Posted on 04/17/2020 10:03:52 AM PDT by eastexsteve
OK. Let's get to the chase. I'm a pilot. I've been flying almost 45 years. I know many commercial pilots who work for the big carriers. Some do international flights, the Far East, Europe, etc. At least four of them now have told me they have had this crap, some as early as November of last year. High fever, bad dry cough, and body aches. They all said they were sicker than a dog. They told me they have flown boatloads of people from China and Europe to here before the travel ban. They tell me they passed it around to other pilots, crews, and their families. They all went to the doctor, and tested negative for the flu. But, back then, nobody knew what this was. Most of their kids got sick, albeit only for a few hours, and then they were fine. They went to school, passed it around, and many other kids got sick. They likely brought it home and infected their families.
During the last part of January this year, my wife and I both came down with the same thing (no doubt after being around some of my pilot friends.). We've both had flu shots. I had it for about 3 days. My wife had to go to the doctor. She tested negative for the flu, and they gave her a Z-pack. She had it for about a week. We were both sicker than I can ever remember. And, although I'm 65, I stay pretty healthy and pass a pilots medical exam as needed.
After talking to my pilot buddies again in detail, I can no longer ignore the evidence that this stuff has been here since November last year. I also can't deny that my wife and I likely had it in January. I remember us both saying that this stuff was so bad it would likely kill most older or unhealthy people.
We need widespread immediate testing on demand, and not just when we show symptoms. We need both antibody and virus tests. We will never know how safe it is, or to what degree we can go back to normal until we do. I'm currently on the hunt for an antibody test.
Washington went back through all the tests? So they dug them out of the biohazard bins after being discarded and retested them? 7,000?
Again, researchers dug the old tests out of biohazard bins and retested them? Lets see the the data.
Donate blood and get checked for free.
I/and a son/a grandson probably had this crud from around Thanksgiving to Christmas+ last year.
We have several doctor friends including a couple long time neighbors, For decades in my driveway, I have received good free medical advice.
One of these doc friends, my wife worked for as his head RN for close to 40 years. His replacement, our current FP for about a decade, feels testing a healthy person not scheduled for any procedures is a waste of time and resources and unnecessary exposures.
All of them ask me the same questions: Do I have fever, is my sense of smell is okay, and do I feel okay with no headaches.
My answers haven’t changed since last April. NO Symptons!
Their advice is to forget it. The PCR tests might show some dead Covid, that, if I was infected months/weeks before.
So what medical value to me would I get, by testing me, now.
I have no symptoms nor been exposed. Apparently, Zero value.
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