If you've had covid - do you think restrictions are justified, or are they a big fuss about nothing much??

[SengaMac]

If you are not elderly or in an at risk category - were you badly affected?

Do you think the restrictions are important?

Ffs. Why are you asking this? We can’t isolate high risk and elderly people from the rest of the community or are you suggesting they fill up hospitals so people with other illnesses can’t be treated or should they be left at home to die. A few people personal experience is not proper research.

My totally healthy 14 yr old son was extremely unwell. He was one day away from being admitted to hospital. He certainly isn’t in any ‘vulnerable’ category. My slim younger husband, again totally healthy, was in a bad way for months afterwards and was fortunate to have a desk job working from home. If he worked in a warehouse or as a builder he’d be redundant by now.
That’s the stuff which worries me. That

1. No one knows who is vulnerable really
2. The long term effects of Covid for 60% of the population under a debilitated NHS

So to answer your question, this is a bad illness and restrictions are necessary.

The restrictions don't go far enough. My auntie's entire family caught it. 1 late teen daughter still has fatigue and chest pain so has deferred a year of uni. Was only tested because her familiy were hospiyalised; her original symptoms were very mild. Other daughter in early 20s is fine. Son in early 20s is also compeltely fine, but he was originally hospitalised. Auntie now has heart problems and is on oxygen, her husband died after a long stay in ICU.

Whilst statistically it is only likely to affect the elderly and already with a long term condition, we do not know enough about the disease and long term prognosis to be able to judge that it is like other viruses that give a similar chance of severe disease or death.

I'm in Manchester and the move to this tier system has actually reduced restrictions. How secondary schools here haven't moved to the original proposal of "tier 2 therefore blended learning for older students" I do not know. What I do know is that the current restrictions are allowing for this to spread in schools and in workplaces.

Tbh I think this whole thing is all a finger in the air, because we don't know enough about this virus as yet.

Too many what ifs, and whilst I don't think our government has been that effectual in how they are moving with this there are too many dynamics that are unknown.

For example, how do we know that once people have had it they aren't silent carriers (the latest thing to be trotted out). Does this mean we should keep anyone who has had it at home until the dawn of the robots? How can we know that someone has had it when not all people are tested/are asymptomatic and may not even know?

I say this as someone who got it, and was quite ill but managed at home. Other people in my household got it but under a different set of symptoms. I think people talking about how they managed it in relation to restrictions etc being in place is like comparing apples and oranges....you can't when we don't know enough to know what needs to be in place.

My flatmate has it at the moment and she is very sick. can’t eat, nausea, cough, has breathlessness, terrible exhaustion and severe body aches. She is a young and healthy 28 year old and has been ill for 10 days now. We need to take this seriously - I am scared of getting it now where I wasn’t before. Yes restrictions are necessary.

Why do you think people who've had covid are the best people to answer that question? Does the virus bestow high levels of scientific knowledge acumen?

OP what are you trying to achieve with this Idiotic question?

I think that Boris needs to stop saying how brilliant the public at doing and get tougher. I had it in April and I'm still not better. It is horrible, scary, debilitating and serious.

@Reallybadidea

Why do you think people who've had covid are the best people to answer that question? Does the virus bestow high levels of scientific knowledge acumen?

100% this

Obviously everyone is like Trump and now feels 20 years younger.
Or...

Why don’t you want to hear from the millions of people who are at risk? Don’t their lives matter?

Three of my loved ones have conditions that put them at risk. Unrelated conditions, all developed silently and happened out of the blue. Could be you tomorrow, OP.

Maybe you should ask the posters still suffering with long term symptoms after 6 months on here? I suspect they could enlighten you as to why the restrictions are important. Or my 80 year old Dad who hasn’t hugged & has barely seen any of his adult children or grandkids..

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4031285-Covid-lungs-thread-18-weeks-plus-thread-2

It's a novel virus, that means that we have no natural circuit breakers in the population or vaccine, which means it is overall very deadly within the general population especially to the vunerable and elderly - and (as we are beginning to see) causes other long term issues in significant numbers (if looked at on a whole population level) such as lung issues, post viral syndromes (which may lead to ME), etc.

So yes, the restrictions are important, because we need to flatten the spread and mitigate the effects, until hopefully we have a vaccine.

The posters who think I want to abandon restrictions are wrong - I don't.

I'm in an at risk category myself.

I wanted to know how people are being affected, rather than just numbers of infections.

@chipsandgin, thank you, I'll look at that thread.