Posted on 04/11/2020 11:55:44 AM PDT by george76
There has been speculation for weeks around the possibility that the COVID-19 virus hit the United States, and possibly Wyoming, weeks before previously thought, and many more people already have had it and don’t realize it, and those people are now immune. Right now this is just conjecture, but it is worth having the discussion.
Buckrail. posted an article on April 9th about a Jackson doctor who shares this belief and has been fairly outspoken about it. Every community seems to have their own local name for it, and in Jackson they call it "that awful JH crud" that was circulating back in December 2019 and in January. In Pinedale it is often called "the Pinedale crud." It included a terrible cough that just couldn’t be shaken and seemed to last for weeks, longer than usual. It was passed off as an upper respiratory infection. There was no test for it then.
Jackson Hole gets many international tourists, including many from China. Yellowstone National Park has three million visitors a year; Grand Teton Park over two million. All the park gateway communities, including Pinedale, see a fraction of those visitors each summer.
The implications, the article says, are crucial. It means this virus may have already started working its way through Wyoming weeks to months earlier than thought and there might already be some herd immunity to it in Wyoming. The answer won’t be known until there is a test for antibodies in the blood. So it is still very important to continue all the current directives for hand washing, social distancing, and keeping sick people away from vulnerable populations.
Right now this is just a theory, but it is definitely something to think about if you are one of the ones who got awfully sick in the November/December/January timeframe last fall and are still alive today to talk about it. Once tested for antibodies, if positive, those people could immediately go back to work and our economy could get moving a whole lot faster than what was earlier thought. The people who haven’t had it could continue to self-isolate by choice, rather than by state shut-down directive, until there is either a vaccine (which may take at least a year or more) or drugs that can minimize the impacts of the effects of getting the virus.
“but Florida has not had many cases”
I can personally vouch for a lot of cases!
I lack the info to disagree.
You are most likely correct
Funny how the media and hospitals etc aren’t talking about this obvious and matter of fact element.
Hawaii being the first to encounter shouldn’t be a surprise either with all of the tourism from every corner of earth. I wonder how many Hawaiians died from late October to mid January from this flu/cold? Because now, they have surprisingly little in covid illneses which would fit the narrative that they were on the early end of receiving the virus. Which of course, didn’t kill enough people to be out of normal lines of death from flu/colds...
That is the date they figured it out...it could have been floating around for months as the flu
We will never know..who is right..the CDC will never tell they screwed up..the IYIS
there very well could have been covid cases unrecognized in the middle of a worse than usual flu season
it also leads to ARDS
See my #37.
I’m in Central SC.
Yeah, you just keep parroting the lines baby...
of the CORVID16 since February,,,alot before diagnosed as the flu
Jan 8,2020
Flu season is hitting hard already. ‘People feel like they have been hit by a bus.’
When they start the testing for antibodies get the test and you will know!!
“Covid a lower respiratory infection that would have shown up with bi-lateral pneumonia.”
COVID can be an upper respiratory infection and bi-lateral pneumonia may not occur.
I’m so old I had COVID-1
“Flu season is hitting hard already. “
Flu season hit hard but is mostly over.
One of my golfing buddies here in East Texas had what sure seems like now COVID 19 back in January. He had gone to a conference in D.C. in mid December, he thinks he picked it up then. High fever of 103 plus, bad cough, shortness of breath, very weak, went to the hospital twice. They said it was a bad flu, tested him twice and it cane back negative each time. He said for ten days all he could do is lay in bed, only got up to use the bathroom. Once he seemed to be over it, he was weak for a couple weeks, he had lost 8 pounds, but now he says he feels fine, he is in his 50s. His wife didn’t get it, nor did anyone he works with.
I understand at first. But what these people are all describing is an upper respiratory infection that swept through the country in November and December.
If they ALL got it, and none of them died...it wasn’t COVID. Simple math proves that not to be the case.
It went through a couple of nursing homes around here. No one died from it. It happens every year. Most years people would hot recall it. But now they are hearing the symptoms and trying to placate their brains into thinking they had COVID.
It is a common delusion. (Not a “crazy” delusional, but it is akin to the number of people who say they were at Woodstock, who actually were not.)
LOL
My 70+ mom had a 6 week upper respiratory virus mid January in Nowheresville Alabama. I thought for sure she would end up in the hospital. She didn’t but it was close. My dad got it (he will be omega man) and was sick for a few days. I expect they both are now immune but they are hiding out in their house. They need to be tested for immunity.
Antibodies.
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