Is anyone else still thinking so when is our turn?

[greyhairgoaway]

To catch Covid? I don't want to obviously, but it just feels inevitable, maybe more so now than before.
I'm in a patient facing healthcare role. I haven't worked with someone knowingly infectious for over a year and I wear PPE, but people at work have caught it but I've been lucky so far.
DH didn't go out much last year as he was WFH but is now something, going to football matches etc.
DC's are 10 and 12. Back in school, obviously. There have been quite a few cases at older DC's school, sine of how good friends have tested positive recently. I'm not aware of the same happening at younger DC's school.
Three local friend friends have tested positive in the last week.
Me DH and older DC have had the vaccine (me + booster, DH booster next week, DC just the one).

Right now I feel like we're being circled by vipers!

I'm not afraid of it, I think if we do catch it we'll be fine. But it's the not knowing that's drinking me nuts. We're not reckless, but life dies feel like it's gone back to normal-ish, with all the social contact that that involves.
Or maybe we'll be lucky and Covid will never darken our door. Hopefully

Having had covid I feel much less worried than I did pre covid. I caught it pre vaccine so it does change your fear a lot.

So far none of us have ever tested positive. I am very surprised by this. We are careful and still haven’t fully got back to ‘normal’.

However, with a DH who is a key worker and DC who are school age, we have had plenty of exposure. I thought it was inevitable we would get it well over a year ago.

I am convinced we must have had it but it was either very mild or we were asymptomatic.

I have no proof of this, but it’s the only thing to me which make sense.

I've had it but no doubt at all I will get it again. We all will eventually, multiple times. I'm fully vaccinated (wasn't when I had it) so it'll be hopefully milder next time.

5 children here, each in different schools or childcare settings and haven't had it... Yet.... Lateral flows 3 times a week and pcrs for every sniffle, sneeze and cough.... Most of them have friends who have had it, just been sat here waiting and waiting and waiting.... Knowing our luck we will get it just before Xmas!!!

Yes but I'm not concerned. I'm not careful, maybe that helps with immunity? No masking or lack of indoor socialising.

My children have had it. It's doing the rounds like crazy where we are. Only a matter of time.

I think it's inevitable that we'll all get it at some point. I'm pretty accepting of it being inevitable for me (although I am CV), but it worries me that more vulnerable people will get it. A healthy double vaccinated friend of mine ended up on a ventilator very unwell for 6 weeks recently and that does concern me. Trying to ignore that tbh and remind myself that we're all different.

My primary concern is that I have 3 children, limited support network and my husband (who has 2 jobs) does not have a supportive employer at all so if I got Covid and was very poorly with it, then I'd have no support for most of the week. I'm also a Childminder and it would mean other families, who are already struggling, struggling further.

@MrsSkylerWhite

No because we’re double vaxxed and boosted, wear masks in indoor public’s places, keep distance etc., so not concerned.

Feel a lot easier since a friend with worse health than mine contracted about a month ago. Sore throat and tired for a week or so but right as rain now. Double vaxxed.

Both my DH and I were double jabbed when we caught covid and we were both extremely ill with it (bad flu ill, not hospital ill) - I was off work for three weeks and am still not right now months later.

We were also both very, very careful (mask wearing, and social distancing, avoiding shops and anywhere crowded, taking al precautions in workplace etc etc), but we think my DH still caught it commuting to London despite wearing a mask and keeping his distance form anyone as much as poss, and anti baccing as much as poss before, during and after the journey.

It seems completely random as I have pretty rubbish health (but not anything CEV for covid), but my husband has no underlying health conditions and we were both v poorly with it; however my friend caught it who has been shielding as she's CEV with a serious lung condition, and the only reason she knew she had covid was because she lost her taste and smell, no other symptoms at all!

I also spoke to a colleague the other day who had covid and was double jabbed, but then caught covid for a second time AND was really very ill with it.

I expect we will get it but I'm reassured somewhat by vaccination and I am much happier being out and about in the world so I am focussing on that positive side.

I’ll be very surprised if we make it through winter without catching it. It’s circling like vultures now. I am worried but I get health anxiety anyway so that would be inevitable.

@MrsSkylerWhite why do you think being vaccinated will stop you getting it? It'll hopefully reduce symptoms but nearly everyone I know who has had it recently has been double vaccinated 🤷🏼‍♀️.

I'm waiting to get it- I'm a teacher and want it before the holidays!!!

It's definitely when, not if.

The when is what I'm more worried about - so much has been missed during the pandemic already, really don't want a 10 day isolation stretch over Christmas or birthday celebrations etc.

