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

[Sosickofasshats]

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

I definitely didn't have it

Dont think I've had it. I had the worst vom bug of my life in February though. I vomited so much I got seriously dehydrated and had to go to hospital where I fainted. They had to give me tablets to stop me puking! DH and DD had the same vom bug. DS had the same thing mildly, wasn't sick but slept loads.

Last December my dh and my 2 sons all became ill. In my 20 years as a mum I have never seen anything like it. My dh sweated so much that I had to sleep in the spare bed. My autistic ds who never gets ill was terribly ill and lost weight. All 3 were exhausted, coughing, sweating. One day I went to work and was actually scared of leaving them. My ďd and I got a mild version and carried on going to work / school. Prior to the illness we had visited family for a weekend who had recently been travelling abroad.

I don’t know I had labrinthitis in January and was off sick with it for 2 weeks and had what I thought was flu. Ds who has hay fever started much earlier this year with a horrendous cough when nobody else seemed to be suffering with hay fever. No idea if either of us had Covid

Oh and DD was hospitalised twice with serious respiratory infections last winter (,1 week on a vent , then 4 days cpap a month later). I know it wasnt Covid because they checked what she had, it was RSV with a moraxella infection the first time, and some sort of adenovirus the second.

No I don't think I've had it, in fact I can't remember the last time I had even a cold.

I don't know anyone who has had it or thinks they have either. I am in the NW of England.

I have also been to The Carribean and Spain during July and September and didn't meet a single person who had it or knew anyone that did.

There are other coronavirus, colds,. Flu, pneumonia etc etc that induce breathlessness and coughing, since the rate of deaths did not start to increase and spike until Feb and March I am pretty convinced that it was not here until February.

I definitely haven’t had it unless it was extremely mild. I had a slight cold in September and that’s the most ill I’ve been in around a year.

I was perfectly healthy last winter and all through this year. I rarely get colds and I've never had flu. DH had a mild but persistent cold in March with Covid signs - bruises on feet, loss of taste, temporary hearing loss. But he was never tested and no one else in the household got it.

DH had it badly in March & I had a mild case in April.

Me

So far no one in my home has had symptoms.
One of our household has incurable cancer and I live in dread... But trying to keep us going..

And going to add because I'm finding it more upsetting as time goes on - there are delays in our family member getting treatment to prolong their life. Yet again yesterday another appointment (no. 4) has been cancelled. Always given covid as a reason.

I am pretty sure I have not had it. (Unless I was asymptomatic of course in which case how would I know) Last time I was ill was feb 2019 with tonsillitis before that Oct 17 with a terrible cold/sore throat/ cough/ear infection. On the other hand my sister had a terrible chest infection in early feb 20 after returning from Malaysia. She did have a covid test but it was very haphazzard - the doctor didn’t take it seriously, she says the swab was basically just in the very entrance of her nostril and may have been outside of the effective time zone anyway as per what we know now. Workday not be surprised at all if she had got it then

Maos

[quote Quaagars]@Merryoldgoat
I remember saying to my husband that I’ve never heard a cough like it

Curious as that's exactly what was said about my cough - DS late teen said "What the hell is that cough?!"
It was like some high, barking seal
Suppose we'll never really know as it wasn't a "thing" end of last year and even if it was, we didn't know.[/quote]
Whooping cough presents like that, I had it a couple of years ago and was exactly like a seal

What? Everyone you know thinks they had it?? I didn't even have a cold. I'm mid-60s and have had bad 'flu once in my life, in 2013. I had bronchitis all through childhood and I'm cautious about chest infections, but I certainly have no reason to think any little tickly cough was Covid-19.

Not sure. I was really unwell from Boxing Day to early January and ended up being off work for about ten days
I had a sore throat, cough, my nose streamed that much it was bleeding

Copied from a message I sent to my friend at the time (6th jan)
Swollen glands, temp, nasty virus that’s been going round and she’s lost count of how many people with it. Oh and swollen throat and oral thrush 🙄

What? Everyone you know thinks they had it??

Not unreasonable if they all mix together.

I was ill from Boxing Day until mid January, but I don’t think it was Covid as there wasn’t a spike in deaths until March.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, rather than that bug being Covid it masked the first patients with it. It was brutal. I’ve never been so ill, I lost over a stone and I coughed so hard my throat was raw and my nose ran so much it bled. Out of 25 people in my house on Christmas Day only one other person had it. We were all together Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so if it had been Covid it would have spread further, especially with three of the 25 being vulnerable

I think a lot of people are using this as a means of attention seeking tbh, I have been told it a lot and usually roll my eyes hearing about how someone couldn’t stop sneezing in December and their flu was DEFINITELY Covid and they’re one of the first, etc. Obviously it’s true for some people—but only a tiny % of the people who claim it!

There are so many things going around all the time, and the Covid symptoms are pretty general. Often people who earnestly tell you (bs) about how they had it are listing symptoms the same as a low level cold. If someone thinks they had it, they should get an antibody test before they spend ages lecturing everyone about it!

@fiddlerjo
I remember saying to my husband that I’ve never heard a cough like it
Curious as that's exactly what was said about my cough - DS late teen said "What the hell is that cough?!
It was like some high, barking seal
Suppose we'll never really know as it wasn't a "thing" end of last year and even if it was, we didn't know

Whooping cough presents like that, I had it a couple of years ago and was exactly like a seal

Does whooping cough come with severe shortness of breath and feeling unable to breathe?
Genuine question, don't know much about it

If someone thinks they had it, they should get an antibody test before they spend ages lecturing everyone about it!

Where do you get antibody tests from though?
They're not freely available to all, are they?
I mean, if you work for the NHS for example you get a free test (as is the case for a family member who works for them)
Not for everyone though. Unless you've got pounds to shell out?
I'd love one but I'm skint.

I don’t think I had it at all. No cough and the last time I had a fever was three years ago.

I however, have compassion and enough intellect to know more people have had it but they lack the official test to confirm it. There will still be more people right now who won’t test if they get symptoms, because if they can afford it they would just self isolate as they don’t want to swab their throats.

Have the antigen tests improved? Because I would love to pay for one for ds1. He had a virus infection back in February and I would love to hear he was immune (at least to one strain) of covid.

My parents swore they'd had it in December. Antibody test showed otherwise

I didn’t