To think people are scared about catching covid

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Just that. YABU - I don't care if me or my family catch it. YANBU I don't want me or my family to catch it

Yanbu

Of course peeople don't want to catch it. Most people don't want themselves or their families to get a common cold so why would they not be bothered about catching something more serious & potentially life threatening..

I don't want the fucker as there's no way of telling if I'd get the asymptomatic version or die.

I am not hugely concerned about catching it myself (suspect I had it in March and DD recently tested positive while I tested negative) but wouldn’t want my 90 year old granny to catch it.

I've already had it, in all likelihood so have DH and DS. But I don't want anyone else to get it. We've just lost a close family member to it and no one needs to go through that.

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Of course no one wants to catch it but people I know have vastly different approaches to risk. Some are absolutely determined to avoid and basically haven't left their houses since March, others are pretty much ignoring it and until the latest lockdown were living life as normal.

I really don't want to get it -- particularly now there's a vaccine on the horizon and it would be annoying to get this close and get it. I'm a single parent and it would just be a monstrous ballache for me with work/school if I got it. I'm not particularly scared of having a regular dose but long COVID scares the bejesus out of me.

But I've not gone quite to the extent of barricading myself in my house for months on end.

I was more frightened before I saw the enormous statistical skew towards the very elderly as the pandemic developed. I’m not as scared now, although obviously I don’t want to get it.

I don’t want to catch it. I’m relatively young and healthy but I know with my luck I’d end up with a cytokine storm or similar.

I will admit that I’m scared of catching it. I know people who have died from it and been hospitalised as they were severely ill. One is still in hospital. Recovered people are recovering slowly and are limited in how much activity they can do before breathlessness stops them. They’re not elderly people.
I’m have a few things against me so, yes, I’m afraid.

According to the ONS almost 1 in 10 people who have died from it have no underlying health conditions. I'm assuming a lot of these have risk factors eg age and obesity but still. I'm not scared as such as my odds are still pretty good but I'd rather avoid it if possible

I know not everyone on here is healthy and under 40 (so please don’t take this anything other than me saying this is why I am not horribly scared), but it has killed very few healthy young people. And when I say healthy, I mean people without previously known, serious health conditions. Less than 1% of total deaths. So it’s not that it’s not potentially serious, but the strong likelihood is, if I catch it, it will be okay.

Some people are some people aren’t it’s been that way from the very beginning.
Not really sure this poll will be enlightening in anyway

YABU - I don't care if me or my family catch it
YANBU I don't want me or my family to catch it
Well there's a world of options between there isn't there? Of course I don't actively want to catch it, neither am I scared of doing so.

I am taking those precautions as mandated by government, my place of work and my children's school/nursery. I am not and never have been quarantining my post, disinfecting the shopping or anything else like that. Pretty much the same as the majority of the population I suspect.

I’m not sure what the point of this poll is. Some people will be more scared than others.
I’ve had it. It was like a bad cold. Whole family had fairly mild symptoms.
I don’t want to catch it again in the same way I don’t want to catch any virus really. Main issue for me is the isolation period.

Interesting.

According to www.covid19survivalcalculator.com/

I have a 5% chance of catching Covid and a 0.05 % chance of dying from it if I do.

However it didn't take into account that I live with school age children which I suspect bumps up my chances of catching it somewhat.

Obviously I don't want to catch it, but I'm not going to spend my life in fear all the time, that would be a pointless exercise.

I'm friends with a healthy woman who genuinely believes that if she catches it there is a good chance she will end up in hospital. She has no health concerns, she is just very fearful of risk in general and this seems to have tipped her over the edge.

The other day I was walking through a large open, empty field and an older couple we're heading towards me. The man put a mask on when he saw me and kept it on as I passed. I didn't come within 20 metres of them.

I do worry about the mental health fallout from all of this. We appear to be in a permanent state of anxiety and have lost the ability to understand risk.

YANBU we know people who have been incredibly poorly with it. Young people with long covid, not able to use their limbs anymore, several very damaged organs, etc. Multiple friends have lost grandparents to it.

I know 5 people that have had it (all female 30s/40s - I work in education). Nobody died, one was hospitalised, 2 out of the 5 are still not recovered months later. One of those has a partially collapsed lung. I don't know anyone who has been similarly affected by flu or anything similar.

So yes, I am quite worried about getting it.

Unfortunately I think you have summed up too many people’s mentality on this - “I’ll do what I want to do (fuck the rules) and you do what you want (follow the rules). They still refuse to see the bigger picture - fair enough if you don’t care about getting it but it’s who you’re going to spread it to and the severity of their symptoms that matters. YANBU.

I have to be honest, I'm not scared of it. I don't really think about it in the same way I don't think about contracting all of the thousands of other diseases that there are in the world.

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Medal and for the most inane thread here today.

I don't want to catch a cold never mind covid why on earth would people want to be ill? I think we would all be ok if caught it but still being careful an doing everything not to catch it.

Your options aren’t great.

Most people don’t want to catch it, but still make decisions so they might (ie not stay at home the whole time).

YABU for posting yet another pointless covid thread with over simplistic options.

People aren’t just scared for themselves and their family, they’re scared for the vulnerable people they could unknowingly infect who could end up dying of that infection.

I don't want to catch it, but I'm not scared of it, I'd be happily shopping as normal, socialising and going to the pub right now if I could, but the way some people behave about it; is hysterical, walking around acting as if everyone around them has the plague or ebola.

All the dozen or so people I know who've had it, have had barely anything worth mentioning symptoms wise.

I suspect my mother got in in March (all the symptoms but there weren’t tests available then). She is late 50s but is very healthy, eats a very good diet and goes running 3 times a week. No health conditions.

She was very poorly for two weeks and got horrendous chest pains. We aren’t sure where she got it from, possibly someone who was asymptomatic. Even now in November she still occasional gets the chest pains fleetingly. The doctor has ruled out anything else, there’s nothing else causing them - he says there’s nothing they can do but it’s a common issue in for people who have had covid.

I think that has heightened my anxiety somewhat. I know she’s slightly older but she really takes care of herself, so it’s worrying that someone in good shape could still be dealing with the long term effects.