If you knew you’d survive would you willingly get corona to get it over with...

[ACautionaryTale]

Just curious.

DH had it back in March and now I have it. We’re lucky we both had it mild.

However he said something today along the lines of - I think you’ve been wanting to get it.

Made me think. I’m 44 and obese but otherwise healthy. Even given the obesity, still almost certain to survive and not get seriously ill. However I was not lining up to catch it.

Having had it though, I can’t say I’m crying buckets over it. Especially since the evidence is that there is immunity from it (I know the doom mongers like to think otherwise). I suspect by the time the immunity wears off there will be a vaccine.

So I can’t say I’m upset at having got it out of the way.

@Flymetothetoon

Absolutely. I might as well get it now while I'm off work and get it out of the way, because no doubt as soon as I go back I'll end up catching it and need to be off anyway.

@CrazyCatMamma

Can you say more about three you know who have had it twice? I haven't actually heard of any confirmed csses of having it twice yet. So if there are some it needs to be investigated urgently.

I think we’re all going to get it so I just want to get it out of the way tbh.

I had such a ridiculously crap shopping experience today that I actually said to the kids I would rather catch the virus than continue social distancing. I am utterly sick of being treated as a leper whilst trying to buy the simplest of items. Being barked at and told to stand on lines.

Honestly to fuck with it all. I’ll happily get the virus every bloody month if life would just go back to normal again.

No! I'd rather just not get it and I live with my family so wouldn't want to pass it on.
I wouldn't mind knowing if I've already had it though.

I wouldn’t. My friends both got it in succession with high fewer and pneumonia (one of them) and resulting in asthma (other one). It took six weeks for the first one to recover and the other one is still sick. And I guess that would be called a mild version since they were not hospitalized.

I will be honest. I’m very much of the mind, oh get it over with ffs.

I had a heart attack and several cardiac episodes most of last year.

If it’s going to get you, it will. It’s here and it’s going nowhere. I’m not struggling with lockdown, just the fact that catching it is inevitable and what will be will be.

A friend in the Philippines said tonight they’re expecting 2nd lockdown v shortly as second wave is gathering momentum.

I would be worried about something happening to me, and leaving my children without a mum.
It seems to have hit my town badly at the moment. A month ago I couldn't name one person who had it.
Now I can name several fit healthy people with no underlying conditions in the 40 to 50 age bracket, that have died of it and several more who are very poorly with it.

I'd sign up even if I didn't have guarantee of survival.

@OneNewName thank you!
In all this madness people are actually dying
People that would otherwise be OK for another 20/30/40 years fgs if it wasn't for Covid19

My relative was on induced coma on a ventilator and then also on dialysis machine and finally trichonomity (so) and died.

I had cancer 4 years ago and had it cut out and live still.

This thing kills - please don't be complacent.

The people saying they've had it, have you had a test?

Thing is, "surviving" isn't everything. A guy I know has it - he should survive, but he's been in intensive care for about 6 weeks, much of the time sedated. Even if he comes out without major organ damage it'll take him months/years to recover fully, and he'll most likely be mentally traumatised too

If I could guarantee it would be mild (and if I wasn't pregnant) then hell yes.

There's a difference between "surviving" and "coming out completely unscathed". If the latter, then yes of course. But the former - I know people who have survived but six weeks later are still completely floored by it, and god knows whether they will have after effects years later.

I would love to have antibodies, that's for sure. But I expect that at my age antibodies come at a cost, and that could be future heart/lung/blood clotting conditions, post-viral fatigue, or worse, so no, I'm not keen on being infected.

Have you and your partners had the tests so confirmed cases? I’m still not sure when people are saying they have if they’re supposing they have or it’s factually known/in the statistics. The gov really should have pushed to test every person they could.

How long have you had it for? From the personal accounts I’ve read, a lot of people had a ramping up of symptoms after 7/9 days, and at that point onwards needed to be hospitalised.

Have you tested positive for it?

Sorry should have said more. If you havent had the test how do you know you have it?
There is a 30 yr old man in my village who has survived it, was in intensive care for 2 months, had 2 stokes but is now at home with his wife and 2 and 4 yr old. Its been on national news.

My DS (19) is really annoyed that he’s not allowed to go anywhere to get it, as he doesn’t want to get ill as soon as everything is up and running again! He joked about going and licking the Tesco trolleys but has managed to contain himself thus far.

I’m of a similar mind - without the compulsion to be gross - I’d rather just get it over with while I don’t have a lot of work on, the kids are home from school and work to take care of me and I’m not missing out on anything as nothing is happening.

However, I am obese so may be at greater risk of serious complications, so I’ll carry on being moderately careful. Not washing parcels or anything though.

OP do you actually mean that if I could perform actual magic and ensure I:

didn't die, didn't need hospital treatment, didn't have weeks of debilitating illness, didn't have any lasting impact on my health, didn't infect anyone AND got CV with guaranteed long lasting immunity would I go out licking door handles?? Hell yeah. If by the same magic I could guarantee the next lotto ticket was a winner I'd buy one.

Lacking any magic and not wanting to spread a novel virus around I'll just keep social distancing. Please do the same thanks.

It is not inevitable that eveyone will get it, in fact the opposite. A significant number of people will never get it, vaccine or no. Chris Whitty confirmed this in his recent lecture, even it runs through the population with no controls.

This idea persists on here but it isn't true apparently.

it is not inevitable that you will get covid. It is inevitable that many people will never get it

That's if nothing is done, if on the other hand we get a vaccine then even more so. We don't know yet how hard it will be to keep case numbers down but it may be we can do it quite successfully for a while and even fewer people will get it before either a vaccine, or a drug therapy that makes it much less severe. Take the monkeys in the latest stage of the Oxford vaccine trial, they all got it but the among vaccinated none had pneumonia or lung complications.

Not all of us will ever get this. We don't yet know how bad case numbers will be before a potential vaccine or transformative drug therapy. We don't know what the long term effects of the disease are. We don't know if catching it even gives you immunity. So thinking that getting it over with now is a good thing is not necessarily right. I get it, I understand the feeling but it may not be logical.

Well if you knew you would survive then why would you care either way if you had it or not? Immunity would be irrelevant because you were already guaranteed you'd be fine.

I would like to be in a position where I had gained immunity via the 'natural' route and sustained no damage from having the virus
who wouldn't want the best of both worlds🤷🏼‍♀️
But if I could also be granted the benefit of hindsight and knew that the virus would go away never to return then I would say no I won't have the disease because there's no need to😊
so in order to answer your question properly I need to know with certainty if it will come back
or is that not part of the deal 😳
what's the purpose of the exercise anyway🤔

No because surviving it can still lead to long term health implications. It could well mutate in future and its not proven to lead to long term immunity yet so I wouldn’t take that risk especially as I’m vulnerable (partially because of long term complications from prior illness).

I have no comorbidities and am a normal weight. I was hospitalised with Covid, and am still struggling with recovery at nine weeks. I was fighting for breath alone at home for 13 nights, with barely two hours sleep a night. I was so exhausted by the time I was admitted, I couldn’t even wash myself.
And my case counts as “mild” - I just needed oxygen, not CPAP or ventilation. Believe me, you do not want to “just get it over with”!

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This is what I am scared of. I don't think I will die if I catch it but I am scared of being very ill for a long period of time.

I think I had a mild to moderate case of it over Easter (though not tested). It feels great to come out on the other side, as if I have an immunity certificate and can now get on with life but for the lockdown.

I have taken public transport and been in situations where it was not possible to fully socially distance but was not at all perturbed.

My dh got it and possibly my dcs but they did not have symptoms. We are the covid family.