> I wouldn't be surprised if a mild version of the virus had spread throught he world earlier than the current pandemic or another seasonal infection that is n

> I wouldn't be surprised if a mild version of the virus had spread throught he world earlier than the current pandemic or another seasonal infection that is normally benign is going around. Sars-Cov-2 debilitates linings of the lungs and other organs and the immune system and blood cell oxygen transport efficiency all at once But if nothing takes advantage of that then nothing happens, and you heal before something does happen. With HIV we studied it in reverse: we saw people were dying of benign illnesses and then discovered they had been infected with this other virus for a decade. This first exposure to HIV presents itself as a flu/fever until it is sufficiently surpressed by the immune system and takes a decade of iterative mutations to bypass the immune system. With COVID19 a similar result happens within a week, but we aren't really looking at which bacteria or viruses could have been benign that may also be present. Not that complicated, just no bandwidth to figure it out yet. But if you follow this rabbit hole, it could easily suggest that in late fall 2019 there were just few people that had Sars-Cov-2 and they either statistically were not getting exposed to the opportunistic infections, or a seasonal benign opportunistic infection was not running in conjunction that season. This notion has been vehemently rejected by people over the past month, but it looks like people might be a little more open to it. Maybe the right people will begin to entertain the hypothesis.