Is it now impossible to avoid?

[MrsKDB]

My feeling is that the cat is completely out of the bag now and we are all getting covid, with symptoms or without, at some point. I’ve expressed this to colleagues / friends who have agreed but a few have looked very shocked at the idea and seem to think ‘being careful’ means they won’t ever catch covid.

What do you think? An inevitability or possible to avoid for your entire life?

Some people will get it some won't. Personally I've worked in a public facing position throughout, I'm not vaccinated yet, I wear my mask as little as possible and Dd has been in school throughout and we've escaped it so far.

I wfh, haven’t done much socialising at all, wear masks, double jabbed and been scrupulous re hygiene and washing hands and I’ve got - most likely from my child who picked it up from school. I’ve been quite poorly too, it’s rubbish.
It’s shocking to think how much disruption, not to mention the affect this has had on so many peoples’ health, lives, livelihood etc and how the whole world has been in turmoil from just one person who was the first to catch it…

If I am honest I am fed up with having to isolate because I have covid with basically feels like bad cold. It’s a massive disruption to school and work for families. I have been double vaccinated and am obeying the rules. However I don’t want to do this on a regular basis if I get it again because it keeps mutating!

It is ripping through schools but seems to have already stabilised and, with vaccinations coming for 12+, should start to decline soon.

If it’s stabilised because most children have already had it then it will probably decline anyway, even without the vaccine.