Are people no longer bothered by Covid….?

[Iwannabelikeyouohh]

Is anyone actually bothered about Covid?
From places I’ve been recently, everyone is just “normal”

I took my son to a toddler class this morning.

I walked in wearing my mask. Room full of 19 other adults and their toddlers.

Not one single adult had a mask on (expect me)
There was no distancing in the class.
It was as normal as normal can be.

I joined a new slimming class tonight.

Again I walked in wearing a mask. No one else had one on.
All chairs pushed up together, people sat close.

I don’t get it.

How can we go from distancing, mask wearing, avoiding people on walks (which is exactly what it was like) to nothing….

@FluffyTeddyBear

I agree OP. It feels nice to be normal but equally I think it’s mental.

I look back and think what we did was more this. Even though I got why

If everyone in England took their head out of their arse for just a moment, they'd realise why being so proudly maskless and ignorant to what damage covid does is so damaging.

In England when they introduced masks cases went up. Masks are theatre.

Covid isn't going away any time soon live with it.

No, not bothered at all, obviously I would rather not catch it, like I would rather not catch flu or a cold but if I do then I do. Anything bad could befall anyone at anytime really.

No longer bothered. In the slightest.

85% of over 16s in my area have had 2 vaccinations, and only 5 people (a drop from the previous week) tested positive in the seven days to 25 September (rate per 100,000 people: 65.5, which is way below the national average. So although I still wear a mask in shops, out of respect for the shop workers mainly who have no option but to mix with multiple people day in day out, no I'm not bothered. If we (in my area) can't have some semblance of normality now when on earth can we?

I only wear my mask in the supermarket, and that’s only because I don’t know if there is anyone vulnerable in there. Anywhere else I don’t. I’m getting on with life and if I catch it then I catch it

I’m wearing a mask on public transport, in medical settings and in shops. I was also still minimising the amount eating in restaurants and going to indoor leisure venues... until last week.

It was the first time last week that I’d done anything indoor etc—and it was for my sons birthday. Soft play followed by pizza express for a dozen of his classmates. The day before I’d flown to another city and back for a meeting in a day.

I think I’m about done with worrying about it now. I’ll do what I can- sanitise, mask where it seems sensible, avoid crowded indoor venues as much as possible- but it’s time for me to get on with life. I’m double vaxxed, I’ve had covid- and have long covid as it goes - and whilst I’m enormously sorry for everyone who is still very ill, or has lost someone they love, I admit that selfishly I feel like my mental health, which has been atrocious due to the isolation (I’m a lone parent) now also needs to be given some priority. And that means inevitably some relaxing of the constant anxiety, and yes, socialising.

I hope that doesn’t come across as unfeeling. It’s just where I am.

Life goes on.

@Chloemol

I agree with you. It’s nuts. Cases are rising again in my area. Guidance

COVID-19 spreads through the air by droplets and aerosols that are exhaled from the nose and mouth of an infected person. You should wear face coverings in crowded and enclosed areas where you come into contact with people you do not usually meet.

But really I think until people either get it and realise how bad it is, even if vaxxed, or know someone who has it, or someone with long covid they don’t get it

I am still very careful, I simply don’t want it, it to pass it onto anyone including CEV family members

I’m with you. I am astounded what a selfish nation we are. It takes very little to wear a mask on a train. Mask wearing was always about protecting others. You may have Covid and give it to someone else. That someone may spread it to a vulnerable person. Mask wearing on trains is such a simple thing to do. Not one person was masked on my bus today- including the three shouting teen boys from the local secondary school. It would have cost them nothing to think about others - it’s the bus rules anyway! All across Europe people manage to think of others. In Spain people were masks on trains without exceptions. Even NY - the city of individualism - requires vaccine passports to go into cafes and museums. We are a massive Social experiment. It’s quite easy to get on with life while trying to protect others lives. But that’s apparently too much to ask .

I'm not really bothered anymore from a personal perspective. I'm sure people will think I should be, being almost 9 months pregnant and all, but I've already had it once and I've had worse colds. My vulnerable relatives are fully vaccinated.

