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

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Afibtomyboy · 25/09/2020 13:10

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??!

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Userzzz · 26/09/2020 02:05

I’m not afraid of getting it. The amount of people I know that have cancer and MS.. that’s what I worry about.

RepeatSwan · 26/09/2020 02:39

Whilst I am not unduly worried about catching it, I naturally want to avoid it, as the risk of post-viral issues is higher than other viruses and more serious.

I would put it alongside getting a tick bite from Lyme disease-carrying tick - but the worry comes from it being so much harder to avoid.

I also don't want my.kids to catch it until more is known about organ damage etc.

I am happy for others to catch it before me, your data will help build understanding!

OfficeMonkee · 26/09/2020 02:47

Yanbu. More people are dying from missed serious illness, cancer etc as a result of the lockdown than covid itself.

I'm also very concerned about the mental health impact all these restrictions are having, and the job losses.

vanillandhoney · 26/09/2020 07:20

No, I'm not afraid.

But I'm fed up with the assumption that everyone who isn't worried is going out and ignoring guidelines and refusing to quarantine because that's just not the case at all.

You can be compliant and not be remotely worried for yourself.

stoptheworldiwant2getoff · 26/09/2020 07:29

Ooh you're amazing

IdkickJilliansass · 26/09/2020 07:35

Where’s the 1 in 20 chance of long term effects figure coming from?

BatShite · 26/09/2020 14:57

The main symptom was complete loss of sense of smell, and there's the rub really....because about six months on it isn't back. It might sound trivial and it's not the worst, but it is depressing

Ahhh is this what is meant when people talk about longcovid? I know some have been left with breathing problems etc, but if its also counting in the sense of smell and taste, then I currently have longcovid! Assumed it was only the 'ill' side effects, rather than the odd ones and was actually quite worried about this longcovid (that seems to be a pretty recent development?) BUT if the taste/smell is added in with the numbers (and potentially adds a lot), its not quite so scary. Slightly annoying though that my taste is still not back, would have preferred for the loss of smell to stay, rather than taste!

Porcupineinwaiting · 26/09/2020 15:49

@IdkickJilliansass WHO amongst others. It's a working estimation, given that no one is really tracking the cases, including our own dear government (which is one of the problems).

IdkickJilliansass · 26/09/2020 15:50

They probably need to keep working on it 😊

IdkickJilliansass · 26/09/2020 15:51

I thought I’d you couldn’t smell you couldn’t taste

WeveGottaGetTherouxThis · 26/09/2020 15:57

I couldn’t agree more, OP. My much younger sister and her boyfriend (both mid 20s) were incredibly worried about catching it in the beginning...I asked them why they didn’t worry more about catching other things that could wipe them out and feel utterly lousy (from gastrointestinal bugs through to the normal flu strains)...I pointed out that they don’t try and avoid catching things like this at all costs, and that it seemed illogical and inconsistent. They went on to tell me that the UK had had more deaths than all of Europe combined (they had obviously misheard that there had been ONE day when the UK experienced more daily deaths than all of Europe combined)...at that point, I gave up.

wheresmymojo · 26/09/2020 15:58

All the people I know that have had it have been in their 30s & 40s.

One died leaving behind a husband and three children.

The others were all fit and healthy (one was a marathon runner) and they were all so ill they thought they might die.

These counted as 'mild' cases as although they called paramedics they were told they weren't 'ill enough' to be admitted to hospital.

All of them were really very ill for 3 weeks or so.

One still hasn't recovered six months later - she used to run marathons and now can't run for more than 2 minutes and is using an inhaler (didn't have asthma before).

wheresmymojo · 26/09/2020 16:03

@Batshitbeautycosmeticsltd

Glandular fever is still around. Readily contagious, too.

And I'd be as concerned about glandular fever if it was sweeping through the country like COVID and I knew several people who'd had bad cases (including one death of someone in their 40s) and it had killed 40,000+ people in a couple of months despite a full lockdown of the UK.

