Still reluctant to visit a hair salon

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Since last year I have not been to hair salon and even now I am still apprehensive despite the fact that over 50 million people in the UK are vaccinated, I still am not going because not many people are wearing masks including the staff, it is frustrating because I don't know who is vaccinated and who isn't and obviously they don't have a poster up saying its safe to come in because most staff are vaccinated because its not really our business to know what another person's medical records are. Its not just a hair salon but I've got my dad's birthday coming up on the 3rd December and they've booked a meal at a restaurant and want me to go because other family members will be there and yet since last year I've not been out to a restaurant because of covid and have not been wanting to go to one because of it even now. I've had invites before to meet up and I've turned them down because my discomfort. I'm worried they'll be lots of people there and if I decide to turn this down it will be rude and upsetting that I'm not there. Before all this I was always going out and doing these things and its frustrating for me because the virus is still out there and that I'll very aware of it and want to return to life as before but I feel I can't because I'm anxious and it feels like I'm also wasting my life not trying to do those things I did before.

While I understand the paranoia of catching covid even when vaccinated, I still don't think it's healthy to never go out and do things again, otherwise life wouldn't be worth living.

I do get paranoid if I know that I've been in close contact with someone who lives with someone who's tested positive. But I still live my life (still wearing a mask and sanitizing my hands), because the way I see it it's easier to not worry so much when you're none the wiser. So I still do my errands, because going to the supermarket is safe is you wear a mask, sanitize your hands, and don't socially interact with anybody, except the cashier but they're behind screens anyway so it's a bit safer.

Getting your hair cut isn't all bad. When I go to get my hair cut, the hairdressers wear face masks, there's hand sanitizer at the entrance, and you don't have to chat to anyone if you don't want to (then you're not spitting particles out or breathing them in if you don't talk). Humans are social creatures, we can't really run a society without coming into contact with each other sometimes, and now that we have vaccines we have to learn to live with the virus, but still being vigilant if you can.

But fewer people are being hospitalised or dying from covid so that is some progress. Even my elderly grandmother is going out now that she's fully vaccinated. Her elderly brother caught covid last month (he's frail and has diabetes) but he wasn't hospitalised because he was fully vaccinated, but the doctor reckons if he hadn't have been vaccinated he might have ended up in hospital or worse, because of his physical health problems.

I haven't been in a salon or barber shop in over 20 years. I just use clippers with the #7 attachment.