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

[Warhertisuff]

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.

I order of my concerns were I to get it -
Passing it on (before I was aware and isolating) to vulnerable family members
As above passing it on generally to god knows who with gods knows what vulnerabilities.
Long Covid
Covid itself
Isolation. Tbh I’d have no problem isolating for a bit right now.

@thewhatsit

Do any of these people who would be ok with quarantine live alone, with no garden? I think I'd be OK with quarantine if I lived with someone, but spending 10 days indoors literally all the time due to no garden, with no company, not seeing another person, seems awful to me.

Oh I’d be FINE with it if it was just me or just me and DH. The idea of 10 days at home with both kids however and not being able to even scoot round the roads or return library books or ANYTHING to break up the cycle of whining and me trying desperately to think of things to do.
Obviously most of us did it for a lot longer than 10 days because of all the lockdowns but I guess having gone through all that, the idea of being back there even for 10 days, is pretty scary.

That's a really good point about the thought of going back to a lockdown situation being pretty scary. For some of us, like you, the fear is being stuck indoors with children who are whining at you and need you to find things for them to do, for others, like me, the fear is being stuck indoors completely alone, and feeling incredibly lonely (so the same opposite feelings as we had sout lockdown) I'm an introvert and generally like my own company, I'm happy to go on holiday (including long haul) alone. Pre pandemic I would have said I'd be fine with 10 days at home alone, but having done lockdown I know I definitely am not fine with it.

Illness, especially the potential for long covid.

Quarantine probably wouldn’t be the time of my life though.

Thank you @2boysand1princess

The illness- I hate feeling unwell. On the plus side I get to stay at home for 10 days. I bloody love staying at home.

Quarantine. In fact, if I had no symptoms, I would probably not do it.

You are very lucky if your health is so good that you only fear the quarantine.
When I had covid I was very ill for about 6 weeks including 8 days in hospital , then slow recovery for another month. The quarantine barely crossed my mind.

@Bobholll

Most people don’t get long covid though. You can’t go through life worrying about ‘what if’ .. cross that bridge when you come to it. Take precautions if you want too. But I have zero time to be worrying about post viral illness.

@Bobholll Presumably if you're someone who never worries about "what if" you are equally unworried about the risk of having to quarantine and the risk of getting ill!

Do you have to stay indoors for the whole isolation period? Surely if you felt well enough you could go for a walk outside but not go indoors any where during that walk and maintain social distancing.

Yes, you really do. Unless you are posting an antibody test or another permitted exemption.

If you are unlucky enough to be very unwell you wont be worried about staying in, you will be worried about far worse. I'm struggling with what happened to me and my Family.

Illness, long covid and I know I'd be upset if I found out I'd passed it onto someone I know.

Biggest concern - infecting more vulnerable people (specifically previously shielding parents)
Second biggest concern- the impact of my being ill on those parents.
Thirdly, the illness itself - the way there appears little way of predicting how any individual will be affected.
Isolation doesn't bother me. I have done it before as a close contact, and I do have a back garden too.

Illness. I'm immunosuppressed and my first two vaccines had a minimal effect. Hopefully the new treatments will be available before my immune system gets trashed again in a few weeks.

@felulageller

Quarantine.

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

Same here.

I’ve just had COVID and was released from quarantine yesterday. Before I had it I was equally worried about both - I did everything I could to protect myself and my family and then my son got it from school. I am still very worried about long COVID but was really worried that I wouldn’t cope being in for 10 days as I’m usually very active and out of the house most of the time.

I was actually fine being inside - wasn’t w problem at all. I did do laps of my garden (1 lap is 25 steps so it’s not a big garden!) but other than that didn’t feel as much of a caged lion as I thought I might!

Fear of long Covid. Quarantine doesn't really bother me.

Getting covid and passing it on to DH who is older than me. We have no way of isolating from each other so it’s pretty much a given if one gets it the other one will

Quarantine-

I know this sounds awful but the quarantine worries me more. I can envisage one of the DC’s catching it (4 year old and 18 months) then me having to work (wfh) in a full on job whilst looking after DC whilst DH fucks off out to work (works outdoors). After a week I will be on my knees, then I can imagine that I will get it and DH will still be fucking off out to work whilst I beg him to take DC to nursery so that I can work/rest. I’m still in my probationary period at work so no sick pay (and no one else to pick up my work either). Then if DH gets it he will expect a full 10 days rest whilst shuffling round wearing the dressing gown of doom whilst I’m recovering from covid whilst trying to work and look after two small DC!

The illness. Covid was horrendous for me and I managed to stay out if hospital (just). 12 days until I knew I was going to survive, 2 months off work, 3 months until all symptoms were gone, 9 months for my immune system to recover.

Not bothered in the slightest about quarantine.

Being ill

I had Covid this time last year and still living with the after effects, one of which will be with me for life.
I don't want it again.

10 days self isolation staying home is nothing compared to being stuck in hospital for most of three days whilst they tried to get my blood pressure down so I wasn't at imminent risk of heart attack or stroke.

@ArcheryAnnie

I hope you continue to improve and hope you start feeling a lot better soon.

Abraxan you too.

And you too,, ToastieSnowy, we could all do with a break!

I am more worried about the prospect of Long Covid.

For me, it is definitely the illness.
I had it in July, could barely function. Not so much pain but like a weird lack of air into my lungs. I just couldn't catch my breath, like I'd sprinted after the bus but I was just lying in bed. I do not want that ever again, terrifying tbh.

My main worry is passing it to someone else. Almost all my friends are older then me, some much older, and a few are CEV.

On a purely selfish level it’s the quarantine rather than the illness that would make my heart sink. I live for seeing my friends and going for long walks.