Healthy people why are you so scared of catching covid 19?

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Serious question. I’m interested in why healthy people with no underlying problems are so unhappy about starting to get back to normal. I’m not talking about shielded people who need to stay shielded. But everyone else.

I don't know. I know my chances of being ok are pretty high but I am really anxious about it. Husband still at work and very chilled out about it. I can't explain why I feel how I feel. At this point I will happily stay in lockdown for as long as it takes.

Because healthy people die from it too? Because quite a few healthy people will have underlying conditions they know nothing about as not yet manifested itself in a way that led to a diagnosis?

where has there been any sign of getting back to normal?!

Many people don't know they have underlying conditions. I knew a long distance runner who died on a run, turned out he has an underlying heart condition.
Healthy people can spread it so makes vulnerable people even more likely to get it?

Exactly what dontdisturbmenow said!

I just don't want to get ill. I'm SE and have to work (from home) and if productivity drops I won't get paid. I'm not worried about ending up in hospital as I'm healthy and young ish but even a cold can affect my productivity (high concentration work) so I just want to avoid getting it, even mildly.

Being a carrier and passng it on to parents, grandparents, vulnerable people. Not everyone knows about their pre existing condition that could make them vulnerable. Overweight people are very badly affected by it.

In case I'm not as healthy as I thought I was..

I think I’m more worried about spreading it rather than just me catching it.
I’m a carer in and out of people’s houses. If I catch it I have the potential to infect some very vulnerable people.

Because the press coverage makes us feel that everyone who catches it will die or be severely ill.
(Disclaimer I am healthy and while I would prefer not to get it and I know there’s no guarantees of how I would be affected I can see from the numbers that the odds are clearly in my favour)

My 13 year old is in the vulnerable group so if I get sick there's a high chance she will also so I'd rather no risk at all of it being brought into the house.

Because healthy people can give it to the vulnerable.

It might not kill me - it could kill my mother.

So no, I don’t want to catch it and that’s why I’m worried.

Otherwise healthy people have died
I don’t want my children to be ill
I don’t want to pass it on to my elderly parents who do have underlying health conditions

Because 1) healthy people are dying from it too 2) we don’t know what the long term effects of having it are 3) I’m a lone parent with no other parent on the scene- if I catch it how do I care for my DC? If I have to go into hospital where do my DC go? If I die from it what happens to my DC?

Following with interest as personally I'm not scared of catching it and I'm not scared of DS catching it. I understand about the underlying health conditions but the figures for under 40s (me) dying are still very low, the figures for under 20s (DS) dying are even lower. Low enough to not alarm me.

I'm more concerned for my elderly family members, but I'd go back to normal life tomorrow if I could.

Because it's a very serious, scary illness that makes you feel awful for weeks in many cases, even healthy people.

Haven't you read the threads on Mumsnet or seen the news?

Being healthy is no guarantee you won’t be seriously unwell, or suffer life-changing effects, from Covid-19. An acquaintance who is one of the fittest, healthiest people we know has just come out of hospital after being admitted with Covid. He lost 2 stone, can hardly walk due to the impact on his body and is incredibly weak. He should recover in time but who knows the future repercussions. (He wasn't ill enough to require ventilation btw.)

Also, being healthy doesn’t prevent you from spreading the virus to those who are more likely to die from it.

I’ve had it, I’m a healthy, vegetarian, on the lower end of a healthy BMI, under 40, eat well, don’t smoke, barely drink. I was floored for the best part of 6 weeks. Couldn’t breathe, a lot of chest pain, I spent two weeks in bed, loads of gastric symptoms. It’s the worst illness I’ve ever had in my life.

I'm not worried about getting it- I think I had it early on end of Feb after a confirmed contact. However, I have no faith that I'm immune now and I really want to see my parents- I wouldn't go even if lockdown ended if I had symptoms. So no, don't want it.

Because I might die.
Healthy people with no underlying illness are dying, just at a lower rate than those who are vulnerable.

Because I have horrendous health anxiety as it is and there's nothing like a pandemic to push you over the edge

I was a healthy person until I caught COVID 6 weeks ago, now I struggle to get out of bed. Constantly short if breath, weak, dizzy. Could no more walk a km right now than fly to the moon.

Hopefully I will eventually recover- but no one actually knows when or if this will happen.

Dont be fooled into thinking that this is necessarily a simple, flu like infection that you'll throw off in a week or two.

Maybe I'm not healthy even though I appear to be?
I also don't want to leave my children motherless if I turn out to be one of those who gets it really badly.

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oh no. I bet people will get us mixed up now. I don't care about the virus so that's going to be....odd.

Because I’m around other people every day that I do not want to infect, and the symptoms of a mild case are still ones I don’t want to experience - my uncle’s case had not required hospitalisation but he was still more ill than he’d ever been in his life. I don’t have time for that.