People referring to covid as a cold

According to the UKHSA statistics collected for public health surveillance, as many as 200 people per week in the UK are still dying with covid as the cause for death on their death certificate.

I don't think that many people are dying from colds.

Agree but no one’s asking anyone to put their lives on hold. That’s just in your head.
What are you asking then?

A lot of it was also genetic with Covid. You would hear sad stories about a few people in the same families dying. Hopefully a bit more research is being done on this.

Depsite our age difference both me and my Mum (and brother) all had the same symptoms with Covid - mainly an overwhelming tiredness coupled with insomnia- yet no cough/sore throat or other symptoms. Just pure exhaustion. It’s a very strange virus.

Jesus, triggered much?

I care about it. It turned my beautiful, extremely healthy 18 year old daughter into a disabled shell who has rarely left her bed for two years after suffering heart damage. It killed DH’s uncle last month. For some of us, it’s still a fucking “drama” and we’re still living with the fall-out.

@kkloo and why really fit people were badly affected. I was pretty fit when I got LC. Talking to occupational health at my trust, I wasn’t the only one.

It's the same with everything though. One person gets the flu and it fucks them up, for the other it's mild.

There are so many different individual differences.

Wasn't vitamin D3 or lack of considered a big factor in the severity of covid?

Wasn't obesity considered a risk factor? That was probably due to various different reasons too. Some obese people are malnourished which presumably could affect how it affects them, some obese peoples bodies are chronically inflammed, maybe to a low level but add in a virus and it could escalate quickly.

Also if someone is under a lot of stress that could lower their immune system...and even cortisol in the body can affect different people in different ways, when my cortisol went out of control I had loads of symptoms from it, when my friends was she lost loads of her hair. That was probably one of the only symptoms I didn't have.

There are so many factors and individual differences at play. There could be an malnourished obese person who is suffering from chronic low level inflammation and also deficient in vitamin D3 and suffering from stress, and yet they got it when it was mild....who knows why? Maybe just luck, maybe there was some other protective factor going on in their body that other people with the same issues didn't have.

It's the same with almost every single other virus though.

Why are most children fine with chicken pox but some die?

Why are lots of people very ill with flu but some are asymptomatic?

Why when an entire household catch an old fashioned "cold" are some much worse than others?

In fact why with all viruses do some people never catch it despite being in close contact with someone with it?

Why when me and my husband came down with an illness last Christmas on the same day, did he just have a runny nose and mild cough and I had a temperature for a week, agonising sore throat, cough that lasted for weeks that turned into a chest infection etc and was so tired for weeks?

Why the last time that I had covid he didn't get it despite not staying away from me at all?

It's just viruses doing whatever they do and every human being different.

None of this is unique to covid.

Agree but no one’s asking anyone to put their lives on hold. That’s just in your head.

We don’t know what the long term side effects of Covid are. It’s well recognised that it’s not a simple ‘cold’ virus, it affects the whole body, has an inflammatory aspect to it that influenza doesn’t. Reading the PM reports on some of those that died is quite sobering. Equally the rate of MI for the first 6 months post infection was increased. There are differences and we don’t know what the long term effects will be.

Saying that, with vaccination the numbers of critically ill is now massively reduced but the uptake, even amongst the most vulnerable, is dropping too. It will be interesting to see what happens this winter.

This is a source of fascination to me. Why DO some people get hit so badly with it,yet for others it's just like a mild cold? I caught it in January 2022, and I can honestly say that I've had far worse colds! No cough,just a very slight temperature and feeling a bit weary for a week. I had been vaccinated twice so maybe that was why I was not badly affected.

Thank you. For most, it’s harmless now. But, not for all. ☹️☹️

Technically Covid IS a cold. They are both coronaviruses.
I’m surprised people are still testing. I’ve had common colds worse than positive cases of CV19 when it was initially around
you sound selectively hypochondriac

Oh I am so very sorry :(

My DH, despite being fully vaccinated, died of it last year. So, some of us have been made to care. 🙄

AND whhilst i was in hospital with covid, i had a message from my SIL who said

'you have covid still??? wasnt that last week? When i had it, I went in to work'

Which belittled the fact she knew i was in hosp on oxygen - almost like she was accusing me of dramatising it - and for note, she went in to to work where she works at a day care centre for pre schoolers. I cant get over the ignorance and 'im alright jack' attitude right there

Only ignorant people will say its just a cold. Maybe it is an easy fix for some people but for others of us, end up in hospital

Covid is very real and anyone that thinks it’s is made up is simply lacking in the brain cell
department. Not helped by contracting Covid which has been shown to affect cognition.

I think most people accept it. We just can't put our lives on hold for the vague possibility that we might make someone else poorly. Most people are fine with covid, the really poorly ones are the exception. Life goes on.

For most people it is a cold and making your child isolate for some sniffles is really unreasonable.

You spoke to the elderly person and they’ve said they don’t care 🤷🏼‍♀️struggling to see the issue. For lost people it IS just a cold.
At the height of covid my DM gave up isolating, she and her 80 plus year old neighbours just thought, bugger it, we’ve lived long enough! (They’re all fine by the way).
Some people lose money if they don’t work- there are no isolation payments anymore.

I know some people really suffer and I’d never knowingly pass it on. However, the majority of us are vaccinated and anyone can have it at any given time and could come into contact with someone who has it.

Well it does make them an idiot if they can’t accept that many people are badly affected by it. There’s this weird trend for people to dismiss Covid as nothing, just a mere cold, so because they were ok everyone else is obviously just exaggerating symptoms for some bizarre reason.
Equally would you turn up at work with norovirus symptoms ?

Coughing (although less than before), tiredness, muscle aches and my sense of taste and smell haven’t returned completely. I have an underlying condition so I always knew that covid could cause further problems for me.

I’ve been doing breathing exercises and smell training to try and help myself. Any other helpful suggestions will be gratefully received!

Do you remember how long it took you to full feel back to normal? It's been 4 weeks for me.

I'm in the same boat what symptoms do you still have?

I only had it once and it slayed me. I don't often get colds or flu type illnesses and when I do it it's always what I'd consider very mild and I'm over it very quickly. When I got covid the first 2 days were amongst the sickest I've ever felt and I didn't get fully over it for months. I had a cough forever, I had low energy, I tired quickly and had no stamina and really struggled getting back into my sport.

Technically many colds are coronaviruses (same way the virus works) so yes for some people it is just like having a cold. I've had covid 4 times and they were all like colds except the original strain.

Interesting fact, if you have a cold you probably wouldn't get coronavirus at the same time. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445