I’ve read tons and tons of info about Covid 19. I am confused. Do the symptoms appear as a flu? Upset stomach, headache, fever, body ache, diarrhea? OR is it a fever, cough, runny nose, dry cough? My daughter and son-in-law came down with the cough, runny nose, fever, etc. on Christmas Day. I spent a lot of time with them on Christmas Eve. No symptoms for me until today. Started with runny nose, sneezing, coughing but no fever. None of us are vaccinated. Is it just a head cold? Covid 19? Omicron?
The symptoms and cures are whatever Fauci pulls out of his ass on any given day.
I'm no doctor (except in electrical engineering), so I'm just giving my superficial understanding. I think the initial symptoms of COVID are very much like a cold -- it's a coronavirus, of course. The truly distinctive symptoms are a complete loss of taste and/or smell. Once the spike protein takes hold, it can manifest in many ways, the worst of which are blocking energy and oxygen from getting to your cells, partly by intracellular actions within body cells (involving the ACE2 receptor) and partly by messing up the blood cells so they both fail to carry oxygen and clump together instead of flowing smoothly through the tiny capillaries. This can result in the failure of any and all organs, and ultimately death.
I think most of what's going on out there is plain old colds with a few flus thrown in. Once people have turned their furnaces on for the winter, the dry air along with the close quarters and lack of natural vitamin D leaves the lungs more vulnerable to viruses.
At the school district where my wife works (but remotely, from home), they're seeing the usual collection of winter colds and flus. Some of them are testing positive for COVID, but who knows if they actually have it. I haven't heard of anyone dying yet.
A friend/colleague in San Diego came down with something after Christmas, including "green mucus". I'm trying to convince her to take ivermectin just in case (and it might just help with a regular cold), and have offered to drive out there from Tucson if she can't find a local supply. I've warned her to look out for the taste/smell problem.
I don't know if I've told this story before: my brother, in Houston, found out recently that his best friend, a refugee from Venezuela, had COVID. The friend couldn't get anything useful from his doctors and the problem worsened over six or seven days. Finally, my brother drove over and left a supply of ivermectin in his mailbox. Within 24 hours, the friend was ready to go back to work.
I am just now recovering from my bout with C-19. This is my experience.
Started out with sniffles, sneezing, run of the mill cold symptoms, then on day 5ish it felt like I got run over by a bus. It immediately began to feel like the flu... headache, fever, cough, phlegm... The run of the mill flu..
Now here I am, about 10 or 11 days later, starting to feel somewhat normal again.
I didn't think I had covid since I'd heard it was a dry, unproductive cough... Not my experience. Plus I'd been around a friend who was sick and her doctor told her it was just upper respiratory...
It seems to affect everyone differently... This is just my experience... I would say if you have cold symptoms, get tested so you can start your treatment as early as possible.