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Are you OK with getting COVID?

Are you OK with getting COVID?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 19.1%

  • No

    Votes: 72 80.9%
  • Total voters
    89
I can't say I'm OK with it, more so that I also feel the weight of resignation to the inevitability due to circumstances outside my control. I do what I can. There really is nothing else at this point.
 
I already had it once and it was bad enough. Even though I'm fully vaccinated and better treatments are available, I still have no desire to hang out in restaurants, fly anywhere, or participate in activities that involve crowds. No thank you.
 
I am not ok with catching it, but feel it will be inevitable at some point. I work in a primary school & have been in right through all full lockdowns with vulnerable children & children of key workers. I am quite frankly amazed I have dodged it so far, given how many times it has ripped through the children.

What I have done, as an aside, is my first major financial charitable gesture of what I hope to be many, now that our financial situation is very different. Following consultation with a couple of Respiratory Doctors, the Local Authority & Public Health England, I have donated 6 HEPA filters to my school, to situate in each classroom. Whilst a drop in the ocean, having the air constantly filtered will go some way to keeping the staff & children a bit safer.
 
No because:
1. Different variants so getting Covid from 1 variant does not guarantee protection against a different variant.
2. Some get by with mild symptoms but some get very serious side effects, even death. I am not willing to risk death nor life-long side effects after recovery.
 
Cerulean said:
I mean, what is “ok” here? Is the only condition that I can be okay with it, provided I get to live a “normal” life?

I voted that I am okay with it, because I assume I will get it if I haven’t already had it. I also assume that coronaviruses are going to be around for the foreseeable future, much like influenza. We missed our chance of eradicating it within the first few months I’m guessing.

What makes me nervous is exposing people who are immunocompromised or unable to be vaccinated. So, while I’m not cavalier about it and intend on getting a booster and wearing a mask indoors as recommended, I think it just will be a part of normal life.
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This, pretty much 100%. We got boosted, wear masks and make smart choices about not going to places when we know it will be really crowded as well. If we end up with Covid despite all of it, it is what it is. If we tested positive, or thought we were sick, we'd stay home to not expose anyone else. However, I don't have a big fear of getting it. I'd prefer to not get it and we do what we can, but we have been exposed to it already (and I think we both had it in April 2019 before we were vaccine eligible).
 
No, I'm not okay with getting Covid. Given my age and other health conditions I believe I would fare poorly.
 
MRBXXXFVVS1 said:
Are you OK with getting COVID? Meaning, you are OK with getting it, if it means you can go out and about and live a "normal" life?
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While I do think it’s likely we are all going to get it at some point, I don’t want it because I know too many people (Young and old) with long Covid and I just don’t need that in my life.
 
I think my stance can be best defined as 'measured risk.' I definitely don't want Covid. My husband and I got boosted as soon as it was allowed. My 7 yo just got her 2nd vaccine. We haven't flown anywhere in almost 2 years.

We started going out to eat sporadically outdoors in June. By August we ate indoors. We would mask up unless we sitting at our table. We drove to NY in October for JAWS. This behavior continued through part of last month. Our states numbers were consistently around 1700 daily cases for months.

Now the numbers are consistently over 5000 daily. We've stopped going out to eat. But my kids are all in school full time, fully masked. My DH continues to go into the office (he's in an essential industry so his office was never closed). We're trying to live somewhat normally, but still cautiously.
 
No.
 
Nope.
 
Well we did everything to avoid getting covid. No going out no holidays nothing in 2 years. Then my daughter contracted it at school and we all went down one by one. Luckily we are double vaccinated and so our illness wasn’t awful. But I guess my answer is no but what can you do with school age children. On the weekend we tested my daughter (who had no symptoms), a quarter of her year tested positive and 11 teachers.
 
Once everyone in our household can be vaccinated (too young at the moment) I expect it will be an inevitability. I could live the pandemic life forever as an introvert, although I miss the gym. My husband is an extrovert and is pretty much dying a slow death. My daughter attends masked preschool 3 days a week and we had a close call last week. I kept her home Monday and Wednesday after Thanksgiving expecting an exposure in that time frame from Thanksgiving shenanigans. I considered keeping her home Friday, but was exhausted because our nanny had also had her own COVID exposure which was caught JUST in time to avoid potentially exposing us but she had been out all week. Of course, a kid in her class was exposed Thursday, attended Friday, and then diagnosed Saturday. The same kid already had an exposure in early October so I think that family is just not as careful as the other five families in the class. In the end, kids need interaction and play and COVID is super sneaky so I expect we'll get to eventually.
 
If I get it, I'll not have a choice but to accept it but I won't be ok with it just as I'm not ok about getting colds, the flu, or any other illness. I don't like being sick.
 
