Originally Posted by PSE
I'd hate to end up in ICU with Covid knowing I'm here because my pride or is it arrogance would not allow me to accept the medical facts concerning the pandemic. I'd have an awful long time to reconsider the errors, turning things over and over in my mind and wishing I had made better choices.

These thoughts would occur to me:

Where could I have contracted this disease? Who likely gave it to me? If my wife has it, will she die? If not - what's the quality of her life likely to be? Did I pass the disease on to her?

And just as a bonus wondering - what is my life is going to be like if I survive? Will I be a long hauler who no longer can do the activities I used to do? Will I be able to hunt? Ride my mountain bike?

And most important - What could I have done better to avoid this outcome? What precaution did I ignore??

Instead if I get the disease anyway, I would certainly feel better knowing that I had made the best possible decisions with the most informed knowledge I possessed at the time but it was just not in the cards for me to remain Covid free.

I did everything recommended by professionals I could and still live a somewhat normal life albeit with an abundance of caution, but $*** happens so I go to my maker with a clear conscience or live with the future effects on my health. I'm good with that.

I could get lucky and nothing would change. I'd be the same guy that went into the hospital and came out in good shape or maybe not even have to go in the hospital - even luckier still. Am I willing to bet on that???? Am I willing to risk that for my family??

I realize that on this thread these questions largely fall on deaf ears, but for me, this self analysis is important. Take a moment and ask yourself these questions which I can pretty much suspect will be going through many people's minds while laying on the gurney.

Do any of you find it strange that people who have contracted Covid and come out of ICU (or had relatives that did) or even just people who were very sick at home don't blow this off as just the flu? Why is that???

Oh and I don't vote Liberal, believe in a solid work ethic, am not Woke and also enjoy shooting (just for the record). grin


My wife and i both had covid. For us it really was like a mild flu. Our son in law had it too. He was sicker than we were although never hospitalized. My wife and I have both been on high dose vitamin D for a couple years now. Maybe that made the difference?? Im not sure. I think myself and many others just evaluate risk differently than you and others do.

The data is there and not even debatable any longer. Your chances of surviving covid with no interventions is over 98%. You can put a period after that, because every source out there says that now. Compare that with the fact that 1 in 4 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Heart disease is still the number 1 killer in north America. In 2019, 189 people out of every 100,000 died from heart disease in Canada. Covid, accounted for less than half that number. I dont think anyone doubts that some of the covid deaths that are included in the official numbers were people who died with covid; not from. Big difference there. So the real number is likely even less, and makes heart disease look even scarier.



Diet plays a huge role in both cancer and heart disease. If the media did a case count every single day on the number of people who die, are hospitalized or lose their quality of life because of these diseases, it would put covid in the proper perspective. The media has struck fear into the hearts of the vast majority of the population with the covid BS, yet the fast food joints, and junk food sections in the grocery stores are doing a booming business. Largely because of that, far more people are dropping dead with heart attacks than they ever will from covid. Makes absolutely no sense to me that people are scared out of their wits of covid, but totally ignore what is most likely to kill them.

The science says, and has said from day one, that people with asymptomatic covid dont spread the virus, so I dont worry about that. If Im sick I would just stay home. It should be noted, that our health officials know this. As EMTs our protocols are to go to work, even if we know we have been exposed, as long as we dont have symptoms. Doctors, nurses and home care workers have the same protocol. To anyone with any common sense, the next question would be, if thats the case, then why do people with no symptoms have to self isolate??

I've been on an ambulance crew for over a decade now. Only part time until covid, but full time since. I have yet to take anyone to the hospital because of covid, but I see heart attacks, and strokes almost daily. I certainly know what im worried about, and covid is way down near the bottom of the list.