So I don't really get your point? 🤷🏻‍♀️

RepeatSwan · 26/09/2020 16:04

@BatShite

The main symptom was complete loss of sense of smell, and there's the rub really....because about six months on it isn't back. It might sound trivial and it's not the worst, but it is depressing

Ahhh is this what is meant when people talk about longcovid? I know some have been left with breathing problems etc, but if its also counting in the sense of smell and taste, then I currently have longcovid! Assumed it was only the 'ill' side effects, rather than the odd ones and was actually quite worried about this longcovid (that seems to be a pretty recent development?) BUT if the taste/smell is added in with the numbers (and potentially adds a lot), its not quite so scary. Slightly annoying though that my taste is still not back, would have preferred for the loss of smell to stay, rather than taste!

Loss of smell is worrying in some instances as demonstrates neurological damage.

Long covid covers a range of symptoms and they are worrying. Sweden says 15% of people, and symptoms range.

Some have a rash, that seems ok but some have serious heart/brain/kidney impacts.

Porcupineinwaiting · 26/09/2020 16:07

@IdkickJilliansass well if you have access to better data by all means share it.

I had COVID in March and would consider myself "better" but I still have neurological symptoms and lung damage.

readingismycardio · 26/09/2020 16:09

I am not worried either - for myself- but v worried for others! I'm not paranoid or anything but I am as cautious as possible without locking myself indoors and not seeing anyone!

RepeatSwan · 26/09/2020 16:10

[quote Porcupineinwaiting]@IdkickJilliansass well if you have access to better data by all means share it.

I had COVID in March and would consider myself "better" but I still have neurological symptoms and lung damage.[/quote]
Sorry to hear this Flowers

Lots of people minimising long covid, they are afraid imo, there's usually denial when new threats emerge.

Hope you fully recover.

Recycledblonde · 26/09/2020 16:18

I had Covid in April/May as did my DH. We’re in our 50s and a bit overweight and DH has a heart condition so I was a bit worried initially but it was incredibly mild and we’ve both recovered totally. I’ve been tested for antibodies and am currently positive. In comparison I had proper flu when I was 32, slim, fit and healthy and I have never been so ill, in bed for 2 weeks and not fully recovered for at least three months. I was under a lot of stress then though whereas not so much now. I firmly believe that being stressed, either physically or mentally has a huge effect on your immune system.
Our adult children who live with us tested negative and had no symptoms despite us not distancing at all from them.

ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN · 26/09/2020 16:27

I don’t worry about it all the time

If I become ill and have symptoms then yes I know I shall worry and I know too many young and youngish people who were very very ill (a few in icu) and the long term impact on their health

Those that I know who have died were old and frail

But also know a few that just felt a bit under the weather

It’s the unknown of the virus that makes me anxious

IdkickJilliansass · 26/09/2020 16:42

Ooh spiky porcupine 😂😂 obviously I don’t, that’s why I asked but clearly they can’t possibly have a particularly clear picture at the moment 🤷‍♀️

gildalilly · 26/09/2020 16:47

I think that you're entitled to feel whatever you like for yourself OP. The one thing I would say is that, as someone who contracted pneumonia as a completely healthy 42 year old and still struggle 10 years later through it, you shouldn't underestimate it and assume that it's easily recoverable from. Respiratory stuff can leave long-term effects on a good day and anecdotally this can be insidious and hard to recover from.

IdkickJilliansass · 26/09/2020 16:52

Does anyone actually read the OP

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Afibtomyboy · 26/09/2020 17:18

@wheresmymojo

All the people I know that have had it have been in their 30s & 40s.

One died leaving behind a husband and three children.

The others were all fit and healthy (one was a marathon runner) and they were all so ill they thought they might die.

These counted as 'mild' cases as although they called paramedics they were told they weren't 'ill enough' to be admitted to hospital.

All of them were really very ill for 3 weeks or so.

One still hasn't recovered six months later - she used to run marathons and now can't run for more than 2 minutes and is using an inhaler (didn't have asthma before).

You’re extensive experience of this is highly highly unusual.

Really look at the figures. To know so including deaths is very uncommon

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Afibtomyboy · 26/09/2020 17:20

@IdkickJilliansass

Does anyone actually read the OP
It would appear many don’t

Makes me nervous re whether they actually do listen, read, absorb and understand the information available from credible sources.

Or whether they scan Daily Mail headlines and extrapolate from that.

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Afibtomyboy · 26/09/2020 17:24

[quote Porcupineinwaiting]@IdkickJilliansass well if you have access to better data by all means share it.

I had COVID in March and would consider myself "better" but I still have neurological symptoms and lung damage.[/quote]
Were you tested back in March?

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