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In US it is very regional, socio-economic and political. I knew 0 people who had it from March->October. I then knew 30+ people who had it across 4 different ou
by steveBK123 6y ago
In US it is very regional, socio-economic and political.
I knew 0 people who had it from March->October.
I then knew 30+ people who had it across 4 different outbreaks between Nov 1 and Xmas.
Broke down to -
- Working class / front-line workers who had to physically report to work
- People with kids in college who came home
- People who were more right wing (its all a hoax)
- Extroverts who refused to stay home / went to bars as much as allowed
And the commingling of above.
Fall/Winter wave was crazy.
Of the 30, 1 went to hospital, none died. Most of them were on their ass in bed for a week, and some have not had a return of normal taste/smell after 2 months.
I do have an indirect "know of" relative-of-relative who died, as a frontline nurse in area that took few precautions, during the summer wave sadly.
People still don't understand how quarantine and testing lag work, so I know of multiple scenarios like this:
* Person A feels off but tests negative in first 3 days so socializes with Person B. Then tests positive 2-4 days later.
* Person B starts to feel off after 2-3 days, gets contacted by Person A that hey I got it
* Person B goes and gets tested and pops a negative in first 3 days ...
From here if Person B quarantines and keeps re-testing until positive or clean for 14 days (unlike Person A) it's over.
However lot's of Person Bs kept going out and spreading..
One in my family turned a single kid coming home from college into 4 entire households sick in a week, and the guy who ended up in hospital was a Person C in this scenario.
- CivBase 6y ago> Most of them were on their ass in bed for a week It's really interesting to me how accounts of the virus differ so greatly from person to person. In my personal experience, I know of about a dozen people who have tested positive - all of whom showed few or no symptoms (usually exhaustion and a cough) and felt fine within a couple days and having no long term effects. I'm sure part of it is influenced by the demographics of who you know (everyone I know was under 40). Confirmation bias might play a part (severe cases stand out more and may seem more representative than they really are), but I'm probably only suspecting that because my personal experience has been so different from yours. Could it have something to do with different regional strains with varying severity of symptoms?