I’ve never previously had the flu, but had been doing some work here recently this year after getting laid off in February at Vanderbilt. The 3rd week there, we got a new guy leading our team who was really sick at work. We kept our distance from each other and I made jokes about him carrying the plague and such. But at some point I had to move what we were working on and touched the stuff he had been handling to manage the space. Having a good immune system and being healthy, I’m not often phased by any bugs/colds and such. About a week later I woke up with freezing chills and couldn’t get warm. I had never felt this way. Those chills turned into massive sweats and just all day drowsiness. I never really felt sick, but I could tell my body was surely going through something. I fed my body food as I was constantly hungry and it all disappeared, all of it. 3 days later I felt just fine.
Having never had the flu previously, I don’t really know much about it. I never get a flu shot, so I don’t even know what that mild sickness you get from getting the flu shot is like. I figured I had the flu and that was that. This stuff with CV19 and such came up later and reading more and more about it over and over and thinking. I was like “well, did I have it early?” We know it was out in China as early as September based on some internet sleuthing, despite no real hard evidence. But… We also kind of know/established that the place this came from was trying really really hard to cover this up in general.
Based on looking up actual flu symptoms, the virus has a lot of similarities to it so it makes it very hard to find out which is which. Antibody tests are coming out soon and that’s great, but you have to do a blood work up basically to see if you have SARS2 basically. And. I’m quite good with not going to the hospital at the moment thank you.
So the question is, did I have it, or did others have it already? Talking with many people, they all reported even as far back as December, flu like symptoms and massive trouble breathing for 2 or 3 days then being just fine. I cannot say that this article is an affirmation on already having SARS-Cov-2, but it’s surely not discrediting the theory that we have already had a wave of it in the US.
I’ve been a proponent that possibly we caused more harm than good with the hysteria and such and panic and caused this virus to spread faster than letting it go through normal day to day life. Leave your comments below on that. If this virus is so contagious and we are to believe the propaganda pieces out there on how easily it spreads, then if it was here in February, then why didn’t it spread even faster then? Based on how the virus works and was designed, I’m pretty sure this isn’t a case of “it adapted.”
2 replies on “So, it was here earlier, so was that really the Flu you had?”
Good discussion. I’ve been wondering about this too (see a couple of posts I’ve made in the past week). I have especially been wondering why, if it was here earlier, no one noticed (particularly death rates at nursing homes). It may turn out to be a huge coincidence that there was another virus with similar symptoms, but not as deadly, which went around last fall. Or it may turn out that it was CV19 and it’s been here since September. Only widespread antibody testing will tell, and there are plenty of questions about methodologies and what the tests are actually testing for in the antibody studies that have been reported so far.
I, personally, had a flu or something in late March. If it was CV19, that was well before any official cases were tested or reported in my area.
One of my theories on the quicker spread of this was confirmed by one of the cornasphere lounge video’s from when Bill started doing those and he had the one doctor on who was doing the hydrocloriquine testing.
The doctor even outright said that this is one of the problems in the interview, but nobody seemed to pick up on it.
We are a culture of hypochondriacs, and hysteria and panic makes it worse. “Do I have the rona? I have a raspy cough this morning.” (despite it being pollen season and everyone does)
So they go to the hospital and pick up covid19 from the air or from a surface. Then they spread that around a bit as well.
He was very specifically stating that people were not picking up Sars-Cov-2 in the hospital but most likely picking up the lung disease from particles in the air or surfaces, Which is covid19, the disease created by sars2.
So, the whole “stay the fuck home” motto so many people pushed, was really for the hypochondriacs of the world who rushed to the doctor to get the disease when they though they had it and would have been fine staying at home for a few days.
As well, another thing, Panic caused panic buying and panic actions from people that on a normal basis would never have happened. Sick as hell at home not feeling well, Oh shit, there is some crap going around? I got this cough, but I really need to make sure i have Toilet paper in mass. Then go to the store, coughing and sick touching everything spreading it faster than anyone could ever imagine.