People like you spend far too much time focusing on the people who are dying that you seem to have lost sight of those who have survived with serious long-term health problems.
Someone on my FB timeline had COVID in the very beginning. On the day she fell ill she ran 9km because that’s what she used to do. Now she can barely get out of bed some days, is constantly breathless and exhausted.
Someone like Kate Garroway’s DH survived, but survived is about as far as it goes. He can’t walk, talk, move, he is in a hospital bed and they have no idea whether or for how long he will survive. But at least he’s not dead eh?
I am a flu survivor. Four years ago I ended up on full life support after I contracted the flu, was diagnosed with a genetic heart condition and also with additional heart complications brought on by the flu virus attacking my heart. I spent 2.5 years unable to walk more than about 20 yards without having to stop for breath, unable to pick up anything like a saucepan, or get a tray out of the oven because bending down made me breathless. I have had to be defibrillated after my heart rate shot up to 220 bpm and I’ve also had a cardiac arrest and subsequent CPR.
I’ve since had surgery to increase my quality of life and for now I’m doing well but my future lies in a heart transplant. So I have a fairly good understanding of what surviving an illness as opposed to dying from one actually means.
But if you catch COVID then I think of it as natural selection at this stage... So crack on, because you’ll be the one who’s ill, not me.