November, not December. Mark my words, will soon be proven.
Agree, if I had to place a bet on CA I would say November. Around this time is when almost everyone in northern CA was talking about a bug going around that zapped you pretty good. Everyone just chalked it up to the flu.
No runs on the hospitals, no dead lining the street, just a relatively early start to what looked to be a decent flu season.
You are correct, IMO. A friend and her spouse got sick after he returned from a trip to Italy and Amsterdam in late Nov. They got sick in Dec. He wasn’t too bad off, but had symptoms of a BAD cold he could not shake with a dry cough. She, however, felt like an elephant was sitting on her chest and couldn’t climb the stairs in her house without having to sit down mid flight and take a break. Said she coughed up the most horrid stuff she has ever seen, all at once. Said her ordeal lasted about 4 weeks from start to end.
I had several friends that had a very nasty flu however tested negative for flu, they missed work for 2-3 weeks eventually were well and back at work but they said they were really sick this was a couple of weeks after Thanksgiving!! I worked at a major grocery chain at the time didn’t seem to spread everywhere 5 or 6 ended up with it!!!
I know someone who had the symptoms but tested negative for flu in early Dec. A November arrival makes sense. The virus didn’t just stay in China for 2 months then just one day decide to jump to the US.
I suspect November as well... maybe even October.
Ever since this became “THE NEWS PANIC STORY”, I have been telling my wife that this sh*t has been circulating since at least November and perhaps as early as mid October.
I had to go down south to Lakewood, Ca. for doctors appointments during the last week of October, by the time I got back to the farm up here I could hardly drive.
Sick as a dog for about 3 or 4 weeks (hell, even had to quit smoking for a time), finally started feeling better in mid December.
Still not at 100% but doing better every day.