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i think i got it in Feb. 2020, over a year ago, before it was even being reported,
it was being reported before February 2020; I think I first heard about it in December 2019.
News in February was worrisome enough that we stocked up on essentials (ya know, before the hoarders), and decided we needed to start being extra cautious in March, when we heard Tom Hanks got it. I guess that makes us celebrity followers.
I know tons of people who have had it, and as time goes on more and more people all the time. My dad has it right now, most likely from a bar. My grandma with cancer had it, most likely the gym. My coworker had it, his gf and his mother with cancer all had it last year, got it from hospital. My entire family had it in January. My stepson who was 16 at the time got it at work in a fast food restaurant, came home one day and told us he didnt have smell or taste, we took him for a test and it was positive. Me and husband got sick 3 days later, both positive. 6 year old never got it.
My bosses wife had it 2 weeks ago then his kids got it. He never got it. He suspects he already had it just doesnt know when. I dont know anyone directly who has passed from it, just second hand (my grandma says her friend, my uncle says his mother etc)
My 1st vaccine appt is Thursday, Pfizer. I feel safe with my antibodies but with all the obsession over having the card, I figured may as well get it before they start requiring for the grocery store
I thought I had it 1/20 but this January I thought I was fighting off a cold until I lost my taste/smell. So didthat sensory symptom evolve and I really had it twice?
Both episodes I got from coworkers.
Just curious - I wonder if there are any national polls on this.
I think there are categories (i.e., community spread, etc. - forgot what the etc. is or what "community spread is even comprised of).
Where do you think you got it and do you know what the categories are?
Via process of elimination and timing I pretty much identified that LAX airport or Delta airlines back in November. Yes everyone was wearing masks. Delta blocked middle seats at that time, doesn't matter when your aisles are so skinny that when you are in the aisle seat everyone is brushing up against you and touching the seat backs to get to there seat.
who cares? symptoms are cold-like anyway. before this insane hype started last year we didn't freak out about cold and flus. the media and pharma-controlled government now has most of us liking blubbing idiots willing to give up our rights and bodies all for profit - what the thugs at pharma wanted all along. reject and refuse.
who cares? symptoms are cold-like anyway. before this insane hype started last year we didn't freak out about cold and flus. the media and pharma-controlled government now has most of us liking blubbing idiots willing to give up our rights and bodies all for profit - what the thugs at pharma wanted all along. reject and refuse.
I wish the symptoms were only cold like. Would have prevented my hospital stay. And maybe my 42 year old neighbor would still be alive.
who cares? symptoms are cold-like anyway. before this insane hype started last year we didn't freak out about cold and flus. the media and pharma-controlled government now has most of us liking blubbing idiots willing to give up our rights and bodies all for profit - what the thugs at pharma wanted all along. reject and refuse.
You apparently don't know anyone who's had a bad case of it -- or died from it. Or anyone who has serious existing medical conditions. The symptoms of the cytokine storm that's typical of a bad case of COVID-19 are not "cold-like". What sources do you go to for your medical information?
I find that fascinating that you only know 1 person with a confirmed case! How does that even happen?
My aunt got it in a nursing home, she was already ill, and she passed away after a long fight.
Out of my friends and family, about 10% of them have had confirmed cases, just like the percentages for our county and state. Most got it from a co-worker or friend, and in every case, the entire family or spouse did not get it from them.
I know one got it at an outdoor luncheon that was spaced out, from one other lady who got symptoms the next day.
No one I know that has gotten it has been reckless or an anti-masker.
Up until a few weeks ago, I only knew of one person (age 40) that had it really bad, he's a healthy guy too. He got it from his girlfriends family during Thanksgiving dinner. I know his mother but I don't know him.
I know MightyQueen's siblings have it with her sister doing really poorly. I don't know MightlyQueen off of the forum.
A few weeks ago the 28 year old son of my soul sister came down with a mild case of COVID. He's the actual first person that I actually know.
i think i got it in Feb. 2020, over a year ago, before it was even being reported, when i attended a 4-day workshop with 150+ people sitting shoulder to shoulder in a hotel conference room, shaking hands, hugging, breathing the same air with poor ventilation and no open windows, huddled together in workgroups in a crowded environment. oh, and with international attendance. there were people from all over the country at the workshop, and people from outside the country, including the 4 presenters, who traveled internationally on a regular basis, teaching in several different countries in the preceding weeks.
a few weeks later Covid hit the news (March 2020), and several of us felt like we already had it and had recovered. we were not allowed to get tested, because the tests were being rationed to people with active symptoms (i work in a large medical center). it has now come out that it was more like December when cases were actually breaking out, with widespread contagion.
even late in the year in 2020, there was a lot more testing available, but still it was limited to patients at the medical center, and to people who had active symptoms. It was not until Dec. 2020 that i was required to get tested, because someone at work was around a family member who tested positive. So in Dec. 2020 i tested positive and had no symptoms, and quarantined for 14 days, because working at a medical center we practice maximum precautions for safety of patients and employees. my feeling is that i tested positive because i already had it (back in Feb. 2020) and had antibodies which caused the positive test. For comparison, the other SARS (same family as Covid) people who had it are still testing positive 17 years later.
Having antibodies does not make the test for the virus be positive.
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Also what they need to do is just suck up the cost and run the run the positive tests through the lab work needed to test whether the positive test is due to dead or live virus.
There are people testing positive months after having a first positive test. No one really thinks those people are infectious. But because they won't do what's needed to determine whether the test hit on live or dead virus those people can't go to work for two weeks, yet their not even infectious. It's ridiculous.
Testing for live virus would have to be done in a high level biosafety lab and would be very expensive.
who cares? symptoms are cold-like anyway. before this insane hype started last year we didn't freak out about cold and flus. the media and pharma-controlled government now has most of us liking blubbing idiots willing to give up our rights and bodies all for profit - what the thugs at pharma wanted all along. reject and refuse.
Yes, when I got it, I did have a moment of concern so I called the doctors office, this was before anyone knew anything.
My fever was 103 and that never happens and motrin wasn't doing anything -- and that never happens.
The doctors office imho literally poo pooed me and told me I shouldn't do anything but rest and push fluids. So I assumed I had a bad cold and went to sleep for a week. Even when I was up at night struggling with a terrible cough, it never occurred to me to go anyplace for anything... I just enjoyed the time I got at home and getting to watch tv all night long.
I actually wonder how many people died from their mental fear of being told they had covid and thinking covid was a death sentence. The mind is very powerful. I wouldn't even be surprised if when all is said and done that is a significant part of it.. the terror and fear of a positive test.
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