Who has had CV19 symptoms in the last 6 months but no test?

Here is a link that contains a wealth of information on U.K. influenza statistics over the last few weeks/months. I’m not seeing anything that indicates there was a large outbreak in progress undetected prior to the coronavirus garnering widespread publicity, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
www.gov.uk...

originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: Lumenari

Nope, you will need to find someone else that's interested in butting heads, toodles.

So debate is a bad thing because you'd be proven wrong and you know it.

At least you are consistent.

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

Article about “strong” flu in November and December

Just research......

edit: Here is another saying from October-December was really high levels of “flu like illness”

wife went through the same early feb, had all the symptoms, tested negative for everything and ran its course after about a week and a half. Thinking back she could've definitely had it. I also got sick after not as many symptoms lasted only a week though.

January uk
Had 10 really bad days of a reel hard dry cough, felt weak & tired all the time.
Ache pains back/legs..
thought it was winter flu x2.
had short breath as well.

But then i assumed its due to smoking and it don't help when you are sick.

Took nothing for it 0, as i never take anything i let my body work it out ;/
took about 2 weeks to recover from it..

so who can tell, maybe?

Also had a sore throat, started like ear ache down the right ear then throat.
jaw felt like i got a smack. Then came the other symptoms.

5 weeks in January/February. Worst flu in decades. Severe fever for several days, headache, sore throat. It was walking pneumonia.

California, east of San Francisco

originally posted by: SeektoUnderstand
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

Article about “strong” flu in November and December

Just research......

edit: Here is another saying from October-December was really high levels of “flu like illness”

Yes the flu has been around for a long time, your point ?

a reply to: dainfamusgc

You don't have to tell anyone here, but consider the difference in severity between type 0 and type A that has been noted. I had such an encounter with potentially this virus around the time and so did my brother. We both had the same symptoms mine just lasted about twice the time and were more severe.

a reply to: EnigmaChaser

I did. Almost bought it...the farm. 6 months ago

EMT

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

Did you read the article “flu like” but tested negative

a reply to: SeektoUnderstand

Perhaps it was a bad cold...

My general manager came back from the Rochester area of NY back in Feb with a nasty bug that had him out of work for about 2 weeks, very similar symptoms. No one else at work picked it up either.

a reply to: EnigmaChaser

Myself, My girlfriend and about 40-50 people we work with.

And we can trace it to a guy who worked in San Francisco who also believes he may have had it based on symptoms. No hospitals, no deaths, but plenty of people missed a few days of work.

34yo male in rural Pennsylvania here. Late December, right around Christmas, I had something unpleasant. Nausea, pretty bad body aches, really weak, don't remember ever feeling that weak and sore from a flu. Sore throat, and shortness of breath at times. The worst of it lasted about 3 days. I didn't feel good again for about a week.

I have asthma, but I've never had shortness of breath from a cold or flu before.

I had just finished a semester of college too with finals week from the 16th to 20th. If the incubation period is up to 2 weeks, what if I picked it up the last week or two of school and it manifested symptoms around Christmas?

Also, my brother tells me a pretty nasty flu-like something went through his post office in early February. He said "they said it was the worst they've had in their lives" was how he worded it in the text.

It's entirely possible this thing has been here longer than we thought.

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

I have oceanfront property in Nebraska.... interested?

Michigan here. Husband was down for the count starting New Year's Day lasting through roughly the 19th/20th (can't remember which day he actually went back to work, but one of those two) It acted as if it was going away 4-5 days in, then it came right back a little harsher, then acted like it was going away again 4-5 days later, etc. He had a hell of a sore throat, a nasty headache, sneezing, a generally non-productive dry cough but with some chest congestion, if that makes sense (was productive with expectorants) He did not, however, have any fever. He also was utterly wiped out, no energy at all.

Then we as a household had what we assumed at the time was the actual flu in the first week of February, but in hindsight, probably was not, because the symptoms were all identical to hubs' January cold. That was very much a wham, bam, thank you ma'am illness -- it hit quick, and hard. Myself and one of the kids had a higher fever (consistent 102* even-steven temp) but it was mitigated well enough with tylenol to 100*.
The chest congestion was much more obvious, and the coughing took some effort to actually get crud up without expectorants. Let me describe it this way, it was like taking a deep breath once or twice that went nowhere near the air sacs in there, then I was able to cough up the mucous, and breathe. And it was not much mucous in quantity, nor unusually thick, but in the lungs, it behaved like a spackle of sorts.

Hell if I know if we had red-ringed eyes or not, nobody paid attention to that. We were more concerned with alleviating symptoms than how we looked in the mirror.

In hindsight, both of these seem to us now to be more indicative of Covid symptoms than anything else. In January, hubs' factory was down two thirds in staff at any given time due to people being out sick. Whatever the hell went through here, Covid or not, it hit hard, hit FAST, and hit almost everyone.

originally posted by: SeektoUnderstand
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

I have oceanfront property in Nebraska.... interested?

Ok, tell me why was nobody dying from it in october and novermeber , even in december if was released in October can you explain that?

originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

originally posted by: SeektoUnderstand
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

I have oceanfront property in Nebraska.... interested?

Ok, tell me why was nobody dying from it in october and novermeber , even in december if was released in October can you explain that?

This has been explained to you already. The theory is that people were dying, but it was just chalked up to the flu because no one knew about Covid-19 back then.

originally posted by: face23785

originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

originally posted by: SeektoUnderstand
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

I have oceanfront property in Nebraska.... interested?

Ok, tell me why was nobody dying from it in october and novermeber , even in december if was released in October can you explain that?

This has been explained to you already. The theory is that people were dying, but it was just chalked up to the flu because no one knew about Covid-19 back then.

People die of the flu all the time it's not unusual, it is unusual however when people start dropping like flies.

originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: EnigmaChaser
I did. Almost bought it...the farm. 6 months ago
EMT

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