Is anyone considering a chicken pox approach?

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I’ve not read anything about this and am curious to know if anyone is considering it?

I have a very frail, poorly relative so I’m being very careful as I wish to continue to visit them and so this is very much a hypothetical question.

But the reality is, if I didn’t have a poorly relative, in some ways it would be more convenient to be Ill sooner rather than later. I already have leave booked over Easter (and no plans) so a period of illness followed by leave to recover in the garden would suit me better than waiting to become ill and messing up the plans I do have in the summer.

I’m sure I don’t need to add that I’m not in anyway trivialising the disease, but I work with the public, have a child in school and an adult child in the house who is a Teacher. The likelihood of contracting the disease is high. Is it totally insane to want to get it over with?

Not to SARS no.

Lol.

Er, my approach to chicken pox was to vaccinate my children against it. When that’s an option - absolutely. Until then, I’ll follow necessary precautions and hope for the best.

My DH and I have talked about it. A colleague who is a doctor and has it says she’s glad to get it early to build up a bit of immunity (she felt under the weather for two days, now feeling fine and waiting out the isolation period)

I have to admit to feeling similar. I just want to get it so I’ve had it. I’m not acting on this l, obviously, but it had most certainly crossed my mind!

I'm in exactly the same place as you. It's not a popular place sadly!

Not at all. In a couple of weeks the NHS will be swamped. As a fit, healthy and relatively young person, it's probably safest to get it now than in a months time. Also, it's the uncertainty that I'm finding quite debilitating now. I've spent a period in isolation now (due to community contact) and didn't get it. Don't want to keep having to isolate!

Btw I vaccinated both my children against chicken pox. In this case there’s no vaccine for at least a year and I can’t see how the entire family will avoid catching it now it’s in the community.

You first lol.

If I get it I want it to be early on and not during the peak phase.

Not a fan of lung damage myself.

I have thought the same thing this morning. Also would mean I could visit older at risk relatives without worry after?

I do see where you’re coming from but personally no, I don’t want to get it if I can avoid it. My risk from dying of it is relatively low but it’s still a risk that I wouldn’t willingly take. If I get it anyway then so be it but I’m not going to welcome it in!

You are acting as if deliberate exposure to CO is the done thing, when actually it is just another idiotic idea.

So no.

Well from knowing someone who has it, I’d really rather not get it. Sounds bloody miserable.

There's so much uncertainty about this disease. Reports about people still testing positive a long time after initial infection. Reports about people testing negative and then positive again. I don't think this idea of getting it over and done with are good because it doesn't seem to be working that way.

Yes, I'll get both myself and the kids vaccinated when this becomes an option, if that's what you mean!

In all seriousness, though: I'm genuinely hoping that one of the side-effects of the current situation will be that anti-vaxxers get a serious reality check out of it!

 Coronavirus: Ten more die after positive diagnosis news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-ten-more-die-after-positive-diagnosis-11957525

The deaths have jumped by ten today, it's not a joke or something you want to catch on purpose.

You would only get a test in hospital now so you probably wouldn't know for certain if you have had it?

As I said in the OP it actually isn’t a sensible option for me, but I’m slightly relieved to know that I’m not the only one to have had the thought.

It’s interesting to see people’s views.

Depends if it mutates frequently enough to avoid full immunity ever developing, like flu does. If that's the case it'll become endemic, like a seasonal flu, and there'd not be much benefit to you catching it now.

The only reason to get it early is that if you need hospital care you are more likely to get a bed.

But in reality you don’t have any kind of choice in the matter.

Hey OP. You do understand what is meant by flattening the curve, right? It means prolonging the outbreak, and spreading the infection at a slower rate. That means your individual convenience is irrelevant.

I really wonder how accurate the death rates are anyway. They weren't testing anyone that hadn't been to a certain country or in contact with a known case.
I bet there's corona deaths that have been recorded as pneumonia etc.

If I had the option I would have it now rather than later, before hospitals are swamped and so I can recover and be in a better position to help once more vulnerable people get it.