I'm bothered about other people though, so I will still wear my mask on public transport and keep a respectable distance where possible.

I'm about 50/50. I have been working in a school on and off throughout (some lockdowns, not others etc), so got over the immediate concern quite early. I was concerned for communities, but not for myself if that makes sense. Guidance said I had to be in and maskless, so I was in and maskless. Nothing I could do about it.

I'm probably going to get it now. Am on the CV list myself, and have a partner who is medically V, but also a fat middle aged man. But mostly I just keep doing my LFTs, and will act accordingly.

Yeah I am bothered.
Eight 0-19 year olds have died so far in September and it's not even making the news.
A significant proportion of people (kids and adults) are being left with long covid too. Having had a virus that's left me with life changing problems several years ago, long covid worries me a lot.
I think it would be great if we could learn to live with it, and in the short term I think that means wearing a mask where we can, and getting tested if you're going somewhere that you can't (eg pub etc) and getting a proper PCR test and isolate if you have symptoms.

If everyone was doing that the levels would get so low we would be able to relax, but instead we're still having around a thousand deaths a week and it's become normalised.

Honestly, if we want to avoid another lockdown over winter, if we want to keep schools open for our kids, we need to stick with the masks and testing for a bit longer, we can still get on with our lives whilst we're doing that. It's the community minded thing to do and it's what living with covid should actually mean until at least next spring. A the moment there are still far far too many not having the chance to live with covid because they're actually dying with it. We need to sort ourselves out.

I wear a mark where I am compelled (TfL, work) and where I am requested (shops, the train). I don’t tend to where it’s not requested (most pubs, parties etc).

I accept that we’re all going to get it at some point and that we definitely have to learn to live with it. But I also know that this winter is going to be a bad one for illnesses and the NHS can’t cope with us all getting it at the same time. Therefore, I am happy to stick with some of the preventative measures that are required, whilst basically getting on with a pretty much normal life.

People are more bothered now about filling their car than Covid, me included

No one seems remotely bothered about it where I am. I work in a high school where soooo many of the kids and staff are catching it - relatively midly in pretty much all cases and certainly no hospitalisation. I think getting on with it is the best way.

Almost everyone around here wears a mask to enter any premises away from home. Shops ask you to, and so does everyone else, so people comply; hardly anyone uses cash. With the result that now everyone has gone home from holiday, we are back to being way below the line on Covid infection and reinfection rates. If I keep my germs to myself, and have a barrier against your sneezing, then surely we are both better off. Frankly, I am not bothered to see your face.

I wear my mask to protect others, I believe it helps.

At work I wear when doing fillings a full gown and FFP3, have a massive extractor fan on and we fully disinfect every surface after, I would love to stop this but it is what it is. Wearing a thin one inside with strangers is nothing.

Nope, my life is as it was before March 20. Only thing I’m not doing is travelling overseas. I’ve been going to our office since day 1, dealt with customers/staff since then too. Double jabbed etc.
Going to the Theatre on Saturday too.

Short answer, OP, is that I wasn't bothered by Covid 18 months ago, and I'm still not bothered now.

My cloth mask doesn't protect you really. I need a medical grade mask to keep you safe.

I am happy to social distance from strangers and would wear a mask if you asked but I've had the vaxx and feel like it's a pandemic so will catch it at some point if I haven't had it already.

But they also need parents to not be ill / hospitalised with Covid..!

Bless you. I teach. Children with parents or siblings who've been diagnosed with COVID are required to attend school as normal, provided they're not symptomatic themselves. There are no masks, there is no distancing.

I think the plan now is just let it rip through the population and allow the chips to fall where they may. Try not to lose sleep over the masks, or lack thereof, in baby groups.

My SIL was quite shocked how ill she felt with COVID with her double jabbed status

Noticed lots of nasty superior posts on here, you do you, if your vaccine is working what's the worry.

Going back to normal is reserved for the privileged. Pretending things are normal has also forced the vulnerable into even further isolation.

Just another way Covid continues with its exposure of the harsh reality of human nature.

I've noticed fewer and fewer people wearing them in shops. And I've begun to notice scowls from the unmasked towards the masked.