Absolutely not, and I take offence at the people who claim it to be inevitable. I don’t get the flu or other diseases because I am careful. I will continue to be careful with covid. Do I think I’d die if I got it? Probably not. But I worry about long term effects and passing it to immune compromised individuals. I’d rather be cautious and careful than throw my hands up and claim F-ck it. But it’s clear by now which people are getting and spreading it, and it’s definitely not the ones who are ‘living in a bunker’.
 
telephone89 said:
Absolutely not, and I take offence at the people who claim it to be inevitable. I don’t get the flu or other diseases because I am careful. I will continue to be careful with covid. Do I think I’d die if I got it? Probably not. But I worry about long term effects and passing it to immune compromised individuals. I’d rather be cautious and careful than throw my hands up and claim F-ck it. But it’s clear by now which people are getting and spreading it, and it’s definitely not the ones who are ‘living in a bunker’.
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Well put. :clap:
 
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Put me down as another one who thinks it's inevitable. My daughter is in preschool full day and my husband's work has gone back to the office. I'm lucky my work has not, but yesterday I got asked if I'd come in to the office to review the outcome of a big meeting last week which the whole company has just returned from. Everyone is fresh off a 14 hour long hual flight, except me (they'd covered for me so I could skip the meeting). I understand I can not stop it, and I understand I'll likely recieve it from someone else who was also Just trying to fulfill their obligations (my daughters kindy is likely to be a hotbed for this) I just hope it is not yet as we have a new born at home.
 
I’m not ok with it, but I also expect it to happen. I work in a middle school and we are currently a hotbed of infections. Luckily, none have been/are seriously ill, and those who are home join in remotely.
I’ve done, and continue to do, all that I can to mitigate my risk, vaccinated, masking (I wear a mask all day long and it’s not easy to do while teaching). But still, I do expect to get it and hope I am able fend it off easily since I imagine my immune system is pretty robust being around the kids for years.
Stay healthy all!
 
Ally T said:
I am not ok with catching it, but feel it will be inevitable at some point. I work in a primary school & have been in right through all full lockdowns with vulnerable children & children of key workers. I am quite frankly amazed I have dodged it so far, given how many times it has ripped through the children.

What I have done, as an aside, is my first major financial charitable gesture of what I hope to be many, now that our financial situation is very different. Following consultation with a couple of Respiratory Doctors, the Local Authority & Public Health England, I have donated 6 HEPA filters to my school, to situate in each classroom. Whilst a drop in the ocean, having the air constantly filtered will go some way to keeping the staff & children a bit safer.
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That is very generous of you. I guess we are very fortunate in my school district. We have a huge hepa filter in every classroom. It’s bigger than me! And Every major area. Does your government not fund the schools for protective gear? We also had plexi glass dividers for A couple of months but those were deemed unnecessary last month and removed. We have a fresh supply of disposable masks and sanitizer at our disposal. And we test students weekly via an oral test. I guess you can say that our state has gone through great lengths to make us feel safe. I know that I do.
 
Sorry off topic!!!

I have a HEPA air purifier. Does this mean it will be helpful if I run it at Christmas lunch?

I'm planning to seat hubby's frail cousin next to the window, away from festy child but would the air purifier be helpful as well?
 
telephone89 said:
Absolutely not, and I take offence at the people who claim it to be inevitable. I don’t get the flu or other diseases because I am careful. I will continue to be careful with covid. Do I think I’d die if I got it? Probably not. But I worry about long term effects and passing it to immune compromised individuals. I’d rather be cautious and careful than throw my hands up and claim F-ck it. But it’s clear by now which people are getting and spreading it, and it’s definitely not the ones who are ‘living in a bunker’.
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Having been teaching in public school throughout this pandemic, it is fairly inevitable if you have children in schools. If you're able to stay home and only go places with masked people, more power to you. For the rest of us, it's a matter of time. One of my closest friends (vaccinated, boosted, double masks) got COVID from doing educational "recovery" services for a student whose mother decided to send him to school despite his brother being home with a "fever". That's pretty hard to avoid.
 
telephone89 said:
Absolutely not, and I take offence at the people who claim it to be inevitable. I don’t get the flu or other diseases because I am careful. I will continue to be careful with covid. Do I think I’d die if I got it? Probably not. But I worry about long term effects and passing it to immune compromised individuals. I’d rather be cautious and careful than throw my hands up and claim F-ck it. But it’s clear by now which people are getting and spreading it, and it’s definitely not the ones who are ‘living in a bunker’.
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For adults it’s probably avoidable. For those of us with small children, its much harder. My daughter has had 3-4 colds since October. Her preschool class is 6 kids, all masked. They wash their hands on arrival, before snack and after snack. They are distanced as much as space permits during snack. The windows are open when weather permits and there is a HEPA filter in the room. Yet there’s always some virus going around. I work with her on covering when she coughs/sneezes (I actually couldn’t do this until now because the last time she had a cold was when she was 15 months old!!!), not touching her mouth, eating with utensils rather than fingers (she mastered utensils long ago, but kids are silly and like to eat with their hands) but she still manages it bring home a sniffle here and there. We’ve just been lucky so far that it wasn’t COVID.
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Sorry off topic!!!

