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Anyone else looking forward to Friday?

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Overthebow · 28/03/2022 19:14

My DC had a slight cough at nursery today which staff mentioned when I picked her up and told me to monitor it in case it gets worse. She gets a cough with any slight cold. I can’t wait until Friday when there will no threat of having to pick her up and test her for every tiny cough when she’d be fine otherwise. I’ll be able to get on with my work without worrying I’m going to get another call to pick her up and get a PCR and have to miss more work. I can’t wait, I’m ready to get on with my life without this hanging over me again. Anyone else feel the same?

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Remmy123 · 28/03/2022 21:18

No my nursery are pretty relaxed and do not expect to test for every niggle, thank god.

Peanutssuck · 28/03/2022 21:21

Yes yes YES. With you on this OP

carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 21:23

Honestly? Not really no, as I think we face more disruption not less when we catch it every three months.

megletthesecond · 28/03/2022 21:26

No. It'll trickle round everywhere and be crap for a while. All the adults I know who get it (jabbed, middle age) have been ill enough to be off work for a few days.

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Overthebow · 28/03/2022 21:40

@carefullycourageous

Honestly? Not really no, as I think we face more disruption not less when we catch it every three months.
I very much doubt we are all going to catch it every three months. It's everywhere at the moment and I only know one family who have had it more than once, and I know a lot of teachers, NHS staff and families with kids at school and nursery. Lots haven't caught it yet and others only once. Most disruption to my circle is from having to miss work and take kids out of school and nursery to get tested for standard colds with coughs or slight temperatures.
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carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 21:42

@Overthebow Why do you not think we will catch it 3-4 times/year given recent experience?

I know many people who had it over Christmas and now have it again.

The difference in 2022 is we will not be isolating etc so you are much more likely to come into contact with the virus.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 28/03/2022 21:47

I haven't been testing anyway so it won't change. But yes. Covid is irrelevant now in my world, no one I know even really talks about it any more.

BeenToldComputerSaysNo · 28/03/2022 22:00

Please don't take this the wrong way wax, as I'm genuinely curious. You are often on the covid boards saying how irrelevant covid is to your life etc, yet take the time to visit and frequently comment on this board. I don't understand why.

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Overthebow · 28/03/2022 22:08

[quote carefullycourageous]@Overthebow Why do you not think we will catch it 3-4 times/year given recent experience?

I know many people who had it over Christmas and now have it again.

The difference in 2022 is we will not be isolating etc so you are much more likely to come into contact with the virus.[/quote]
Because lots of people aren't isolating or testing now, covid is everywhere and it just isn't my experience. As I said I only know one family who have had it more than once, and those who have had it have been relatively mild.

The biggest impact is having to miss work to test in my circle so once that requirement is gone we are back to normal. There's always been viruses going round and people catching it, this will be no different now.

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carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 22:10

@Overthebow Not sure what to reply, the scientific consensus is we can look forward to getting it 3-4 times per year, variant dependent obviously.

TabithaTittlemouse · 28/03/2022 22:11

No, we are both in jobs which will continue to request that we test a few times a week.

ohidoliketobe · 28/03/2022 22:15

I was thinking that way, but today:

  • my DDs nursery has had to close for the next few days as there has been an outbreak and everyone is very ill with it -not enough staff able to work so had to close.
  • Our plumber has cancelled an appointment as he's bed ridden with it,
  • and my dentist has rearranged an appointment as they are also short staffed due to covid related sickness absences
toomuchlaundry · 28/03/2022 22:16

I assume nursery could still ask you to take your DC home if they think they are ill

IEatChocolateForBreakfast · 28/03/2022 22:31

@Remmy123

No my nursery are pretty relaxed and do not expect to test for every niggle, thank god.

Ours is the same. They've never shut aside from when required by government lockdown. They understand that children of nursery age get all kinds of sickness bugs. My DC is just very congested and often gets ill. We have always sent her in because she's been well enough in herself to go. Her nursery sent an email home saying there was a few of the staff working in her room that were off with covid, she had a cough one evening and tested positive the next day. We kept her home on the last day of the week she was meant to attend, but sent her in again today. Her cough was gone after a day. Haven't bothered to test her because she's fine. We're all fine and asymptomatic

