Sorry if this isn't allowed here. Every Covid-specific sub I find is either for sharing news/research about Covid or for covid-positive people to discuss their experience.

I keep trying to think positive about the chances of me and my elderly parents avoiding infection as we are all triple vaxxed with Moderna. (My mom got the full-dose booster while my dad and I got the half-dose.) I obsessively Google, trying to reassure myself. I find stories saying the triple vaxxed are this-many-times less likely to get infected, if exposed, than unvaxxed people, and for about a minute I feel a little relief. Then i keep hearing stories of entire families of people who are triple vaxxed getting sick. If it offers 60-70% protection against infection, why do WHOLE families (or groups of friends who were in close contact) keep getting sick together? I can't think of one story I've read where it's been like, "one person got sick but everyone else on the house was negative".

My mom only goes out for doctor's appointments, and I only go out for doctor's appointments and grocery shopping. My dad, however, hates sitting around the house and finds an excuse to go out to a store, or to get coffee, or something like that every day. I ask him to go through the drive though of he goes to a restaurant, but he insists on ordering inside. Reading the news just makes me feel like, triple vaxxed or not, he is sure to get sick and, triple vaxxed or not, me and my mom will get it from him. Both parents are old and have health issues, so I literally fall asleep worrying about this every night, and then resume worrying after waking. I had a dream last night about someone visiting us and finding out they had it, and I literally woke up as if from a nightmare.