Depressed covid19

[Littlelamb40]

Hello
I have posted on here before, but 3 weeks into lock down and the number of infections isn't going down.
Its making me so depressed and extremely anxious. Now I know there is a 2 week incubation period, but we are 21 days into this and still no decrease in infections.

I can't shed any light on this, and go to bed crying. How are all these people still catching this evil virus. Xx

I'm sorry you're struggling. Some experts think the incubation period can be longer than two weeks in some people. Also we don't have as strict a lockdown as some counties. Lots of people, including construction workers, are still having to go to work. It's an awful and frightening time, I know. It's very hard but could you try to think of the positive news? Vaccines are being worked on, drugs that could treat it have shown promise in trials. Although there's no conclusive proof of their success, it's something to be hopeful about.

The infection figure is also primarily made up of cases in hospitals, as that’s mainly where testing is happening. The course of Covid19 seems to be that often people will be unwell for a week or more before taking a turn for the worse and winding up in hospital. So combined with the incubation period and reporting lags, we shouldn’t be seeing much of an impact of ‘lockdown’ until this week at the earliest.

So it's possible that this virus sits dormant in your body for 4 weeks and then symptoms appear, which explains why the infection rate is getting higher. It's utterly frighhtning, I don't want to catch it and end up dying. I haven't left the house for 4 weeks.

There's a useful chart somewhere that explains the time lag. I'll see if I can find it.

I know it's depressing, especially that there's no going back to how things were. Social distancing is here to stay. But look how quickly we adapt, supermarkets as an example.

For your own sanity, are you able to go out and enjoy a bit of sun?

This is from BBC.

Thanks that makes more sense. About a month the illness tends to last for. I'm hoping the daily figures that the papers report are behind. Xx

I can't bare seeing 5000 new cases each day. It's horrendous..

Remember, there is a reporting lag. The figures relate to the day the deaths were reported, not when people died. Say, about a week, though it could be longer. Yesterday’s figures are already a week old.

There’s the time lag of symptoms after infection and severe disease after symptom onset (which are the only cases counted) as mentioned above but also if people had it at start of lockdown then infected household members there’s a further delay of them showing up. The timeline can also be more prolonged than originally advised.

Do you think this pandemic will ever stop? It's a living nightmare im extremely frightened. I need help x

It will, but it is going to take a while I’m afraid. x

I'm sure we will have to stay on lock down for at a year to stay safe xx