re: What are the chances the timeline is all wrong on the COVID 19?

I think it’s likely that it’s been in the US for awhile

I had some shite last month and felt like I had glass in my lungs. Almost positive it was corona. I would get waves of feeling like pure shite.

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I think this was going around during Mardi Gras and no one realized it

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We wee working at P-66 in Belle Chase starting mid January. Had more techs by a factor of about 5 get "flu or pneumonia" that any time in our history. People were laid up in the hotel for many days and many went home because that couldn't get well after resting for 3-5 days. All the contractors had the same issue as well with sick workers at that job. Fact.

I came back to the US after spending a couple months in China towards the end of last year and was sick as shite after I got back with some crud that I couldn’t kick. I was coughing a lot and had trouble breathing but didn’t think much of it because I have asthma from time to time but I wonder if I had this crap back then. Took about 10 days until I really felt back to normal



I just figured it was some crap I picked up in the airports but who knows maybe I had this back then

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Seems like a lot of people (including me) recall being f'ed up by something in the Nov-Feb range and wonder if it could have been the corona instead of flu.

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I know a couple of people that had this experience, going to be interesting to see if any of them end up getting cov2 and testing positive now.

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Have to be honest, I have thought of this. I'd say maybe the two weeks post national title game, I had a wicked cough that would keep me up during the middle of the night along with runny nose and annoyingly sore throat. It would come in spurts throughout the day as well. Cough wasn't mucus or anything. I didn't check to see if I was running fever though.

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I had a terrible cold with a sore throat after flying out of Nola for the Natty. It lasted until the beginning of February. I joke that it was Corona. My only problem with the theory that it’s been around longer, is we don’t have a high body count of elderly folks to suggest that.

Four of my family of five tested positive for flu in October. Only I didn’t and only I got the flu shot. Bet that doesn’t happen next year.

Fast forward to November, on the 24th, my middle son (8), who has asthma, had to go to the ER with a terrible croup cough. Tested negative for flu after they swore it had to be flu.

Three days later, after receiving lidocaine via nebulizer a few times, he still was running fever. Took him to our pediatrician, who I respect tremendously as he is not an over prescriber and is constantly learning. He swore by looking at my kid that he had flu. Negative test. He said there had been a few lately that he thought would test positive and didn’t.

I ended up with the wicked cough thing for a while. My wife and other kids too.

Now, we hear about this and I am wondering about whether this thing has passed already.

I am not usually one to fall for conspiracies. Likely, coincidence, but who knows.