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?

[CakeAndGin]

It’s unlikely that people will be posting on Facebook about having symptoms. I know of one person who posted on Facebook with symptoms (unconfirmed due to testing), they did it to inform people to stay at home as it came up on her from nowhere. Her post was to say how you’ll probably have it, not realise and come down with it quite quickly, so be safe and don’t spread it. I don’t know of any serious cases. I know of some serious cases third hand. So someone my mum works with, their partner is in ICU. My friend’s husband, someone he works with their partner died. My cousin has likely had it with a moderate case - felt like shit but didn’t get anywhere near enough to require hospitalisation. Again that’s an untested case though. I know of a few people who have been self isolating because of a cough. They could have had mild symptoms or they could have just had a cough. We’ll never know. There will be mild cases out there but they aren’t being tested.

[Mummyoflittledragon]

I’ve read loads of suspected mild cases in these threads. Pretty sure I’ve had it. Was on the original my lungs are on fire thread. Dh coughed a bit. Dd diddly squat. I didn’t have the strength to isolate from them so I spread the love to ensure I ate. No way would I have been fed!! Or dd for that matter... Dh not the most practical. I’d say I had it moderately badly and just finished 2 weeks of antibiotics and not back to the strength levels I had before.

[saraclara]

No-one with a mild case knows they've had it. I've had a cough but no temperature. I isolated for a week just in case, but I still don't know, so it's not like I'm announcing it to anyone.

[AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone]

Well, without testing, no-one is going to necessarily state that they have had corona - it might seem drama llama-y and there's no proof. Asymptomatic won't know and others might believe they have had something different eg I had a two day headache - really bad and I don't usually get them and I slept on and off for two days then another two days about a week later. I had a slight cough and lost taste for two days.
but no fever whatsoever and no sore throat and no breathlessness despite being plus size and having had lung issues in the past.
What was it? No idea. Could it have been corona? Possibly but without fever it seems unlikely. I won't/wouldn't know unless tested for antibodies at some stage.

[TheDrsWife46]

Come over to the “my lungs...” threads as someone else says. You’ll see how we’re all managing the symptoms at home. But as you say there seems to be no anecdotal evidence of people with it, which we are all finding very hard. However when any of those of us who truly believe we have it have expressed it to others, many have been faced with some scoffing remarks of dramatics or “anxiety”. The media is portraying two ends of the spectrum ICU or “i coughed and missed it”.

For those of us managing it at home it’s been very frightening and certainly not something I’ve posted on my social media.

[Quartz2208]

Because it is very difficult to say I think I have had a mild case but not tested without coming across badly.

I have had loss of taste and smell temp cough and awful tight chest. DD then got the worse cough she has ever had that was definitely dry and tight chest. DS was just not himself and DH had tired eyes and fatigue. so yes there is every chance but at the same time there is every chance we havent. I say we had A virus I dont know if it was THE virus.

@bearsofair it is funny you say that both me and DD noticed we could taste sweet things before savoury came back. DH made some chilli pasta and it was odd because we couldnt taste it but the heat was in our mouth

[Bee128]

People often wouldn’t know if they had it or another illness therefore goes unnoticed. Last week I felt a bit off. No fever but a sore throat, metallic taste in mouth, my senses were acting weird and an annoying cough that lasted for 3 days and went as quickly as came. Thing is I never get coughs. Even when I get a cold I never seem to cough and haven’t had a cough in maybe 12 years or so yet this one was non stop. I did feel tired but not particularly ill. I passed it as a cold BUT this week DS has a fever and very tired but no cough. we haven’t been out in 2 weeks So maybe I did have it mildly last week and now DS has caught it??

[Howmanysleepsnow]

3 of my dc have likely got mild cases (temp, cough, sore throat). DH has 99.9% certainly got a severe case and has narrowly avoided hospital 5 times. None of them have been mentioned on SM!

[happypotamus]

I have colleagues who have been off for 14 days with a bit of a cough, a slightly high temperature for a couple of days, loss of smell and taste (14 days rather than 7 off because their family member was unwell first). Probably a mild case of covid, but will never know (actually we might because we work for the NHS so might get tested at some point to see if we had it). Like others have said, people aren't posting on social media about their slight cough.

[Laniakea]

"My facebook feed in normal times is always full of "im ill" posts. Im just anxious and worried thats all"

well that's just weird!

I know lots of people who've "had it" with various degrees of certainty - tested, clinical diagnosis, presumed or maybe. Unless I'd actually been tested I'd be incredibly reluctant to say I've got it because symptoms are so much like many other things!

If it helps these are the people I know who've 'had it'
19yo male - fine
22yo female - fine
45yo male - fine (tested)
20yo male - fine (tested)
65yo female with underlying conditions - unwell but recovering (tested)
36yo female - fine (tested as HCP)
46yo male - fine (partner of above)
11yo female - fine (child of above, the other two children in the household did not develop symptoms)
62yo male - died, no health issues but middle aged man (tested)
58yo female - recovering (wife of above) but heartbroken
25yo female - fine (daughter of above) but heartbroken

I also 'know of' a man in his 80s who died at my dad's golf club.

I'm not sure of we're going to get more hysterical worried well during/after this, or the opposite, people will ignore potentially serious illnesses - either because 'it's not covid' or they are scared of getting covid or because they don't want to bother the NHS - that really wouldn't be good.

