How worried are you about catching Covid?

Not worried... If I get covid it’s not because I’ve gone looking for it. I’ve been in complete adherence to restrictions since minute one of the pandemic. I’m fully vaccinated for the last 5 months... I literally cannot do any more...

social contacts have been limited to meeting up for outdoor dining / drinks etc, everyone I meet is vaccinated ... literally everything has been done in my own life... sanitizer on hall table by the door at home, in the car, I even take a mini spray bottle to the gym...they have industrial sanitizer for machines and hand sanitizer at the doors... hardly any fûcker was using it and there is poor adherence to mask wearing now, you don’t need a mask when exercising but moving between equipment you do, but feck all are doing it, and no staff oversight in fact there are fûck all staff on the gym floor since they reopened, big time cowardly, just posters everywhere telling people to distance, sanitize etc and an automated PA every 10 minutes saying the same ......so it’s the only environment where picking up covid is more likely but I’m careful there..

so in hindsight if I get covid it won’t be because of me...

I lost a member of extended family and an old friend to C19 so I'd be worried and much prefer if it passed me by.

Not too worried here too...but because I follow the rules/guidelines. The biggest concern I would have at the moment is a return to the office and having to use public transport. I commuted by train, so close proximity with four strangers in a poorly-ventilated environment where there is (reportedly) a high level of non-compliance with mask-wearing doesn't really appeal to my sense of self-preservation.

I had it back in March 2020 and it isn't an experience I fancy repeating - was sicker than I think I've ever been and over 2 weeks later GP was still concerned about my breathing, enough to refer me to A&E (who told me I wasn't sick enough to be admitted and to go home and rest). Even so, I'm healthy(ish - my weight probably puts me into an area of concern, but not full-on risk), vaccinated and being fairly careful - mainly because of elderly relatives, so I wouldn't consider myself particularly worried.

Family members are paranoid and very concerned though, which can be quite draining.

if it wasn't for the spreading, I'd probably be ignoring the whole kerfuffle tbh

I'm middle aged and vaccinated.

I wouldn't say I'm 'worried' but I definitely do not want to get COVID.

There is potential long COVID and you still hear of vaccinated people getting very sick and in some rare circumstances dying.

Had covid.

Didn't have any symptoms.

Been more sick from the common cold and chesty cough.

That's life. Thats why we have an immune system.

I certainly do.

You do realise people who are perfectly healthy die every day of various illnessesness?

Young(ish), vaccinated, I wasn't overly worried before and nothing has changed tbh, I worked through the whole thing (including travel) I follow the guidelines and managed to avoid it up to this, I know quite a few who've had it now (mild and not so mild) all came through it though I'll continue to try to avoid it.

What limited you when you created your poll? I got 2 injections this year. Not worried. Middle aged.

I think you'd want to be a bit mad not to worry about it,

Why would you want to catch anything that COULD kill you ,

Even if your young and healthy like myself i'd be more worry about catching it and passing it to a more vulnerable person

In saying that i still go about my life , i don't do pubs but iv been out for dinner & only this weekend went to a kids party in a fun zone type place, I wore a mask and couldn't wait for it to be over but i still brought two of my kids,

I’m in my 40s and extremely fit and not vaccinated I’m not worried about the virus as the science says it’s very low low risk to my profile.

I don’t recall saying it was anything like the flu just there’s a wide range of other nasties out there that can kill you as well.

Well, food poisoning would be one, a dose of salmonella wouldn’t be too attractive tbh, it’s common enough too, there’s also plenty of other viral infections that are about too, it not just auld Covid that’s life threatening, the list is long.

I'm mid forties so I picked the 'young' option because I figured it is young from a covid risk perspective, or I'm just in denial 😄

After seeing how many people in my family and in-laws got it recently and hearing of so many others, I figure I'll get it eventually and I'm not too worried about that apart from the nuisance of having to self isolate. But I have a parent who is undergoing cancer treatment and it wouldn't be great to give it to her as it might delay her treatment or she could get quite sick due to a suppressed immune system. So over Christmas when I visit, I'll have to be selective about socialising. My siblings and I are thinking of doing regular antigen tests for that week, to try to reduce the risk. I hope the government gets around to making them more affordable!

Oh and yes I had a bad one long before Covid was a thing, couldn’t move for weeks, the doctor wasn’t specific about its name though.