Had a panic attack at work

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We've just been informed that a few people at work have been tested positive for COVID, so, yes, it's finally reached my workplace. I absolutely freaked out. I've got a vulnerable person at home and now I'm exposed to it. Yes we've all been told to wear masks whilst at work but because like 700,000 people a day in the UK are getting COVID then it must be SO EASILY passed on even with masks and hand sanitizing.

If my beloved boyfriend dies of this then I'm seriously going to get revenge on China. I'm still shaking now, I need a drink but I'm s**t scared to take my mask off, I know I'm going to catch COVID now. It's EVERYWHERE. My boyfriend is going to die. What will I do?

Are you in a safe space?  Have you told your BB?  Will you be alright?

Oh dear.

No, course we won't be all right. Once I tell my boyfriend he's going to panic. It's inevitable that I'm going to get it. I don't know how long the 3 people who got tested positive has had it before being tested positive, so they could have spread it already. Apparently they aren't ill but are isolating for the next 2 weeks.

I hope things work out for you.

Om Nom hugs

The very first thing you should do is get yourself tested. And get tested again three days from now.

And seven days from now. If all that is possible. Try to get "rapid testing," where you would get the results in half an hour or so.

I know how you feel. One person at my job died of COVID about March/April. When I heard a rumor of somebody testing positive at my job, I went to get tested immediately.

Every time I get a little bit "under the weather," I worry about COVID.

I could get tested, but if I do have COVID it's probably too late anyway, my boyfriend will catch it off me, or probably already has if I have it, and he keeps saying that if he gets it he will be dead.

I just wish I wasn't a key worker so that I can be furloughed. I'm so scared of what will happen if my boyfriend gets ill from it. It's no good saying to distance myself from him in our small apartment. We've only got one bed, we've got no room for another bed and the couch isn't comfortable enough to sleep on. And because we live under the same roof in a small apartment and we're together all day until I go to work, it's inevitable that he will catch whatever I've got even if we disinfected everything. A couple of years ago he got a cold and I tried my best to avoid getting it, by disinfecting everything, not kissing him, and putting a dehumidifier on, but I still caught it.

5 million people in the UK have been vaccinated now yet there's still a kajollion people getting COVID every day.

You should get tested so you know if you have it or not. It's better to know than not to know. If you know you have it, you could take measures.

I'm certainly not making any promises-----but even most people who are in the "high-risk" categories don't get seriously sick from COVID. It's not an automatic death sentence.

My wife was 71 years old with high blood pressure when she got COVID. She just had a flu-like illness, and recovered in less than three weeks.

I really want you two to be alright.  Please let us know how you are doing each day, if possible.

I hope you and your boyfriend end up alright. Even if you have it but don't know, you should probably get yourself tested anyway to confirm it. I don't that probably won't help you calm down but it's the best advice I can offer. Sorry

Like Fnord said, please keep us posted.

It's much less likely to contact it from people in the incubation phase. Also much less likely from non sympthomatic people. Probably decreases with good hygiene and mask.

In case of covid suspects it's possible they are not positive but they have to be quarantined just in case and monitored for symptoms. If they lack symptoms they will return. So be clean and wear the mask. Quarantine from your SO, different rooms or houses.
From experience don't go overboard and communicate less with people, you need to be relaxed.

I know how you feel, Joe. Really I do.

I got conventionally sick for a couple of days two weeks ago. I had just seen my mother. I walked over to the testing center, hoping to get a rapid test; they were closed. I felt really anxious, really sad, really everything.

Fortunately, I felt better the next day, so I know I didn't have COVID. Also: both my mother and my wife tested negative soon after this episode. My mother because she had to get an infusion; my wife because she's a nurse and gets tested twice a week.

I really would get tested, so you can feel reassured.

I've already explained how this is as possible as an ice cube surviving in a heated oven.

I'm sorry to hear, sending you strength.

Sorry I sounded a bit snappy, I'm just feeling so frustrated with the pandemic. I hate lockdown and not being able to see my family, but at the same time I'm s**t scared of the virus and so don't want to be exposed to it.

I'm also worrying about other people too. For example, my half-sister. She has a 3-year-old and a new baby, but feels so isolated because she can't get out and her toddler can't go to nursery because of the lockdown. She's been worrying about her toddler not learning the essential social skills all toddlers need to learn by playing with other children, but the most worrying part is she's beginning to descend into insanity but won't accept any support (because she doesn't believe that she's becoming mentally ill). So her husband has been looking after the little girls as well as working (he's working from home). My half-sister has even told her husband that she doesn't want the baby any more. And when a mother says things like that it means she is mentally ill, because I know my own half-sister and she has never suffered any mental health problems (she's NT as well). She wasn't like this when the first child was born.

And it's getting to my mental health too. I love my job but at the moment I don't want to be there. I want to shut myself away indoors where I can be safe from the virus.
I'm just frightened of all the uncertainty and sometimes I feel like there is no light at the end of the tunnel, despite the vaccines. We've been in lockdown a month now, with over 5 million people already being vaccinated - yet there seems to be no drop in the number of cases and deaths. 1,000 deaths a day, 30,000 new cases a day...it's been going on like this for weeks. I know things take time but I thought there would be a little bit of improvement, or at least less deaths. I suppose there'll be another 1,000 deaths tomorrow. Whenever my boyfriend puts the news on I have to get out of the room, otherwise I'll melt down. I hate living like this. Where does it end?