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This. I had it. Literally every symptom except loss of taste and smell (but had some other rarer symptoms like the pink eye thing). Also had a cough for like

This. I had it. Literally every symptom except loss of taste and smell (but had some other rarer symptoms like the pink eye thing). Also had a cough for like a month, and loss of energy and breath for about a month and a half. Only just recently feel 100%. While it was shitty and lingered a while the worst of it wasn't actually that much worse than a flu for me. Somewhere between the flu and bronchitis on the scale of how sick I've been in my life.

azinman2 6y ago
How do you think you got it?
- Mikeb85 6y ago
  Working in a tourist town, in the hospitality industry (I frequent this site since I did some CS related stuff for my degree years ago but hospitality is my first love). I got it around the last week of February, before any travel restrictions in Canada. We get (or got) tons of tourists from both Asia and Europe.
  - azinman2 6y ago
    Do you feel like you had prolonged exposure to someone at a close distance?
    - Mikeb85 6y ago
      Not really, but it's a small town with a young, active population and way more bars per capita than is reasonable. So I hike, ski, go to bars and restaurants, work in hospitality. I would come into close-ish contact with 50+ people per day for sure. Probably more. Tourists and locals come into enough contact too (servers at restaurants, retail workers, etc...). So Covid was likely floating around here, lots of people I know said they were sick but very few got tested, but our demographics mean that only 1 person died (80+ year old man) and no one else was ever hospitalized.
ttul 6y ago
I had the worst cold I've experienced in a decade or more. Absolute loss of energy. Terrible aches; temperature all over the place. This was followed by two months of bronchitis that is still ongoing and failed to respond to two different kinds of antibiotics (the implication being that it's not bacterial). I never got tested because testing was not easy to get in early March; serologies aren't being done yet where I live. I'm so curious: did I have _IT_?
- asdf21 6y ago
  Yeah, probably.
- ImaCake 6y ago
  There is finally a decent assay for serology so maybe you can get tested soon. It's not one of the "fast" assay kits (those suck) it is a proper laboratory assay (an "ELISA") that requires trained staff or at least an expensive machine to run.
- irq11 6y ago
  I had it (confirmed by a high-quality test), and never had a symptom beyond a mild cough. Somewhere between 20-50% of infections are believed to be completely asymptomatic: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena... (my anecdote isn’t as valid as a severity-biased anecdote?)

azinman2 6y ago

How do you think you got it?

Mikeb85 6y ago
Working in a tourist town, in the hospitality industry (I frequent this site since I did some CS related stuff for my degree years ago but hospitality is my first love). I got it around the last week of February, before any travel restrictions in Canada. We get (or got) tons of tourists from both Asia and Europe.
- azinman2 6y ago
  Do you feel like you had prolonged exposure to someone at a close distance?
  - Mikeb85 6y ago
    Not really, but it's a small town with a young, active population and way more bars per capita than is reasonable. So I hike, ski, go to bars and restaurants, work in hospitality. I would come into close-ish contact with 50+ people per day for sure. Probably more. Tourists and locals come into enough contact too (servers at restaurants, retail workers, etc...). So Covid was likely floating around here, lots of people I know said they were sick but very few got tested, but our demographics mean that only 1 person died (80+ year old man) and no one else was ever hospitalized.

ttul 6y ago

I had the worst cold I've experienced in a decade or more. Absolute loss of energy. Terrible aches; temperature all over the place. This was followed by two months of bronchitis that is still ongoing and failed to respond to two different kinds of antibiotics (the implication being that it's not bacterial). I never got tested because testing was not easy to get in early March; serologies aren't being done yet where I live. I'm so curious: did I have _IT_?

asdf21 6y ago
Yeah, probably.
ImaCake 6y ago
There is finally a decent assay for serology so maybe you can get tested soon. It's not one of the "fast" assay kits (those suck) it is a proper laboratory assay (an "ELISA") that requires trained staff or at least an expensive machine to run.
irq11 6y ago
I had it (confirmed by a high-quality test), and never had a symptom beyond a mild cough. Somewhere between 20-50% of infections are believed to be completely asymptomatic: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena... (my anecdote isn’t as valid as a severity-biased anecdote?)