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How sick are people really getting with Covid?

202 replies

MothExterminator · 21/12/2021 08:46

I am not at all trying to be goady here. DC2 has Covid, we are on the last day of isolation.

DH and I, both double jabbed and boosted, negative PCR and no symptoms. DC1 and DC3, negative PCR and no symptoms. DC2 (family’s Covid case) had a cough and a runny nose, no temperature at any point but was Covid positive. Symptoms lasted for 2 days.

So far I have entertained 3 children at home for 9 days (all plans cancelled, replaced by TV and video games), looking at day 10 today and this is lighter than most colds and apparently not very transmissible (DC2 regularly comes to my bed in the night). Or maybe the rest of us has it earlier without symptoms?

What are other people’s experiences?

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rrhuth · 21/12/2021 08:51

Every person is different. The stats are very clear - most people are fine, some people have a very nasty bout that can be managed at home but causes internal damage of varying lengths, a small percentage are hospitalised and an even smaller percentage will die. These bsics have never changed although the vaccines have hugely improved the percentages.

It is important that you isolated to protect those who would get very seriously ill or die.

If you spread it into hopsitals, the consequences will be horrendous. If we run out of nurses/doctors due to isolating, the consequences will be horrendous.

I am glad you had mild symptoms, and thank you for isolating.

AllisoninWunderland · 21/12/2021 08:51

Similar to you op.
I had it (age 47) mildly a couple of weeks ago. The rest of my family (dh and 3 dc) stayed negative the whole time.
It felt wrong to isolate once I was recovered too.
I keep checking the official government graph for uk Covid deaths and they are remaining very low. In fact they’ve been falling for a few weeks now. It’s very confusing.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 21/12/2021 08:52

It's random. For every 'it was just a cold', you'll get a 'illest ive ever been response.

rrhuth · 21/12/2021 08:53

It felt wrong to isolate once I was recovered too. Lots of things feel wrong if you approach them without looking at the science.

This thread is going to turn into a covid denying mess of 'we need to end isolation' and 'most cases are mild'.

Those are unscientific views.

underneaththeash · 21/12/2021 08:54

You’re boosted though.
I didn’t get it when DH, DS1,DS2 and DD all had it at the same time. We didn’t distance either.

Men/boys were all pretty unwell for 2+weeks.
DD had a tummy ache for a day! DH was due his booster on the day he tested positive abs the boys hadn’t had their jabs yet. I’d had my boaster 2 weeks before.

Lots of people I know who had had it after their booster have had very mild symptoms.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 21/12/2021 08:55

I don't think the basics that rrhuth mentioned have changed - most people have mild or no symptoms we were told.
And yet, the internet is full of people (often scientists) saying how highly transmissable it is, especially omicron, and talking up the dangers, it's a huge surprise to us when we, or someone we know, gets it and has no or almost no symptoms.
Luckily, you and I haven't had it bad. Some people do though.
For my family it was no more than being tired for a couple of days.

WeeFae · 21/12/2021 08:55

My unvaccinated friend is just out of ICU after 3 weeks.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 21/12/2021 08:56

Those are unscientific views.

It's not, and has never been, unscientific that most cases are mild.

Bahhumbug83 · 21/12/2021 08:56

My family are on day 13 of isolation, after DS passed it on to DC and DH. So far I have amazingly managed to dodge it.

It's been extremely mild for all so far. My 3 year old DS was asymptomatic until about day 9 when he got an upset tummy and a runny nose. DD 5 has had a bit of a runny nose but is bouncing around full of energy.

DH was the last to come down with it and had one day with a bit of a runny nose and that's it. He says it feels like the start of a cold that never really gets going.

We don't know what variant we are dealing with, and recognise how lucky our family have been to have swerved the worst of the symptoms, when many won't.

VanCleefArpels · 21/12/2021 08:57

I know of young (20’s) very fit people to have been horrendously ill even after all vaccine/booster. I also know of fat middle aged men hardly turning a hair. The issue is the sheer randomness of the impact on people. This is why it’s so important to take the vaccines. God knows where the very ill would have been without them

HeyMoana · 21/12/2021 08:57

We have it at the minute. We have bad cold type symptoms. We gave it Father in Law. He's in bed. All adults triple jabbed.

GreySweater · 21/12/2021 08:58

Contracted it 2 days before my booster. Was not pleasant. The most painful throat I have ever experienced for 5 days. 2 x Dr appointments begging for them to prescribe something to ease the pain. Absolutely nothing touched it. Fever / chills and headache. Really unpleasant. DH contracted it 2 x days after his booster. Fever / chills / headache / fatigue but no sore throat whatsoever. I was ill for 4-5 days, DH for about 2 days. DC have it - one had fever and headache for a day, one largely symptomless. I really wish I'd had my booster before I got it!

