"It's just flu"

[Stripeyshirts2450]

I don't know why people say this? Have people who say this ever had proper flu? Last time I had it was 4 years ago. It completely knocked me for six, felt like I was hit by a bus, couldn't move let alone eat, drink etc. How would I look after my own baby? This is a flu which was nicknamed 'wuhan pneumonia' for a reason.

I also find it really disrespectful as it sounds like anyone who has asthma, diabetes, literally ANY kind of condition even minor or even healthy people over 60 don't matter? "It's just flu" so who cares if they die? It's really sad and this attitude is abhorrent to me. :(

Those who aren't being hygienic or self-isolating don't seem to realise the number of people they are having an impact on. There is a large proportion of this country who have a flu jab every year and you'd never know as they seem healthy and fine. There is a reason the government are freaking out.

We need to be looking out for each other. But hey, I can already predict the number of sarcastic responses that this thread will get... :(

Just want to say- anyone deemed as vulnerable - you do matter and there are lots of us that are doing our best.

[cologne4711]

The only sarcastic comments you are going to get is that this issue has been discussed at length on MN and is referenced at the beginning of each numbered Coronavirus thread.

We know it's not the same as flu and not a flu virus.

But then you get all the people piling in and saying you can get a very mild dose of flu. Not in my experience. I know the difference between a cold and flu, even a bad cold.

[ginrummy1]

I totally agree with you op. I've had flu once and was delirious with it. No way could I have looked after my DC's.
It also upsets me as, having a DC with type 1 diabetes, all these people banging in about its only the flu, it's not serious, it could be very serious to my DC.
Having said that we are not doing anything different, life is carrying on as normal in this household

[fantasmasgoria1]

I have had flu to varying degrees around 4 times. Each time every bone and muscle in my body ached, I either felt nauseated or vomited, i kept falling asleep and I felt very weak. The last time I had it was the worst. I was so delirious my ex was deliberating whether to call an ambulance. The next day I was less so. I think I was 14 when I had the flu the first time and I was going hot and cold,everything even my knuckles hurt, i vomited and I was sleepy. I had gone to stay with my grandparents a couple of days before and my gran told my mother I was too unwell to be travelling about ato come home and she. Looked after me. She put me in her comfy chair in from of the fire with a blanket and just let me sleep. I could not have looked after children or even myself whilst ill.

[ItsALittleMoreNuancedThanThat]

Thanks OP. Your post made me a touch tearful.

I have cancer & COPD, but I'm also a working mum of two. The way the stats have been reported have, indeed, made me feel as though I don't matter.

That was nice to read, thank you.