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Personally I will be fine but I’m very worried for my senior mom undergoing cancer treatment who has to be in-person at work. Only 5 more months until retirement.
I’ve never really been too concerned, as far as I am concerned I either will get it or I won’t. Hyper cleaning and worrying just lowers your immune system anyway. As for the vaccine, I don’t see a point as it doesn’t prevent you from getting or spreading the virus - it just potentially lessons your own personal symptoms.
Ironically, the more we shelter and isolate the less exposed we are to the good germs or even weak “bad” germs which makes our immune systems weaker or less effective. Have you ever noticed that the people who are afraid of germs and of getting sick often get sick the most?
I protect others by staying home when I am sick, not by constantly fearing that I may pass something I don’t even know I have on to someone else.
I spent the first 18 months isolating away from people in the mountains.
I’m done. I don’t care at all anymore. Not even a smidge.
That sounds like a dream !
It’ll never be “over”. This is our new normal like it was 100 years ago with the Flu epidemic. Lifting restrictions scares me, because people can and will still get sick. I’ve never stopped wearing my mask and probably will through 2025 or until enough people are vaccinated and it phases out. But in this day and age I doubt that will happen anytime soon
Then there’s the fear of long Covid - ongoing symptoms after you have contracted Covid and survived to escape ICU/death. I lost my taste and smell and PRE Covid cutting a huge onion 🧅 used to make me swell up with tears and cry 😭; now I sometimes can smell onion and sometimes not. Coffee also tastes different. Is that a bad thing ? Well we only have 5 senses and 2 are malfunctioning.
Honest it worries me, my brother has severe asthma and we visit each other quite often. I just can't imagine what would happen if he did get covid, when I got it the first time round I had a really high fever and have had to use an inhaler ever since... I'm still wearing masks when I go to crowded places
If you are a high risk individual it absolutely makes sense to wear N95s, socially distance, avoid crowded indoor spaces, etc., you just shouldn’t impose those requirements on others who are lower risk.
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Stopped caring after I got the original strain (pre-vax availability). REALLY stopped caring after i got vaxed. The only thing I was slightly worried about was my older parents. They got omicron and were fine after 3 days.
Don’t care at all anymore
I am recovering from cancer and have other immunocompromised conditions and feel it’s hasty. The newest Omicron variant that is even more virulent and severe worries me greatly, another spike is coming and I’m staying masked, isolated, and getting my 4th booster next week. I see people flinging off their masks and precautions and feel it is reckless behavior, and I don’t want to expose myself to unmasked people in busses, elevators, conference rooms, etc. and working remotely works very well so why this sudden push?
I don’t consider myself afraid, rather I’m choosing to protect my health as best that I can. I think it’s a bit short sighted. There’s really so little we know of the long term impact of even a mild Covid infection. I’m anxious that others are letting their guard down, but I try to focus on what I can control… choosing when and where I spend my time and when I’ll wear a mask.
Plus all this talk about putting the masks back on if another surge comes…. please, once many Americans toss their masks they ain’t going back on. 😑
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I’m not as concerned as I once was. My 2 yo daughter had it in December and I don’t want her to get it again. I’m most concerned about making sure my 7 week old son doesn’t get it. I’m just hoping the vaccines for those kiddos will be around soon. We still are taking precautions like wearing masks in public and not going to crowded places. If the cases continue to go down though, we plan on doing as normal of a spring/summer as we can
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I know, I’m hoping they have an effective vaccine soon for them
We’re a little defeated. We have a 1 year old and we’ve been working from home so we actually have the ability to keep him really safe if we needed to. We did go out with him before in some less crowded stores once in a while, but now not anymore. We live in CA with good outdoor weather so it won’t affect our lifestyle too much given that we didn’t go into stores/restaurants too much.
Also our parents who watch him once a week have told us they want to start going to the gyms, classes, movies, etc and we now have to reconsider having them help with babysitting. My thought was wait at least a few weeks to see how this plays out!
Two of our friends with kids under 2 have lingering Covid issues (respiratory). Not playing the odds game with my kid, especially since there’s been a spike in hospitalizations and severe cases in children < 5 with omicron.
Give the extremity of the measures taken over the last 2 years, I’ve decided to continue with the practises I was following (mask, lateral flow while they’re available). It can be uncomfortable to feel like I’m being ‘awkward’ at work. I go into the office on my assigned days in order to meet the prescribed 60% but if someone approaches my space I still wear a mask. I truly mean no disrespect to my colleagues but we’re not friends so the risk it poses to what’s important to me vs any reward just isn’t there for me to leave the lessons and advice behind.
The number of times I see “hand washing” as a COVID prevention vs, you know, basic normal hygiene? I have no desire to take my asthmatic, immunocompromised self anywhere. And on the rare occasions I have to, I’ll still be masking up and refusing to shake hands.
I’m not concerned. You have to live life. Can’t live in fear all the time.
Not worried. I will continue my old practices - washing hands and sanitizing surfaces, select responsible social circles, avoiding crowded venues, and masking up when crowds are unavoidable.
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I wouldn't use afraid but a bit concerned. I will continue to do what I am comfortable with and support others who do what they are comfortable with. I used to wear masks before covid for international travel during flu season and have always and will continue to sanitize surfaces. We will definitely be living a new normal but it's time we move to a direction of living some sort of life. I have seen too many people pass away too soon and they all wished one thing, to have lived life more and worry less.
I’m not sure what happened next since we didn’t wait to study the data before I firing restrictions, we lifted as soon as cases dropped and as the Vocal Minority grew loader.. just like July 2021
Interesting that I find this a couple of days after seeing this post:
“In a candid interview-format presentation Thursday at her alma mater, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made a number of significant admissions about her agency's messaging and handling of data during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, affirming the concerns of many health scientists who have been censored and maligned over the past two years as purveyors of "misinformation."
She admitted, among other things, in her remarks at the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis that:
The CDC exercised "too little caution and too much optimism" about the effectiveness of the vaccines in preventing infection, transmission and deaths.
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When she declared during the pandemic that the CDC would "lead with the science," the public took that as a statement that science is "foolproof." But science isn't "black and white," Walensky acknowledged Thursday. It's "gray," and "sometimes it takes months and years to actually find out the answer." Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary said recently the CDC has been "using science as political propaganda."”
https://www.wnd.com/2022/03/cdc-director-makes-startling-admissions-pandemic-response/
Not sure I follow that point. The link I posted has the video of the interview. Hard to lie when it’s quoted with a video of what was said.