Sure but a typical case of (actual) flu is more impactful than a typical case of most of the "common colds" and related and usually a bad case of flu is worse than a bad cold. In this case people are getting hit quite hard and seems like flu as the guy who ended up in hospital has been told that is what he has.
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Sure but a typical case of (actual) flu is more impactful than a typical case of most of the "common colds" and related and usually a bad case of flu is worse than a bad cold. In this case people are getting hit quite hard and seems like flu as the guy who ended up in hospital has been told that is what he has.
That must have a detrimental effect to food taste though.
Sucks - I was pretty glad mine (mostly) came back by about 3 months post COVID - though it still isn't quite 100% - for example few days ago my mum was using a new air freshener which I can only smell from like 2 inches away while everyone else was commenting on it the moment they stepped in the door - nearly 2 years on from losing my sense of smell. A few things I don't think how they smell now to me is quite 100% how they used to either.
For me the only thing it really affected was orange juice and similar juice drinks which were like drinking slightly thick sweet water without any flavour - pretty much everything else I could taste fine.
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Still not getting it. The 'typical' case of (actual) flu is mild or no symptoms at all.
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My mum used to say, if you placed £5 on the floor of the ill person, if they got up and picked up the money it was a cold if they didn't it was flu.
Soldato
On the smell issue, one of the medications that is still in trial BC007, returned participants sense of smell.
Like rroff, I weirdly haven’t noticed any issues with taste.
My mum says walking under a mirror is bad luck.
Man of Honour
I've missed our resident medical expert 200sols.
Quite surprised he acknowledges colds and flu
Quite surprised he acknowledges colds and flu
I find that really weird because if I hold my nose and eat something I can't taste it properly.
You must have me confused with someone else.I've missed our resident medical expert 200sols.
Quite surprised he acknowledges colds and flu
Soldato
I think there is mass delusion when it comes to covid and the vaccine.
I posted a story on another platform;
I worked it out that it's around 16 million adults have long covid, symptoms of covid lasting longer than 3 months.
The first reply I get was did I have the covid1984 vaccine?
I'm sorry to be harsh in my next lines. But it really needs to be said.
First I acknowledge that the mrna rushed vaccines have question marks over them, which are still being asked today.
Also the way the UK/US handled the covid period with inconsistent rules and lockdowns contributed to the distrust of the whole subject by many people eg;
"Stay in your house" also "go out to a restaurant to eat". Two conflicting bits of advice.
At the start of covid I was skeptical and after having my first covid infection in December 2019 that only lasted 5 days I was thinking the dangers of this seems very overblown, and is there another agenda to this!?
I think there was an agenda to it, to grab control. As the government wasn't protecting us. It was still allowing direct travel from virus hotshots.
We eventually got a few different types of vaccines rushed through with emergency approval.
I was very nervous about taking a vaccine. But because I'm in a vulnerable category I chose to have the non-mrna vaccine, AstraZeneca, twice.
But even throughout my skepticism about covid I kept watching the whole picture and saw through all the inconsistencies people were dying and others were being left injured. I was wary of the origins of the bat market. I'd heard about the lab leak. We now have the main body in the US saying it likely came from a lab leak.
So what I can't understand is why these people who have questions about the vaccine have no caution at all about covid itself? They can't be bothered to at least read up on the research papers to see both the damage that is being done or the medications to treat the damage.
These people are absolute morons. They don't take their health seriously or they would have been looking into the situation as much as I did.
I've recently just started blocking them on social media. A health crisis is building and these idiots are standing in the eye of the storm saying "what extreme weather?". It's a very strange mental block they have. They seem to not be able to comprehend 2 dangers at once.
Sorry for the rant.
I posted a story on another platform;
I worked it out that it's around 16 million adults have long covid, symptoms of covid lasting longer than 3 months.
The first reply I get was did I have the covid1984 vaccine?
I'm sorry to be harsh in my next lines. But it really needs to be said.
First I acknowledge that the mrna rushed vaccines have question marks over them, which are still being asked today.
Also the way the UK/US handled the covid period with inconsistent rules and lockdowns contributed to the distrust of the whole subject by many people eg;
"Stay in your house" also "go out to a restaurant to eat". Two conflicting bits of advice.
