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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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JoanWilderbeast · 30/10/2020 19:43

I think it's very likely that it's been here since December last year, at least https:www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53106444 as from that I would presume that the vast majority of Londoners at least, have been exposed to it since then what with being a Global Hub and with the Tube and Bus system at overload during the rush hours.

LionLily · 30/10/2020 19:56

I'm fairly positive we haven't had it. Though we all had a snotty runny cold in July.
TBH, I think we are very lucky in that we still don't actually know anyone who has had it - despite living in what was described in April/May as a 'covid hotspot' and my working in a care setting. We only know of cases.
That doesn't affect my compliance with all guidelines though. They say mask, I say what colour.

Essexgirlupnorth · 30/10/2020 20:06

There was a really nasty bug going round work last December/January that with hindsight we wondered if it was covid (last city with plenty of overseas students) however work was offering antibody tests and everybody tested negative so probably wasn't

DelilahfromDevon · 30/10/2020 20:07

I don’t think I’ve had it. How I don’t know because I haven’t done anything to avoid it. A bit more hand washing than usual maybe but nothing else.

swansongs · 30/10/2020 20:10

This is my favourite thread of all-time.
Literally everyone I know, EVERYONE, has told me, at one time or another, that they think they had Covid last winter. Fewer people now, admittedly, but everyone was saying that over the summer.

swansongs · 30/10/2020 20:11

Forgot to add, YANBU!!!!

2020iscancelled · 30/10/2020 20:17

Personally no but DC was very ill in February - admitted to hosp with an “unidentified respiratory infection”. Was very ill with a cough and terrible breathing for over a week.

Also a couple of close friends travelled together at the back end of last year to an event; they both got very very ill soon after. We’re talking nose bleeds, loss of smell and taste (one ordered a vindaloo to try and provoke a reaction and couldn’t taste it Hmm) - took both a long time, as in weeks to feel human, they both struggled to breathe etc.

If it wasn’t Covid then it was a terrible flu

PopcornPugs · 30/10/2020 20:23

There was definitely a nasty respiratory bug going around here last December. Half of my son’s primary school, including staff, were off over the last couple of weeks of term with a horrible cough. I had a raging fever, dry cough and lost my sense of taste and smell.

NinaNannoo · 30/10/2020 20:23

Only thing I had was a bad sinus infection.

Sn0tnose · 30/10/2020 20:28

Not me. I had a rotten cough but it wasn’t bad enough to take time off work. I’m fat, over 40 and have dodgy lungs so suspect it would have been far worse if it had been Covid. Plus DH never caught it, despite snoring in my face like a truffle pig every night.

SakiSiam · 30/10/2020 20:32

Pretty sure I haven't had Covid-19, although my region has been placed on tier 2 ('the North'). Do everything to protect myself and others. However, when swine flu was going around my son had started at university. He thought he'd got swine flu; I was convinced I hadn't, because I don't really socialise. However during that time I developed a really bad cough, that at times would make me struggle for breath. I thought nothing of it, just inconvenient. No other problems. Now I think I probably did contract the virus, once he'd started university, and both of us are still here. I don't understand (and, yes, I know it's classed as a pandemic) how Covid-19 is being used to decimate our economy by this government.

millymollymoomoo · 30/10/2020 20:33

I don’t think I had it
But I do know several people I work with who were hit with a flu like Illness that knocked them for six, with continuous cough, and I’m some cases delirium, things they’d never experienced before at all. So yes I think they had it
We all remember commenting jan time about an ‘awful virus doing the rounds’
They all recovered but one guy took a couple of months to feel back to normal

Snowpaw · 30/10/2020 21:00

I lost my sense of smell and taste for some time around end of Feb / March - but then I didn’t think anything of it as with a young kid I caught every bug going all that winter - I was pretty much ill will one thing or another from December until lockdown begun. I imagine covid was one of those things but I really couldn’t differentiate it from the tonsillitis / sinusitis / general colds etc!

Heatherjayne1972 · 30/10/2020 21:28

There was a nasty viral bug doing the rounds last winter - but that’s not unusual
So many of my patients were coming in saying they’d been ill

Maybe it was covid. Maybe not. Who knows

3rdNamechange · 30/10/2020 21:31

No , and I work in a hospital. Although, of course , you can have it and be asymptomatic as have several people I know who found out by antibody tests.

ShrikeAttack · 31/10/2020 00:21

Me!

I last had a cold about five years ago.

I had flu in 1990. It was unpleasant.

ShrikeAttack · 31/10/2020 00:26

But there do seem to be a lot of 'retrospective horrendous respiratory viruses'.

Who knows, people love a drama!

Thecazelets · 31/10/2020 00:28

I am one of the many who had a covid-like illness in December - my whole office went down with it one by one. It probably wasn't, but have definitely had the thought.

Thecazelets · 31/10/2020 00:32

In fact just found the thread I posted on about it at the time, in the innocent pre-Covid world

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3764322-has-anyone-had-this-stinking-cold?pg=2

ShrikeAttack · 31/10/2020 00:33

Having said that my very fit father got swine flu in 2008 and ended up very ill with pulmonary oedema and pleural effusion which was a bit of a shock.

So ill-health and reactions are largely arbitrary.

Spicylolly · 31/10/2020 01:16

I was really ill last December, horrible racking dry cough that lasted 3 weeks....properly knocked me out, I've never felt so ill. Went to the Drs as I thought I had a chest infection, I could hear my chest rattling when I was breathing but Dr had a listen and said just to rest....I've had chest infections in the past and this felt way worse just for context.

I doubt it was CV19 as the timeline wasn't right but who knows without a test, I've been working throughout the whole of lockdown as a cleaning manager in a supermarket and not had so much as a sniffle so who knows.

Peridot2020 · 31/10/2020 01:34

We had what we called the Zombie flu about this time last year. It just would not go. Headaches like nothing I have ever known before, and I used to get dreadful migraines, lingering fatigue so bad I actually couldn't get up some days, sinus issues (including lack of smell), and a non-productive cough (we had just about every type of cough mixture and cough sweet on the market). Last time I was that ill as an adult was when I was working in the Far East. I'm sure it's entirely coincidental....

MarinaMarinara · 31/10/2020 06:15

Whereas here I don’t know anyone who thought they had anything last winter and I only know one person who has had Covid at all (an acquaintance in London, positive test, he is in his 20s and a fitness fan, for him it was very much like flu apparently). Where I live (in the SW) rates are low. So I feel too like I am losing touch with reality but in a rather different way.

joystir59 · 31/10/2020 06:27

I haven't been ill with anything for at least 3 years

joystir59 · 31/10/2020 06:29

I've never had flu