Why do we have rules if people are not going to keep to them? This virus is very dangerous and we should avoid situations where we may catch it, because you just do not know what it will do to you. The authorities do not tell you everything, otherwise there would be panic, and there is nothing you can do once you have caught it. It is still cough as the first symptom. If you have a dry cough, use your cough mixture (my particular cough syrup is white port, just a spoonful. Too much might make your throat sore. If the cough goes, you probably don't have the virus.
Some people are not recovering from the virus. They continue to be very ill indeed. In 1987 I got up to go to work one morning and my legs gave way. I was 46. I had just been added to my new husband's health insurance as there was nothing wrong.
The next 10 years were a nightmare and I cost the insurance tens of thousands of pounds. I had a virus, diagnosed with a lumbar puncture which included injecting a dye in my spinal canal to which I was allergic. I was told the virus could not be identified, but it was like polio, in that it did the damage and left.
I had GBS and now have the chronic form CIDP. It went up my body giving me Crohn's with some Caeliac disease, heart failure, thyroid failure, carpal tunnel syndrome, took all my body hair except my head, thank goodness. My central nervous system went haywire. I was told my reflexes were in reverse. My saving grace was that it did not first attack the nerve supply to the heart or I would have dropped dead immediately. I cannot walk far, have had more diagnoses, difficulty speaking when my salivary glands packed up and could go on. I am 80 in December. I spend a lot of my time trying to help others on the facebook groups.
When I hear of people who disobey the rules because it cannot happen to them, I feel sad more than angry, because no matter how much you warn people, they never think it could happen to them. Do they think that when I went to bed the night before that first day I knew that in the morning I would be disabled?
You cannot do anything to stop people doing what they please. People cannot accept that they might be disabled in the blink of an eye, rather not think about it. Worse though are the people who did not believe that one minute I was fine and the next, unable to walk, feed myself, do all the things I had done the night before. I had that effect on people, and I think what we are seeing here are two people who cannot believe a virus can be so destructive to the human body. It was hard enough for me, but the reaction from family and friends is unfathomable.