letmethinkaboutitfornow
NB: General MNs: if you experience health related anxiety or have experienced health related trauma, you may not want to read this.
letmethinkaboutitfornow You need to read on and wise up!
So. You’re a fan of herd immunity?
That means you are also a fan of thousands of unnecessary, early deaths with thousands left grieving and traumatised because they couldn’t say goodbye to their loved ones. A fan of children being orphaned - with no one willing to take them in incase they are infectious. A fan of huge amounts of people falling incredibly ill and being left with, trauma, lung damage and chronic fatigue. A fan of putting such enormous strain on the NHS and it’s workers that they, if they don’t die, are left exhausted, traumatised and unable to work and healthcare has to be severely rationed.
This is the reality. This is the reality of a global pandemic and C-19. I Personally know people that have had it and it’s been ok but difficult. I personally know (young) people that felt they were dying at the time (for several days) but got through it. I personally know people that two months down the line are having days off work with post viral issues. Professionally? I also see first hand the impact on families who have lost loved ones and the staff who look after them.
Just stop and take a look at reports of the lived experience of this illness for those who get it severely. Talk to an ICU medic about the after effects of being ventilated that take months, if not years, of rehabilitation to get over. Talk to a grieving relative who is in the raw stages of losing someone. Do this and then come back here and say you are a ‘fan’ of herd immunity.
Do you know what love and loss feel like? Do you know what severe c-19 feels like?
Do you have any scientific or medical expertise?
Do you know what it feels like to not be able to breathe: the panic, the helplessness and the knowledge that the ambulance might not get to you in time and if they do you still might not make it? the fear that you may be in the bracket of people that are unlikely to benefit from Ventilation and so you will have to accept your time is up - but it could have been different for you if some selfish @“%%#{s had just stayed the fk home?!
Herd immunity would be great if this was a cold or mild flu but it isn’t. Autopsies from Italy have said that the lungs of some of those that died from C-19 are barely recognisable as lungs. It’s not just the impact of the disease either it’s the immune systems response that can be catastrophic.
Please stop spouting on about herd immunity unless you are some kind of world renowned epidemiologist at the top of your game, it is dangerous.
And don’t get me started on the impact of this Government!
There, rant over. Sorry. Didn’t know that was going to all come out but once I started I couldn’t stop.
Oh. And I asked my friend who has had it (didn’t need hospitalisation and didn’t get too ill, but two months on, has to go to bed to rest and gets breathless climbing stairs (40’s and previously fit and healthy) - whether she agreed that I should just accept I’ll get it and that I’m in a low category in terms of risk of death so I should just not worry too much. I said I’d rather get it in summer than winter. She said whatever you can do to not get it please do. It’s awful. She said she feels like an 80 year old. Even going for a short walk is hard. 
Now I’m done!