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Those who think they had COVID-19 before community spread was obvious are almost certainly wrong. This is not a virus that hides. When community spread begins, infections and associated hospitalizations ramp up quickly in a pretty predictable manner outside of mitigation efforts. If you are a shut in, and had no opportunity to infect others, and are only talking about a couple weeks ahead of community spread, then there is a very small chance it was wuflu. If you have normal interactions with people, and no one around you became ill, or if your illness was more than a couple weeks ahead of the curve, it was something else.

Here’s what happened. Oh boy, here goes...

I went over to my buddy’s house, he had just left his wife. He moved in with one of his work buddies, rented a room from him. The guy was sick in the living room, noticeably sick.

My buddy says okay, I’m going to go get ready, go talk with him in there... so, I did. I already knew about CV at the time, and I was not happy with this. I remember thinking in my head at the time, f***!

A couple of days later, I got sick. Started in the throat, proceeded downward. I could feel it at the top of my chest, lasted maybe 3 days, and it never went any further that I know of or could feel. Was taking Sambucol at the time.

About a month later, my buddy says hey you remember when yo got sick from Jimmy (made up name)? I said yeah. He said here’s what happened.

Jimmy said he went to visit a local massage parlor in Pensacola. The ladies there are Chinese. They all had masks on and were sick with something. That’s where Jimmy says he got it.

That’s all I know about it. Jimmy is a former Navy mechanic. Might Jimmy do something like this? Seems possible.

So I don’t know. I would like to take an antibody test. I’d be interested to see those results.

Hospitals start to fill up 2-3 weeks after the infection gets into a community. Infectees can walk around for that long before they are visibly sick. You don't get the bug on Tuesday and go to bed with a fever Wednesday and pneumonia Friday. And most people do not even show symptoms and most of the rest show light symptoms. I can almost pinpoint the arrival of the first wave here in late February and the second which was more obvious with Spring Break at the beach. We had a bout of people in the hospital in the first half of March who were not tested or diagnosed. If anyone died it was just taken by the community and the doctors as the normal course of things and made the obits but not the front page. We seem to be getting the obvious manifestations of the Spring Break wave in the last two weeks. This time it is being diagnosed. I suspect also that it will not be so bad in the Gulf States outside of the dense cities because everyone gets out in the sunshine every day with bare arms and no hats. Sunshine is the preventative and cure for seasonal flu and colds and likely has at least some mitigating effect on the WuHan Flu.