Tynetime · 29/03/2022 01:11

Having avoided COVID in our household up to now I fully expect one of us to catch it soon as it is already rife and will only get worse once testing ends. Currently close contacts of 2 of my kids have it and are off school. Not sure how poorly thry are but presumably from Friday onwards they would be in school if well potentially spreading it more.
I just hope DH will get a booster soon as he is immunosupressed but didn't receive a 3rd Primary dose only booster early November.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 29/03/2022 05:14

@BeenToldComputerSaysNo

Please don't take this the wrong way wax, as I'm genuinely curious. You are often on the covid boards saying how irrelevant covid is to your life etc, yet take the time to visit and frequently comment on this board. I don't understand why.
I don't have much to do after DS is in bed. Grin
Delatron · 29/03/2022 08:50

I think the process of building immunity when faced with a novel virus takes a while. So it will be very shit this year but will calm down.
No virus in history has reinfected people on a three monthly basis for a lifetime.

What we are seeing is immunity being built up to different strains. So having had delta didn’t confer you much immunity to omicron but omicron does give good immunity to delta.

It’s just going to take some time and there’ll be more illness around for a while. Thank goodness we have good vaccines to help with severe disease.

Seriously79 · 29/03/2022 12:07

I'm more worried now than ever before.

We get married on 21st April, and I'm petrified one of us is going to be poorly.

CornishPasty101 · 29/03/2022 12:43

Nope. I work for the NHS so imagine things are going to get a lot worse for us. And just waiting for the next new variant. If that causes more severe disease I think we're in real trouble. The government proclaiming that the pandemic is "over" (which it very clearly isn't) I think will mean a huge reluctance to go back to any measures to reduce spread which will not end well.

Daqqe · 29/03/2022 13:33

You’ll be fine @Seriously79 - I got married last year & I was so worried about someone testing positive. All was well.

At least now your guests won’t be testing so unless they are feeling really awful, they’ll be there 🙌🏼 We limited indoor activities for a couple weeks prior to ours. Nothing major, just avoiding softplay or the cinema and we pulled the kids out of nursery a week before!

Illnesses are always a risk with any big event. My poor friend had a vomiting bug on her wedding day 😭 my heart broke for her.. she put on a good show, had to keep running to the toilet & didn’t eat a thing .. 😭 but she was fully recovered for her honeymoon! And they had a big party to celebrate a few months later bless them!

GlomOfNit · 29/03/2022 14:51

Nope. It's already a shitshow and we're withdrawing the last vestiges of our safety nets at the wrong time. Scientists and public health experts think this is batshit crazy and I'll be listening to them, thanks.

Covid is not 'like flu', it's much more unpredictable. We also don't know if another really much nastier variant is around the corner. I'm not saying that this should stop us in our tracks and limit lives being lived, etc, but without the safety nets of frequent testing, free testing for NHS workers, teachers, etc, any sort of isolation period whatsoever ... it's a disaster in the offing.

It doesn't all go away just because you want it to, you know.

GlomOfNit · 29/03/2022 14:54

@CornishPasty101

Nope. I work for the NHS so imagine things are going to get a lot worse for us. And just waiting for the next new variant. If that causes more severe disease I think we're in real trouble. The government proclaiming that the pandemic is "over" (which it very clearly isn't) I think will mean a huge reluctance to go back to any measures to reduce spread which will not end well.
precisely this! We don't even get covid briefings on the news any more, so the public are being misled that it's all over and as you say, if any measures need to come back from being mothballed, there will therefore be massive resistance.

Government have mismanaged almost all aspects of disease control over the last two years. It's shaming and shocking.

Pootle40 · 29/03/2022 15:59

@megletthesecond

No. It'll trickle round everywhere and be crap for a while. All the adults I know who get it (jabbed, middle age) have been ill enough to be off work for a few days.
Is that really a big deal? Sorry, I don't get it. So people are off ill for a few days 🤷🏻‍♀️
Cornettoninja · 29/03/2022 16:41

Is that really a big deal? Sorry, I don't get it. So people are off ill for a few days

People being off ill has an impact economically. If someone isn’t working they aren’t generating anything of value. If enough people are off work there’s a measurable impact.

Given the shift in tone about covid I’m expecting to see headlines about how much has been lost due to sick days soon enough. They were fairly popular before covid, there’s a particular day in January or February that statistically you’re more likely to phone in sick and the media was always fond of attaching a cost to that.

Pootle40 · 29/03/2022 16:58

Yep still don't get it. We've had many many thousands of people off work for a few days for as long as time. I'm in HR for a large organisation and our absence stats are no better or worse than usual.