EAllusion wrote:Tracing back, my flu symptoms started on Feb 22nd. I was horribly sick from then until Feb 27th with a fever the entire time. The worst of it was the 24th-26th where the body aches and pains and shortness of breath was so miserable. Then the following week I was in an improving state. Since then I've had a residual cough with minor phlegm and some continued recurrent discomfort in my chest. My lungs sound clear, but I don't feel like I can breath as deeply as normal yet. There's ups and downs, but I feel like I'm overall getting better and better. All "normal" for a bad case of the flu, but consistent with corona.
It's now 22 days later and symptoms of corona are there for someone I live with. That feels on the long end of infectious spread, but is possible. Or it's possible she caught it from some where else and I managed not to spread it to her but also had it. Or, because of the timing, my natural fear is I had a flu that hit my respiratory system hard and now it's about to be attacked by another virus.
Mid-February I contracted the weirdest flu I've ever had in Denver (airport) for work. It went straight to my lungs, no sneezing. 103 fever and lots of pain; lasted 1.5 weeks; normally I get off with 3 days. I put myself on antibiotics 3 days in. Interesting that Denver has relatively high cases. Also, my family didn't catch it; they almost always do. my understanding is Corona doesn't spread as easily (through air etc). So I still kind of wonder. I recall feeling like gagging, but no "dry cough" as such, so that's the one miss. Either way, it's made me a little more nervous about this stuff than I'd otherwise be.
think positive and let us know what medications help etc..
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Gadianton wrote:Mid-February I contracted the weirdest flu I've ever had in Denver (airport) for work. It went straight to my lungs, no sneezing. 103 fever and lots of pain; lasted 1.5 weeks; normally I get off with 3 days. I put myself on antibiotics 3 days in. Interesting that Denver has relatively high cases. Also, my family didn't catch it; they almost always do. my understanding is Corona doesn't spread as easily (through air etc). So I still kind of wonder. I recall feeling like gagging, but no "dry cough" as such, so that's the one miss. Either way, it's made me a little more nervous about this stuff than I'd otherwise be.
think positive and let us know what medications help etc..
Did you leave Denver International Airport or just pass through it?
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I was in Denver for a couple weeks, so at the airport twice.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Gadianton wrote:I was in Denver for a couple weeks, so at the airport twice.
Denver International Airport is my home airport but only because I won't pay for the hop back into town here. I'm the one who flies the most in my family so take this with a grain of anecdotal salt. Though family members seem to go through the same process and are sick a few days after without fail, we all get sick.
Every time I fly back in (always from East or West Coast) I've been on cabin air for approx. 4 hours then walk out into the drier thinner air here. If I don't run a vaporizer immediately and for days, I'll come down with a sinus infection. The last time I flew in I had already been courting sinus trouble the day before I left Jersey a couple of days after a transatlantic flight, spent 6 hours in the air (because they rerouted over Canada) and by the time I got here I went straight to hell. Sinus infection that turned into bronchitis and according to my doctor would have developed into pneumonia had I not sought treatment the very next day. The CT scan of my sinuses was not to be believed, the infection was that severe. It's possible that that is what happened to you if you came from a reasonably humid climate to high altitude in Denver.
Either that or Blucifer put a curse on you upon landing.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
EAllusion wrote:Well, it's looking pretty likely coronavirus is in my household now. Fever and hacking dry cough just appeared. Either I'm the original carrier or it's coming in now. Both seem technically possible. If I didn't have corona before, which I still think is quite likely, I am genuinely concerned about how bad it will get for me. I am not recovered from my previous flu.
Oh dear, I’m so sorry, hang in there! You have all of us to chat with to distract yourself if you need it, so take us up on that! Best of luck to you and your partner.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I work as a Tour Guide, and I'm closer to 70 than 65. My health is very good. Some days I do walking tours, but most days are spent on the top of an open top bus. Day tours are 2.5 hours, night tours 1.5 hours. On the day tours we make 16 stops. That means 16 times up and down the stairs, if someone wants to get on or off. Up until last week, I did 3 day tours a day.
The bad news is I work in a very high risk environment. I am in close contact with travelers from all over the world. My best friend, who I visit daily, has a daughter with severe medical problems that make her very high risk. So right now I'm asking myself if I should not visit them, which I do every day.
California Governor Newsom is now recommending that all persons over 65 self-quarantine. I'm going to work tomorrow, but I will be talking with them about what to do. Business is so bad, and the future of tourism is so dismal I feel I'm probably going to be laid off in the next few weeks anyway, so I'm tempted to try to stay until I get laid off.
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that's the weird thing, I didn't have anything that after a few days of misery develops into pneumonia or bronchitis. At the park one afternoon I got that bad feeling in my throat, the next my lungs were filling up. I'm prone to sinus problems but not respiratory.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Our Governor announced that all restaurants and bars will be temporarily closed statewide. Gatherings of more than 50 are prohibited. Rumors are flying about how full Seattle area hospitals are. I have no idea. But I have lots of friends who make their livelihood in the bar and restaurant biz.
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Res Ipsa wrote:Our Governor announced that all restaurants and bars will be temporarily closed statewide. Gatherings of more than 50 are prohibited. Rumors are flying about how full Seattle area hospitals are. I have no idea. But I have lots of friends who make their livelihood in the bar and restaurant biz.
Pritzker is closing Illinois bars and restaurants, too. They can still do take-out / drive-through / delivery though.
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Res Ipsa wrote:Our Governor announced that all restaurants and bars will be temporarily closed statewide. Gatherings of more than 50 are prohibited. Rumors are flying about how full Seattle area hospitals are. I have no idea. But I have lots of friends who make their livelihood in the bar and restaurant biz.
Pritzker is closing Illinois bars and restaurants, too. They can still do take-out / drive-through / delivery though.
Yep, we’ll have takeout and delivery available, too.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951