For once in my llfe I will come in strongly with something. I posted yesterday about the virus that was around in December/January. I am sick of the inane responses who just regurgitate " it was just the usual cold or flu stuff. Ignore these social media myths" rsther than read what I actually said. Some of them I respect like Darren I would have credited with a more interested or inquiring response. Do you think that I and these other people have never had a cold or the flu before??. I will spell it out again in bigger writing so people will at least understand the point.
I AM NOT SAYING IT WAS COVID-19 !! The thousands of us that had it (if not millions) are all saying THERE WERE NO WINTER COLD OR FLU SYMPTOMS IT WAS NOT JUST ANOTHER COLD WE ALL GET EVERY YEAR.
Everybody only experienced a long spontaneous terrible (and I'm not talking normal cold here) cough and a fever, nothing else. PEOPLE ROUND HERE WERE POSTING THEY'D NEVER KNOWN ANYTHING LIKE IT AS WERE FAMILY AND FRIENDS BEFORE THEY'D HEARD OF CORONA VIRUS so completely invalidating casual remarks about people think they had it, the posts were not retrospective.
As for the hospitals, they were pretty full here but any severe cases would have been put down as pneumonia - why not. People also struggled through it when they would have fearfully gone to A&E or called an ambulance now.
I'm sure it was a different and novel virus. I can't recall another like it but I accept it could be any other virus that carries those symptoms but clearly not common cold or flu. I would be completely satisfied if somebody actually replied with this epidemic was studied and it was another novel virus that only caused a severe cough. Fine. But as a retired Scientist who has spent a good deal of time dealing with evidence based facts and debunking urban myths until somebody comes back with some evidence of what it actually was rather than making wild unfounded assumptions then I will keep an open mind.
Originally Posted by: fairweather