. And I believe hiding away doesn't help immune systems.

QueenofKattegat

Is zero an option? Zero if so. Never been worried about it. What honestly scares me is the say people have reacted.“

Please read MangeTaSoupe‘s post and reconsider.

I’m genuinely delighted that Covid is a nonissue for you, as it is for the vast majority. Please, though, try to walk in other’s shoes. Most of us have moved on, because we can. The minority can’t and they have no end-date. Try to imagine if that were you.

Please, just stop and think for a brief moment what that must be liked shen you have, bear it in mind when you’re out abd about.

(Many spelling mistakes 🥴 you get the gist though, hopefully)

1 now, 1 back in March 2020.

1
In that I don’t avoid anything - events inside etc

1 Have a completely normal life I guess .. There are a few older relatives I have been concerned about. Not the very oldest ones actually because there are a few, one in particular, who I would sadly be surprised if they are still alive by 2022 so I Covid is kind of an irrelevance there and I’d be sad if precautions ruined the last few months of their lives. Other relatives who are older but in relatively better health I have been very worried about but I do feel better now because I know boosters will be along sooner rather than later. It’s really been put into perspective by a few people getting very sick. One was shielding through choice and incredibly Covid conscious and has now a life limiting condition - nothing Covid related and nothing that the NHS could possibly have handled better - but I know it has made all of us around this person think.

I am not nor have ever been remotely concerned for me and my immediate family (DH/DC) although I am glad that DH and I are vaccinated.

I am not really worried about school disruption any more but this was a big worry last year. In theory, the worst than can happen now is 10 days off whereas last year there was obviously the 2nd term off and then the constant threat overhead of isolation.

1

1. If I get it, I get it.

I'm probably a 5. Mid 50s, physically very fit but mild asthma. I worked frontline so wore full PPE most of the time. I was somewhat blase towards the end of 2020. I'd had a couple of near misses being exposed to people with it, 1 being a patient who falsely tested negative. When dp caught it in nov I wasn't particularly fussed but took precautions. I did get it and now have long covid with some worrying cardiac symptoms. All investigations have been normal so far. Ds 2 has caught it twice and I didn't catch it but the thought of it was b**y frightening tbh. I admit I've seen many youngish people succumb to it, some very sad personal stories (a 10 year old child lose his mum just before xmas), mad busy at work so my experience is coloured by this....

My anxiety got worse after having COVID earlier this year. I am double vaccinated and thankfully had only mild symptoms for a few days, but the anxiety I felt during the isolation period hasn’t ever subsided. I work frontline nhs and I’m still struggling when I have to do patient visits away from my clinic where I’m not in control of the environment. Due to attend a face to face training day later this week and I honestly don’t know if I will manage it. Outside of work I don’t socialise indoors and I still go to petrol station/supermarket in the evenings when they are quieter. This has become my new normal but I really don’t like feeling this way.

Not very anymore.
Prob 2-3 depending on what I’m doing.
I still have one friend who will only see another friend outside at a distance.
One who won’t go on the tube and is quite wary
Most others like me - getting back to normality.
I’m double vaxxed and wear a mask in shops and public transport.

Absolutely zero worries until I got sick then I did have a panic. 2 negative pcr and feing safer but it does get you.

7 (early fifties, double jabbed, but various members of wider family at much higher risk). For me personally it's not (touch wood!) that I worry about death from Covid. But I do worry about it leaving me with long-term health problems. Worry about passing it to older family members (who have been so careful that if they caught it, it would likely be obvious how they caught it).

1. I have nursedcovid +ve people on numerous occasions and haven't contracted it.

I remain precautious as I have a friend with blood cancer for whom the vaccine hasn't been effective.

1 for me, 4 for some of my family members.