Covid competitiveness?

Some people just very competitive in absolutely everything

you say ‘bloody covid - 3rd time I’ve had it’ they reply ‘ we’ve had it 14 times and Sallie-Jayne looks like she’s starting again’

you say ‘had a 8 hour labour with billie-Jean’ they reply ‘ohhh I had a 10hout labour with Jim Bob’

you say - had to wait in a&e for 6 hours with my broken wrist - they say ‘I had to wait 10 hours with mine’

you say ‘so proud of martha she got 90 in her grade 1 flute’ they say ‘Maggie may got 91 in hers when she was 6’

you say ‘sam starting talking when he was 3 - hadn’t stopped since ‘ they say ‘Derek talked in full sentences at 2 years, 2 months and 28days…’

just ignore and don’t let them get you down!!!! having to constantly compare yourself and always be better or worse off than everyone else just highlights how insecure they are!!!!!

Oh my MIL absolutely loves a bit of Covid one upping!
She's still regularly testing & seems almost gleeful if she has it.😐

Does that “many people” include you by any chance?

What about the remainder for whom it was not just a flu? Because if you open your eyes beyond the perimeter of your own backyard you will find they exist. And why would the fact they - or indeed anyone with empathy- might want to discuss that indicate a need for “ psychological help” with their “ obsession?” People like to talk about things that impacted them - and indeed many forms of psychological help do involve talking about it. It’s a healthy response to processing.

What is far more psychologically unhealthy are the people who for their own reasons can’t grapple with it and need to deny, deny, dismiss, dismiss and sweep it under the carpet. What ails them I wonder? Or are some people really just that lacking in empathy they just don’t care if it didn’t affect them? I mean there are people with “problems” and then people with real personality problems.

Well that's true, I thought by competitive pride was implied, but it could be trying to be a victim instead. Whatever the reason, very weird and I have never experienced it

Maybe it isn’t pride?

The amount of ignorance ( and lack of empathy) round this issue is staggering.

I know quite a few medical professionals who say they still are not at the bottom of the implications. No one who has any actual knowledge is being dismissive.

Also you have to remember the pandemic was a major event that affected everybody.. of course we will all have at least one story about it!
I've only had it once but I was very ill and only avoided hospital admission because the criteria kept changing (due to lack of beds).
I'd never been really ill before so it was genuinely terrifying.
Also was nursing on the wards throughout so it made a major impact on my mental health as well.

I haven't experienced this, if anything I would think it would be the opposite. Who would be proud to have a crappy immune system

People like to talk about themselves, I don't think it's any deeper than that.

You sound absolutely ridiculous and like you perhaps need to take your own advice.

People are still getting Covid and it's making them unwell, so of course it's going to come up in conversation among those people affected, particularly if it's causing them to miss work or social events.

I haven't noticed it particularly with covid but it's always been that way with illnesses. About 70% of them will have genuine health problems but the rest are the worried well, are attention seeking or are trying to play ill health top trumps.

although I do wonder sometimes that if we were all a bit more sympathetic towards each other then maybe people wouldn't feel the need to exaggerate so much.

I think we have all had it many times and it is entirely unimpressive. Competitive covid! Come on.

You know several people. Well that means that it must be true.

The hysteria about Covid has cost far more lives than Covid itself. If people are still going on about it, they don’t need Covid treatment, they need psychological therapy.

This trope is so wrong and dismissive.

I know several people who were very healthy before getting Covid. And still have continuing breathing problems, neuropathy, chronic fatigue etc months and even years later.

I’ve had covid 9 times, and on each occasion it was the worst period of illness I’d ever had. On the ninth occasion it was so bad and so long that I had to declare the virus as a resident at my house for council tax purposes. Of course, I never went to hospital, I just carried on working from home, just about summoning enough strength to press a mouse button.

I didn't realise anyone even spoke about covid anymore.

I've never had it, was vaguely sick Xmas 2021, so tested but looked half positive and realised my orange juice tested more positive and I've never had a vaccine lol. Honestly, I'm shocked people can make it a competition 😂 I've Honestly been sick twice with any flu/cold type thing in 7 years so I couldn't even make it a competition!

I think it is just conversation - maybe you aren’t a people person ?

I know some people with lasting damage. But you can’t tell the ones who don’t want to know.

It's the Covid version of elevenerife

I get the same - I've just got over having it for the 5th time and my husband (wfh) has just had it for the first time. I have four kids and also work in a school germ factory Lots of people give the hand washing side eye, my hands are sore from washing/antibac, it's not easy to avoid it in schools, you are right in the thick of it.

Had covid (yes, tested) recently, was floored with 39-40 degree fever that just wouldn't respond to any meds. Had no ovulation and no period in that cycle either, TTC (testing LH - thats how I know) so quite disappointed. For some people it's not "just" a cold, it really does wreck the body in many ways.

Are people really still going on about Covid? They clearly need psychological help to be so obsessed by it. You would think the penny would have dropped by now that it was no worse than the flu for healthy people without any core morbidities

Never noticed it, but I don't know anyone that's tested for years. It's only on Mumsnet I realised anyone still tests.