At the start of covid I was skeptical and after having my first covid infection in December 2019 that only lasted 5 days I was thinking the dangers of this seems very overblown, and is there another agenda to this!?
I think there was an agenda to it, to grab control. As the government wasn't protecting us. It was still allowing direct travel from virus hotshots.
We eventually got a few different types of vaccines rushed through with emergency approval.
I was very nervous about taking a vaccine. But because I'm in a vulnerable category I chose to have the non-mrna vaccine, AstraZeneca, twice.
But even throughout my skepticism about covid I kept watching the whole picture and saw through all the inconsistencies people were dying and others were being left injured. I was wary of the origins of the bat market. I'd heard about the lab leak. We now have the main body in the US saying it likely came from a lab leak.
So what I can't understand is why these people who have questions about the vaccine have no caution at all about covid itself? They can't be bothered to at least read up on the research papers to see both the damage that is being done or the medications to treat the damage.
These people are absolute morons. They don't take their health seriously or they would have been looking into the situation as much as I did.
I've recently just started blocking them on social media. A health crisis is building and these idiots are standing in the eye of the storm saying "what extreme weather?". It's a very strange mental block they have. They seem to not be able to comprehend 2 dangers at once.
Sorry for the rant.
Man of Honour
Total rubbish, we had our first two Covid patients in late Feb 2020 and then it took off exponentially.
If you had it December 2019 it would have taken off then in this country unless you were in Wuhan.
On December 29, 2019, a hospital in Wuhan admitted four individuals with pneumonia and recognized that all four had worked in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which sells live poultry, aquatic products, and several kinds of wild animals to the public.
Soldato
It's not rubbish. Covid was going around mid 2019. Quite a few people were getting it in December of that year.
Don't come at me with BS.
There is still a lot of mystery as to the origins of the disease and mixed evidence as to whether it was present in Italy in late 2019. Something which often flies under the radar is that S and L variants of the disease were present at Wuhan from early on suggesting it was in circulation, likely elsewhere, for 1-3 months prior.
Anecdotally my sister's family had something with all the hallmarks of COVID after a trip abroad in late 2019/early 2020.
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Soldato
In the second video in my reply is about Italy.
I got it mid December when my uncle came to the house. We all (3 of us) got ill at the same time.
Apparently uncle had been to the pub recently and a guy was in there coughing all over the place.
There were also youtubers I watched at the time complaining about a mystery strange illness that made them be constantly coughing. Then after a week disappeared. This was before it was officially recognised.
Associate
I’m sure I had it at the first week of January 2020. Was very unwell, even went to urgent care as I was feeling so rough.
Man of Honour
Total BS, you did not have Covid in Britain in 2019.
If you saw how it ravaged a hospital from the first two patients in February and within a couple of weeks we didn't know where to stand you wouldn't be making it up.
From the person they called Patient Zero stepping into this country it was like a Tommy Gun being deployed, if it was December 2019 the same would have happened then but it didn't.
My Nephew always maintains my Mum/his Grandma died on Dec 22 2019 of Covid, no chance.
Everybody in that ward was poorly with respiratory problems and they would have all been dying including him and his Mum who have no immune system to speak of, both of them in in March 2020 had to go on a major lockdown where they didn't come out of the house until the vaccine arrived around Jan 2021.
Soldato
You haven't bothered to watch the 2 videos have you? The US confirmed they had cases in December, and Italy.
You're going off the Chinese timeliness even though we know they were covering things up.
A team went to China and found they already had other variants circulating.
Also you do realise there was no covid test early on? So officially it couldn't be confirmed.
I'm surprised you being a medical person, and who had previously been supportive of vaccines and finding solutions for covid and long covid would come at me with such at attitude.
I caught covid 3 times, the last one as made me bedbound for the past 2 years. So I have a specific interest in this subject. I communicate with doctors and professor's at the forefront of research and treatment.
You've surprised me with your attitude today. I'm going to have to put you on ignore, next to the other covid deniers. I think you seem butthurt of the realisation you called your nephew a liar for stating a fact. Your Mum probably did die of covid.
I know I suddenly got allergic skin reactions to shampoo around that time. But I never thought the two were connected. Looking back they were.
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