To feel no more worried about getting COVID-19 than anything else?

[Afibtomyboy]

Just that

I’m not vulnerable. I’m fit and healthy.

It would be a serious challenge if I was very ill because I’m a single parent with no support structure. But that applies to any serious illness.

I’m no more worried about catching Covid 19 than anything else. And seeing as I am not particular worried about contracting anything in particular, it means I’m not worried about contracting Covid. It really doesn’t bother me.

In fact, with Covid one would get a great deal more support than, say, if I got pneumonia.

I’m one else completely lacking the FEAR??!

@BatShite

I'm not arsed about getting it on a personal level. Again. Have had it already and it wasn't nice, but certaily not something to give up my life for.

I am arsed about spreading it though, and would feel awful.

So yeah, don't care about it myself. But do in the way I would feel forever guilty if I spread it to someone who had a bad time.

Exactly this. You can be not worried about how ill you'll personally get while still hoping to not get it so you don't pass it around

Same, not worried, no direct contact with vulnerable people. Still being careful to ‘do my bit’.

Six months in and you still don't get it? You getting covid is not the concern, the concern is you passing it to a vulnerable person.

That’s a totally different issue. I do not want to spread it to anyone, therefore am careful about that. However I don’t personally worry about the individual effect of getting it myself.

I am worried about getting covid as I'm ecv and I am worried about other respiratory illnesses because doctors are not keen on my usual rescue drugs because they can make people even more vulnerable to the ill effects of covid. I'm worried that people seem increasingly cavalier about this pandemic and that they seem largely unconcerned about their role as a vector. But I can't begrudge you feeling unworried about the virus for you - good for you.

I am very concerned but not terrified. I will try very hard to avoid catching it, including not socialising. But I have personal experience of a friends child (age 8) catching it 18 weeks ago and now having an enlarged aorta, enlarged gallbladder, blood shot eyes and a permanent cough. Child had no vulnerabilities before covid. I also have a friend who was a slim, fit 44 yr old who now has a heart problem having caught covid (worked as a first responder but now can't work at all). And a consultant medic friend who said back in March not to underestimate this virus. No one can afford be complacent.

I'm not worried for myself. I'm worried if I catch it that I may pass it to someone vulnerable. It's apparently getting more contagious which is worrying for those who may not fair as well should they get it.

Same.

I have pretty much no fear of it. I am 29, I am 34 weeks pregnant, but I just dont feel any fear. Maybe I feel more acceptance of the possibility of it, but the refusal to worry about that possibility. My sister is an A&E nurse who thinks she has had it twice (first time right at the start before they were testing anyone), and my mom works in a care home, so I am very aware of it. None of us are scared of it.

I still wear a mask, hand sanitise (although not religiously), and get out and about. DD is in nursery, DH works in a very public facing job where he is in and out of peoples houses daily.

I have done a lot of reading of medical studies and statistics. Maybe that is the reason I have very little fear. I genuinely have more fear driving my car than I do of covid, but I dont stop driving my car.

I haven’t spent much time worrying about it. However DH has developed symptoms this morning and it is quite scary. He has asthma, hay fever and allergies that impact his breathing although is otherwise healthy.

It must be nice not to have to be afraid. No one in my household gets to feel like that anymore.

Writing it like “the FEAR” does seem to connote that those of us who do have cause to be scared are overreacting, but I’ll try to give you the benefit of doubt.

Yeah, that struck me too. I don't think you get a bravery badge for not having 'the Fear' when you are not vulnerable. I imagine lots of wealthy people aren't too worried about the deep recession ahead of us - they don't get a badge either.

I'm taking a new job which will be based in a hospital next month (work in an associated field) and will be visiting wards and A&E.... expecting it to be honest. Mentioned this to DH yesterday and he said "yeah, I figured we'd get it at some point".

@DorsetBlueMovie

I'm taking a new job which will be based in a hospital next month (work in an associated field) and will be visiting wards and A&E.... expecting it to be honest. Mentioned this to DH yesterday and he said "yeah, I figured we'd get it at some point".

This is the same attitude my sister and mom have (nhs workers). I think that may be my reason for not fearing it. They have sort of convinced me that it's kind of inevitable that we will get it and I just decided I didnt want to sit in my house in order to avoid it.

Admittedly, I dont see many people in general, just my inlaws and a few friends. But I guess I will get it at some point. It's like trying to avoid ever getting a cold again.

Yeah I felt like that til I got it. Good luck to you, may you never feel differently.

Yes I’m the same. I would rather not get it, just like I’d rather not get flu (I’ve only had flu once and it was awful, always had the flu jab ever since). But I haven’t lost any sleep over the possibility of catching it.

And I seriously limit the amount of time I spend with vulnerable people, like my parents.

In fact, with Covid one would get a great deal more support than, say, if I got pneumonia.

Except some people who catch CV-19 do get severe pneumonia, OP. It’s deadly and serious.

I'm also laid back about it but there will be people who just want to make you feel bad for not being afraid enough.

It could be much worse than Covid. 🤷

I am not fussed. I don't have any elderly relatives either. Or any relatives. My family are clever and left this godforsaken island years ago.

Yes if I got long Covid that'd be sad, but I could say the same for breast cancer. Or cervical cancer, which I might get if the GP doesn't start doing smear tests soon. Or my face rots away from undetected dental issues, as the dentist refuses to open. Or I just top myself, because what's the fucking point anymore.

Also, anyone thinking they'll get more support if they get COVID- from whom exactly? Not from the nhs.

Apparently I'm highly vulnerable. (No one thought to tell me though) I'm not bothered about Covid but the thought of having to self isolate for 14 days absolutely terrifies me as I live on my own.

I think that while most healthy and fit people would be able to shake Covid off like a bad cold .It is still an unknown as such and you may be more ill than you expect .Kate Garraways DH was not in a vulnerable group as such but was very ill .Also having the illness would mean self isolation and having to care for yourself as well!

I don't have fear of catching it, but I don't want it, the same as with flu or norovirus or just about any illness, most of which can cause post-viral fatigue.

2 DCs at a small primary school a bit smaller than a typical secondary school "bubble"
DH working from home.
SAHM
Don't get much chance to see extended family including elderly relatives (I suspect that nasty chest infection followed by a DVT scare that DM aquired in hospital in Feb may have been Covid anyway)
I hate wearing masks for a multutude of reasons including that they make me hyperventilate easily so I avoid unnecessary public indoor spaces.
Our main social outlets

are organised and "Covid Secure", otherwise we are outdoorsy people.
Generally social distancing and being outdoors seems to be the best defence so the chances of me triggering a super spreader event with my lifestyle is very slim.

There are no guarentees about the consequences of catching it, but if I spent a year living in excessive paranoid fear compared to our family risks, and ended up writing off the next 6 months with Long Covid anyway, I'd kick myself for unnecessarily wasting a year of life first.

My dad died suddenly in the street when I was 11. My life lesson from that was to live well while you can, because nobody is immortal.

Wow, another person who knows someone who died in a RTA, but Covid was put as the cause of death. This was trotted out before by a poster called Wagsandclaws

I didn't see that post. I am related to the person I'm talking about .

In fact, with Covid one would get a great deal more support than, say, if I got pneumonia

Not sure why you think that. I don't think there is any support really for people with covid unless they need hospital admission. Also it causes pneumonia in quite a lot of the people who catch it. Mild pneumonia is just infection and inflammation of the lower lungs and it certainly does that quite often even in younger people.

Anyway I don't think anyone should spend a lot of time worrying about it. If you are not in an at risk group I think you should just take sensible precautions as recommended and then what will be will be.