People without underlying conditions shouldn't be afraid of covid-19 **MNHQ editing title to make clear that this is one person's opinion and not fact**

[Alialialiali]

The German mortality rate is 0.4% which is comparable to flu

Germany are testing more than any other European nation whereas we're only testing people when they're admitted to ICU which means that all the people with mild to no symptoms are not featuring in our mortality rate driving it quite high and scaring everyone.

AIBU in believing that people without underlying conditions should not be worried about getting the disease?

I think everyone has a duty to be worried about it. No one is immune and nobody knows how bad they will get it.

People without underlying conditions have died but yeah this is absolutely an overreaction to what’s going on. You might not want to worry but many people are and don’t need you judging them for doing so.

Yeah my symptoms were much worse than the flu which usually barely lasts a day. I was feeling very bad for about 2 days
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If I gave you 100 jelly beans and said "Four of these will kill you", would you eat some of them, or leave them all?

So you had symptoms a few days ago, and were "back in work" on Monday?

Seriously?

Healthy young people without underlying health conditions have died

Where? What statistics show this?

Genuine question because I haven't seen any.

Well I'm so pleased your mind is at ease.

I'm not actually particularly worried for myself, or even my two toddlers, but I am very concerned for my high risk husband.

Even without the personal touch I am still capable of extrapolating out what a higher mortality rate for the elderly and those with underlying conditions means, and being worried for the vulnerable. Even if people like you clearly think of them as acceptable cannon fodder.

I am also capable of understanding what I am being told about the NHS' capacity, and being very worried about that

Well, I've kind of had it.

FFS.

You are fine until you are NOT fine. Then you are screwed.

Yeah my symptoms were much worse than the flu which usually barely lasts a day. I was feeling very bad for about 2 days

So you have never actually had flu then? Or Covid 19.

Ffs lots have people have died without underlying health issues including a 21year old girl

Twattish thread. Put it in corinivirus section then I can hide it.

It could easily turn out to be just a flu

It’s not a flu. It’s a different disease

It is of course impossible to explain that to the masses. The real virus is an outbreak of mass hysteria based on nothing more than a few misleading and statistically meaningless figures.

We’re at almost 20,000 deaths globally with many more to come. Wtf is wrong with you?

www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/18330248.gwent-doctor-coronavirus-appeal-public/

He said many of the most seriously ill coronavirus patients were young and otherwise healthy.

"Some of them are younger than I am, and they’re certainly not the frail, elderly people that some of us were led to believe we’d be seeing – they’re young, they’re fit, and they have young families, as do I," Dr Hepburn said

I have an underlying condition - asthma which I take inhaler every day for and hasn't for past 10 years bothered me at all - it developed after second pg. I have a child with asthma.

If we do get it I'd still hope we'd be in the mild 80% that don't need hospital admittance but I have no way of knowing if that would be the case.

Both my parents and one of my IL have condition that are listed as making it much worse if they caught it. They could still be fine if they caught it or they might not.

I don't think we need to be afraid as such but we do need to follow the government guidelines.

Just because you won’t necessarily die, doesn’t mean we should be blasé about it. There are plenty of people in the wider population who are at risk, the problem is bigger than you or me. I probably wouldn’t die of the illness but I could pass it onto plenty of people who could die of it. We should all do our bit to protect the vulnerable rather than just taking the ‘I’m alright Jack!’ attitude about it

Hi, op, would you like my MS? I'm not more vulnerable to Covid 19 but I am vulnerable to pretty shitty consequences impacting on my MS.
But it's fiiiiiiiine.
Knob.

Healthy young people aren’t dying of Covid-19 if they don’t have pre-existing conditions / aren’t smokers but some of them still need ICU treatment. The ones that due might end up dying in 3-5 years of pulmonary fibrosis.

@WhatTheHellHappenedArgh www.thesun.co.uk/news/11250098/uk-coronavirus-woman-21-dies-no-underlying-health/

do not due

If you've only had it for 2 DAYS, then you haven't got a clue. You probably only had a flipping cold and just need to stop speaking like you know what you're talking about.

Of course there are people without underlying symptoms who have died; 10% of those who have died in Italy were health care workers, I doubt all of them had underlying symptoms or were elderly. Just watch what's happening in Italy, it's terrifying.

i get your point -the numbers arent actually factual are they of who excatly has it therefore the death percentage is actually lower

People die of this virus around the world who have no underlying health conditions. Young people. It's stuff like this post that means people don't take it seriously enough. We should all be afraid. Maybe then less people would die.

Yes possibly but it's left health care workers very anxious. A lot have died whether or not the numbers are really not so high. They can't all have pre-existing health issues.

www.dw.com/en/covid-19-recovered-patients-have-partially-reduced-lung-function/a-52859671

"In some patients, lung function could decline by about 20 to 30% after recovery," says Dr. Owen Tsang Tak-yin, medical director of the Infectious Diseases Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong.

Computer tomography have shown fluid- or debris-filled sacs in the lungs, which may get progressively worse as the illness develops.

The findings from Hong Kong confirm very early investigations from Wuhan in early February 2020. In a recent study, scientists from Zhongnam Hospital of Wuhan University analyzed 140 lung scans of COVID-19 patients and found a ground glass opacity in both lungs of each patient.

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Further investigations of the recovered COVID-19 patients must now be conducted to show whether they have developed pulmonary fibrosis — scarring in the lungs. Over time, the scar tissue can destroy the normal lung and make it hard for oxygen to get into the blood. Low oxygen levels (and the stiff scar tissue itself) can cause shortness of breath, particularly during physical exertion.

Alialialiali The problem is that each time someone says it's nothing to worry about some people take that to mean they can go to a party and then visit Granny. Then Granny dies.

The idea that Granny may be one of only 0.4% that die isn't much consolation is it.

There is no point in panicking and I'm certainly not, but anyone saying publicly that it's fine should be conscripted to help in their local hospital. I expect there's a need for cleaners etc.

DON'T PANIC but do be a little bit scared. Fear is a survival mechanism