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The time is fast approaching where the UK should get itself into a position whereby we are free of restrictions and thus government should start passing health responsibility back to the citizens rather than imposing laws upon the populace to try and achieve it.
However, wherever you look on social media or in online newspaper comments there are obviously ten's of thousands of people whose posts suggest that they are incredibly fearful of the consequences of the virus despite the vaccination program being a success. Time and time again people are commenting that normality cannot resume as the vaccine is not 100% effective and everyone globally needs to be vaccinated for it to be "safe" for them to re-enter society.
These are generally the same people who sat back last year and stayed safe and said "next year will be better". They repeat the same mantra this year. Foreign holidays will be avoided as despite having a vaccine "why you go to infected country and risk dying?" when the beach will still be there next year? They cite variants as a problem but fail to realise that overcrowded UK staycation spots will do as much to promote this as allowing people to jet off.
Fear and risk is a highly personal thing. My partner and I (both healthy and mid 40s) have taken a relaxed attitude to the risk of COVID over the past year (still not bought a bottle of hand sanitiser) and we struggle to understand why people have become so fearful of the disease if they are in a low risk group. We have friends of our age who are still convinced that getting on a plane or going to a restaurant is a death sentence. They are virtually cowering now as they fear the cases will start to increase as the lockdown lifts.
Surely it is now the responsibility of government to start to communicate that the cycle of cases, hospitalisations, deaths will be broken by the vaccine? The government have been late at every stage of the pandemic and it appears they are behind the curve on downgrading the fear.
Just wondered what other people's thoughts are. How do we stop irrational fear of COVID?
However, wherever you look on social media or in online newspaper comments there are obviously ten's of thousands of people whose posts suggest that they are incredibly fearful of the consequences of the virus despite the vaccination program being a success. Time and time again people are commenting that normality cannot resume as the vaccine is not 100% effective and everyone globally needs to be vaccinated for it to be "safe" for them to re-enter society.
These are generally the same people who sat back last year and stayed safe and said "next year will be better". They repeat the same mantra this year. Foreign holidays will be avoided as despite having a vaccine "why you go to infected country and risk dying?" when the beach will still be there next year? They cite variants as a problem but fail to realise that overcrowded UK staycation spots will do as much to promote this as allowing people to jet off.
Fear and risk is a highly personal thing. My partner and I (both healthy and mid 40s) have taken a relaxed attitude to the risk of COVID over the past year (still not bought a bottle of hand sanitiser) and we struggle to understand why people have become so fearful of the disease if they are in a low risk group. We have friends of our age who are still convinced that getting on a plane or going to a restaurant is a death sentence. They are virtually cowering now as they fear the cases will start to increase as the lockdown lifts.
Surely it is now the responsibility of government to start to communicate that the cycle of cases, hospitalisations, deaths will be broken by the vaccine? The government have been late at every stage of the pandemic and it appears they are behind the curve on downgrading the fear.
Just wondered what other people's thoughts are. How do we stop irrational fear of COVID?