As Queen sang it: This is the real life.. no escape from reality

This awful scaremongering is not at all helpful.

Do you really believe the whole medical profession is lying when they have stressed throughout this pandemic that the vast majority of people who catch the virus have very mild symptoms and make a complete recovery ?

Yes of course some very elderly frail people will sadly die just as they do with flu.

In addition, a very few will have problems for a few months after, but there again they are very much in the minority.

Threads like this are scaremongering at its worst.

coastiepostie I do hope you do make a complete recovery.

Just out of interest, do you have any views on how long this virus has been over here in the UK.
There was a news item a little while ago which has hardly been mentioned about a man who died at the end of January from pneumonia. They did some tests on remaining tissue from the post mortem and found that there was COVID in his lung tissue. His daughter had had a virus prior to Christmas and she says that he caught the illness from her.

About 60,000 people in the UK are suffering from Long-covid, we call ourselves longhaulers. I am no longer able to do the job I did before I contracted covid. I tried to go back to work and was unable to think: I lost memory both long and short-term

JenniferEccles I don't think you can call 60,000 "a minority".

Whether 60,000 is a monority surely depends on how many people have had Covid? and we don't know that, since there was no testing initially. Whatever, it's certainly not a trivial number.

I believe the long-term symptoms may be related to a cytokine storm where the body goes into overdrive and causes inflammation?

Re Long Covid, no one knows how long those people will suffer the symptoms. It has already been months, it could be years. I have had M.E. for 31 years after my husband and I both caught a nasty virus with no name .... he got better, and I never did.

Thank you Coastie for sharing your experience, it sounds horrific

I wish you all the very best coastiepostie. May you make a steady improvement back to good health.

Thank you for taking the trouble to clearly set out all the help and information you could pass on, and I realise that the effort to do this must have taken a lot of your precious mental energy.

I hope that your post is taken to heart by all those who would rather put their own desires first before thinking things through.

Thank you.

Covid19 is a very nasty illness. I am able to keep myself safe but my family can't as they work in nursing and teaching and have children at school who could become infected. I worry about them as I have heard of long covid and what it can do.

coastiepostie wishing you well.

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We should not forget that many long covid sufferers are young, previously healthy people. No-one should be taking risks with this virus. It is dicing with death.

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Like you, coastiepostie, I am not happy with the definition of 'recovery' in relation to covid sufferers.

Our next door neighbour was seriously ill in hospital with Covid for three months, but is now finally home again.
I presume that means that she appears in the statistics as 'recovered".

In reality, she is far from recovered - she can still do almost nothing for herself (two weeks before discharge, she couldn't even hold the phone to her own ear when her family phoned her), and her OH is having to take a year off work to care for her.

Not my idea of recovered!

The term 'recovery' reminds me of the 'survivor' word - often used for leukaemia/cancer.

That survival, by (medical) definition means 'still alive after five years' Not necessarily happy, fit and well - merely alive!