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.

Because it is a scary illness where you find yourself counting how long since you last were exposed, then tracking any symptoms, then when you have symptoms you are constsntly worrying in ase you get suddenly worse or relapse. I think we had it for most of March. It was 3 weeks of feeling rubbish and with breathlessness, head aches, sore throat, dry cough, some diarrhoea etc. We were constantly scared in case any of the 4 of us with asthma needed hospitalizing, worrying over no health insurance, the lack of testing etc.

A few weeks afterwards, I finally felt fully recovered... and then the doubt set in. Was that really the virus? Or some other virus with similar symptoms? Do any of us have antibodies yet? I expected to feel safer going to the shops after I recovered, but instead I am more anxious. What if I catch it and it is much worse than the illness I just had? Or what if I already had it and I get reinfected? I hate not knowing whether I am at risk still or not.

I'm in London. I haven't had it but a lot of people around me have.

No, I'm in Leeds. Two people in the near vicinity have died as well, one of them a former colleague of my DH and the other a near neighbour.

@Greenpop21 But according to what I've seen on the news, there was an increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the East Midlands?

Sorry, I've just heard something on the news again, it was the West Midlands. Maybe the East Midlands haven't been affected so much by this.

For all of you who have had it, where do you think you caught it?

West Midlands includes Birmingham so bound to have a spike similar to London.

I wonder that too. Live in London and know loads of people-many who have had it with minor symptoms, no/one hospitalised let alone died .
People under 70 who are not fat or diabetic or immunosuppressed have infinitesimal risk -the hysteria is ridiculous.

I had it late Feb -it was horrible, like a bad dose of flu with muscle ache, shortness of breath, headache -not nice but.... like flu.

And would gladly have it once a year rather than this non/life. ( Tho new research debunks the myth that you can catch it more than once -the previous research was picking up dead virus cells do not accurate)

Not that many are on the shielding list.
LOADS are on high risk. Normal people with underlying health conditions who stand a really high chance of dying and leaving their children. That’s why people are scared.

@Greenpop21. I've had the virus (I think, no test, but was in contact with people who were tested + in hospital and live in central London). I agree with you about fever. I only started to turn a corner once I stopped taking paracetamol and instead encouraged my fever (around 38-38.5) to run. In fact took a lot of very hot baths, to try to get it up even higher (people may think this irresponsible but I was getting desperate after two weeks of feeling worse and worse). It made a massive difference. Still had relapses and up and down days but wasn't any longer very ill after 2 1/2 weeks:

@EarlGreywithLemon

I could only have caught it from my DD2 (8), as she was off school and I was at home with her. When looking back to work out how she might have caught it, I remembered that she and DD1 (11) had been to a gymnastics holiday club at a very big centre where children came from all over the city. Or else she could have caught it at school the week after half-term.

Because COVID-19 didn't enter my head at the time (I assumed she'd caught what I had previously, which was a seasonal virus, which I'd recovered from), I didn't think about it. But then I developed the COVID-19 symptoms myself.

@Mittens030869, I’m sorry to hear. I’ve always been sceptical about the “children don’t spread it theory”.

Interesting @hopsalong

@Incrediblytired exactly. It gives me the rage when I hear the daily numbers and “all but x of those had pre-existing conditions”. Firstly, does that mean they don’t mater? Don’t they have children, family, friends? Secondly, “pre-existing conditions” is such a red herring. So many people with pre-existing conditions have completely normal life expectancy and are perfectly fit.
7.4 million people in the UK have heart disease, at least 3.9 million have diabetes and 5.4 million have asthma. Enough said.

And those with pre existing conditions are mainly in the vulnerable group and if school staff will be told to go back to work.

786 people died of covid 19 in the last 24 hours in the UK.

@Stellamboscha 3% of the UK population have had it. Most of the people you know probably had other things.

Because I am EBF a small baby (that doesn’t take a bottle and I can’t express), so being ill to any extent is not fun (I had Norovirus for 2 days which was dire) and anything that could separate me from her is just too horrible to contemplate.

@EarlGreywithLemon I know, it's a strange assumption to make really anyway, as why would a child with COVID-19 symptoms be less likely to pass them on than an adult? And it's not as if the virus has been around for a long time, it's surely too early to form such sweeping conclusions?

I can understand why teachers are nervous about their own vulnerability to the virus when schools open again.

@cantory no they didnt at all.

Of the hospital deaths announced one went as far back as March 16th

70 died on April 30th so far

@quartz Where do you get that figure from?
And surely that means hundreds died today that will only be counted in a few weeks time anyway?

@cantory and where are you getting 3% so far 0.26% have tested positive but until antibody testing takes place we have no idea

London Chris Whitty said could feasibly be 10% so @Stellamboscha could very well be right

@cantory

All 4 countries within the UK do it differently. England set out there hospital deaths here

www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

So the 352 is broken down.

Care home deaths are trickier and I think could be quite horrific for awhile but I dont think will link into how lockdown is lifted as they are actually not affected by lockdown

If you look the hospital figures are very clearly falling from the peak of April 8th