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

[wakeupitsabeautifulmorning]

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.

Because health people are dying to. I dont want to leave my daughters without a mother. I dont want my little girls or my husband to get seriously ill. Simple as that

Read the 40+ threads and the Lungs threads. Lots and lots of healthy, very fit people being floored for weeks, and months now.

Because even though I might not die from it. I could end up very ill for weeks . I know a healthy woman same age as me in the 20s had it. She didn't die no . But she couldn't get out of bed for three week. That's enough for me to worry. Who would look after the kids! How will I get food
? What if I pass it on to someone else and they don't survive the guilt would kill me.

Because I personally know 2 healthy people who have died from it. One in their 30s, other early 60s.

Because whilst I might be absolutely fine, I could pass it to my 83 yr old MIL who I am shopping for once a week. She was intubated in Intensive care in December and we nearly lost her. Or to my mum and dad who have health issues, I'm shopping for them too. Or to my auntie who has recently recovered from cancer and is diabetic.
Is that enough reasons for you OP?

But we are going to have to start getting back to normal in the not too distant future. A vaccination won’t be available before we do. We can’t all stay wfh and the economy cannot support all the furloughed. Dc can’t stay off school for years. Are you planning on giving up work and home educating your dc? Not meaning to be goady.

I'm very fit and healthy - rarely I'll, no heath conditions, I run and do triathlon. I ran the London marathon last year. I wasn't worried at all initially.
But then I got ill. I'm pretty sure I had covid, but wasn't tested. It was horrific. I didn't need to go to hospital but I was so breathless I couldn't even stand in my own garden and hit a tennis ball with the kids. I couldn't finish a sentence without gasping for a breath. I couldn't walk around my own home normally at one point.
It's right to be scared -there is no knowing who will have mild symptoms and who will have more serious ones.

Because healthy people are dying?

Um. ... because it's a very unpleasant illness? Because I'm self employed and ineligible for government support and having to take a couple of weeks or more off will not be great at a time when my DH has already had to push back the start date of a new job to look after our baby (and is therefore not being paid)? Because I'll inevitably give it to the baby I am breastfeeding and I don't want to make her sick?

I’m not scared, I’m more scared of giving of it to someone and killing them.

*ill not I'll. Stupid autocorrect 🙄

@wakeupitsabeautifulmorning I don't think anyone wants that we all know things need to go back to normal eventually doesn't stop people being scared though .

I’m not worried about getting the virus. The chances of my children being left without a mother are higher if my MH spirals out of control due to lockdown. I gave birth not long ago and did not want to catch the virus then as I did not want to be subject to coronavirus protocols whilst giving birth, and didn't want the baby to be affected. I am far less concerned now. I don’t want to pass it on to my father, however, but he is self isolating from my mother within their own house as she is still working in the NHS

Because I don’t want to spread it, kill other people and lead to prolonged restrictions. Because I am a doctor and HCW tend to get exposed to higher viral loads and are much more likely to die. Because having it doesn’t necessarily prevent you from getting it in the future (it isn’t that it will go through us all and go away)

To be honest I am NOT scared of catching it and getting ill myself. I am relatively young, relatively healthy and it is unlikely (but not impossible) that I will get really ill. I am happy to take that risk.
BUT I am terrified of passing it on to someone who is vulnerable. Even if I have had it I can still pass it on.
If it was just about me, I would be out there as normal.
But it is NOT just about me.

I'm 30, healthy, have had it and it floored me for 3 weeks, nothing else has ever done that to me before.
I know I had it as another person who loves in my house is frontline and tested positive and we had exactly the same symptoms.
Even now, 4 weeks on, i still get breathless.
If you can, I'd advise you to avoid it as much as you can.

Having contact with a vulnerable family member or as a worker aside, a lot of people are treating it as if it’s the plague (with case fatality rates of over 50%). Even the over 80s have more than 50% chance of survival. The healthy under 50s have a CFR way below 1%. Plus the illness is likely mild. As a family we had symptoms and it wasn’t pleasant but my OH worked most days and was just tired and wheezy.

Are you dim?

Anybody can get it, thats the point?

Thank you for asking, I'd been wondering the same.

Yes obviously it can be very nasty (although for many people it isn't) but so can other illnesses and people never used to show anywhere near this level of anxiety about getting ill.

I felt the same way as you but I’m now on week 6 of having the virus and still feel unwell and tired. At 3-4 weeks I was still finding breathing difficult and painful. I still wouldn’t be able to walk all the way around the block.

Many of us appear to be healthy and live healthy lives but could still be more vulnerable. I am middle aged, working in a fairly well-paid professional role, have asthma, never had a full blown attack, never been to hospital and you would never know it to meet me yet tests show that my lungs are not brilliant. I realise I could catch this and sail through it but it is unpredictable so I'd sooner not chance it until we have more information

What if we have to start going back into work in a couple of weeks after this lockdown? What do you think you’ll do?

I'm not worried whatsoever.

I’ve had flu a few times and end up in bed for a week or two. That was worse but shorter duration.

Are you not capable of reading op? Or can't listen to the news?

Because healthy people are dying too.
Because we could have the virus and spread it without realising because symptoms haven't started.
Because it means our kids would then likely get it and could die.
Because then we wouldn't be able to leave the house for two weeks and would possibly struggle for food.

Thought this would be obvious by now? Guess not to some.