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 21/12/2021 08:58

I'm 47, overweight but really fit, have a blood clotting disorder. I've never taken a day off sick in my life. I got it in November and was properly ill for 9 days. Still 'mild' according to the media or MN - I didn't have to call a doctor, I didn't have any breathing problems, I didn't have any issue with blood clots - but I couldn't have gone to work even if I wanted to. It then took me a couple of weeks to get back to feeling normal. My partner had it too, much less fit than me and asthmatic. He was ill for 3 weeks, but again it was 'mild'. My partner teacher had it the week after me, he had a surprise positive from routine LFT and felt fine throughout - worked from home the whole time.

Wtfdoipick · 21/12/2021 08:58

My dd who has issues which means she really struggles with "colds" just felt tired and warm for a couple of days. The normal response to an infection is struggling for a couple of months ( I'm so thankful she was vaccinated as I put it down to that). No one else in the household caught it.

rrhuth · 21/12/2021 08:59

I do think that humans have been shown to be generally quite shit at understanding the covid situation.

Too many people favour 'common sense' over science. Common sense is pretty useless. If you find yourself drifting towards 'common sense' interpretations, give your head a shake!

bumblefeline · 21/12/2021 09:00

DH has it at the moment. He was hospitalised last year in Dec when he had it unvaccinated, he was extremely ill. This time it’s early days so far but not too bad the moment touch wood. Very worried for him.

CaptainCarp · 21/12/2021 09:00

My friend who is clinically vulnerable / immuno-suppressed got it & felt like she just had a common cold.

My boss who is pretty fit & healthy, although does have asthma, has been off work for 2 weeks & was really ill with it.

Nellodee · 21/12/2021 09:00

My husband, fifties, double jabbed, says he was sicker than he has ever been in his life. He's usually very fit and healthy, cycles daily. His oxygen levels got pretty low at some points and i think he would have been hospitalised without the vaccine.

Foghead · 21/12/2021 09:00

Lol at “ Those are unscientific views.”
The mantra to end discussion.

Dealing with a pandemic doesn’t involve only following one scientific view.
We need to look at what’s best for society from all angles including scientific discussion, economy, education, physical and mental wellbeing, education and our own sense of responsibility.

ToJabOrNotToJab · 21/12/2021 09:00

Like a flu. Not bedridden but close to it. 7 day fever, aches,weakness. Didn't lose sense of smell and taste til day 7. Completely well again after 3 weeks. On the other hand my dad ended up in icu and died.

PosiePerkinPootleFlump · 21/12/2021 09:01

Eldest child (14, 1 vax) has been positive a week. Right as rain, no sign at all she is ill. None of the other 5 of us has caught it yet despite no attempts to isolate from her

MotherQueenXeno · 21/12/2021 09:02

I am double vaccinated and young ish, slim, healthy. I feel truly awful with covid, for me this is way way worse than a cold. No breathing problems but cough, nausea, bad headache and extreme fatigue-no way I could leave the house right now. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, it’s far worse than I was expecting

oftenbaffled · 21/12/2021 09:02

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

It's random. For every 'it was just a cold', you'll get a 'illest ive ever been response.
But even “the illest I’ve ever been”

Chances are, if they’re on mumsnet… they got over it without hospital treatment.

So makes the response to it seem wholly OTT

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 21/12/2021 09:02

Yes @greysweater I was 3 days before my booster, so right at the end of the 6 months. Partner was only 3 months past second dose tho.

Bagelsandbrie · 21/12/2021 09:03

@rrhuth

It felt wrong to isolate once I was recovered too. Lots of things feel wrong if you approach them without looking at the science.

This thread is going to turn into a covid denying mess of 'we need to end isolation' and 'most cases are mild'.

Those are unscientific views.

They’re not unscientific views. The fact is that for the vast majority of people covid is a mild illness, even more so with being vaccinated. I don’t know why people are so keen to argue against this when the data clearly shows this to be the case. There will always be a small minority who will die from covid or be very unwell with it despite being vaccinated. It is, however, a very small minority. But hey let’s destroy the whole UK economy and culture and future by making everyone who has covid isolate even when they have zero symptoms.

I am in the clinically extremely vulnerable group. Five of my dds friends have tested positive, they’re all 19 and home from university and all isolating in their bedrooms at their homes, unable to spend time with their families and bored out of their minds. Not a single symptom between them.

My ex parents in law (both 75, one clinically extremely vulnerable and both triple jabbed) had it two weeks ago. It was a mild cold for both of them.