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 sometimes healthy people die from it, because some “healthy “ people have underlying conditions that they aren’t aware of, because healthy people have relatives that they are concerned about.....

“So for those worried about passing it on to their elders or those with underlying health conditions, when will you come out of isolation?“

he is in isolation, not me. I don’t know when he will decide to come out and I will get to see him again. He is a retired doctor and is realistic about contracting it at some point, and is capable of understanding the research. So he will decide

There is a huge difference in being “healthy” and “unaware of underlying health conditions”

A lot of people on threads discussing smoking / being overweight label themselves as healthy and I am not sure that’s as accurate as they think

It would be unusual not to be a bit worried of catching it as young apparently healthy people have been know to die from it or at least be hospitalised from it so the risk is there. Having had severe asthma as a child, the fear of struggling to breathe is still there. Saying that, I have looked at the statistics and I am not overly concerned for myself, but am worried about older people and those with health issues that I know.

Also, there is so much that is unknown about the disease that it is worrying, especially when it is not even clear if you can become immune.

I don't know if I have any underlying health conditions. I might pass it on to someone who could die. I'm pregnant and there is evidence it causes preterm labour. After baby is born if me and partner get it quite bad how will we care for baby.
So although I'm considered healthy and not high risk, I'm not taking any chances.

Because it's quite a nice thing to do, as human beings, to try not to kill off our elderly and vulnerable when we can avoid doing do.

The shielded group will I suspect be able to stay at home.
But the vulnerable group are at a real risk. I am worried that a lot more of them will die as soon as they have to go back to work.

No one knows what the long term effects could be.
I was very healthy 16 years ago, until I suddenly got ill with pneumonia. Although I recovered from the infection in 6 weeks, the after effects lasted for years, tiredness, joint pains, digestive problems and food intolerances etc.

I wasn't massively worried until I started reading the 'my lungs are on fire' threads.

Maybe you should go and have a read then ask this question??

It's not just shielded and healthy though. There is also a rather large amount of people who have underlying health conditions not quite bad enough for shielding but still classed as high risk if they catch it (as opposed to extremely high risk aka shielded). I don't know how that breaks down in percentages but I do know that group is in the millions.

We don't have enough testing, so we don't have enough data to assess individual risk and that is what I think is scary. Covid 19 probably doesn't have a very high death rate, but we have no idea how many people have had it so we don't know. My whole household might have had it in mid March, but not seriously enough to be admitted to hospital and get tested so we don't know. Are we now immune or at least would we be less ill next time? Experts can't agree on that either. Messages are very mixed and its confusing.

Because i don't want to die
HTH.
Aw, you think it's just old people with underlying health issues?
You are lucky you don't know younger, fitter people dying. You won't be asking when you do

So for those worried about passing it on to their elders or those with underlying health conditions, when will you come out of isolation

I don't know. This is messing with my mental health almost as much as fear of the virus. It's like being lost.

When things are "normal" I have a 40 minute commute each way on a train that's standing room only. This is unhealthy at the best of times and I really don't want to catch something that, even if it doesn't kill me, could put me out of action for eight weeks and leave me with permanent respiratory issues.

Because if I get it and I become seriously ill or die my disabled husband will have to go into a care home.
What a fucking stupid thread.

Tbh DroppedBoxxedRuth that just tells me not to read those threads. The whole emotive “I don’t want to leave my children without a mother” stuff - there are far greater risks of that from things other than coronavirus in my case

I'm not worried about getting it even remotely. like a PP said the odds are quite clearly in young healthy peoples favour. on balance, there are more young people dying of other things than of coronavirus so I should be scared of those things too, which if I was, would mean never going out. I refuse to live my life that way

you're unlikely to get a balanced response on here ' by its nature you will get a lot of people who suffer with anxiety which is fine.

I agree with you though, we all have to get back to normal at some point, the media is incredibly clever as well, the government need people to comply with this lockdown so it makes sense to put doom and gloom in our faces every day, resulting in a lot of people being terrified go out

@cantory yes, I feel that group is just like lambs to the slaughter when things start lifting.

To whoever said, “ don’t you watch the news”

I listen to the news and I hear just as much “ no symptoms” or “mild symptoms” as I do “victim with no underlying health issue”. And then they show a photo and the healthy victims clearly overweight.

Frankly I’d rather get it now with all the hospital spaces freed up than it the winter when they are full up with winter flu and accidents again.

This post just goes to show that some people still don't understand the nature of this illness.

Many healthy people die from it, people who are fit, who run marathons and exercise every day, people in their 20s and 30s who are not overweight. That's a fact, it's not hearsay. So yea, I'm scared, in my mid 40s with no major health issues.

Also because I don't want to pass it on to others, because some other people depend on us (elderly neighbours, parents-in-law), because I don't want to pass it on to my teenage kids.

All these people worried about passing it on to elderly/vulnerable people, did you have the flu jab this winter? Lots of people die of flu, but many people, even in vulnerable groups, don't bother getting the jab.

Yes I did have the flu jab hth

Why is there this “gotcha!” attitude on MN all the time?!

So what will you do about going back into work?

But we are going to have to start getting back to normal in the not too distant future.

Not necessarily. We don't have to re-open restaurants, ever. Ditto for most shops. We don't have to restart professional sport, ever. International tourism and free travel need never exist again. A lot of education could be distance learning. Office jobs could be from home, forever.

I'm not advocating any of those things, merely stating there is no "have to" about going back to our previous normal. It depends on what we think is worth it. Which will vary from person to person.

To answer the original question, I'm the same age and sex and probably BMI as Boris. I'm happy to never leave home for weeks at a time if it helps me avoid what he's been through.

Because I don't want to inadvertently pass it on to vunerable family members, because I don't want to pass it on to autistic DS who would find it hard to cope, because no one knows which healthy people will die of it.....