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Is there anyone who doesn’t think they had covid last winter

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Sosickofasshats · 29/10/2020 22:36

no trolling or trying to be clever, almost every single person I know thinks they could have had it last year. I was in hospital for a virus which caused breathing difficulties in December. I feel like I’m losing touch with relaity

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mrsgrinchh · 31/10/2020 06:29

Me as I have it now and im not that sick I have worst colds.

30not13 · 03/11/2020 20:37

@30not13

Several of us who work together had a pretty nasty cold last dec/jan but noni doubt it was Covid19.
Ok I have since had an antibody test done (randomly picked as education staff) and it has come back that I am positive for covid antibodies. I'm quite frankly shocked.

Nobody I have any any degree of contact with has tested even in a rough suspicion never mind been diagnosed. I'm puzzled!

rockingthelook · 03/11/2020 21:10

All in our offic

TalbotAMan · 03/11/2020 21:13

Me

Miseryl · 03/11/2020 21:17

If I've ever had it, I will have been completely asymptomatic as I haven't had any of the symptoms for years.

rockingthelook · 03/11/2020 21:24

All in our office (5) NHS were ill for ages Jan-Feb covid type symptoms, took ages to get over, all had covid antibodyblood tests, none of us positive !

eeek88 · 03/11/2020 23:22

I don't think I had it last winter.

Can't even remember the last time I had a cold / bug / virus any more debilitating than a mild sniffle or sore throat that was gone within 24 hours. My immune system has been well trained by being surrounded by animals and small children, and now due to all the handwashing and mask wearing I feel it's having an easy ride. I'm making sure I eat at least one packet of crisps a week with dirty hands (farm dirt not town dirt) just to keep it on its toes.

bingbongbingbongbingbong · 04/11/2020 11:23

nope definitely was fit as a fiddle last Christmas which is unusual for me because i'm ill Christmas day without fail every year!

The year before though i had a continuous cough that would not shift for weeks so anyone that had the same last year would now automatically think it was covid.

madcatladyforever · 04/11/2020 11:32

I've never had it despite looking after patients with covid-19 for months. If you wear basic PPE/masks properly, never touch your face, wash everything you are wearing on your return home and have a shower, wash hands all day and take the basic precautions then its unlikely.
Takes a bit of extra effort but its worth it.
People who wear their masks below their nose, lie on a beach with hundreds of other people and carry on like nothing happened well no surprise if they get it.

BubbleTeaJunkie · 04/11/2020 11:37

Me, my antibody test was clear

Fifthtimelucky · 04/11/2020 11:44

I didn't have it last winter, though in June 2019 I had the worst cold I have ever had in my life (and that's saying a lot as I'm nearly 60).
I didn't feel ill and didn't have a temperature, but for two weeks I coughed constantly and completely lost my sense of smell.

If I'd had the same thing this year I'd have assumed it was Covid.

Gobbledygook20 · 04/11/2020 11:47

Not me nor ds either.

Blueuggboots · 04/11/2020 11:52

I didn't. I've not had it at all yet.

LindaEllen · 04/11/2020 12:02

I don't think I did (and I had it in March so I guess that means I definitely didn't), but I don't think anyone else did, either.

There are so many winter viruses with similar symptoms. I had a similar one in 2018, which I felt was worse than when I had covid.

They will have had 'a virus', but not THAT virus.

unmarkedbythat · 04/11/2020 12:07

I don't think I had it last winter. And I don't think I've had it since, or if I have, I've been entirely well with it.

Saladfingersscaresme · 04/11/2020 12:16

Me, I didn’t have as much as a sniffle last winter or spring which I can’t remember ever happening before, thinking about it neither did the kids.

MustardMitt · 04/11/2020 12:21

I don’t know anyone who thinks they had it, last year or this year!

In fact, thinking about it, I’m the same as a lot of people in that I didn’t even have a cold last year.

XmasLockdown · 04/11/2020 12:25

I don't think I have had it. Nobody I know have had it either.

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 04/11/2020 12:28

i didn't have it.

and am in a weekly testing scheme so all clear now as well Grin

FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 04/11/2020 12:31

I know two people who think they had it due to the symptoms early in lockdown when you had to be hospitalised before you could get tested and one person who got a positive test in September but that's it.

I don't think I've had it.

serialreturner · 04/11/2020 12:32

If I didn't have it in December, I had something similar.... worst I've ever felt. And I'm someone who can tell a cold from the flu, having had proper flu twice. I'm still feeling shit nearly a year later. Plus, you know, menopause.

I have never been so ill in my life - totally floored for 2-3 weeks (like couldn't get out of bed - DH had to practically carry me to the bathroom) and I've been in hospital twice since.

Totally run down and catching everything going; BMI just in the healthy range now but lost 2 stone (and I'm tiny anyway).

Still zero appetite. Really forcing myself to eat daily, dietitian involved and on a shit load of supplements. No sense of smell or taste which isn't helping.

DD under watch at school because she's been so worried. She's only 7.

Sad

According to my best friend, senior nurse my immune system is "fucked" - clinical term apparently.

Hesnotlocal · 04/11/2020 12:58

I felt bloody awful in January/early Feb. About 4 days with a raging temperature then a dry cough that would not go away- to the extent that I did not feel safe to drive in case I started coughing. The cough and general wheezing plus incredible tiredness lasted weeks. If it happened now I would definitely be isolating/getting tested.

The thing that makes me doubt it could have been Covid though is that I don't know anyone else who was in close contact with me at the time who became ill. The day before I first became ill I was in a large meeting in a very small room for several hours and share a car with 2 colleagues for several hours (I remember because I wasn't able to do any of the follow up work I promised the next day and felt unnecessarily awkward about whether they would believe I was ill since we'd all been together and I was fine just a few hours earlier). My family and friends were also around me throughout and although I was obviously trying not to cough on them etc I was not social distancing. Surely if I had it at least 1 person I knew would have become unwell?

Aragog · 04/11/2020 13:02

I am pretty sure I didn't have it last winter - well I didn't have any symptoms of it. Probably had the odd cold though. I work in a school so they are inevitable.

I do wonder whether my niece might have in February. She went on a school trip to residential, albeit not from the areas thought to be of concern. A day or so after returning she was really poorly - like flu, but not quite the same. Similar symptoms to Avoid. She was ill for a week or so, then fine. Obviously no test and it could just have been another random bug.

I have had it recently - a month on now and still recovering gradually. That was confirmed with a positive test.

MadameBlobby · 04/11/2020 13:02

I wouldn’t go as far as to say I definitely think I had it but in late Feb, so before Covid was on my radar at all but it was in the U.K., I had a virus that I said to my H I didn’t know what it was as it was weird. Symptoms:

Sore throat
Hoarse
Fatigue
Loss of taste but not bunged up
Sweats
Severe muscle pain
Nausea
Diarrhoea
Cough
Breathless esp at night

Certainly if I had these symptoms now I’d get a test

ShivD · 04/11/2020 13:03

Me, nothing at all that could have possibly been covid.