I have a HEPA air purifier. Does this mean it will be helpful if I run it at Christmas lunch?

I'm planning to seat hubby's frail cousin next to the window, away from festy child but would the air purifier be helpful as well?
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I would run it.
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Sorry off topic!!!

I have a HEPA air purifier. Does this mean it will be helpful if I run it at Christmas lunch?

I'm planning to seat hubby's frail cousin next to the window, away from festy child but would the air purifier be helpful as well?
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Yes, I would open all windows if weather permits AND run the air purifier.
 
nala said:
That is very generous of you. I guess we are very fortunate in my school district. We have a huge hepa filter in every classroom. It’s bigger than me! And Every major area. Does your government not fund the schools for protective gear? We also had plexi glass dividers for A couple of months but those were deemed unnecessary last month and removed. We have a fresh supply of disposable masks and sanitizer at our disposal. And we test students weekly via an oral test. I guess you can say that our state has gone through great lengths to make us feel safe. I know that I do.
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No, the UK government haven't provided ANY filters for schools. They do provide PPE & Lateral Flow Tests, but that's it. It makes my blood boil.

All schools have to keep classroom windows & doors open for ventilation at all times, so we currently have children bundled up & occasionally working in coats given it's sporadically snowy here now. Other than the provided tests, masks, gloves & aprons, schools are relying on fundraising or donations for anything extra. All staff have been doing LFT's twice per week since last January, but the younger primary school children aren't required to do them unless symptomatic or a close contact. All high schoolers have to also do LFT'S twice per week & wear masks.

You are lucky to have had filters installed & screens fitted. Perhaps if our government had done the same, Covid wouldn't keep surging through pupils regularly. A high school near to me is fully back into classroom bubbles due to the high number of positive cases.

So yeah, it's quite a big deal for my school to have taken delivery of the HEPA filters yesterday & I am really proud of myself for doing that.
 
telephone89 said:
Absolutely not, and I take offence at the people who claim it to be inevitable. I don’t get the flu or other diseases because I am careful. I will continue to be careful with covid. Do I think I’d die if I got it? Probably not. But I worry about long term effects and passing it to immune compromised individuals. I’d rather be cautious and careful than throw my hands up and claim F-ck it. But it’s clear by now which people are getting and spreading it, and it’s definitely not the ones who are ‘living in a bunker’.
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You clearly don’t have young children and are not around young children :lol: I call it a win when my nephews eat only their own bogeys and not their siblings’ as well :lol:
 
telephone89 said:
Absolutely not, and I take offence at the people who claim it to be inevitable. I don’t get the flu or other diseases because I am careful. I will continue to be careful with covid. Do I think I’d die if I got it? Probably not. But I worry about long term effects and passing it to immune compromised individuals. I’d rather be cautious and careful than throw my hands up and claim F-ck it. But it’s clear by now which people are getting and spreading it, and it’s definitely not the ones who are ‘living in a bunker’.
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I take offence that you take offence, no I don't, just kidding.

Everyone around me is jabbed, they go to pubs and whatnot and some of them still got it after the jab but they call it a breakthrough case, lol.

On the other hand I'm not jabbed and did not get it yet but also I've not been anywhere indoors with other people since forever. Do I blame my fellow citizens for spreading it? No, because we are people, humans, we're not underground animals, we need to socialize in order to not go crazy, some need more some less.

Guilt tripping does not work on me and fear is not on the menu.
 
mellowyellowgirl said:
Sorry off topic!!!

I have a HEPA air purifier. Does this mean it will be helpful if I run it at Christmas lunch?

I'm planning to seat hubby's frail cousin next to the window, away from festy child but would the air purifier be helpful as well?
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Absolutely. The ones I have bought for school clear the room completely within 44 minutes & then start again, so depending on the size & function of the one you have, I would turn it on in the morning & leave it running.
 
Viruses mutate because they circulate; the more a virus circulates the more it mutates.
When enough mutations are accumulated, new variants emerge.

If the majority of a populace are vaccinated, viruses cannot circulate, cannot mutate and new variants aren’t created. Since it seems that the majority of populace won’t be vaccinated, I feel safe in presuming we will be dealing with Covid for the foreseeable future. I’m not OK with getting it, but I’m not going stop living my life. I’m vaccinated, I’ll boost when necessary, and just go on living.
 
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