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.

@AnxiousAdventurer The take up of the flu vaccine in those who need it is high in this country

Are you kidding OP? Did you not see that CNN interview with the young lady that had lost her husband to the virus? Early 30s, no health problems. Dead. The medical professionals are scratching their heads because one day he looked like he was recovering then boom. Gone. Two little kiddies and she’s devastated. That’s why. Firstly, you could have diabetes and not know it. You could have a cardiac problem and not know it. You could also catch it and be the one that the medical professionals are scratching their heads over. No thanks. Better safe than sorry plus I really really don’t like being sick at all. I’ve got kids to look after and no support so if I get flu life is frankly shit so god knows what I’d do if I got this. Plus they don’t even know if the virus might mutate. Common cold right? Why can’t they cure the common cold? Think about it.

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

Well said. People are in denial. There was a piece on our local news a couple of days ago - a bloke in his 20's who'd died of Covid. His partner was interviewed and said he was "fit and healthy" - then they showed a picture of a clearly obese bloke!

Because I might get it without knowing and pass it on to someone vulnerable - my elderly parents, my lovely elderly father-in-law. The responsibility of that is stressful..

In the not too distant future people will have to start going back to work, and schools will have to reopen in some way.
When that happens the risk of getting it will increase but we should have hospital capacity to deal with it (but you still might die). If it starts spreading out of control we'll probably go in to lockdown again.
Ultimately a lot if not most of us will get it. I probably will.
In which case I'd rather get it sooner rather than later and get it over with! I work in a large hospital, I know there's capacity to deal with cases at the moment I've got a good chance of being fine.
So I'm not scared of getting it.
I'm sticking to the rules though because that's the type of person I am! But I'm not scared of getting it.

@AnxiousAdventurer no the healthy people didn't get flu jabs. But all the vulnerable members of my family did. As did my kids entire primary school so I didn't need to worry that I would pass it on to them. They were already protected .

I don’t want to give it to the three other vulnerable people I live with

These people are depending on me ^^ so I can’t afford to be that ill

Healthy young people are dying, I’d rather not take the risk, small as it may be

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say 'well people die of the flu every year you know.' Right. Start again. Covid 19 isn't the fucking flu.

tbf though @AnxiousAdventurer makes an excellent point.

the coronavirus situation is fear of the unknown for most. like I said its understandable but got to come to terms with that fear at some point - this virus is likely here to stay and theres a possibility a vaccine wont be found

No I’m not worried. I am more worried about people thinking it will vanish if they stay in. What is going to happen come winter?!

Because it might still make me extremely ill even if it doesn’t kill me, or i might pass it on to my husband to is not as healthy as me or someone else inadvertently.

In February I was one of those people “people die from flu every year. Don’t know what all the panic is about. We can’t stay home forever”
And then I got what I presume was covid 19. I became unwell in mid March and this week is the first week I can say I feel healthy. I was breathless doing anything for weeks and I mean anything. I was worried my kids were going to lose their mum. But I still don’t know if I had it so I am worried that if I haven’t and I am still at risk of getting it then I will be really dreading it.
But I’m back at work (key worker) and I go to the shops but I’m very careful and disinfect my hands a lot

Not meaning to be goady.

Um, I think you are OP. People have given you their reasons and you are still questioning them. You asked a question, they gave you their answers already.

All these people saying 'healthy people die to'. Well yes but A. They are a tiny, tiny minority, less than 0.5% of the population, probably way less! And B. A lot of the 'healthy' people I've seen die of it have clearly been very overweight. In fact, from someone on the front line, I have heard the clear pattern on deaths are those who are overweight

@MinkowskisButterfly Yes it will be the vulnerable group who start dying in large numbers. Like all the vulnerable health care workers who have died. They always tell us these people had underlying health conditions. And they are the people who will have to go back to work once lock down ends.
I have a friend who is a teacher who has bad asthma but not bad enough to put her in the shielded group. She is terrified of being forced back to work. She is vulnerable to dying from this.

And two thirds of the population are overweight or obese. Many of them will be healthy, but at an increased risk of dying from this.

So now it's OK to let people die if: they smoke, are overweight, are older than say 60 years old, have a health condition, are autistic (because it's know now that many parents of people who are autistic have been asked of they'd sign a 'do not resuscitate' order for their autistic child), anyone who's having or had cancer treatment. In denial. I think I know who's in denial here.

I just assume I’m going to get it at some point! Most of us will I think? Especially

Same. I'm obviously not keen to get it, but I can't see how we can all stay in isolation until a vaccine is found, if it even is, so I figure if I'm susceptible to it then I'll get it at some point. Though I think it doesn't help being in the category of people of losing most of my income with no Government support, it's made me a bit fatalistic.

I think that when you have to go out you should be aware of 2 things :-
1 You could be at risk of getting infected and
2 You could put others at risk by passing it on.

None of you going back to work then? Coffee shops? Restaurants?

I can't wait for how quiet shopping centres will be. Imagine no more struggling to park

I'm terrified of catching it. Whereas I am reasonably healthy now I haven't always been. I spent the best part of 2 decades in and out of hospital with kidney issues and complications. Medically speaking very weird things that are always very interesting to medical staff tend to happen to me, I'm pretty unlucky.

I've had post-op pneumonia twice and can remember all too well how painful that was and how long it took for me to recover, I'm also missing a kidney now and though my yearly diabetes blood tests are still coming back negative I am at high risk of diabetes thanks to family history and having had gestational diabetes in my last pregnancy.

So I may not be in the at risk group or have any underlying health conditions that I'm aware of I don't exactly feel like a picture of good health. My body has betrayed me too often for me to trust it any more.

Because
Healthy people are also becoming seriously unwell and in a minority of cases it's fatal
My dh has a number of underlying health issues which could cause complications
My youngest child whilst healthy has complex disabilities and an underlying chromosome disorder and I ,m very fearful how it would affect him.

We’ve all had it in this house and it wasn’t too bad. I’ve had worse flu.

The amount of healthy people have died are so small it really shouldn’t worry anyone.

Good thread.

I’m not worried at all. We’re youngish, white, no underlying health conditions, no-one’s over weight. Family live a long way away so we wouldn’t pass it on easily.
I actually think we might have had it already too. DD was mildly ill just after half term, gave it to DS1 who had a nasty cough and temp. I felt a little under the weather and lost sense of taste/smell for a week.

Because
-I might have an unknown underlying condition
-If I ended up in hospital, I’d be petrified because hospital settings make me extremely anxious
-I’d have nobody to look after my kids
-I could pass it on to others

Some people have undiagnosed problems. Some people have ended up in ICU with no underlying health conditions albeit rare! I try not to worry really but yesterday I did feel some anxiety around it