**I’m sure I had this in November of 2019, so I’m sure things were happening before they admit.**
I had something similar to flu, but different than any flu I’d had before. First noticed it on New Years day 2020, and less than a week later it leveled off. After a few days of being miserable, but not missing any work (I’m a truck driver, and was able to avoid contact with folks), I gradually got well again. But the the entire thing lasted almost three weeks, and seemed to move around in my body. IIRC, Covid talk came up in the news about the time I was getting over it, and I thought, “well, that’s over there. I must have had something different.” Then Kobe Bryant’s death was all over the news for a few days.
Last October (iirc) I was talking about the bug to a woman (about 40 yrs old) at a local post office. She said that her whole family got something, that started affecting them on their way home from Dizzy World (my name for the place). They didn’t enjoy New Years because they were sick, but her kids were over it quickly.
Dizzy World was probably a ‘super spreader’ in the last 2 weeks of Dec. 2019.
I bounced back very quickly, but it was just that I knew I had never felt like that before.
I’ve heard stories similar to yours from a few people I know, and the time frame was similar, mostly early 2020.
As you call it Dizzy World, you’re very likely on the money there, it was quite likely that it was a super spreader. It’s quite likely someone from Asia was there with that intent, knowing people would go home to all parts because people go there from all over, and henceforth spread even more.
This whole thing from the start has not passed muster. Now that all the info is coming out that most of us already knew, I wonder what if any action will be taken.