Avoided it this far - today it's caught up with me

[PrincessPark]

Covid.

Since the pandemic my world, like many others I guess, has now become a lot smaller.

I do go out and about, quiet times where possible for the supermarket shop etc - meet friends in gardens still for catch ups and take my own coffee etc.

DD negative but DP positive first and I've been avoiding them rigorously. Seems the damage has been done.

It's only a question of time - a day or so maybe? That Covid scores it's hat trick in this house.

No actual point to this post at all.

I mean, by the “any symptoms lasting past 4 weeks” definition, I had long covid myself. Which I would find a bit ridiculous, and make the term close to meaningless.

It is very obvious that long covid is a real thing that has really harmed a number of people. It’s also obvious that for many, the spectre of long covid has become a thing to hang anxieties on.

Many people who were very scared about how dangerous covid would be to them, and then we found out much more about how age-stratified its risk was and we got vaccinated. For many people that made them less worried. For some, the worry just shifted targets - first to “ah, but what about long covid?”, and then when that clearly wasn’t mass disabling the nation either, “ah, but what about the repeated effects of multiple infections which will only become obvious in the future?” This is not ‘following the science’, this is just anxiety jumping to the next thing, and the next thing, and the next.

@GoldenOmber Well I never said I was worried about the 1 in 5… You mention those numbers, nit me….

What a horrible thing to say!

As for the 1 in 5 numbers being something people just cling on anxiety wise 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Yes I’m sure some do.
Im also pretty sure that, even though we don’t know everything, we know quite but now about covid and LC. Personally I have no time, nor the energy nor Tbf the adequate knowledge to read all the research papers about LC.
I tend to rely in researchers, for example those from Sage, who have those skills. (There are many others whose speciality is now covid and LC).

If they tell me LC is an issue, that it has the potential to create major problems in the population long term, that people get affected (eg brain) even with a mild case, that it gets worse infection after infection (eg T cells, immunity etc…)….
well i tend to believe them and trust them rather than newspapers.

Plus it’s nit because the symptoms of LC YOU are experiencing are very mild that all people who have LC symptoms but are still working etc… have mild symptoms.

I know a few people who have issues with tinnitus after covid. It’s driving them bonkers and is affecting their MH. It might be a mild issue but for some it isn’t.

Id be careful to nit assume that LC is mild and a lot of crap
/just a source of anxiety tbh. It’s doing a huge disservice to those who are struggling.

Used a motorway service station toilet today and on the carbon monoxide safety poster on the back of the cubicle door some twat had written “ The vaccine is the killer, not the virus”.

DH and I had not had Covid as far as we are aware - no positive test. I did get a chesty cough last month but it wasn’t Covid.

Id be careful to nit assume that LC is mild and a lot of crap/just a source of anxiety tbh. It’s doing a huge disservice to those who are struggling.

I would have thought that writing “It is very obvious that long covid is a real thing that has really harmed a number of people” would have made it pretty clear that I don’t think this, but apparently not.

Look: either long covid is massively disabling to all/most people who get it, or it affects 1 in 5 people. It can’t be massively disabling and be affecting 1 in 5 people, because most of the country has now been infected and we aren’t seeing 1 in 5 people massively disabled.

Well this post bought the best and worst out in people.

It was only a question of time regardless of how many precautions you try to take. In a weird sort of way, I was glad when I had it and got it "out of the way". I'm been living normally with zero precautions since then. If I catch it again, well I'll deal with it again.

What do you mean?

As you said yourself:

No actual point to this post at all.

Look at it as a positive, now you've got it you'll probably lose the fear and start living normally again. Life is short, enjoy it!

Just a point, for those who say its no big deal and havent caught it if you are not testing how do you know you arent asymptomatic and just spreading it and if its just a cold again there are now thousands in hospital yet again with it, just because it doesnt/hasnt affected you diesnt mean it isnt hurting other people.

What did you want out of this thread OP? You seem unusually afraid of covid but when posters asked you why you bit their heads off

So either you are perfectly healthy apart from raging anxiety and you are being totally OTT or you have a reason to be afraid of covid in which case all people can say is you might not get it?

Some of us have had it multiple times so there is obviously going to be frustration at a post written as if this is unusual.

timeforredwine I don't know anyone who is testing unless they have free tests left over.

So you haven’t actually got covid OP?

Your DD is presumably 17/18 … have you made her restrict her life as well? Is she allowed friends round, go to parties etc?

Covid is with us for good. There is no point hiding away or wearing masks. We just have to accept it and live with it now.

I think the world has shrunk post covid for many people, even if they aren't actively trying to avoid covid. Many people in office jobs are still working from home or hybrid working.

In the meantime, the cost of living has gone and the cost of fuel has gone.
We are by no means on the breadline but we have certainly cut back on things like going out for meals and days out, simply because of cost rather than avoiding crowds.

Also, I suspect that the OP is in a similar position to our family. Pre-covid, we had older children, two years on, they are mid teens. All the ways that we would have dropped out of their lives naturally - school runs, hanging round at clubs and sports, class parties and mum friends - seem magnified as before covid and after covid things.

I have it for the 1st time this week and it's brutal, but I am triple vaxed and cev, and have been terrified to catching but better now than 2 years ago to my mind.

I got it for the first time at the start of May. Weirdly it coincided with the dropping of masks in Scotland. I felt rough for a few days like I had a bad cold. The thing was I was still testing positive on day 16 as I couldn’t shake it.

My point people arent testing therefore that is why its spreading like wildfire. I know lots that still test and if i knew someone was positive i had been near i would test so i didnt unknowingly pass it to someone else. Its a selfish world whereby people only care how it does or does not affect them. There must potentially be thousands walking round asymptomatic but due to no testing affects other people. Op is doing nothing wrong. Today we live in a selfish dont care want it all society. A test takes minutes, masks and handwashing not a big problem to do, plus counteracts more bugs & colds, not invasive. Just my view, no one has to agree.

People aren't testing as tests cost money. Being off work costs money. Many many people do not have the spare money for that.

It took two days from having two Covid positive teens breath right up my nose to testing positive and feeling ill. Felt very ill (bad cold/fluey) for 24 hours but nowhere near as bad as 2020 when oxygen says went right down.

I think still meeting in gardens etc is massively over the top if I’m honest, I’m stunned anyone is still doing all that.

Excuse me? We’ve had numerous lockdowns, economic recession and a mental health/education crisis and we’re still ‘selfish’ and ‘not doing enough’? Why isnt it selfish to expect people to live by all these restrictions constantly?

Not talking about lockdowns mental health etc i understand all this. My point being its just quite sensible & pretty non invasive to protect yourself & others by washing your hands, wearing a mask maybe in busy or crowded indoor spaces & maybe testing every so often out of courtesy to other human beings. No one can afford to be off work etc and it is the government that are causing all these issues between people & families by not acknowledging there is still a problem.