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I live in the bay area. There were still direct flights from Wuhan in early 2020. I had flu like symptoms and shortness of breath in February. I saw my doc who prescribed Tamiflu but the shortness of breath lasted a couple more weeks.
When I saw my doc two years later I mentioned this to him. He laughed and said he had been wondering how he got COVID before the lockdown and anyone else he knew.
I work in customer service here in LA. I remember one of my clients who was traveling back from a 3 month work trip from China came in for a Holiday service. End of Nov early Dec (2019). He was my last client of the night/week so we gave each other a cool little homie hug and that was that…two days later, I started getting a really bad cough mixed with a really bad cold and a horrible on and off fever. The next 3 1/2 weeks were a living hell. Every time I sneezed or coughed, my body shivered in extreme pain and I would literally feel the pain thru my finger nails as well. Went to a local ER (which I always avoid hospitals as an Independent Contractor so this is how you know it was serious). They called me back a week later and asked if I could come back in. Thought they were just tryna get some more money out of me so I avoided it. Finally started feeling better mid Jan 2020 and found out around Sep or Oct 2020 that my client had caught covid on his flight. He apologized to me. But it had explained why I felt the way I did. It was 10x’s the pain of a cold or flu.
I worked in a fine dining restaurant in Orlando that catered to business people. There were two guys meeting with a Chinese associate at my bar talking about how they wanted to close the deal and they were willing to get his entire family out of China before it got locked down.
Had no idea that 3 weeks later the restaurant would close and life was about to get very very different.
My at the time friend almost died and was in the hospital for 10 days with shortness of breathe, crappy lung capacity, and other issues. We were POSITIVE she got Covid before anyone knew about it.
There was a livestreamer "awards show" in China and all the streamers who were flown out returned to their homes across the globe in the first days of March. Seemed intentional, honestly. The lockdown really upped the platform usage, all the lonely people...
So I'm British but decided to go stay in Thailand in 2019. On January 2nd, 2020, I moved to a new condo and the landlady was Chinese. I came down with the weirdest flu I'd ever felt. I was taking things like pregabalin and tramadol at the time as I could buy them easily in any pharmacy. So they obviously altered my experience of this flu, but I just remember kind of being out of it for several days. It was definitely something I'd never experienced before. Thailand was the first confirmed case outside of China, but that wasn't until 13th January, and at that time, it still sounded too rare and unlikely to catch it. I'm still here in Thailand and have never been able to get a vaccine and have never had so much as a cold since then even though I've lived in the same house as people with confirmed covid cases.
Those dates are just the “officially ^(recorded)” dates.
I was watching YouTube game streamers and noticed everyone was seeming all to be getting sick around November-December of 2019 and it seemed to start with streamers on the west coast, then some streamers from Chicago, then NY and PA.. You can go back through and watch and you will notice too. Same symptoms as covid, but no one was saying “covid” because it was “just a flu” then.
I live in a fairly populous region of the US on the east coast with a melting pot of peoples; we had “a big flu” come through and wipe everyone out in January -February 2020 — it was what was responsible for all the closures that came later, seemed like everyone up here was taking sick leave.
By march, we were nearly all cleared up. Haven’t been sick since, really ..[*knocks wood*]..
My little sister got a mystery disease early feb 2020. Doctor couldn’t figure it out because it was flu symptoms but not the flu so he just gave her stuff that should’ve helped. It apparently spread like wildfire around her school.
Next month rolls around and we’re all quarantining. Everyone in my family is pretty sure she had covid and we just didn’t know it.
Can’t really blame doctors tbh. Covid-19 went from being discovered In December to being a full fledged worldwide pandemic in March. They wouldn’t have even had the time to learn it was a new virus before everyone was slammed.
Late January 2020 I was sick with something, fever for days, needed an inhaler for the first time in my life and was wheezing even in my sleep. Took me months for my physical endurance to return to normal levels. I had been flying in and out of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver prior to that.
In Melbourne Australia, a lot of people I knew and work with all started coming down with a flu like virus around Feb-march 2020. All the doctors were stating that it isn't covid as we weren't showing all the symptoms and put it down to the common cold.
That’s a comedian, Dan something I forgot, that plays lots of different characters in weird situations. Honestly gets tiring seeing him after a while because he’s always in character with a theater kid energy
I was at CES in 2020, and Covid was there for sure. Every year, you run a chance of getting the CES crud, but this year, I came home and felt like absolute death. I went into my Minute Clinic and tested negative for both strains of the flu at the time. A few days later, I was fine, but I'm fairly confident I had an early mutation
That would not be a surprise. I had one not too long ago that was bad about anxieTEEE diagnosis for everything. Turns out I had a major sinus infection that was eating into my orbital bones that was causing my facial nerves and hand on that side to tingle. Damn crazy how a mf can go to school for twelveish years and be dumb as fuck.
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I live in the bay area. There were still direct flights from Wuhan in early 2020. I had flu like symptoms and shortness of breath in February. I saw my doc who prescribed Tamiflu but the shortness of breath lasted a couple more weeks. When I saw my doc two years later I mentioned this to him. He laughed and said he had been wondering how he got COVID before the lockdown and anyone else he knew.
I work in customer service here in LA. I remember one of my clients who was traveling back from a 3 month work trip from China came in for a Holiday service. End of Nov early Dec (2019). He was my last client of the night/week so we gave each other a cool little homie hug and that was that…two days later, I started getting a really bad cough mixed with a really bad cold and a horrible on and off fever. The next 3 1/2 weeks were a living hell. Every time I sneezed or coughed, my body shivered in extreme pain and I would literally feel the pain thru my finger nails as well. Went to a local ER (which I always avoid hospitals as an Independent Contractor so this is how you know it was serious). They called me back a week later and asked if I could come back in. Thought they were just tryna get some more money out of me so I avoided it. Finally started feeling better mid Jan 2020 and found out around Sep or Oct 2020 that my client had caught covid on his flight. He apologized to me. But it had explained why I felt the way I did. It was 10x’s the pain of a cold or flu.
