If you get covid-19, do you expect to pull through?

You seem to be asking several different questions. You talk of pulling through and then of toughing it out at home. If I get it, I expect that I will likely survive it but I’m certainly worried about how bad it could be and also about any lingering after effects. I’m being very cautious again and staying home although I will take walks, do brief grocery shops or do quick errands if need be. But if I get badly sick from it, I will definitely call my doctor and do what he tells me to do – even if it means going to the hospital.

A woman in my congregation just had a serious case of COVID, She lives alone and feels she is only still alive because of the EMTs who came and took her to the hospital and her subsequent hospital care. She was spiking 104 temperature, vomiting and her oxygenation level had dropped dangerously low. Why wouldn’t you reach out for medical help in that case?

I don’t know that I’m optimistic but I am doing my best to avoid getting it. I walked out of a small outdoor get together today because I felt the seating was way too close and people would be eating and drinking.

I try to keep distracted from worrying too much by reading, watching movies, talking to friends, cooking and baking and the internet.

Pretty sure I already had it.

Staying in a hell of a lot more, Covid is starting to spread to the interior of BC now,manditory masks at any indoor public space,and yet the malls are still packed.
People are ou and about just like always .

Yes. I have O positive blood and am on lisinopril, which is said to be good…
The death rate here in the US seems to be about .5%

As a casual gambler who has seen all sorts of long-shots happen over the years, I would not stake my life on a 1 in 200 chance of dying. Even surviving carries significant risk of debilitating complications and health effects.

If I do get it, I could inadvertantly kill someone else I come into contact with.

The closer we are to the mass distribution of a vaccine, and the development of effective treatments—I’m more cautious than ever.

I’ve barely left my home in the last two months.

I think so. I’m more worried about my grandchildren than myself. Got to get it across to the little fart knockers that they can’t be drinking after me or their Nanna. They have a bad habit of helping themselves to any can of Coke or glass of tea they see sitting around. Guess I’ll have to start putting my beverages in a damn coffee cup. At least I can dissuade the younger ones from messing with it if they think it’s coffee. No, that’s a pawpaw poohy drink. You don’t want that. Kids, I swear.

Meh, who knows. I’m trying hard to play it safe. Hospital would be the last resort for sure. Frankly I may just choose to die at home, if its covid.

@KNOWITALL you won’t die at home or anywhere else from Covid.

The odds are in favor of it, but I still really don’t want to get it and the idea of getting it terrifies me. Of course as a healthy young person I could be one of those people who has a “cytokine storm” and thus I’ll be killed by own body’s overreaction. Fun.

it sucked. And I had a bit of a time breathing so I took myself to the ER.
Was released after a couple of hours.
I was in the 95% of people who lived.

I feel like I have a 50/50 shot of getting a severe case, and I think I have an 80% chance of pulling through. Not great odds, but not horrific. I’m only 52, but I have the genes for getting blood clots, I have “benign” electrical and structural problems with my heart, I have high cholesterol, intermittent high blood pressure, and some kidney damage from a medication I took a year ago.

I do fear that once in the hospital, if I was hospitalized, they might harm or kill me by screwing something up. Not paying attention to what I have written down to watch for when treating me, or not pay attention to or believing my drug allergies. Often times hospitals don’t give you your thyroid meds and that would send my BP way up and my heart rate way down after a few days.

A friend of mine was borderline hospital material and her doctor gave her various medications saying he wanted to keep her put of the hospital if possible. She got through it at home. She had pre-existing asthma and she is quite a bit overweight.

If I was mildly sick I probably wouldn’t run to get a test. I would live in the guest room for sure trying to protect my husband, but the air system I guess makes it difficult, plus he will have been exposed during the incubation period. I would be in the guest room if I was sick with anything. When I have a cold I park myself in the guest room, and if I have to use the kitchen I wash my hands before touching anything. I wouldn’t even risk touching anything my husband might touch if I might have covid. I kind of wish I could go to a covid motel or I guess he could go to a hotel. Is it safer though for him to go to a hotel? Three people I know their spouse never caught it. Most people I know the spouse did catch it.

What might motivate me to get a covid test is if I had been near any friends or out at any stores, I would want to warn people. I am only around a few people, we are overall very careful keeping a distance and wearing masks, and I would call them if I was sick with anything anyway if I had seen them in the ten days before I got sick.

I would definitely go to the hospital if I was having trouble breathing. I would not just die at home. I do wonder if hospitals are keeping people when maybe not necessary, but the risk is too great to let my mind wander like that. The facebook posts I have seen from people who are hospitalized or were hospitalized where I live all say they were happy with their care even though the hospitals where I live often get luke warm reviews.

I don’t have a good GP, so that sucks. This is one time that I really wish I did.

There are old people in nursing homes who barely have symptoms, you never know what your symptoms will be. The majority of people get though it ok, even the people in very high risk groups. I’m not trying to down play it, the risk is much higher for older people with underlying conditions, but the media makes it sound like if you are older and have underlying conditions you are definitely doomed, and that is not the case, so try not to panic.

I keep plenty of TP and paper towels. I usually have 4–8 weeks worth. I have an extra two bottles of rubbing alcohol and extra refill bottles, one each) of liquid dish and hand soap. I have enough food for about ten days right now before having to live on “bread and water” which I guess would get me to three weeks in an unusually dire and rare circumstance. I can get delivery if I need it. I think it is prudent to have three weeks worth of food though, I should have more pantry items. I don’t stress out about not being able to get food. I don’t feel like all food will disappear, I think maybe some of my favorite foods might be hard to get now and then, but I am not going to be picky if I am just trying to get through a few weeks. My husband recently lost a lot of weight and that troubles me.

