I've posted before about my extreme anxiety to get the vaccine. Every time I think 'ok, I'm going to get it' I panic a few hours later and think I'll be messing up my menstrual cycle forever (I will start a separate thread about that), and stress out about the potential for getting a blood clot (slim I know, and not my biggest worry until I start thinking about the people who have died from a clot). I also worry about the dozen or so women that I follow on social media who have lost movement in their limbs, or are living with spasms and tingly limbs and fingers as a result of nerve damage. The side effects are a constant worry. As is actually catching covid. I've managed to dodge it so far, but I've got a young child in nursery and another in school. He's had a few children in his class come down with covid, but so far he's managed to dodge it. I'm a bit stressed this evening though to know that his friend's dad has tested positive for it, but the child in his class will still be attending. I'm petrified of the vaccine, and of covid itself. My husband (also unvaxxed) is insistent that no healthy person actually dies o covid (I think this is a ridiculous statement btw, but last time I mentioned an article I read about a young fit and healthy doctor who died 9 weeks after contracting it and spending that time in ICU he got really angry with me and threw it in my face yelling at me calling me ignorant and that he's read many peer reviewed journals on the subject blah blah blah. My point I was trying to make to him was that many seemingly healthy people die, and perhaps they had undetected underlying health conditions. Maybe I do as well? He certainly does, but I'll give him credit that he has an amazing immune system and mine is not the greatest. A simple cold for me last 2 weeks on average which is quite frustrating.
Ramble over. What I basically want to know is - if you (or anyone you know) is unvaccinated (and willing to admit it), and you've caught covid in the past 6 months, how did you feel with it? On deaths door? In the ICU? Just a cough? Completely asymptomatic? I feel like we just hear about the unvaxxed people dying, but not how many have recovered, which I'm almost certain is more than those dying!