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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    I'm certain I had it at the same time @Dovefromabove.  In total I was ill for 12 weeks.  All of that time I had a hacking cough, lost my sense of taste and smell, exhaustion (at one point 100 yards was like a marathon) and awful aches and pains.  Other members of the family had minor symptoms.  The doctor prescribed inhalers and although he couldn't find any infection he gave me antibiotics as a last resort.  I was booked in for lung function tests and xrays and was waiting for the appointments when the first news items started popping up about a new virus in China.  I never went for the tests because the appts were cancelled.  I still think I am more tired than I used to be and my sense of taste and smell haven't really returned. 
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    If you all did indeed have Covid at the latter end of 2019 and early 2020 it seems that the virus has been around far longer than thought and that the Chinese were possibly supressing/denying the fact that this was a serious threat.It could also account for the speed at which the virus became so well dispersed over the entire globe.
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I agree @madpenguin ... I think there were several established pockets of infection around the country by the time we all became aware of it. 
    The person I caught it from had spent a few days visiting in Yorkshire before meeting me in Norwich. Her friends who died were in Yorkshire. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    It is of course conceivable that the Chinese did not know they had it, at that time.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Even if they did know they probably didn't automatically think 'We'd better tell the world this is going to go global'  I suspect they would have tried to sort it out themselves first.  As would most countries. 
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219

    How do people get away with it? No arrests, but policemen injured? If that had occurred in a poor district of any town I think the outcome may have been subtly different.


    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
    I don't want to go to Chelsea
    Oh, no, it does not move me
    Even though I've seen the movie
    I don't want to check your pulse
    I don't want nobody else
    I don't want to go to Chelsea
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    A little ditty by the ever absent Roman Abramovich?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    The acute loss of taste and smell is a definitive symptom & was first highlighted by contributions to the Zoe covid tracker app.  It took the Gov't months to accept it as an official symptom. 
    AB Still learning

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Along time before Abramovich, but would fit nicely
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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