I'm worried about getting coronavirus

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I haven't heard of this one yet, but let's assume it is true.
I suppose you mean you have an active strong immune system because you have allergies? But a lot of people do. Overall the number of young and healthy people who die is very small. Even if an active strong immune system was a risk factor, it would be a very small risk factor. Even if all the young seemingly healthy people who have died had an active strong immune system - and a lot of them may have had undiagonsed health issues instead - the proportion of people with an active strong immune system who die of covid 19 would still be extremely small.


That is certainly wrong. All the people in China who were infected and haven't died have recovered. That's about 77 thousand people. And in actuality it's likely a lot more because they likely didn't test some of the mild cases. The world wide deaths are nowhere near a million either. A million probably was the number of confirmed infections, not the number of deaths.
The reason why at some point in some countries the number of deaths was higher or almost as high as the number of recovered people is that you can die within a few days, but, if you have a serious infection, it can take several weeks to fully recover. If the virus has been in a country for one or two weeks a few people have died already and very few have recovered yet - especially if that country mostly tests the severe cases. But over the following weeks the number of recovered people goes up much faster than the number of deaths.

People in their 60s are at more risk. But if they're otherwise healthy they're still not at a high risk.
People who are roughly 50 are at a higher risk than people who are in their 20s. But if they're otherwise healthy the risk is still small.

I think I got the information about strong healthy people dying from coronavirus from asking Google why it doesn't seem to be affecting children under the age of 10. It said it's because they don't have much immunity so their immune system won't respond as much. So I'm getting the message that the stronger your immune system is, the more likely it will respond to the virus by filling the lungs up with more mucus.

I have trouble with my sinuses, and occasionally I get an attack where my nose literally fills up and doesn't stop dripping (this is not a cold), and I produce more mucus in a few hours than I do with the common cold in a few days. The doctors don't seem to know what it is but they put it down to strong immunity reaction to allergies. So that makes me think that if my immune system can produce so much mucus like that, it means it might produce a lot of mucus if I get coronavirus, which will kill me.

People with no underlying health conditions who die of coronavirus is caused by their immune system attacking the good cells as well as the bad. That's what's worrying me.

Everyone can do what you are doing. I had bronchitis last year, I used to smoke, I have quite a bad reaction to bites and stings therefor I'm going to die next week. You sound as a if you are very much within the "normal' or "avarage" health bracket.

You won't. You aren't an age that people have problems with it. Just take a bit additional vitamin C if a cold starts now and it won't affect you as much. But of course it stays longer than a normal flu and you have to rest a lot more then as well.

Newborns are at a greater risk than young adults. A too weak immune system is a bigger risk than a strong immune system.


Almost 50% of people have some kind of allergy. Even if you only count people with certain kinds of allergies and mucus production, it still affects a lot of people.

Overall the death rate for young people is very low. Most young people who do die have severe health issues and not a too strong immune system. The remaining number of young people who die and don't have other health conditions is very very small. Even if most of them have a strong immune system, there are a lot of people who have a strong immune system and the risk for each individual one is very small.

Having an allergy or a lot of mucus production does not make your immune system highly exceptional. You're in the same 'risk' group as a lot of other young people and not a lot of people in that group die.

I just keep freaking out about it, that's all. I spend a lot of my time frantically looking for reassurance and at least a glimmer of hope, but there's none. All I hear is frightening things, like the high risk of getting the virus, 6 feet not being enough when at the supermarket, no delivery slots for online shopping at any store*, the economy totally collapsing after all this, and Boris Johnson being in hospital because his symptoms hadn't gone after 8 or 10 days even though he can't be that old.
I don't know what chance people like me have of being admitted to hospital with it, but going to hospital scares me too because that's where most people die from it.

*By ordering groceries online you're lucky to get a delivery slot in 3 or 4 weeks time, then after your delivery you've got to battle again for another delivery slot in another 3 or 4 weeks. Makes it easier to just go to the store, but that way you're more at risk of getting the virus. Oh, and the shortage of cleaning supplies in the stores is also worrying me, as me and my boyfriend are rationing our cleaning supplies out but we'll need some more sooner or later. My boyfriend's chance of dying from this is about 99% because of COPD, and I feel that he is not being protected enough from this virus.

Where are you looking for reassurance? It’s rather hard to find I’ll grant you, I had to absent myself from here last night because the density of CV19 stuff got too much. I watched some short humorous videos from YouTube channel Overly Sarcastic Productions instead: I’d recommend doing whatever you can to focus on stuff that isn’t CV19 as much as you’re able.

Yeah, we’ve gone pretty much full isolation here: Mrs K has been to the supermarket twice in the last month and found it very anxiety provoking both times.
How good are you/your guy at cooking from scratch?
Just thinking we’ve filled the freezer with bags of veg, and the cupboard with dried pulses: whatever was available and I’m just going to have to invent meals out of what we’ve got...
I’m not worried about the economy collapsing, this is a massive dislocation, but dislocations on this scale or larger have occurred in this country 2-3 times a century since the Middle Ages: it’s not insurmountable on a national level.

