Corona thread. No politics please

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Yes, that will happen. Right now, everyone is in isolation or should be as much as possible. Immunity is not being developed in the general population - only those who recovered from the virus will be immune but immunity don't spread the way viruses do.

Everyone should accept the reality that they will most likely contract this at one point or another.

I work in the vaccine industry so I'm just going to reiterate the importance of vaccines. We are living in a world right now that is missing ONE vaccine and look what it's done.
 
Casinostocks said:
I wake up every day feeling fit as a fiddle, not sniffles, no sneezes and no nuttin, and then the day starts! By the time the eve comes, I'm a friggin mess! Every little twitch garners a red flag and my senses for this fooquing virus and my awareness amplify. Late in the eve after I have walked the dog for the last time and make sure that Mom's upstairs resting comfortably, I will then medicate by taking Theraflu tea or similar and then I usually dozen off on the couch surrounded by the dog and the cat somewhere nearby. Then lather, rinse and repeat!

My concern and perhaps fear is that during the pandemic, lots of people with some other medical issues will avoid seeing their physicians (try to get an actual appointment these days, ha!) which may manifest in missing on some other serious issues. Fooquing little bugger virus! Why do people refer to it as a "beast" or the monster? The bugger is actually 1/900th of the diameter of human hair!
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I'm having very similar days. They start well. Normally about after the time I realise I'm feeling well something will trigger me and I'll become convinced I'm ill.
I definitely don't feel 'normal' at the moment but I have been in high stress situations before and felt the same.

I don't think things will ever go back to where they were before. People are more germ aware, also awakened to the idea that supply lines aren't infallible.

I hope it goes away. If it becomes a regular yearly virus it's going to be a real obstacle to getting through our senior years, and we're all getting older.
 
I swear I had this shit last year. In July or August of last year, I came down with a bug that felt just like the flu. Sweats, fever, chills, coughing, that kicked my ass for about 7 or 8 days. I mean, laying up on the couch, don't-want-to-get-up-to-go-pee kind of sick. Went to doctor's care and tested negative for the flu. Took some antibiotics and finally got over it. Makes you wonder how long this has actually been around and we just didn't know it, or blew it off as a bug of some sort.
 
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I'm having very similar days. They start well. Normally about after the time I realise I'm feeling well something will trigger me and I'll become convinced I'm ill.
I definitely don't feel 'normal' at the moment but I have been in high stress situations before and felt the same.

I don't think things will ever go back to where they were before. People are more germ aware, also awakened to the idea that supply lines aren't infallible.

I hope it goes away. If it becomes a regular yearly virus it's going to be a real obstacle to getting through our senior years, and we're all getting older.
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Youre not old silly! When I was your age, I could practically walk on my hands!
 
91bravo said:
I swear I had this shit last year. In July or August of last year, I came down with a bug that felt just like the flu. Sweats, fever, chills, coughing, that kicked my ass for about 7 or 8 days. I mean, laying up on the couch, don't-want-to-get-up-to-go-pee kind of sick. Went to doctor's care and tested negative for the flu. Took some antibiotics and finally got over it. Makes you wonder how long this has actually been around and we just didn't know it, or blew it off as a bug of some sort.
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Jonny the only way to check as to whether a person has had this particular virus in the past is by doing a blood test. If someone really believes that they have had it before, they should get blood tested when things open up a bit and if that cokes back positive for Covid-19, they should consider donating blood plasma.

In your case,, I very much doubt if it was Covid-19 in the Summer of last year! Also antibiotics are effective against bacterial infections but not against viral infections.
 
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Casinostocks said:
Jonny the only way to check as to whether a person has had this particular virus in the past is by doing a blood test. If someone really believes that they have had it before, they should get blood tested when things open up a bit and if that cokes back positive for Covid-19, they should consider donating blood plasma.

