The majority of people seem genuinely terrified

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I keep reading threads on Facebook and elsewhere, I will also include my own mother in this. There are so many people genuinely petrified of life returning to normal right now.
I can’t get my head around this. Yes, it poses a threat to some, but the survival rate is incredibly high for most of the population. It seems a lot of people think lockdown will eradicate it completely and it also seems that they believe if they get it, they’ll almost certainly die. I know that’s what my mum thinks. She’s adamant if she gets it, she’ll end up on a ventilator.
Someone posted about sending their child back to school and said something along the lines of: “I’d rather pay the fine, than pay for her funeral”.
Has the media been really irresponsible here? I feel the mass media has a lot to answer for.

@BubblesBuddy , my dh is apparently a "likely victim " because of his mild asthma. That would be one of the "underlying conditions " many seem to think are cannon fodder for this one. He's still up and running.literally

@Username164 Can I ask where you found that course? It sounds like something I'd be interested in.

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They are planning another free zoom one on Family Constellations which is something to do with ayurveda

Bellinisurge, you have mentioned mild asthma as an underlying condition
Do you have a link for this as all information I have read is extremely reassuring about asthma not being a risk factor. I thought these links were interesting (i looked for the most recent I could find) and I wonder what information you have that makes you worry about mild asthma based on the stats so far?
www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/library/asthma-library/covid-asthma
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86323
www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30184-3/fulltext

Ilets. My hyperchondriac asthmatic DP also did the research on this and found the same reassurance, in addition to some stuff saying that it could actually be a benefit. Oddly. Though not as oddly as smoking being beneficial!

I don’t believe the majority of people will get the virus and now we do have an much clearer idea of who is most likely to die from it. Therefore we have a much clearer idea on how to prevent that happening. We can be scared about it of course but there are lots of unknowns. One thing we do know is that it’s mostly the elderly that die with underlying health problems. We know care workers have been working with symptoms because they have no sick pay, unlike nhs workers. We do know what we can do to make it far less traumatic. We can improve on what we did this time around.

Thinking more and more what an utterly bizarre title this thread has.

Whilst it's better to have calm concern rather than terror, it would be more strange to not have some level of fear over a worldwide pandemic.

Bubbles 60% of the UK population is obese. That's the majority. And its before we include other risk factors - underlying conditions, those over 40 or 50, being from the BAME community, being a doctor or nurse or other HCP (increased viral loads).

It's rather a lot of people.

In the UK, people's fear or concern is even less surprising. The country with one of the highest death rates AND highest number of deaths in the world.

Who wouldn't have fear or concern for lives and the economy.

Nonsense. When you look around do you seriously think 60% look obese? It's this total lack of thinking that causes unnecessary panic. Actual levels about 28%. Anyone that bothered has no need to panic. Simply diet.

There is nobody where I work who is obese of over 200 people. None of my friends are obese, only 2 members in my family on my husbands side are obese, they are only young, 25 and 28 very sad to see.

Wonderful! Ilets has the solution. People simply need to diet. Everything's ok...

Because the only reason people are overweight is they eat too much. Except that it isn't. In any case, people can't (safely) lose a lot of weight overnight. Did someone mention lack of thinking...

Semantics. I should've said overweight. 60% are classified as overweight or obese. The evidence so far with Covid suggests your risk increases by being overweight. It's not just the morbidly obese affected.

Not sure how urging caution causes panic.

@Username164 Thanks!

People have had 6 weeks so far, could easily have safely dropped a stone if that bothered
How long til a vaccine?'plenty of time for even the morbidly obese to sort themselves out, if living in fear
If not terrified, then whatevs, crack on.
It's not like age, ethnicity or sex (not gender) is it - where you're pretty much stuck. Unless you count age as a 'get it now' factor so you don't 'get it later'

How lucky are we all to actually be able to do something about a major risk factor? Cool hey, for the terrified and not terrified alike. Don't sit on your arse stress eating chocolate, go for a run.

I mean, they've actually had since early March to diet but fair enough, some people weren't watching the news much then. A safe two stone weight loss there.
I'm overweight, if I gave a shit I wouldn't be moaning about how terrified I was, I'd be on a diet.

@ToffeeYoghurt where did you get 60% of UK population is obese, please can you post a link?

Certainly seems to be a fear on on MN!

I know 2 people who have had it, (confirmed by testing) both middle aged men. One was ill for about a week but said it wasn’t as bad as the flu he’d had a couple of years previously. The other was barely ill at all, he was only tested because he’s a health worker.

I’ve never been that bothered by it, more concerned about all the hysteria.

One of my friends is very overweight and was panicking about the fact it seems to be worse if you’re a lot heavier. Her solution wasn’t to lose weight but to ‘stay in more’....

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03336/

www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/seven-charts-on-the-uks-obesity-problem-11583981

Theluggage15 Perhaps your friend is doing home exercise. If not, you could let her know there are some brilliant free home workouts on YouTube.

It's like being terrified of cancer while smoking or eating too many pies. A bit pointless and a bit stupid. Just lose the weight or chill out.

If only all us fatties knew we could just diet and lose the weight

We're lucky, aren't we, that it's a risk factor we can control. So either take the risk or go on a diet. I can't be arsed personally but I'm not terrified either. If I was, I would diet.

It's weird but I haven't felt that worried about it at all until the last week or so. Now I really do no want to get it. I don't think I will die at all but I just don't want to be ill. At all. And as a result really don't want to go back to work. I know this is irrational as at some point in my life I'm bound to get ill but I have never had normal flu and haven't even had a cold since I was at school so it all feels very worrying to me.

I wouldn't take what’s on FB or social media as a reflection on how most people are feeling. Those who are in the middle who have concerns but are not overwhelmed by them are less likely to be posting long rants or continuous updates on how anxious they are or angry they are for not just getting on with things

At times I have felt anxious but a sensible level of anxiety one I can manage. The end of March was very stressful but that was work related and how to juggle childcare too (I do not work from home)

I certainly felt more anxious after seeing how bad so called mild effects are - I would not call them mild at all and I’m aware that beforehand you would have been admitted to hospital (and as admissions have not lowered probably would be now we are passed the peak)

I understand why some people are so anxious due to their health or families and the impact on their mh.

I am concerned about the long term impact. I know a few people who since having covid (confirmed) have had other ongoing health issues that they didn’t have before.

The unanswered questions as they are simply not known and that life isn’t going back to what was our normal anytime soon makes me feel anxious (it’s manageable)

I don't know a single person that's terrified.
I do however know plenty of people enjoying a prolonged paid holiday

Covid 19 has been
linked to Kawasaki disease in children. www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/05/rare-inflammatory-disease-linked-to-coronavirus-found-in-five-nj-kids.html?fbclid=IwAR3Z WHK6UcMmAth3wTxf9ixADQ40NbwUiY20bu3RiTuFpbOjgLwymnkD0nQ

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