Where are the mild cases? :(

[Jrobhatch29]

We live in a town that has over 100 confirmed hospital cases and a fair amount of deaths. They say for every death theres alot of cases in the community. But nobody on facebook/parent groups/community groups seems to be reporting being ill (and i hope it stays that way) . Is there even mild cases out there?

If it is as transmissible as has been thought, many of us, certainly in large conurbations, and especially in London, will have had it.
Seeing as lockdowns are predicated on high transmission rates (cf say for Ebola, with a very high death rate but very low transmissibility), we have to assume that transmissibility is very high (and death rate consequently fairly low). Unfortunately the government has shown a total inability to organise anything near the requisite level of testing so we can't know.

I suspect DP and I have it currently. So the household is isolating.
He came down with a fever last Thursday, sweating and shaking uncontrollably. No other symptoms until a few days later, a cough developed. He's still coughing (getting progressively worse) a week later. No complaints about lung pain. Just a horrible cough and laboured breathing and headache.
I haven't had a fever. I have upper chest pain and a painful cough. Started about a day after him.
My son has had a persistent cough for weeks (starting before we went into lockdown) but no other symptoms.
Mother and cat are fine.

I am GP diagnosed but not tested, and have been fairly unwell but able to stay at home and now recovering. My daughter had a mild case before me, and we suspect that other daughter and husband have been asymptomatic - as they have been well and truly exposed to it at home. Hoping that antibody tests will become available at some point, so we’ll know for certain.

I work for the NHS and a few of my colleagues have tested positive but only had very mild symptoms.

I wonder about the difference in symptoms people may have. I'm beginning to suspect I may have had it just before lockdown, but at the time I assumed it couldn't possibly be because of the absence of a temperature, and my persistent cough was tickly in the throat rather than dry from the lungs... but other symptoms, the fatigue, tingly joints, diarrhoea. So maybe people are having it mildly but not classic symptoms so don't report it as that.

@itssoooofluffy thats reassuring x