I don't have pollen allergies but sniffled for a few days and had a coughing spell like I have never experienced before, one short bout of rapid fire "dry" cough. I did not really know what was meant by dry cough before. Now I know. I also had a very bad and uncharacteristic headache for a day. Wife had another set of symptoms that should have presaged being very sick were it normal flu but did not get sick further. Daughter and her three boys the same, headaches and sniffles and some cough. SIL who is a pharmacy tech at the hospital had "tightness of chest for a week." He has asthma so thought it was that but his inhaler did not help this time. I have heard neighbors say similar things. I work as a secutiry guard at a shipyard where men are sent home for 2 weeks if they show up with sniffles or cough. Surely all the germs do not go home with them. Many of the guys have "felt funny" for a couple of days. I have come to believe that millions more have been infected by WuHan Flu than credited with it but for maybe 90% it is a little thing that might not be even noticed. If that is the case I do hope it confers immunity, at least for the current version and, if that is the case then all the shutdown and hysteria is merely the nation beating itself into the ground for no good reason. Quarantining is not accomplishing anything because the infected ones have already spread it about prolifically.
no fever..not unusual symptoms either...we're self isolation as told....
Except for an article in National Review this week, I’ve seen nothing about this, yet it is absolutely critical. Stories like yours are legion here in California, and my son says Colorado, too, that we had a first wave that hit here in December January and February that people just chalked up to bad flu. That’s why we’re not having an explosion out here; we already have some degree of herd immunity. A friend of mine put it best to me: “Like flu, but unlike any flu I’ve had before”. Me, I almost died from SARS in 1998, and what I had around Washington’s Birthday was more like that than any flue I’ve ever had. My primary symptoms were extreme fatigue and fever/chills. I’ve personally been in contact with a number of family and friends who report the same thing in the same period, with different symptoms more prominent in different cases