i wont take any precautions at all, since i never do with the regular, yearly flu.
no one dies of corona. they die WITH corona. if someone is at risk (like they would be with the yearly flu), they can isolate themselves accordingly. personal responsibility is a wonderful thing to practice.
That’s your choice.
However, you should be aware that the old “you want die of it, you’ll die with it...” is a concept which is not entirely accurate and often borne out of complacency.
If you understand disease processes at all, you will understand that there are primary and secondary causes of death.
People with Covid-19 may die of multi-organ failure, pneumonia, stroke, cardiac disease. These will be secondary to Covid-19. The determining factor of whether you die with it or of it will be whether or not you would have at that particular time , as a result of that particular secondary cause, if Covid-19, had not been your primary diagnosis.
For people who have underlying health issues, this may be a grey area. However, for an alarming percentage of otherwise healthy individuals, the answer will be no, in all likelihood they would not have died at that time, for that reason if they had not had Covid-19 as a primary diagnosis. I mean, I don’t know how medics can be any more clear about that.
If that is a risk you are willing to take, more fool you!
A close family friend currently has asked for prayer for their daughter-in-law who is critically ill in ICU. She is about 38 yrs old, with no significant underlying health problems. She has been in hospital for a week and was set to be discharged today. As is a frequently recurring pattern, her condition deteriorated suddenly overnight and she is now very, very ill in ICU. Her husband, a healthy 40 yr old, has tested positive with mild symptoms. Their children are asymptomatic and have tested positive.
A close friend of my aunt’s is 60 and being cared for in a nursing home with a long term, chronic health problem which put him at high risk. He tested positive in a routine screen, 4 weeks ago and had mild-moderate symptoms. He has made a very pleasing recovery so far - although he is not entirely out of the woods.
Another friend’s six month old granddaughter developed a rash that had been seen in young children with Covid-19. Her inflammatory markers are all raised. She has tested positive for Covid-19, although neither of her parents have. She has been quite poorly in hospital but has no respiratory symptoms.
This is not a predictable condition and we know little of how it really behaves yet. As someone else said, this is not flu.
By all means, don’t take any precautions whatsoever. That’s your right to do so. Know however that while you choose to do so, people are absolutely dying of Covid-19, rather than with it.
Personal responsibility is a wonderful thing but sometimes we owe each other more than that.
