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.

@sewingsinger
I am afraid, despite having no underlying heath conditions, that it would affect me badly.

Why?

I'm no more scared of covid than I am if cancer , a stroke , an aneurysm, or any other ailment or accident that could kill me.
Life is very fragile and if we worried about every danger we wouldn't even cross the road .
That's my personal opinion anyway.

I'm not at any special risk AFAIK, and my elderly parents live in another country, so I'm not going to see them and infect them anyway.

My bf is a smoker, but he still goes to work, so he's at risk anyway.

But of course I'm still scared of catching a potentially fatal disease that we've been hearing about and seeing the effects of 24h a day since March. Duh.

Am I now supposed to feel guilty about being scared, because if I don't go out it'll be bad for the economy?

On another thread I said that when things open again, I'll be going out and helping the economy while following the rules that are in place. I was told that if I infect someone, I'll have killed them through my own stupidity.

So I'm supposed to feel guilty about going out when it's allowed, but also guilty about not going out?

Stuff that.

My daughters are ITU nurses. Half their Covid patients are under the age of 40 and half of those had no previous medical history. The youngest either of them had treated was 17. They are also seeing the younger patients developing blood clots and suffering strokes. Still think non of this applies to you ?.

“ I have a feeling that people have died because we havent been proactive enough about getting them help or to hospital”

People have been dying of things not related to covid19, which previously they might have been treated for, because they are scared of going to hospital or think no one will treat them. This is far more scary from my POV

Because healthy people can give it to the vulnerable
It might not kill me - it could kill my mother

^^ this

Because despite being healthy, we just don't know how it is going to affect us. There are healthy people with no underlying conditions who have been really badly affected. Also I fear for vulnerable people. Such as a good friend of mine in her 30s who has recently successfully fought against cancer, however is still at risk due to her stem cell tranplant.

It’s like Russian roulette, you might be fine with few symptoms but equally not. For anyone that is unnerving and let’s not forget that there have been healthy youngish fatalities.

I agree that the media has gone overboard - to some it probably seems as if they are catastrophising, but it’s an incredibly infectious virus and joe public would probably not heed the advice as seriously without the ominous reporting.

I’m not particularly scared of getting it. I have no underlying conditions and neither am I overweight. I think my risk of complications are very small. Those who die as a result of C-19 but have no underlying conditions are about 3% of deaths. Of those, the vast majority of the photos I have been are extremely overweight. We can argue about that as much as we like but it’s the elephant in the room, obesity in otherwise healthy patients a appears to be a genuine problem but nobody wants to come out and say it

Not sure how many of you follow mathematical journals but there was one published at the start of the out break looking at mathematical models of how this pandemic might spread (download and play the game plague if you want to see something similar in action) and the death toll for lets just let everyone get it and the strong survive resulted in an estimated 40million+ dead in a matter of months. The reasons for this was the overwhelming burden on health care in a very short amount of time meaning many who would have survived with basic attention died because there was no avaliable medical attention. There was also death attributed to the chaos because there would be no cancer or pre existing medical care so others who didn't have covid but would have been unable to access care would die. In addition death due to other diseases associated with being unable to bury the dead. Thousands dying in a single day means it almost impossible to bury them and fully impossible to keep them preserved for burial so having rotting corpses around would also kill. Finally with millions dying, in a short amount of time with very limited medical care avaliable, panic would fully spread so looting, murder, pillaging, rape and famine will probably be claiming lives too.
So while everything is looking under control and we are managing to limit the number of dead to those affected by covid im not panicking. However I am panicking that we might try to go back to normal too soon and fully release a pandemic where millions/thousands die unnecessarily.

The evidence suggests that most people who get Covid 19 will have mild symptoms, or be asymptomatic.

Meanwhile, we know cancer diagnoses are down dramatically since the lockdown. And we know early diagnosis/treatment can make a huge difference to cancer mortality.

And cancer is just one kind of death likely to rise as a result of this lockdown.

I dont want to lose my sense of smell and who knows what the long term effects are.

Because I was a picture of health last year, then I got a chest infection (non smoker by the way) which turned into double pneumonia and then in hospital I contracted sepsis. I was in ICU on a ventilator for 8 weeks and in hospital for 3.5 months. I would not wish that on anybody and it has left me with a number of long term problems that may never get better.

The point is that you don't know how your body will react to the virus, and it's better o just try and stay as safe as possible, no matter how healthy you think you are.

Just in case I get horribly sick and die

what a stupid question!

Why is it?

Healthy people can still feel like they're choking and suffocating. They can feel like crap. So, No thanks. I may not be "scared" of it but I really really don't want to catch it. No more than I'd be willing to catch influenza just because it probably won't kill me.

I may be older but I'm extremely fit and healthy.
I caught something which could or could not have been the virus. It was absolutely awful and unlike anything I have had in my (long) life before. I wasn't tested so I have no idea whether it was the virus or something else. What's more, what I had died down a bit and then came back, I felt worse for a while.

Yes, I am scared. If what I had wasn't the virus, COVID-19 might be even worse if I catch it. If it was, I don't want it again, there are no guarantees yet whether immunity exists or how long it lasts, there have been some who have had COVID-19 twice. I have also lost two close people to the virus, one a previous work colleague.

In my experience, those who have had something which might have been the virus and/or who have lost people they know to the virus are far more scared than those who haven't had the experience, and therefore continue to think it'll be "just fine" for the vast majority. It won't be, it isn't.....

A) I don't want to pass it onto someone who would then die from it

B) I am the only parent that my 4 and 6 year old have - I don't want to die and leave them alone.

Some people without underlying health conditions do die - its a fact. I do have some health issues so it puts me at higher risk.

I don't want to die full stop, and my reasons are good enough for me. I am also fully entitled to be scared witless of a silent killer than we cant see but know it exists.

I’m not worried about myself but I am worried about being able to support my father who has cancer; if I’m ill he and my mother are in trouble. He is dying and I want and need to be able to be in the hospital when that becomes necessary. I also need to have contact now for practical reasons. TBH I’m focussed on little else.

He wants things to get back to normal as he doesn’t want to be locked away with his thoughts as he is now, he’d rather risk it and have some quality of life and if COVID gets him, it gets him.

So as a healthy person that’s why I’m scared and as a vulnerable person, that’s my my father isn’t scared.

I wonder if I had it about a month ago, ds 18 yrs old developed a cough, he never coughs so we all stayed home, then lockdown started so no school or college so the teens have been home ever since.
Next day I stared coughing badly, so badly I gave myself a massive nosebleed. I cough anyway as have asthma, felt a bit hot now and then and that was it.

I am back at work now (keyworker, apparently) so not so scared of passing it on.

Because we only hear awful accounts of how Ill people get and don’t hear from those who had it and didn’t even know

Another healthy person here (30s) who was completely floored by suspected CV - in bed for 2 weeks, tired/weak for 2 more, just had a slight relapse at 5+ weeks! It’s a nightmare, even with mild symptoms. And obviously with much worse symptoms it’s life threatening. I’m still doing everything I can to avoid getting it (again), just in case I’ve not built up any immunity.

Everyone is affected by this! A lot of people are anxious about it. Like dontdisturbmenow said some people dont know they have underlying health problems.

Another one for the 'not necessarily scared for myself, but for vulnerable people I could, potentially, pass it onto'.

No that it matters right now as there seem to be plenty of people who don't give a toss about whether they're catching it or sharing it around - judging by the crowds of fuckwits having picnics and gathering in groups very close to where I live when the sun was out last week.