Do you know anyone with corona virus? How poorly are they?

[cultkid]

am I right in thinking children aren't as badly effected?

There's a first hand account in today's mail but they're not going to have asked anyone who got off lightly. It sounds really grim :(

Oh I haven't seen I will have a look thanks for that

I did wonder if the diary of the sufferer in the daily mail would have read differently if written by a woman .....day 1 felt poorly , day 2 carried on !
( light hearted )

I've just read the article

There wasn't much depth to it

I want to see how people really feel with it

I don’t know anyone with it, and I feel really sorry for anyone or anyone who knows people with the severe end of things. I’m really hoping that it will be a case that most who get it outside the high risk groups won’t be in a really bad way if it does spread further, which it likely will from what’s unfolding! I’ll have to read the article!!!

Cultkid, the Abel’s who were on the Diamond Princess and got it described in one of their YouTube videos this week (still quarantined in a Japanese hospital, say care excellent) described how it felt for them. Obviously severity varies so just how they experienced it.

Mrs Abel said she didn’t feel as ill as she was when she had flu but that her husband’s breathing got very bad for a few days. They are still testing positive but their lungs are now clear. They say now in recovery stage they function quite well for the first 3 hours of the day but the rest of the day they need many naps. I expect recovery from flu would be similar.

David and Sally Abel both have it and have made daily video recordings - its on www.youtube.com/channel/UCKydRcHz9jhu_t247j7JLUQ

At the start no fever just seemed like coughs, he got bad stomach then tested positive, no fever at that point and he put his stomach issues down to food allergies. Then worsened rapidly getting pneumonia, borderline on him needing a ventilator, he needed a wheelchair but now both recovering. They are in 70s and he is diabetic and he would be a severe case, 80% of cases are mild and more like flu.

I read the DM account, the guy said he had contracted pneumonia and felt like he was dying but he didn't want to take the antibiotics he was given in case it made him immune for when he was really ill.

Saw a video from a young fit man with it, he said was like bad cold, that's mild case and strong, healthy young person.

yeah the DM account with the guy who felt like he was about to die but decided not to take the medication!? Hmmmm.

@Twitney I felt the same, surely if he felt he was dying he would take the antibiotics, not save them till he was worse.

Took it with a pinch of salt, I doubt the Daily Fail would have paid much for "it was like a bad cold"

I’m really worried about how I’ll cope with a toddler if I catch coronavirus. It sounds like you can become quite ill and need to rest and sleep, which will be impossible. When I had flu before Christmas I was literally on my knees sobbing with exhaustion because I felt so ill and wanted to rest but I couldn’t. And this would probably be worse.

I do find it a bit weird that literally no one who has it here, is posting on social media. 90 people and not a peep? That has me more worried tbh, are they all that ill?

@Coughsyrupsucks Given that we live in an age where people can't eat dinner without posting it on social media, I wonder if when they go to these treatment centres there's a ban? I've seen press interviews from people isolated after holiday, but if people were posting independently, pretty sure it would be shared left right and centre. Seems to me the way it's being reported has changed significantly too in the last couple of days.

That's why I'm wondering, because nobody is writing about it.
Are they that incapacitated?

Don't even get me started on the whole "didn't want to take anti biotics for pneumonia"

That's how you get sepsis

I read the DM article and decided that he was actually feeling very poorly from the pneumonia rather than the coronavirus. It seems he got a bit ill with coronavirus but then the really bad bit was the pneumonia complication which he didn't treat. So it wasn't really the coronavirus that made him feel like he was dying, right?

Well the CV can cause pneumonia so presumably if that hadn't have happened he wouldn't have been so bad. Why on earth would you not take the antibiotics? Can't get my head around that at all.

I vaguely know someone who has it, he hasn't posted anything on SM but is telling people which is how I know.

I wonder if people have been asked not to post about it.

The very young, very fit bloke on that Daily Mail article sounded really unwell

I'm most scared of the bit where he thought he was getting better before it got so much worse and he thought he would die

I am not young or fit

I think they are being told not to write on social media
Why haven't we seen anyone explaining how they are? It's worrying thinking there is some sort of blanket being thrown over our eyes

No one is being told not to write about it ffs

Well the 'super spreader' and some of the chalet people released statements saying they were only mildly unwell and took only paracetamol/ibuprofen.

Why would you write about it? I had an awful cold the last 2 weeks and I didn't write about it. I just got on with it, and moaned about the unfairness of being ill, again.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-51714162/how-i-recovered-from-coronavirus-and-isolation

Apologies if this doesn't work, never posted a link before.

People who have coronavirus are probably keeping quiet to avoid a media scrum. If I knew someone who had it I’d help them keep their privacy too. I wouldn’t be talking about them on social media or a site like this, to avoid me being hounded to find them.