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I think by August more than 2/3rds of the globe will have been infected by the first wave.
Simple question.
Do you expect to be infected with COVID-19?
Yes or no?
For your entertainment while you choose to answer.
I think I already have been (and recovered). All this really tells me is that I had no undiagnosed medical issues.
That's really the cool thing about coronavirus: if you've been putting off a detailed physical to find any latent health conditions, the coronavirus will find them...for free!
Absent nearly complete testing (coupled with forced quarantine and contact tracing) COVID-19 is likely to spread here like it is in Italy, especially when "social distancing" is relaxed as Trump wishes to do in 7 days because "We''ll just have to see what happens" to start the V shaped economic recovery ASAP.
Me too, very good chance, in late Jan.
I'd bet a hundred bucks I WAS infected with it.
1. Digestive issues
2. Fever 102
3. Dry cough
4. Severe respiratory crisis
5. Oximeter reading 84
6. Loss of consciousness
7. 2 weeks unable to catch my breath
Hope you’re doing alright. What was the tipoff?
I almost never get sick, whether I get the flu shot or not.
But this yr I didnt and this winter I've gone into the office alot more, with younger parents who have kids.
So I got the nasty flu going around in early Jan and then a week and a half later, I got about a 4 day version. Super odd for me. I just chalked it up to being around people with kids more.
The first case in the country showed up 20 minutes from my house, what...maybe 2 weeks later? So I think it's a 50-50 chance and when things settle down, want to get a blood test to check for antibodies to CV.
How about you?
The tipoff was sudden fatigue. I get the flu about once every two years, and sudden fatigue is never a symptom. But I would be painting and all of a sudden I just couldn’t keep going. It would pass, but the fact that it happened at all is unusual. Plus my wife now has a persistent dry cough that isn’t going away but isn’t getting worse either. She says this is normal but I know goddamn well this isn’t normal for her.
Hmm, yeah.
That sounds exactly like I felt in 2009 when N1H1 went around. I was super exhausted and achy and had just started painting my (one story, thank god) barn. And it being the rainy NW, had to finish it the next couple of days. It was just terrible, I had to push thru the exhaustion to the point of nausea. That's also the last time I was sick besides a cold or 2.
How long has your wife had the cough?
Since around that I stopped being sick. I think that was about two weeks ago.
I think by August more than 2/3rds of the globe will have been infected by the first wave.
Absent nearly complete testing (coupled with forced quarantine and contact tracing) COVID-19 is likely to spread here like it is in Italy, especially when "social distancing" is relaxed as Trump wishes to do in 7 days because "We''ll just have to see what happens" to start the V shaped economic recovery ASAP.
What percent of Italy's population has been infected to date?
I don't know, but Italy has about 2X the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to date as the US does resulting in over 10X the total number of deaths. Of course, the popualtion of Italy (about 60.5M) is less than 20% of the US population (about 330M).
In Italy the death rate is running about 10% of reported cases! Old age,smoking I guess. That being said the infection rate is about 1/10 of 1% of their population. Italy is the outlier nation when it comes to bad results from this virus. As no other nation is having similar results no reason to believe we would.
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