In your vase, I very much doubt if it was Covid-19 in the Summer of last year! Also antibiotics are effective against bacterial infections but not against viral infections.
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The antibiotics were actually to treat the crud in my lungs, not the actual sickness. I doubt I had it too, but who really knows? When the tests become available to test for antibodies, then I'll get tested and donate some plasma.
 
BTW, both of my sons who had fallen very sick in February firmly believe that they both had this! They say that they had flu like symptoms like they never had before with very restrictive breathing! One of them travels a lot on palmed domestically in the U.S.

I still dunno if they had this specific Virus whatever it was which they had. Gotten. One son got tested for Covid-19 just this past week which came back negative but he was very sick almost 2 months ago.
 
Casinostocks said:
BTW, both of my sons who had fallen very sick in February firmly believe that they both had this! They say that they had flu like symptoms like they never had before with very restrictive breathing! One of them travels a lot on palmed domestically in the U.S.

I still dunno if they had this specific Virus whatever it was which they had. Gotten. One son got tested for Covid-19 just this past week which came back negative but he was very sick almost 2 months ago.
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I'm glad they recovered! Covid19 was already doing in February so it's possible it could've been that - especially with the restricted breathing. Does anyone know what your test result would indicate if you got the virus but fully recovered from it? Would it just show negative? Unfortunately I don't know too much about viral testing
 
fatfrog said:
Yes, that will happen. Right now, everyone is in isolation or should be as much as possible. Immunity is not being developed in the general population - only those who recovered from the virus will be immune but immunity don't spread the way viruses do.
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I was under the impression that immunity to this isn't guaranteed after recovery, I know I've seen some references to reinfection but I'm not sure where right this minute.
 
fatfrog said:
I'm glad they recovered! Covid19 was already doing in February so it's possible it could've been that - especially with the restricted breathing. Does anyone know what your test result would indicate if you got the virus but fully recovered from it? Would it just show negative? Unfortunately I don't know too much about viral testing
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I personally doubt very much that it was Covid-19! The first confirmed case here in Cali showed up its ugly headed circa mid Feb in northern part of the state but I am well aware that many potentially infected Chinese visitors from Wuhan had already filtered through well before that timeline. My older one who travels a lot for work is also a hardcore surfer and when not working he thinks that he’s a dolphin or something and the cold winter ocean water always gives him something despite using wetsuit blah blah (JMO).

Regarding dealing with the isolation, I was self isolated before it became fashionable! I’m. more of an animal lover type of person anyway! :)
 
Casinostocks said:
Per today’s article in NYT, genome studies show that most Covid-19 cases in New York stemmed and spread from already infected Europeans and not as many infected Asians, as early as mid February weeks before the first cases started to show up in NY.
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Canada was focusing on the Chinese at first, then Iranians/Egyptians. Now we can barely trace how people are getting infected because it's just local now.
 
91bravo said:
I swear I had this shit last year. In July or August of last year, I came down with a bug that felt just like the flu. Sweats, fever, chills, coughing, that kicked my ass for about 7 or 8 days. I mean, laying up on the couch, don't-want-to-get-up-to-go-pee kind of sick. Went to doctor's care and tested negative for the flu. Took some antibiotics and finally got over it. Makes you wonder how long this has actually been around and we just didn't know it, or blew it off as a bug of some sort.
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Same here, mid December. Dry cough, no phlegm, chest pain right down the sternum, fever, felt drained, and every old injury felt new again.
After 10 days or so I went to the Dr. He told me that he really didn’t know what it was but wanted to give me a Z pack of roids and Azithromyicin ( what they’re using with the HCQ ) to kill it before I developed Pneumonia.
Two days later I was better. Once the Z pack ended I was coughing again for 2-3 days and then it was gone.
3 weeks later my Wife has the same thing but with her asthma it was worse and took quite a while to get over.
It might sound crazy but I’m hoping that we were in the “ mild case “ classification and have already been through it, not just for us, but for the 3 little ones too. With how contagious this is they all had a short lived minor version of what we had and I’d be very happy to know that they already beat it instead of the concern of trying to avoid what is probably inevitable.
 
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