SIL still isolating due to covid risk

[dragontears]

AIBU to think this is no way to live now? She works from home and will only leave the house for essential errands with mask on. She is terrified of getting long covid. Feels like her life is very very limited for a 38 year old!

Anyone else have people they know in this position? How to support them?

It was an awful period where scare tactics were used to enforce compliance.

What I remember are the scenes out of Italy, when the virus first hit there, and the enormous refrigerated trucks brought in to deal with the bodies when the hospital morgues overflowed in New York. Thta could have been every town and major city in the world, were it not for mitigations and mandates.

It's a bit like Y2K, people bitch about it being a non-event, when it was only through the constant work, for years prior in some cases, of people in the field shoring up any problems that meant things were able to flow on as they would do normally.

I am confident that long-COVID paranoia is a far greater disease the the post-viral syndrome often deemed "Long-COVID".

That's really rude, and also ignorant.

@mumatlast14 There are around 14 million children in the UK. You state millions have long covid which is obvious BS. If it even exists, the ONS claims 1.9 million in total. So even if "millions of children" do have long covid, which I don't believe of a second, "millions" i.e. plural would be 2 million. So you seriously think 14% or more children suffer with a disease that has no test? I'm not buying it.

Next point, we yes, its a discussion forum, OP put up a subject for discussion, so I'm discussing it. Its kind of the point.

If you take my opinion to be rude, so be it. If you find opposing opinion rude, maybe you are better hiding under a mask in your own home.

As far as Italy goes, you fell for that? Presumably you fell for those videos of people waiting for a bus spontaneously collapsing?

If that makes you feel good ok.

That’s a really unacceptable comment and you should apologise.

Approximately 6 in every 100 people who have COVID-19 develop post COVID-19 condition.

Post COVID-19 condition (long COVID) share.google/5roxysBzWu70RhYoP

And 94 don't. If you're in that group, great! If you're not, thems the breaks.

To someone who believes all the deaths and overflowing dead bodies shown in Italy were a scam? I don't think so!

Her views did not cause the death of your relative.

A friend of mine got ME after a dose of the flu long before covid. It took her an awful long while to get to relatively normal.

Strange though there wasn't the hysterics from everyone else in case they caught flu and ended up the same.

Wonder why

A few Points on your comment

• many illnesses do NOT have a blood test to confirm it. It doesn’t mean they’re not ill.
• many people feel ‘not quite right’, children show behavioural problems, fall behind at school etc… and still don’t associate it with LC
• there is NO treatment for it. Even if the number of children affected in the U.K. are around 10.000, it’s 10.000 children who seriously ill with NO TREATMENT at all.

fwiw the estimates vary a lot. The ONS talks about 30.000~40.000 children. The guardian talks about more than 100.000 under 18yo, of which 40.000 are severely affected. You migut not ‘believe it’ but unfortunately it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

I have ME agd I can answer that question. And it is NOT because she had ME after the flu (and was very lucky to recover. Only about 5% of people do).

It’s because people with ME are routinely dismissed as fakers, it’s all in your head type od comments.
No one, including most doctors/consultants, take ME seriously. There isn’t even a speciality that deals with ME patients despite being a neuroimmunological illness.
So yay, you’re not going to hear ‘do your best to avoid the flu’….

Id suggest that everyone migut want tomatoes ME like illnesses. Just like you’d avoid COPD which has a much better quality of life than ME (and a lot of LC patients)

She's not fully recovered as in back to her pre illness self. She doesn't fall asleep randomly quite so much these days though

So if ME is " in the head" why is long covid not considered the same

An anti masker convinced my relative not to continue masking. They subsequently caught covid and died.

Just like you’d avoid COPD which has a much better quality of life than ME

You haven't met everyone with COPD so I'd rein in such sweeping statements, @MoveOverToTheSea .

Did your relative lack capacity to make their own decision? Were they forced to not wear a mask?

Could've caught it even with the mask. I masked as little as possible, worked with general public, only had first 2 jabs to travel, spent time in house with teenager that was infected and didn't catch covid.

So by that theory I should've caught it

Yes. Being attached to an oxygen cylinder for most of the day is also a shitty existence.

Yeah ok, must absolutely be my relatives fault for lacking capacity!

Sadly, OP, your sister in law is suffering from mental illness. It's very sad, but I'm not sure that there is much that anyone can do.

Well we'll never know. You only die once. But they were doing ok until then.

Do people really believe that no one who wears a mask ever catches covid? That's blatantly false. I've read comments from other covid zealots who when they inevitably get sick they see it as a moral failing, that they must have done something "wrong" and of course look to blame someone else for it - society, the disgusting plague rat of a person who coughed near them, kids, anti vaxxers etc. Its like a religion at this stage, you have to perform all the "rituals" correctly or else you'll be "punished" with illness. It's a really unhealthy mindset to be in and I feel sorry for kids being raised this way in 2026.

2025 obviously 😄