What concerns you more about getting Covid: the illness itself or the need to quarantine for 10 days?

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Interested to know whether I'm an outlier... Having had Covid in the house previously and not being infected myself, thinking about it, I'm more concerned about the prospect of 10 days self-isolation than the illness.

Illness

Quarantine

Quarantine

Illness and passing it on to others.

Having to quarantine with a 4 year old by myself in a tiny house. I have already had to do it twice due to her being a close contact, but uninfected. I cannot do it again.

The illness and passing it on . Having to stay home for 10 days is not even on my radar as something to be worried about

Quarantine.

Not the illness so much, it's the prospect of long covid. With a couple of chronic autoimmune issues already, I really don't want anything else to add to it.
Quarantine would be fine.

You are basing it on your previous experience. Other people’s experiences are different. I have been with my DH for 18 years and I have never seen him as ill as I have over the past week with Covid. He has no underlying health conditions. He is a slim, fit man in his mid 40’s who is fully vaccinated. Therefore it’s the illness for me and for my DH.

For my children it’s the isolation as they just had heavy had colds and a cough.

Quarantine.

My mental health is more of a danger to me than covid.

The illness, losing my sense of smell, long Covid, passing it on to my elderly relatives or others. I’ve been working in an office throughout the past year and a half so I’d love 10 days at home, but not for this reason.

I thought the quarantine would be unbearable as I am the sort of person that has to be outside each day. I’ve just had Covid and felt so ill that I couldn’t possibly have gone out anyway. Double jabbed but my booster was due last week so I guess immunity was waning.

The illness

We have an immune suppressed CEV person in the household, so the disease itself is a worry (as no one knows how well the jab will have worked for them)

And compared to several months of shielding, 10 days is nothing

You are basing it on your previous experience. Other people’s experiences are different.

Well yes, I assume that’s why she’s asking.

Neither overly concern me to be honest. I’m lucky enough that I can wfh, and get sick pay, so whether I’m well enough to work or not there is no financial impact.
Isolating DD (2.5) again would be difficult though.

For us it was the quarantine. But one child was positive but asymptomatic, the other had had mild symptoms at school for one day (hence the test... it was a headache and sore throat for a few hours). On reflection that migraine i had a few days before might have been that for me. So be day 2, all three of us were well. We then had those 10 days to fill in the house, raining a lot of them so the garden was out. I did crack up a bit on about day 8 and burst out crying on the phone to DH (who hadn't been allowed home from work as he hadn't seen us for four days prior).

Mainly the quarantine. I live alone a small flat so wouldn't even bo able to go outside for 10 days (not sure what I would be supposed to do with my rubbish). It was bad enough for my mental health having to stay home during lockdowns but at least I was able to go to the supermarket, go for walks and (eventually) visit my DP as my support bubble.

I do have a small concern over long covid, but like other PPs due to previous experience it's the quarantine which worries me. I think it's normal for fears and worries to be based on previous experience, even if it's potentially the "wrong" thing to be worried about.

Quarantine for me, death for DP (he's convinced he and MIL will die if they get it).

Illness. Not bothered about quarantine.

Definitely quarantine - not because of me but because as the main carer for preschooler DD I dread the idea of her being cooped up with me.

For me quarantine, because I've just started first year of a degree and am really enjoying being on campus and having face to face seminars etc.

The illness does concern me a little, in particular recovery time, as I have a friend same age as me who got covid about six weeks ago and is only just recovered now, she was signed off work with exhaustion for two weeks after her official quarantine was over. She's fully vaxxed and normally a pretty healthy person, runs regularly.

Neither illness nor quarantine bothered me when we had it. It was during lockdown so not like we were missing out on anything having to quarantine. None of us were particularly poorly with it, either.

The combination! Having to deal with cooped up toddlers for 10 days when you are feeling terrible is not ideal.

10 days isolation is nothing compared to what covid might do to you though (including the MH aspect)

Def the illness, but more long Covid.

I spent 4 months unable to get out of bed, in and out of hospital, spent many nights heaving for breath, thinking I wouldn't manage to survive until the morning, and - while I am "normal" now, back at work and everything - I'm still on very heavy medication for an autoimmune condition that covid seems to have triggered, and which causes me indescribable pain when I am not on that medication. All that wasn't the worst of it though- I live with my teenage DS, and he saw me carted away in the middle of the night, not knowing if he'd ever see me again, and being left alone in an empty flat. That was the worst thing.

Ten days indoors, feeling OK? Pfft.

Don't start to underestimate this bloody disease.

Quarantine because being double jabbed fit and healthy under 40 the illness is likely to be very mild. At this time of year there are things I like to do or have booked in and it would be disappointing to cancel.