Hope so. Age 24 and reasonably healthy. I am very overweight (and have started pushing myself on longer walks every day in an effort to get a bit fitter as that will help if I do get it. Ankled ache as do legs and feet but is worth it). I don't smoke, I rarely drink, no underlying health conditions. Am pale skinned which is relevant due to the latest reasrch into vitamin d and bame backgrounds. My job is a relatively risk free one, at least health wise. Work with offenders but in largely office based role so not as though I'm working beneath ground with a lung full of coal.
Tbh I'm glad I've stopped using drugs, well particularly opiate painkillers. They really affect your breathing, and while in on a subutex script it doesn't affect my breathing. Before I would really struggle to do a deep breath,because opiates depress your respiratory system.
I'm taking precautions though not overly so. I anti bac my hands regular and stick to the guidelines for the most part (technically breaking them by sitting down on a bench during my walk.) I don't dettol my shopping or wear a mask to the supermarket. I ensure. I keep the 2m distance.
I rarely get ill so really hoping that if I get it ill be OK.
Very concerned for my dad. He's 67 and type 3 diabetes, he's also overweight and very unfit as he only ever takes exercise to walk to the pharmacy or the shop up to twice a week, distance less than a mile. He doesn't smoke and is a moderste drinker but he does have a 'winter chedt' each year where he struggles to breathe. Again he doesn't get ill often although he is on loads of tablets for blood pressure etc. If he got it I. Don't know if he'd make it. And he's at increased risk as mam (who is 62 so hardly young herself) works in a care home. I've advised re sensible advice like wearing gloves, not touching mams work clothes or bag, not making mams bed or really going in her room, her showering after shift etc. I really can't see them listening. When mam gets home after a 12hr shift she's in the 'I need to rest' mindset which I do understand xbut lives are a risk. No way she's putting her own clothes in the washer or showering before going into bed. No way dad isn't waking her with tea and toast before shift and making her lunch for her and putting it in his bag. It's nice of him I know but I'm seriously worried for him. He doesn't. Seem to accept his limitations or that he could die - and mam I'd just the same, claiming were all healthy and will be fine.
I don't trust so much. I hope that we'll be fine and statistics tell me that if / when I get it I'm seriously unlikely to die. Buy you never know.
Unsure if I've had it though I doubt it, as from what I've heard if you have it you know about it. 2wks before lockdown I had a labrynthiris flare up which is usually caused by a cold or viral infection. Vomiting, dizzy etc. Usually it only lasts 2days with medication but it lasted a week and I was still being sick after that. The week after, I was so breathless all the time. Simply walking up some stairs led me to feel unable to breathe and really weak, which again is very unsisjal. Felt like there was something on. My chest was absolutely horrid. But no coughing or fever which is why I assumed I didn't have it