To think you shouldn’t say you hade Corona Virus

[CorinnaSinner]

When you’ve not been tested?

Obviously symptoms are very important and you should self isolate - that’s a given. Alert people you’ve come into contact with.

I rang my mum and she told me her friends daughters had it. I asked - so she’s been tested then?

Turns out no but friend and friends daughter are still telling people she has it.

most people with symptoms dont have it, even if they are bad enough to be admitted to hospital

I have heard that they are testing everyone admitted to hospital, regardless of symptoms, for infection control purposes. If this is true then it makes a nonsense of that metric.

During the swine flu epidemic the testing stopped fairly rapidly and it got to a point where everyone who presented with symptoms was confirmed as having swine flu and tamiflu was dispensed accordingly.

As long as people practice self isolation/social distancing regardless, why are people so bothered that someone assumes they have coronavirus?

YANBU
It’s a new virus.
Thousands of people present with the symptoms of CV and meet the criteria for testing but test negative. It’s very irresponsible to claim you’ve had it until you know for sure.

Don't the statistics say that 80% of us will get it?

I have all the symptoms of it (headache/dry cough/fatigue/no temp but very hot face/chest pain) I'm assuming that it's CV, my infection avoidance has been tip-top this last month or so I would like to think most bugs will have been deterred ... I think CV is particularly virulent isn't it?

I'm saying (if asked) that ' I assume I have it but who knows'

Excellent thread.
I had these symptoms just before Christmas, never been so ill. Hadn't occurred to me to think it was anything other than flu with an upper respiratory infection. Found out last week that my colleagues had been discussing whether I'd had it, and some were saying I might be safe to put on the staff rota more frequently as probably immune. We've just had flu season, upper respiratory infections abound, my asthmatic sister gets pneumonia pretty much every other year, these are not rare symptoms. I definitely wouldn't say I'd had corona without a positive test.

People are being given a clinical diagnosis - without a test. If you have the symptoms there’s a high chance you’ve had it.
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I am absolutely certain I have had it, just at the tail end now, and I can guarantee you that this won't make me lapse my judgement in trying not to catch it again, in fact I am the one enforcing all the rules in my home about it. Nobody else is really bothered.
It's stupid to NOT presume you have it if you have a new cough, shortness of breath or temperature. That's how you spread it and kill other people. If you are sick right now, then you have it, for all intents and purposes.

I am not 100% I've got it but up there at 95%. Actually it's my lack of temperature that makes me think I've had it - I cant think of anything else that would make me this sick, with such weird symptoms, which wouldn't give me a fever.

That said, I'm not complacent. If anything I am even more terrified of catching it if I haven't already - and I was pretty paranoid to begin with (now there's ironic).