Posted on 03/01/2020 8:45:49 AM PST by hapnHal
Tiger Ye, 21, lives in Wuhan and started showing symptoms in mid-January. Here he tells the story of his illness and recovery
Tiger Ye in Wuhan
Sat 29 Feb 2020 00.00 ESTOn 17 January my muscles became sore all over. I may have had a slight fever, but it wasn’t strong enough to notice. Looking back, it is a little scary, because my house and the language school where I study Japanese are within a 5km radius of the Wuhan seafood market (where the virus is believed to have originated).To treat my muscle soreness, I took some cold tablets because I thought it was a normal cold. Now that I think of it, I might have missed the best time for treatment, failing to contain the virus with antiviral rugs in its early stages.
I have no idea how I got the virus. I always eat at the same Hong Kong-style restaurant below my school. I wasn’t walking around much at the time because it was very cold, and since I was tired after classes I always went back home. Once the semester break started, I stayed with my parents and not at the dormitory. I started wearing a mask a few days later when I saw everyone else around me wearing masks.
Sickness and self-isolation
By 21 January my body was still aching all over, so I called my dad. He sensed something was wrong with me and urged me to go home immediately. That evening I took my body temperature which showed a mild fever. My mom said that if my temperature still didn’t drop later that night, we would go to the hospital. At 11pm that night, the fever hadn’t gone away, so I went to Tongji hospital.
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He thought he was going to die,...but then he watched some of his favorite animated cartoons and they helped him want to stay alive and recover. Why am I picturing a Asian version of Obama’s pajama boy??
carefully scripted Cccp propoganda.
I got the impression he was in the hospital during the 5 days of HIV drug IV’s.
I doubt he was going in every day to get IV’s.
I’ve been sick for nearly two weeks, diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. This started two weeks into a Panama Canal cruise. My cruisemates are also sick.
“One thing he did different from routine was to buy a mask.”
An infectious disease doctor on Fox (Judge Jeanine, I think) this weekend said that masks easily can make matters worse. The way I heard it was that the surgical masks don’t prevent the C-virus to get through. The others must be custom fitted for a person to be effective. If not fitted, you’re messing with it, which means touching your face, which mean more likely contamination.
The only reason to wear a mask is if you ARE ill and trying to not spread it to others. It could help.
Even though people can adminsiter IV drugs at home (they send you home with a port and doses you hook into it), I too got the impression that he was hospitalized for 5 days because they stopped the HIV drugs upon his discharge. What is most compelling, however, is why they chose to give him HIV drugs and how they knew to do so so early in the outbreak.
His experience sounds like a party compared to my 2 lifetime flu experiences. Being flattened while alternately being in a pizza oven or deep freezer and your body feeling like you had been beaten with a rubber hose. You fear coughing because your ribs hurt from coughing. Getting up to go to the bathroom brought on a massive headache. I have to laugh at people walking around with sniffles who say they have the flu.
No evidence but it may just be a language difference. He might have just meant “to raise my spirits...”
That’s only a theory, of course.
Did he write his story from the grave? I don’t see where he died...
I caught that. Funny!
He was in the ICU for 3 weeks.
That’s hardly an ‘asymptomatic mild’ illness.
W/o an ICU bed he likely WOULD have died.
IF this fills up the ICU beds in your area, many people who might have lived with an ICU bed will simply die at home.
This dude was LUCKY in that he needed an ICU bed VERY early on in the epidemic. Had he needed one several weeks later he’d not have gotten one at all.
There have been lots of 20-30 somethings that have died from this.
Look up ‘Spanish Flu’ and ‘cytokine storm’.
Don’t fall for the ‘it only kills old people who need to die anyways’ pushed by the MSM.
His grandmother, mother, and brother all recovered in days without going to a hospital. They just took an anti-viral medication. It looks like it is very hit and miss as to who dies from Covid-19. Probably the very weak but there have been some young, healthy people who were susceptible. For most people, this seems like just a bad flu bug and doesn’t take particularly long to recover from with medication. It is just spreading far and fast because it takes so long to display symptoms.
What about his grandmother and mother. They were never tested or hospitalized. He said his grandmother had a fever for only 4 days. He does not mention that his grandmother, mother, or brother were ever hospitalized. Just took medication. It seems he was more susceptible to the virus than his relatives were.
Read up on the Spanish Flu and cytokine storm.
Older people actually fared better.
I suspect this might be the case with this virus as well.
IMHO it explains the outright blind panic from the chicoms early on. It got into their military...
Very interesting. Poor dude, so glad he recovered. Only 2 family members caught it from him _ at least 2 did not. I wish him well and glad he told his story. Other than living in Wuhan, he had no idea how he got the virus.
He was hospitalized very briefly at the start, then at home with his grandma cooking for him (she eventually gets sick too). Then he goes into a hospital when he worsened, for IV treatment as an outpatient, it sounds like.
The way this story is described for some reason causes me to think that this virus was “released.” Based on the description of this particular person’s experience with the virus, It seems to me that those exposed to the primary release were effected the most, and the secondary and tertiary ... “exposures” seem to indicate that the virus loses its efficacy, ie; the elderly grandma and parents became ill but recovered without hospital visits or targeted treatment. JMHO?
Took 42 posts for someone to point that out. Unreal. China is a closed information system and this comes from a leftists UK rag. Not trusty source(s)
The world is so conditioned to the individual case that it makes discussing stuff, and dealing with it difficult.
One person is a story. Data from hundreds or thousands is useable information.
I used to run focus groups for my employer. It would drive me crazy to see decision makers listen to one comment from one customer and jump to all sorts of conclusions. Those “reactions” would cost time and money.
You use individual stories to base questions for more statistical analysis.
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