I understand your concerns, @MikeFB . But you survived unscathed last year so in my opinion, you should take a similar chance on this year, however you and your family choose to spend it. However, I don’t think it unreasonable to ask your relatives to take LFT tests if you’re all planning to be together.
I think we need to move on from the Vacc/unvaccinated argument. COVID in all its variations is something we’re all having to live with and quite frankly, I think this vile virus has disrupted our lives quite enough. I am vaccinated to the hilt, my son is not. In the last 18 months, that has been a source of anguish. In the meantime, we’ve both had COVID, twice. We’ve survived, with relatively mild symptoms. Our vaccination status seems to have played no part. In the meantime, the virus marches on in all its myriad variations, so what are we all to do.?
Personally , I am utterly fed up with jabs of any description. I don’t want yet another COVID booster and I’ve never had a flu jab (or the flu, for that matter) so am not about to start. I emphasise this is purely my personal opinion. However, the enquiry into the application of the AstraZenica vaccine (which was the one I first got, grateful that it was ’British’, because the Pfizer one was getting some bad press) has opened my eyes into what has gone on here. While I totally understand that the tragic outcomes for a minority of people is dreadful, the wider background of the rollout, both political and scientific, is appalling. We can have no further faith in our governments to tell us the truth, because they simply don’t know what that is. I’m sure that all the amazing people who developed vaccines in record time did wonderful work and I’m not seeking to undermine that. It was a bit rushed, I think.
But here we are, nearing the end of 2023, three years after lockdown and I feel like I’m ready to accept my risk of contracting COVID in the same way I would a cold, or any other yukky virus doing the rounds (of which there are many). I live my life in fear of many things, I’m not prepared to add Covid to the list.
Again, I emphasise that these are my views and I understand that many may not agree. But, however old we are, we surely can’t let ourselves become so risk averse that it destroys the pleasures we have left in life?
