Posted on 04/15/2020 2:19:55 PM PDT by A Cyrenian
If so, do you know if they had the flu earlier?
Between December and when the junk from china hit them.
I was wondering if the effected ones had any antibodies from a previous bout with the flu.
Why are you bringing this up. You are just stirring the pot.
/FReeper Karens.
The flu viruses are not Corona viruses.
So Covid-19 is not the flu.
Yes, I know 3 people that have it.
That could have been bronchitis. I used to get that about once a year, with weather changes usually. Lots of phlegm associated with bronchitis.
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1249414295042965504
Good thread, great discussion of the tech involved.
FLU,get real
I had something in mid-January. (Therefore it must have been Coronavirus)
No fever and it started mostly in my throat and sinuses.
It moved to my chest but wasn’t real bad..some congestion for a total of a couple weeks.
Except one day, about a week into it, i was really out of it.
I mean i thought i might be dying out of it.
Could hardly breath.
But then again i have mild respiratory issues so who knows.
Did they have a bout with the flu before they started this fight?
OK. Whatever. I am tired of arguing with supposed geniuses, doctors and scientists on this board. You are all a bunch of twits and turds without credentials or bona fides.
Suffice to say that despite your protestations and arm-chair quarterback statistics, this is NOT a pandemic. This is NOT the Walking Dead tv show. We are NOT in mortal danger from this virus. It IS the FLU.
End of story. End of discussion.
Now go back to clutching you pearls and hiding under your bed or your safe room. Whatever flips your cookie. But please just go away.
FYI...You can turn off the light when you go to bed because I assure you there is NOT a monster hiding in your closet. You’re safe.
Cheers, Beatch.
I know someone. 77 years old, lives in NYC, supposedly had it and recovered.
I live just outside of DC.
I know “of’ people who have it.
I don’t know anyone first hand.
Its pretty obvious Covid is bad, and deadly for certain demographics. It took out over 40 people in a Virginia Senior Citizens home. The flu does not do that. So trying to talk it down is just silly. Yes, its bad. If you’re old, overweight, or in bad health.
That being said, I don’t want to get it, but I’m not particularly afraid of it either. I take precautions, but I’m by no means fanatical about it. Of course I also don’t fall into the category of those who are particularly endangered by it.
I’ve been thinking lately: What if you recently had a bad cold? Since both a cold and the China Virus are TYPES of coronavirus, would having had a cold confer any antibodies or immunity on a person?
Geezus H. Crimmany! What is wrong with you people and where do you come from? Who do you work for and what is your agenda, asswipe?
It’s just the flu, dammit!
Now please piss off and go away because you will not convince me otherwise with your propaganda and gubmint statistics.
But thanks for playing, Beatch.
Are you always a dick? Or just occasionally?
Put your money where your mouth is. Would you willing agree to expose yourself to the virus and get sick... just to prove its the flu?
BIg talker......
It’s a good question. There are 4 coronaviruses that cause the common cold along with many rhinoviruses. Not sure if there are any other types.
I understand that the coronaviruses don’t create a long term immunity. The antibodies fade within a year or two.
But one of the questions I raised on FR early on, was whether one of the milder cold coronviruses could confer some immunity to COVID-19. You could literally use a cold as a vaccine if that was the case.
Unfortunately I understand they only test babies and the very old for those types of viruses. So we don’t have a good idea of what was circulating.
This thing spreads so easily that I kind of think it’s unlikely, but I think it bears investigation.
After the last six weeks of fever chills and vomiting. I guess China wins. The house stands here.
Just trying to make final amends.
Think I had it when I got back from the Philippines. Travelled through Seoul January 16 and through Seattle. Asiana flight full of Communist Chinese returning to Seattle/ US.
Worst aches and cough I ever had. Couldn’t move.
My wife and I were volunteers and paid for work we did at the Life Care Center in Kirkland Washington, the first place in the country to have fatalities. So yes we know people who have had it.
Most of the serious cases were sent to Overlake Hospital. We know a nurse who works in the ICU there. Their ICU was nearly full for approximately 3 weeks. Then it dropped off to nothing and they have been giving away the massive amount of supplies they received to other hospitals and organizations.
The temporary hospital the military set up at Safeco field was closed down due to a lack of patients. The quarantine center that was set up in Everett was also shut down due to a lack of people needing to be quarantined. They had a capacity of 150 people and only 3 ended up staying there, and not all of them were there at the same time.
11 people on the fire department that I retired from tested positive, 10 never developed any symptoms at all, one thought it was his seasonal allergies acting up.
I was just talking to our good friend who is a TSA supervisor at SeaTac Airport. She said that they had quite a few people who were off sick in December and January. Unlike most people around here they were able to get tests because of their position. 6 have tested positive since February only one developed any symptoms.
They think that the reason people seem to be developing immunity to it here is that it was spreading in the community before the first case in the country was identified here. The vast majority of people who get it have no symptoms or very mild symptoms. The thought is that if the viral load you get with your first contact is minimal that your body is able to develop antibodies and fight it off.
In places like Wuhan, and other urban areas where people are densely packed and in close contact with many others such as small apartments, nursing home rooms with multiple occupants or on mass transit or even in taxis the viral load that they get with initial contact is much higher and it causes a much worse reaction that overwhelms vulnerable people.
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