My husband objectively should have very little chance of getting severely ill, but he lost a ton of weight several months ago and I think if he got very sick it makes him more likely to die. It really pisses me off that he is being so extreme right now with his diet. That does worry me.

I don’t know what to think anymore. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either the worst thing since the Black Death of the 14th Century, or no worse than a mild cold. Screw it. I’m gonna die eventually anyway.

I don’t know. I worry because I have Diabetes type 2. As far as I know I don’t have any complications from it, and my numbers are pretty good.
I am Obese too, sad to say. So if I get a bad case, i could end up the hospital and all.
But this thing seems so random in it’s destruction.

My cardiologist said he thinks I already had it.
If I didn’t, I don’t think it would hit me too hard. I am a heart patient, and I have diabeties, but it’s under control.

Most people pull through. I have heart disease but they put in two stents and gave me prescriptions that put me in better shape now than at the beginning of the pandemic. I like to think I’m strong.

I am limiting my errands and keeping my distance. The few places I go people are good about it. I do see plenty of cars in bar parking lots which does not bode well for the winter.

Compared to the spring, I am a lot less anxious about surfaces. I don’t touch my face when I’m out and I wash my hands when I get home, but I am not disinfecting the groceries like I did in April.

I’d like to think I am always ready for a disaster of some kind. We try to stay well stocked wit: food, fuel, paper products. (They’re my version of Adam Sandler“s Phone, wallet, keys.).
You just reminded me that it wouldn’t hurt to bump up the quantities just in case.

With no data whatsoever to back the belief, I feel we would be ok if Covid ran though our house.

I think you far underestimate you and hubby’s probable resilience. Clearly the smart thing to do is to hide as far as is practical for as long as can be arranged. But consider your position and thank your stars that the 2 of you are living EXACTLY where you are—at least in consideration of where it is in the country that facilities are doomed to be overwhelmed. Things are approaching a point that it will become increasingly apparent that where you are located in this country might well determine whether you live or die. Tough it out, and anticipate the vaccine.

I think I have had it already

@stanleybmanly I think you may be right about location. Trying to keep all these patriots at home or masked is an exercise in futility.
From church celebrations to the Dollar General, still 80% unmasked with no legal repercussions. Social repercussions are building though, as more are turning on the unmasked.

It is a sad fact that pessimism regarding human behavior is always the best bet. You may not believe it, but I tire of being bitter and so seldom disappointed when anticipating the worst from people. Cynicism and old age is apparently like ice cream and cake. I miss my youth which I now remember as the days when I never thought about such things.

I would hope so. I’d be scared though but I’d reassure myself that the majority of people who get it survive it.

As for my house, I’ve got a lot of food and friends that could do drop off with groceries. I’d have to share the one bathroom with my daughter but I would tell her to spray Lysol and I’d stay in my room mostly.

I can’t take the vaccination because I had Guillain Barre about 13 year ago and can’t have vaccines now.

@Nomore_lockout…right? The exaggerations flying around drive me crazy!
“We’re all gonna die! You can get it multiple times! We’re all gonna die!”

Bingo! @Dutchess_III

And “It floats through the air for DAYS! It gets into the ventilation systems! It’s smaller than the holes in your masks so it just goes right through!”

@Dutchess_III You can pooh pooh it all you like but meanwhile the hospitals are overrun and over half a million people have died. It seems like if something hasn’t happened to you or it happened and you survived, you can be dismissive of all the other knowledge out there.

I would think your friend @Caravanfan could tell how serious it is.

I am poopooing the myths and the rumors surrounding the disease, not the disease itself. It does NOT float through the air. It is propelled by the water droplets in a sneeze or a cough which falls to the floor within 6 feet.
And the virus does not live for days. It survives outside of a host for hours, at the most.
Passing these kinds of baseless, hysterical rumors.around does not help.

@Dutchess_III Well, of course it makes sense to follow the science but you do have to realize that there is a lot the scientists still don’t know about the disease. In the beginning we some of us were disinfecting our groceries, then we learned that that is not necessary. So sometimes something that seems baseless may or may not be eventually.

To your point though, I agree it makes sense to check the credibility of any source before passing it off as true around the ‘Net.

My daughter is a case in point of how rumors can hurt..
She is not stupid, but she got the idea that the viruses are free floating (they aren’t) and can pass through the mask like you’re not even wearing one, so there is no point in wearing a mask.
In fact, the virus is carried in large droplets. The droplets can’t go through the mask.
I do hope she’s changed her mind by now.

@Dutchess_III The ‘masks don’t work’ theorists abound here.

It’s so important to get educated by experts.

@Dutchess_III – the virus is in droplets, which are bigger than the pore size of mask material so the droplets will get caught and absorbed by the mask. Even if slightly smaller, the droplet will likely be off-center and hit the side of the pore and get caught.

I thought the current belief is that the droplets are aerosol sized, so will float for a good distance beyond 6 ft. That’s why indoor spaces are hazardous.

That’s due to a misunderstanding of the word “aerosolized.” I asked for clarification from our doc. He said it’s a cough or a sneeze that projects the virus encased in droplets into the air. They fall to the ground within 6 feet.

Droplets (>5 microns) fall to the ground within six feet.

By definition, aerosols (<5 microns) have a low-settling velocity and stay airborne for prolonged periods of time. Distance travelled depends on mass and air circulation.

Oops, in my remarks above I stated that half a million people had died when it is only something over a quarter of a million. My bad. Note to self: dont go back and read your own posts.

Here is what a wet tuning fork looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCERs0v1OoI Imagine moist vocal cords.