I just realized I had COVID-19 on Dec. 25th last year

originally posted by: JusticeIsComing

originally posted by: thebtheb

originally posted by: jtma508
Oh for the love of God. Nearly EVERY respiratory illness has the same symptoms. 'Flu-like Symptoms' is a catch all: Congestion, fatigue, headaches, cough, malaise... even CO poisoning has largely the same symptoms. Very, very unlikely you had COVID.

List of Illnesses with Flu-Like symptoms

You had the flu.

Good God, first Wuhan case traced back to the first half of November and anyone thinks this virus wasn't EVERYWHERE by early December?

If that were the case, hospitals in the United States would have been seeing surges of respiratory illness cases in early January instead of late March.

They never did..

Hello Panoz! I am from India. After reading your posts, I felt I should share what we have experienced here in late October-nov and December here. There were too many cases with the same symptoms you said and people used to use the word ‘bio war’ frequently. There was Dengue due to which many people died and almost at the same time and continuing later, many people suffered a mysterious viral fever. The symptoms were high fever, cough, cold and body aches. The body aches in joints and cough were for very long. Especially joint pains are there till now coming on and off. Seems like COVID-19 or its primary version or something else was there then itself undetected.

originally posted by: JusticeIsComing
a reply to: panoz77

Sorry but no. Pretty much all virologists have essentially dated the start of this particular viral mutation to November/December 2019 in China. It wasn't here yet. You did not have SARS-CoV-2 or the COVID-19 disease that it causes.

You had a really bad cold.

We shall see, I'll say for the fourth time, I'll confirm or refute my suspicions as soon as antibody tests are readily available in Ohio.

I'll also say again, I've had the flu, sinus infections, colds etc many times. I never had anything like this before. This was different than anything I have EVER had before. I've never said that about any other cold or flu I've ever had in my lifetime. I never get joint aches in my arms and legs, and never had a dry persistent cough like this before either. We shall see.

a reply to: daryllyn

If you think you had it? Cool. Wait for an antibody test and find out for sure.

Yep. Meantime, to keep my sanity while I work in "essential retail" I'll try hard to keep my sense of humor. For the first couple of weeks it was really hard - why were people going "shopping" with their partners and parents and families? Why were they so cavalier about it? Now, people are taking it more seriously a little bit - more than half wearing masks, and everyone standing back while they're in line......

originally posted by: WUNK22
How do all these people know they had it without being tested??

Yep, now apparently everyone is an expert on who had, or haven't had COVID-19...

Last February I was bed ridden for two days and whatever I caught had me congested for almost two months after. I remember a lot of people had a similar scenario. Fearing the flu was getting worse in general I made sure my son and I were already using zinc spray regularly by Thanksgiving. We didn’t get covid and I think the zinc helped and I think whatever I got last year was connected to this outbreak.

Yes, something went around that is exactly like COVID-19 my co-workers got it. They had a very hard time breathing and fevers. Started in December they took 1-2 weeks off and came back to work, they also seem much less concerned about catching this....almost like they know they already had it and beat it.

originally posted by: infolurker

originally posted by: BoscoMoney
WELLLL, I had it before anyone else in the whole of the united states...so I'M IMPORTANT. The MOST IMPORTANTIST. So obviously I'M the expert on everything coronavirus. I have IDs and everything so its obvious I'm not just making this up or anything. ME ME ME ME ME.

I had it in 2008. Got pneumonia from it, poisoned by Levaquin, and the Covid + Levaquin ate my tendons up.

Levaquin will eat up your tendons regardless if you have covid or not. Always ask for something different. Long, long recovery after that crap.

Wife, 1 daughter and I are fairly convinced we all had it already the 2nd week of January. We blamed the Coast Guard cadets coming back off Christmas leave (where I work), like we do every year for 30 years now. They always bring back a Petri dish conglomerate of assorted virus from around the nation and the world. We all get sick every year, usually just a rhinovirus or cough cold.

This year was different. The 3 of us got railed with fever, body aches, almost go to bed and stay there. The entire CG academy and staff got blown out the same, all within a week. Spread like wild fire. Some cadets and faculty had to be hospitalized.

Then we realized there are THOUSANDS of Chinese working in the 2 casinos in the area. They have a percentage that transits back and forth between the casinos and China every day.

Causation/correlation: blaming the cadets coming back from leave when it was happenstance timing of Chinese population coming to the casinos? Don't know. If you look at the infection/death maps by county weather.com... scroll down to the southern New England overview, you'll see within 50 miles or so of the casinos there are very few infections. It's because it already tore through here and there's not many new cases since the counting started in March.

Well I got it in Bagdad when y'all were in your Dadsbag.

Sorry, couldn't help it.

Nahhh impossible you had it.

COVID cases only exist since they have a test to check for it. :-)

a reply to: WUNK22

The same way they keep adding "suspected" COVID deaths to the totals. The symptoms matched up.

The government isn't even requiring a test now, to determine if a death was from COVID. If it's good enough to add to official numbers, then it's good enough for someone to say they had it because the symptoms were all there.

Those who get flu shot may get flu from it. I have a friend who got a flu shot and was very sick for 2 weeks after that in Dec 2019.

Lol, smh. I'm sure you had the flu buddy.

originally posted by: cd5love96
Lol, smh. I'm sure you had the flu buddy.

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I'm pretty sure a woman in my office and her whole family got hit with it in early January. Thinking back, she had pretty much all the symptoms when she started coming back to work after being out. Respiration was so bad she could barely talk. So I guess add her to the "felt sick, got better" list of possible coronavirus cases.