My mum had it a few weeks ago, she has COPD. She recovered really well. My whole house had it and I didn't,even though the kid's were coughing in my face. I think I had it last year before you could test but surely the antibodies would have worn off and there's so many different varients. I do take a big dose of vitamin d3 everyday, that's the only thing I do that my family don't

No and I'm unvaccinated, in fact I only know 5 people who've had it and 3 of them were double jabbed

I hear you @greyhairgoaway! I’m also patient facing. DH is WFH. We have 3 kids in 3 different settings. They’ve all been close contacts.
The longer it goes on, the more I wonder if we’ve had it. I LFT constantly, and the kids have had so many PCR’s, but I suppose you never know.
It feels inevitable. We are as fully vaxxed as we can be, so not hugely worried. Definitely not relishing isolation with the kids though! Or more time off as we’ve had so many other germs so far this autumn.

Yup felt like this. It felt inevitable with an unvaccinated child in the house (under12). Although he spent so long being exposed to best friends with Covid and didn’t get it that I thought he must be immune. However, nope! He now has a positive :(

Yep. I'm with you. Loads of DC friends (primary age) are currently positive, somebody in my office and somebody in my DPs work. Will be amazed if we get to the end of the week without one of us coming up positive. Hate the testing a waiting for the inevitable.

@ViceLikeBlip

I've been feeling totally invincible (I'm a teacher, my own kids are in primary, I felt like I was the only person I knew who hadn't had it) but then I've gone and caught it this week! Day 3 now and I'm not feeling too bad. I'm actually feeling a massive sense of relief that it's finally happened tbh. And that I've now got 3 months off from having to test all the time (2x a week mandatory, but I've been testing more than that because I've been so paranoid about passing it on)

Yes, I was the same. Felt sure I'd had it on one of those many 'had a cold' occasions. I've been a close contact every day since September through school. Caught it from my father in law over half term. But no testing now, and our Christmas skiing holiday can't be fucked up by covid directly.

I know shed loads of people with it atm, not all of them are well. We weren't either, but we're nearly 50, overweight and have group 6 vulnerabilities. Am 2 and a half weeks post test now and even my taste is mostly back now.

I'm double jabbed and caught it from my son, he was incubating it when we saw him and I went down with it a few days later. I didn't actually feel ill but I had an awful barking cough which made my chest hurt. It didn't last long but it left me with catarrh which I'm slowly shaking off. My son-in-law's lasted all of a day and he has a compromise immune system.

It feels inevitable, I just want to get it at a vaguely convenient time now and not pass it on MIL or DPs.... DD is close contact every week. Ive just booked my first trip away since 2018 in a fortnight so expect I will get it a day or two before I am supposed to go

Over nearly the last 2 years, however rational or otherwise, I've gone through..

Being fascinated with the spread of the new disease in all the early media coverage pre Feb 2020, before the actual cost and impact was evident.

Scared that asthmatic, overweight me would not do well at all if I caught it.

Feeling it woud be 'typical' if we went through all the restrictions and upset only to not catch it, and what was the point of it all?

Finally recently feeling the inevitability of catching it at some point and being glad that the vaccine was going to have offered some level of cover for catching it or preventing severe illness. We'd escaped it til then and none of my friends or family had caught it.

End July a few of my class had it but I didn't. Then recently a few of my new class have had covid. This time I caught it too and it really has ripped through my class, with 1/3rd of the children, their teacher and the supply teacher who was first put with them then catching it.

Felt very rough and it's had some impact on my asthma but 2 and a half weeks later and I'm nearly back to normal. And dh and dd haven't caught it from me.

The feeling that I'm not going to have to worry about picking it up and passing it on to others at the moment is really good! Still wearing masks and being safe anyway, obviously.

Work in a primary school, kids in a secondary school, cases in younger children increasing very rapidly in both schools and generally in the local area, and not due my booster until a few days after Christmas, so vaccine immunity probably not great. Feel like a sitting duck for an unwelcome Christmas present!

We've said the same.

Myself & husband both in front facing jobs, secondary aged children been in school throughout except for first few months in 2020 when lockdown started and not one of us have had it. We test twice weekly & had negative lfts.

The horrendous cold/flu like symptoms has been through the family twice since August but PCR's negative.

I do think it is a waiting game tbh. We can't be this lucky & if we are, we need to donate our blood to science .

That was my thoughts a month ago.

Since then got and more or less recovered from covid.

I had done everything in my power to avoid it, double jabbed, wear masks etc, obviously not enough.

Resigned that I will prob get it a few more times.

Don’t underestimate covid, it knocked me for 6.

Don't think because you're double vaxed you won't feel ill. I tested positive on a PCR on Sunday, along with dh and the dc. Dh and I feel rotten. I have never felt this ill reven when I had really bad flu when I was 17. I'm up at 3am because my body hurts so much I can't sleep. 😢