Does anyone actually have the virus?

[rrg1]

With all the talk and speculation on these boards and with thousands on here everyday, may I ask if anyone on her actually has the virus?

I had the symptoms before Xmas and was in for work for two weeks as I hurt my back coughing.
There was no snotty nose untill the second week and I had a temperature.
I wonder if I had it then but nobody else around me seemed to get it apart from dd8 who had a heavy cold as well
So confusing.

@MMN123 I wonder if there is a correlation of areas of the country that had what we termed in our area "the bastard cough" over Christmas and areas with no/few cases now?
It would certainly help make me feel that herd immunity is possible.
I'm terrified of the bloody thing, DS has lung disease and DP has early emphysema.

JulietTango those are my exact symptoms... I have no idea if it's just a cold for me, I've been around kids who have colds and there's 1 known case in my area. It's so confusing.

I’m in London and know people who had that cough over Christmas and through January.

And now I have a colleague and family affected. Who thought it was just an awful cough and fever because 111 said they didn’t need testing so that reassured them and they have been busy riding it out.

In ireland we have only been testing symptomatic people with a history of travel or a known contact with a positive test.We are now moving into the delay phase and from tomorrow, anyone who presents with symptoms will be tested.This is good news cos I know a gp who said she has seen patients with , what is most likely covid-19, but wasnt able to test them because of the strict criteria.Now, the threshold for testing has been lowered, I'm sure we will see a huge increase in cases

So, in Ireland they are closing the schools and changing the testing so that everyone with symptoms gets tested-great.

In England they are not closing the schools and they are now reducing the testing so that only people turning up at hospital ill get tested.

So Boris will go-look at Ireland-they have closed schools and it hasn’t made a difference. In fact their number of cases has massively increased-what a mistake!

Yet, look here in England-we haven’t shut schools and cases have plummeted. Wasn’t it a good idea?!

Poor OP only wanted to know if anyone on here Actually Has It, i.e. has tested positive.
Cue lots of "No", "I don't know but I have symptoms" and "My neighbour's hairdresser's babysitter's cousin's gardener is feeling ropey"...

Please everyone who feels confident that they have had this virus- remember many other coughs and viruses have been circulating at the same time.

I had a nasty cold last winter, and two the winter before. They fitted the description of covid 19, but they weren't as it was too long ago.

Nasty cold, or horrid cough does not necessarily mean you've had this virus. It's impossible to say.

Also the NHS recusing ti test does not mean you've NOT had the virus- they had to stick to strict testing criteria.

well its not just me had a slight "odd" dry cough/ sore throat "thing" thats not like anything else! I never coughed up anything.....not even needed to take anything. Maybe pp and me have had covid 19 in a really mild way???? maybe its some other common virus doing the rounds. I did have a headache or 2, but I sometimes get that anyway!!
I never did take my temp. Dh said last night he had a bit of a sore throat...... so watching him (he is also a summer asthmatic) to see what this thing is. IF this is corona I`m sort of glad I got it done and over with????

who knows!!!

@peoplepleaser1 oh I agree.

Despite what the consultant said when I mentioned it (on the pretext of calling for advice regards DS, and mentioning in passing his attendance has been appalling this winter as he's now at secondary so bigger setting more people etc, and I mentioned having what I had and she said, hold on what were the symptoms, had you been near anyone ill and I said now you say that my neighbours had relatives over from China).

Regardless of whether there is a possibility of already having it, with DS in the house with COPD and DP having early emphysema, I'm not taking chances. We run a tight ship on cleaning surfaces and the likes due to DS anyway and handwashing too, but if I thought we had any symptoms at all, however questionable, I'm isolating, and we have been told to call his outpatients number, not 111 as our local hospital has put that in place for people with underlying health issues.

Yes, it would be interesting to hear from people who actually have tested positive and get a first hand account.

Lots of people are ill now - but that isn’t necessarily corona so it isn’t what op asked for.

Overnight, my DHs boss has been confirmed as having the COVID - 19 virus.

He has been told to self isolate at home for 2 weeks. As the company had taken a proactive stance 2 weeks ago to allow those who could, work from home, many did including my DH. This proactivity has most definitely prevented a large number of others being infected by him.

People/businesses need to take proactive action if they are able to. Stay safe and be your own best advocate.

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'Poor OP only wanted to know if anyone on here Actually Has It, i.e. has tested positive.
Cue lots of "No", "I don't know but I have symptoms" and "My neighbour's hairdresser's babysitter's cousin's gardener is feeling ropey"

LOL! The thread is beginning to sound like a PsyOp that so many are buying into!

Well I did feel a bit fluey for a few days a little while back🤔
this thing about people testing positive with no symptoms... imagine if we are all tested for various endemic viral diseases, how many people would test positive for all sorts of things and yet have no symptoms or problems at all?
We are all continually bathed in a miasma of infectious microorganisms

furthermore we are continually told that there is no immunity to the Corona virus because it is a new virus and we are also told that there are people who are exposed to the virus and who carry the virus yet have no symptoms
How can it be that there is no immunity and get some people apparently are immune?

UYScuti
Several medical professionals are seeing 'red flags' around this so called pandemic, produced this and sent it to UK Colum News an alternative news outlet based in Plymouth:

I think a worldwide financial crash was coming over the next year anyway, and now Corona virus is the ideal Scape goat for it. Then they can remove the blame from themselves.

Thank you rrg, I shall listen!

I think what they're saying is that if you have symptoms then assume you have covid-19 and self isolate.
I can't see how that is any less sensible than saying right everyone is staying in regardless.
If you're in Ireland and want to be tested your have to go somewhere presumably whereas here you're told to assume you have it and stay in

I've started today with a sore throat, headache, high temp (on the cusp of fever) and a minor dry cough... There's a case 3 minutes away from where I live so I'm just assuming it is coronovirus now. Might not be, there seems to be a lot of different stuff going about but self isolating regardless. My dd 5 and dp will be also.

Has Tom Hanks tweeted what his symptoms are?

My symptoms are chest pain when breathing, a dry cough that has turned to a productive one, fevers that come and go, chills.

BMW6

Tom has tweeted from his twitter account, describing what sound like relatively mild symptoms, body aches, chills, slight fevers. Said he'd keep us posted. There was a photo of the two of them yesterday, but nothing so far today.