Is it normal i want to get covid?
I'm young. I'm being worked to the bone. I'm tired. I need a break. Let my insurance company pick up the slack.
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41% Normal
Based on 37 votes
(15 yes)
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Boojum
You sound like a young person who still hasn't truly accepted the fact that you're not invincible and also has a typical young-person's fixation on the short-term. You might even be stupid enough to believe the idiots who say that covid is really no different to the flu.
As far as we know, this virus has only been infecting humans for less than a year. How it affects a particular person is a total lottery, and its long-term effects are completely unknown. Wanting to catch covid is just as stupid as wanting to get high, buying some white powder from some random dude on the street and shooting it up.
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Correction
Seeing how 0% of people who die from AIDS die exclusively from it, I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean. Either way, I definitely wouldn’t want to take a 20% chance of permanent heart damage or a 10% chance of lung damage, along with an unknown chance of brain damage and an unknown chance of sterility, for an unknown amount of time of work that I may not even get to enjoy because it may take all the energy I can muster just to breathe.
It’s really shocking and disturbing what’s considered “completely fine” by some people.
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LloydAsher
Just looks like it kills people who would of been at risk from the normal flu. Low immunity people, high risk patients should totally be terrified of this pandemic. The average joe on the other hand is 20x more likely to die of a homicide.
For those choice people who are at risk this virus sucks. For people under 18 it does practically nothing to them. People from 18-45 it will be a normal sickness just like influenza where it has the chance to kill you but unless you are at risk it really wouldnt kill you. 45-60 I would worry about covid since they are getting up there in age and they need to be aware of their immunity. 60+ it's a gamble whether or not you are going to die from it. If they get placed on a ventilator it's very high chance of death.
For most people, just take a vitamin D supplement and your immune system should be fine and dandy.
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Somenormie
No thats deadly.
It is like saying that you want to catch the flu.
Do you even know how stupid you sound?
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SwickDinging
Can't you just fake a stomach bug for a couple of days and call in sick?
Catching covid is a pretty extreme method to get out of work.
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my_life_my_way
It’s normal, covid has a 0.2% mortality rate for under 40s and that’s including people with conditions. So if you are healthy, the chances of you ending up in hospital are extremely minute.
Just pretend you have it, i did that in July and loads of people I know have done it. Then after a few weeks you just say the test came back negative and you can go back. May as well take advantage of everyone being such pussies over a very minor virus.
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Boojum
It's true that it's rare for a young, healthy person who catches covid to end up in hospital, most recover from the acute phase fairly quickly and some never have any symptoms.
But covid is not like the flu or common cold virus; it's not the case that if you survive the acute phase of covid, then you'll go through a brief period of recovery and then be back to normal.
A significant number of previously healthy people who have had covid feel fine, but their MRI scans show cardiovascular abnormalities, and it is not yet clear what the long-term implications of this might be. There are also some people whose acute phase was relatively mild, but months after being infected, they are still suffering from things like joint pain, fatigue, fever and brain fog.
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my_life_my_way
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Boojum
Have you considered becoming a Conservative politician after you get your law degree? Someone with your wilful ignorance and utter lack of compassion would float right to the top of that cesspit of utter shites.
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my_life_my_way
It is not wilful ignorance, it is just accepting the reality. The rate of relatively young and healthy people who are killed/hospitalised over covid is extremely minute and we can’t all hide in our houses to avoid that tiny risk.
There is a much greater risk of dying when driving a car than getting covid yet we still drive cars because we accept that the tiny risk is outweighed by the rewards.
The old and sick people who are dying have very little quality of life anyway so it is them who do not have any compassion because they expect everyone else to just accept being made redundant, possibly losing their house and living a life of isolation with this lockdown.
The majority of the population face almost no risk from corona virus and it is not worth putting the whole world on hold just to save the old and infirm who will die soon anyway.
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Bazinga
Firstly, I believe people should be able to infect themselves provided they stay in isolation so they don't infect others. Although I appreciate your cold heartedness, your comment about the risk of driving cars IS willfully ignorant. The death rate from cars doesn't come close to the death rate from Covid or even Influenza.
As a laissez-faire capitalist, Boojum and I agree on nothing. But, I am the first person to express admiration for the exceptional way he articulates his opinions. Talking to people you agree with is boring as fuck. Talking to the intelligent is deeply rewarding.
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YE
You think that an excessive lack of appetite, high body temperature, weakness in all joints and tingling all over your body is caused my a minor virus?
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Sanara
I don think you should intentionally try to get it, but sometimes being stressed out from work or school (especially school) is legit worse than being sick and at home. And I get feeling burned out. Of course it depends a bit exactly what illness you have, but there havent been many times in my life where an illness would actually make an exeption to this rule, I can only think of one
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Ummitsstillme
Yes, of course, infection is innoculation. If you are not at a high risk, and you can isolate yourself from high risk people, it only makes perfect sense.
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LloydAsher
In wisconsin it is...
Still the car crash comparison is fair. We take minute risks to make life easier. We had the best economy ever until covid hit. What the hell happened to politicians when the moved from slow the spread to lockdown until a vaccine?! Oh I know! Unlimited powers. This entire covid situation has shown how deeply power hungry these mayors and governors are! Trump didn't shut down your local restaurants and gyms. Trump has been supporting the small businesses and the people. It's the dems that want to keep people locked down forever because they will refuse the vaccine if the trump administration makes it.
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Bazinga
Yes but dude. Thankfully in the U.S., jurisdiction for this stuff is at the State level as you acknowledged. Our state governor is a slightly to the left moderate democrat that has opened restaurants, provided extra funding for online education, and pushes for business activity by county. He only scales back temporarily if hospitals in the county exceed 90% capacity.
I am pro-business, so I like the guy. Businesses can't sell anything when the entire state is sick. Minor restrictions (such as masks for shopping) are actually the best insurance for uninterrupted sales. Our governor has said he will push for foreign manufactured vaccines if they become available before domestic stuff is ready.
Maybe you should move away from Wisconsin.
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Anonymous Post Author
Lol I'm actually one of those people who obsessive-compulsively slathers alcohol gel on their hands at regular intervals, sings 'happy birthday to you' twice while handwashing even in public toilets, and glares at people on subway trains for not wearing their face masks over their noses.
Don't jump to conclusions, peeps.
Sometimes work is just so stressful I'd rather be sick. The cognitive dissonance is real.
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Cuntsiclestick
Sometimes I wish I'd get Covid just to get that shit over with... but then I remember that most of the time when I'm sick, I feel just fine and other people in my life get sick because of me. Some of their bodies can barely handle a simple cold, so I'll just continue to wear my mask at work, wash my hands, and stay at a distance until there's some sort of vaccine for it.
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