Reports that nearly everyone that went to Glastonbury came back with covid.

[Ohdearr]

It was on the news but also lots of fb posts from people saying buy a lottery ticket if you didn't get covid at Glastonbury because you are that lucky as so many have.

Hardly surprising I know but it seems its absolutely rife at the moment and it's highly contagious.

Not good news for hospitals and care homes who still have to follow rules around self isolation. Care Homes still have to lockdown if 2 member of staff or mote test positive and lots of hospital staff will also be off.

I’m just glad we seem to have moved past “this virus is no joke!” any time someone’s describing how “really very poorly” they feel. Yes, well done you for setting straight the Covid Is Actually Hilarious brigade, man with cough!

CEV people have to go to work/use public transport/have DC at school, all seething hordes of people (who in the case of work and school have to go in even if they have covid). There's fuck all point avoiding the fun stuff to 'stay safe' when you're spending hours a day mixing with hundreds of people, is there?

For years now we've heard tales of people being "floored" and "wiped out". Honestly, so what? There are hundreds of viruses that leave you feeling like shit, in bed, wiped out

@SexyLittleNosferatu the only people I’ve heard saying that are people who havent ACTUALLY felt the LT effect of ‘being floored’ AND haven’t had anyone close to the affected that way.
Interestingly, it seems that many doctors are like that. They are also the same ones who have caught covid and are struggling to recover and are now quite vocal about it. Saying that NOW they are getting it, it can be really bad and we shouldn’t be complacent 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

And tbh I get it. I get where you and those doctors are coming from. It’s just that when it happens to YOU, that it’s not just a mere statistic, it doesn’t feel such a small issue anymore….. I’d say maybe it’s worth listening to the people who are struggling to recover. Those who are still in pain, short of breath, tired, can’t work full time etc….

I know people that went and haven't got it

Minimisers got to minimise!!

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER it’s not just places with hordes of people that are dangerous for CEV (or I’d say chronically ill people etc…)
Its being at home with school age children. It’s going to see the GP. It’s having friends around. It’s taking a plane or a train to go away on hols. It’s basically doing anything that will put you in contact with other people.

Sure you can wear a mask and that will help. You can also isolate yourself and never go out but seeing how many people have struggled with a 2~3 months lockdown or the last 2 years ‘where you couldn’t meet anyone’, you can imagine how hard it would be for your life to ALWAYS be like that.

We crossed there, sorry.

I work in a hospital. We have plenty of staff off sick with covid right now. Plenty of inpatients with it too. I would have been at glasto too if I had been able to get a ticket because life is for living and we have spent 2 years doing bugger all and just getting older and more depressed. Don't think your post is sympathetic to everyone working in the NHS. Staff moral is at an all time low due to government cuts not covid. Some of us are ready to start living again.

No one I knew who went to glasto has got covid either. I'd like to see your stats.

And that’s the key

”other illnesses”

you fared ok with the “other illnesses” before the world ground to a standstill because of covid.

some immune compromised didn’t.

But isn’t covid just another illness that goes on an already long long long list of illnesses that could cause you considerable health implications ?

My favourite was always “selfish”

so overused during covid, so very very overused

never in RL. I wasn’t aware of any family friends colleagues etc throwing that word around

but it DOMINATED mumsnet

Oh I have just remembered all the endless update covid threads where people “suffering” would write novel length daily updates about how it was “the worst they’d ever felt ever”

Same as threads I’ve seen on here where people have immune disorders, cancer, mental health issues. It’s like a support thread.

Do you not see at all why covid might have freaked some people out? It appeared suddenly, and it was brand new - that in itself doesn’t happen very often, a brand new virus infecting huge amounts of people, that doctors and scientists didn’t and still don’t fully understand, that can cause severe damage to some of us. That’s what sets it apart from the flu or a cold in my eyes. Or maybe I’m just talking crap!

@Ohthatsexciting yes and no but this has been brought up over and over and over

I'm ok with colds, I've had loads
I'm vaccinated for everything I can be
Never had covid. I just CBA with the pain of getting the drugs if I get it, the risks of long covid etc etc. Then time off work, being in hospital...
My body hates me so chances of long covid are probably high as I have loads of autoimmune conditions!

I find it odd how people question on here well you can't stay away from everything when you wouldn't walk up to someone on chemo and say that. My illness is invisible, but my white blood cells act as though I am having chemo permanently

I understand why people were freaked out, yes. I still think it was and is still a mistake to assume that being freaked out is a sign of ‘taking it seriously’, and somehow is more virtuous than not being.