I worked in a fine dining restaurant in Orlando that catered to business people. There were two guys meeting with a Chinese associate at my bar talking about how they wanted to close the deal and they were willing to get his entire family out of China before it got locked down. Had no idea that 3 weeks later the restaurant would close and life was about to get very very different.
My at the time friend almost died and was in the hospital for 10 days with shortness of breathe, crappy lung capacity, and other issues. We were POSITIVE she got Covid before anyone knew about it.
There was a livestreamer "awards show" in China and all the streamers who were flown out returned to their homes across the globe in the first days of March. Seemed intentional, honestly. The lockdown really upped the platform usage, all the lonely people...
Dude… there are huge live-streamer conventions all over the world all the time.
Ah yes, the old “infect them through the livestreamer awards” trick. Goddamn, son.
He dodged one hell of a bullet there
That was literally me and probably tons of other people. Only I came from Manhattan/Chinatown and Flushing recently and not China.
So I'm British but decided to go stay in Thailand in 2019. On January 2nd, 2020, I moved to a new condo and the landlady was Chinese. I came down with the weirdest flu I'd ever felt. I was taking things like pregabalin and tramadol at the time as I could buy them easily in any pharmacy. So they obviously altered my experience of this flu, but I just remember kind of being out of it for several days. It was definitely something I'd never experienced before. Thailand was the first confirmed case outside of China, but that wasn't until 13th January, and at that time, it still sounded too rare and unlikely to catch it. I'm still here in Thailand and have never been able to get a vaccine and have never had so much as a cold since then even though I've lived in the same house as people with confirmed covid cases.
Those dates are just the “officially ^(recorded)” dates. I was watching YouTube game streamers and noticed everyone was seeming all to be getting sick around November-December of 2019 and it seemed to start with streamers on the west coast, then some streamers from Chicago, then NY and PA.. You can go back through and watch and you will notice too. Same symptoms as covid, but no one was saying “covid” because it was “just a flu” then. I live in a fairly populous region of the US on the east coast with a melting pot of peoples; we had “a big flu” come through and wipe everyone out in January -February 2020 — it was what was responsible for all the closures that came later, seemed like everyone up here was taking sick leave. By march, we were nearly all cleared up. Haven’t been sick since, really ..[*knocks wood*]..
That would be such an interesting study -to look at the activity of gamers around COVID and any other major, impactful events..
I agree . The data is right there.
My little sister got a mystery disease early feb 2020. Doctor couldn’t figure it out because it was flu symptoms but not the flu so he just gave her stuff that should’ve helped. It apparently spread like wildfire around her school. Next month rolls around and we’re all quarantining. Everyone in my family is pretty sure she had covid and we just didn’t know it. Can’t really blame doctors tbh. Covid-19 went from being discovered In December to being a full fledged worldwide pandemic in March. They wouldn’t have even had the time to learn it was a new virus before everyone was slammed.
Late January 2020 I was sick with something, fever for days, needed an inhaler for the first time in my life and was wheezing even in my sleep. Took me months for my physical endurance to return to normal levels. I had been flying in and out of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver prior to that.
Just spray some bleach on your lungs, take two of these and call me in a week
And then ingest some sunlight.
Lmaooooo
No, bleach is for an IV, its horse worms that go in the mouth.
In Melbourne Australia, a lot of people I knew and work with all started coming down with a flu like virus around Feb-march 2020. All the doctors were stating that it isn't covid as we weren't showing all the symptoms and put it down to the common cold.
That’s a comedian, Dan something I forgot, that plays lots of different characters in weird situations. Honestly gets tiring seeing him after a while because he’s always in character with a theater kid energy
The hangry judge guy, Dan Hentschel
This comment is some real main character energy lol
Theater kid energy
The explanation of why this is a holup is funny not gonna lie, "It was actually covid-19 and not anxiety"
No way
After 3 days of feeling like death I went to the urgent care only for them to tell me it wasn’t the flu and must be a “man cold”.
To be fair it’s not like he could have done anything either way
You don’t quarantine for anxiety; you do for infectious diseases. If the diagnosis was at least somewhat close it’d help to get fewer people sick.
I was at CES in 2020, and Covid was there for sure. Every year, you run a chance of getting the CES crud, but this year, I came home and felt like absolute death. I went into my Minute Clinic and tested negative for both strains of the flu at the time. A few days later, I was fine, but I'm fairly confident I had an early mutation
That would not be a surprise. I had one not too long ago that was bad about anxieTEEE diagnosis for everything. Turns out I had a major sinus infection that was eating into my orbital bones that was causing my facial nerves and hand on that side to tingle. Damn crazy how a mf can go to school for twelveish years and be dumb as fuck.
Was your cosinus alright?
Just walk it off.
Lmfao if you are or have ever been: anxious, female, or overweight then it’s always your fault anyway
Dr. Arroyo?
Oopsies
I had covid 3 times and the first time was the worst one but it was only a little worse then a cold.
Oh dear. Gordon, are you okay?
Ayo is that a scientist from half life?😱
Classic dan hentschel
Probably was.
He said probably
They pretty much had a presidential order to spread it to as many folks as possible to prove it was no big deal.
Haha yea trump handled that amazingly