No, he’s not in the age defined high-risk group, but he is an overweight man who’s led a largely dissolute private life: which I think puts him in the “general low health” high-risk group.
I’ve been concerned for weeks about my sis going into hospital to give birth: that happened yesterday (my first niece! ), but I’m most likely going to remain concerned for the next few weeks that she might have caught it in the process.
As far as people dying goes: most people die either in hospitals or shortly after having left one regardless of the cause, inevitable byproduct of having a functioning healthcare system.

Could you mix your own household cleaners using things like vinegar and bicarbonate of soda? Never done it myself, but I’ve been looking at some of our bottles and thinking I may have to use the internet to get instruction on how to do so successfully...

Joe, you say you know you are freaking out about it...
Can you believe in the moment that you are freaking out, trust this to be true and doubt the intruding fear instead of believing it?

Everyone has fears to manage at the moment, this is going to last for another few weeks at least in the UK.

Milton sterilisation tablets are my staple germ killer. Cheap but very effective.

Non brewed condiment/vinegar is another staple, but isnt proven against viral germs.

Soapy water in a spray bottle should be a reliable cleanser and way to annihilate covid from surfaces.
Got an old bar of soap?
https://www.ehow.com/how_7786671_dissol ... water.html
Laundry soap flakes for your delicates are super versatile if you have them.
I use the flakes to make liquid soap when I need to, it goes a bit gloopy over time, but a good shake breaks it up easily. Add a few drops of lemon balm/lavender/tea tree/essential oil for fragrance.

Got washing up liquid? Same idea
Why soap works
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty ... 4?mode=amp

I do have a pair of washable but protective gloves I could use each time I go to the supermarket. I just want my boyfriend to be safe. In December he was rushed into hospital due to COPD-related breathing difficulties and was prescribed inhalers. So if he contracts this coronavirus it will kill him. I don't think I will be the same again mentally after that. I might even hold an angry grudge against Wuhan.
I'm going to be all on my own to deal with my boyfriend's death, as nobody is allowed to be together. It is going to do me in. Our local hospital is overfilled with dying coronavirus patients, he doesn't stand a chance of surviving if he gets it.

Not if he skips the inhalers and pushes his immune system once he gets it. The corona virus takes the immune system down anyway. Cortisone in addition could be totally wrong then. For this he should skip it as soon as he gets anykind of a cold now. But I'm not a doctor of course.

I don't get what you mean. So if he has any symptoms of anything he shouldn't take his inhalers? As soon as he stops taking his inhalers he begins to have breathing difficulties again.

And now Boris Johnson is in intensive care. I never knew his case was that bad. And then I heard someone on the radio say that a few hundred more people have died from it today, with a nurse reporting that a lot of her patients were in their 20s and 30s.
My boyfriend doesn't usually worry about stuff but after watching the news tonight he said he doesn't like me going out to work or get groceries, he'd rather both of us stay indoors permanently to keep us safe. Hygiene and social distancing doesn't make either of us feel reassured that we won't get it. Not going out is the only way we both will feel safe and at ease. It's like the air outside is full of radiation and you're at risk of dying just by stepping out there. That's how dangerous the media is making it out to be anyway.

He needs to be careful is the inhalers contains something like cortisone that suppresses the immune system.


It's less common to get it over the air even that it seems possible. You are more likely to get it if touching things that ill people had touched before and touching your mouth or your food afterwards. Just like a common flu but it's more likely to get it then.

I don't think it works like that. Despite his unhealthy lifestyle he seems to have a well balanced immune system (although that doesn't mean he won't die from coronavirus).


Today I felt quite relaxed and didn't check Facebook all day. Then just now I opened Facebook for the first time today and my anxiety has hit the roof again when I saw news posts saying that 700 more people have died from coronavirus in the UK, some of them being young with no underlying health conditions.

I do wish there was a way I could block any news articles from showing up on my feed. I can't come off Facebook completely because it's the only way I can socialise and I use it to play social games and look at memes, etc. But stumbling across these terrifying news posts doesn't do me any good. I'll rather not know any of this and just stay indoors and be oblivious to all the negativity until the peak is over at least. But if I want to socialise it means I have no choice but to be exposed to negative things, as that's all people are posting right now.

Is this what you’re wanting to do to remove stressful clutter from you Facebook feed?

I tried that but I don't have those options when I choose ''see fewer posts like this''. I'm still getting the negative news reports showing up on my feed.

Also one question: we keep getting turned down from doing lottery in stores because it's ''not essential'', but yet these same stores are letting people buy cigarettes. What makes cigarettes so essential? Smoking cigarettes is increasing your risk of getting ill with coronavirus, so you'd have thought they'd suspend selling those cancer sticks to support this crisis, as they are doing no help, only harm. Our lungs need us especially if we get the virus, and yet people still continue to destroy them. It's ironic to me and is also taking the piss.