The virus has killed and harmed millions in a fairly short space of time. That’s indisputably true. And yet… we share our planet with lots of other respiratory viruses. This one is more dangerous than many of them right now because it’s new to humans and nobody had any immunity, but one day that won’t be the case any more, ans then it’ll just be another respiratory illness that most people will be infected with multiple times without realising.

Even now it’s far less of an unknown than it was. Sure maybe in January 2020 scientists understood very little about it, but given the amount of research that’s been done on it since we probably understand it more than we do loads of the viral nasties that most people never thought twice about. (And they can be pretty nasty…)

Genuine question

so what is your point in relation to covid and how does it differ from other infectious diseases that you may catch.

Seems a lot of people have it at present. To those saying they don't know anyone that tests, they need to widen their groups a bit then since many people have to test for work etc. My friends partner caught at Glasto along with 4 of his group, he thought it was flu then one of the group tested so others did too. Not really ill but off work, flu type symptoms

Cases have risen at present and since lots don't test many more have it than realise it

Fair enough, I see what you’re saying. It was for sure way more scary and worrying in 2020 when there were no vaccines and doctors didn’t know what the hell it was.

and yep being freaked out and taking it seriously aren’t the same at all, you can do one without the other.

Oh I do worry about all the other viruses and illnesses out there, unfortunately as a health anxiety sufferer, I’m an equal opportunities worrier towards all and any illnesses lol.

and tbh I get it. I get where you and those doctors are coming from. It’s just that when it happens to YOU, that it’s not just a mere statistic, it doesn’t feel such a small issue anymore….. I’d say maybe it’s worth listening to the people who are struggling to recover. Those who are still in pain, short of breath, tired, can’t work full time etc….

See this just reads to me as you actually hope that people like me, who are called "minimisers" on here, get it (again) and get it badly. Then we will be eating our minimising words.

Everything that happens to anyone else is a statistic. It doesn't make me selfish or whatever word you want to use. That's how we as humans operate. That's how we get in our cars, because we trust/hope that we won't be the one who drives into a tree or is wiped out by a lorry. I don't see it as any different for this.

For what its worth, I had glandular fever when I was 19. I thought I would die I was so ill. I've had complications ever since and I am 41 now. Most people are fine though. So i'm just an unlucky statistic. That's life.

@Ohthatsexciting which ones?
Colds? Had and am fine
Flu? Vaccinated and had but would avoid anyone with flu
Measles/mumps etc all vaccinated and unlikely to catch as it isn't raging in the U.K.
chicken pox if I'm exposed to, I need to go to hospital

Covid is currently the most prevalent thing that I am most likely to get as people might not have symptoms and pass it on
So I don't let anyone in my house without doing an LFT (I have them and can give them one)
I chose to go to a funeral this week as it was my mum, but I don't go food shopping as more people there, more risk and it's avoidable
So it's just balancing risk and mental health for me really

I take all my advice from my consultant as it's a very rare disease and I don't know of anyone that's had covid with it so it's still worrying for me. I think if hundreds of people with the disease had covid and were fine, I would be more relaxed

You are immune compromised
and prior to covid, absolutely no other condition fazed you?

So not bacterial pneumonia?
hepatitis?
noro virus?

am I having to tell you of very prevalent contagious illnesses?

1 in 30 people currently have COVID, do other contagious illnesses currently have such high rates

Unlikely to catch hepatitis
Had norovirus and was ok but would rather avoid as I hate vomiting
I've had bacterial pneumonia and was ok - but did need heavy treatment and was in hospital

God it's so hard to word it!
This is LIFE long but I was diagnosed at 31. So I'm having to manoeuvre and work out how to work FT and how to socialise, date, do stuff and live but also not get sick
So prior to covid I would of course hand wash, gel, avoid sick people etc. Now I do the same but there is LFT which makes it better? If there was LFT for norovirus and flu, too right I would use them

Technically I should not eat fresh fruit, veg or salad but would you go the rest of your life without it? I couldn't, so the balance is I know I have never been sick from fruit or veg, I eat a lot cooked/tinned but I have some fresh

I can't stay home 24/7 for my entire life but I also can't be 100% "normal"
Me doing this causes nobody else any issues at all so in the nicest way it's nobody else's issue what I do

If there was LFT for norovirus and flu, too right I would use them

I wish there was. My ideal future technology wonder thing would be some kind of cheap easy to use single LFT that tells you what virus you have out of all common human ones, although that’s probably Star Trek level of technology. Bet more people have flu in any given winter than realise they do.

That would be amazing, would make life so much easier!