[boymum9]

Obviously there will be people that had it and didn't know and weren't tested, but for references 2 people I know had it early one (and were tested, after a trip to Italy) and they both just had a cold basically with a couple days of mild chest tightening and then were fine, said they didn't feel particularly unwell at all. We'll never know the true extent of who has had or currently has it until there is more comprehensive testing.

[Yurona]

We weren’t tested, but about 5 weeks ago (before the warnings etc) we all had a dry cough, evil headache and lost all sense of smell/taste. We were all completely exhausted for about a week as well.
I hope that was it, it certainly wasn’t pleasant and very different from the flu.

[Laniakea]

oh & I know one other one - a woman in her 40s, not tested barely symptomatic but in a household with other people who were tested & did 'have it'. She's fine.

[Equimum]

Two of our neighbours believe they have had it. Both had heavy cold/ flu-like symptoms, loss of taste and felt very tired for a few days. One was ill for 5 days, the other about ten. Neither felt it was worse that what you might normal catch over the winter.

[HooplaHoopla]

Eeeyore re probably never knowing, when the antibody testing gets underway properly then there's a fair chance you can find out if it was COVID-19 then.

[HoffiCoffi13]

People do though, thats what im trying to say. My facebook feed in normal times is always full of "im ill" posts. Im just anxious and worried thats all

That’s something I rarely see on my social media, maybe a few drama llama types but that’s it.

[ellanwood]

@Babdoc - hope you are recovering well. That sounds terrifying. Good to hear form someone who has survived a really bad infection. and

I am sure DH had it at Christmas. Went to bed for a week. Hasn't done that since he caught chicken pox from DC when they were tiny and was so delirious he couldn't remember the GP's home visits. Had temperature, achy limbs and a horrible dry cough that lasted for two months.

None of the rest of us have had it, though DS1 has had mild achy limbs, exhaustion and loss of smell and taste.

[Perfidy]

I had a flue type, achiness, tiredness etc, no idea if it was it or not but dh has been fine. Who knows.?

[LondonJax]

Slightly off topic. My hairdresser was telling me - before we shut down obviously - that she'd had classic symptoms. But this was at Christmas. She'd started with a splitting headache, dry cough, felt like she'd had ten rounds with Mike Tyson. Slept all over Christmas on and off - couldn't eat and had a very bad throat. By the day after Boxing Day she was having trouble breathing and went to A&E (don't forget, this was before even China reported the first case). They said a severe chest infection, had her in for a night because of the breathing and gave her antibiotics.

By the new year she was back on her feet.

She's convinced she had coronavirus. My cousin had similar, around the same time - she lives in a different part of the country so they're not related in anyway - her's turned to mild pneumonia.

I'm convinced a fair few people had this around the Christmas period but didn't know what it was and put it down to a severe flu. And I think that's what some people are doing this time around - putting it down to a heavy cold etc.,

My DNephew had a very bad tummy bug about a month ago - sickness etc for three or four days and feeling hot and cold Two weeks later they mentioned that some Covid positive people had reported severe tummy trouble but, of course, when he had his symptoms they weren't even mentioned as a possible link.

And I had a very heavy cold 8 weeks ago. Temperature went up but not to fever pitch, sore throat, spent a day in bed as I couldn't move BUT I got a 'snotty' cough, not a dry one, didn't have a fever and felt able to carry on after the day in bed. However, I did lose my sense of smell and taste for almost a week. At that time, though, my symptoms didn't match any Covid 19 ones - no fever, no dry cough. So I assume I had a bad head cold for two weeks. Who knows? Without an anti body test I'll never know if I actually had mild version. The symptoms seem to change every now and then.

[NoMorePoliticsPlease]

It would seem that there are definitely some very mild cases, thats our spreading problem

[gingersausage]

Exactly what @AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone said. I’ve had it, but as it was “only” diagnosed by my GP (over the phone from listening to my cough and taking into account my symptoms) and I wasn’t tested as I managed to stay out of hospital, I’d feel like a right attention-whore to be posting it all over social media, so I didn’t. No one knew outside my immediate family and DH’s boss, as obviously he couldn’t go to work.

[Nousernameforme]

I think we had it before this all locked down. My youngest was quite poorly with a temp and a cough 111 didn't want to know. This was before we were told to self isolate. Then his older brother came down with a cough and a temp and we were all told to go into isolation for 14 days him 7 but full lockdown happened before our iso was up.

But now I have a temp and a sore throat with a cough incoming. So who knows?

[NotQuiteUsual]

We probably had it a few weeks ago. I was hardest hit, it was the weirdest feeling. I didn't feel breathless, but my chest just ached and anytime I did anything more strenuous than walking on a flat surface I'd get super dizzy and weak, like I didn't have enough air despite breathing normally. My body ached so much, all over for two weeks. I was absolutely shattered for two weeks as well, as in falling asleep on the sofa every afternoon without even trying. I coughed a bit at the end of the first week and had an intermittent mild temperature.

It was the kind of bug you'd maybe take a day or two off for, but mostly you'd push through with paracetamol and rest. If it hadn't been for the government guidance to isolate, I would have undoubtedly been spreading it round the community without knowing.

[2020changedtheworld]

There are:
No symptoms
Mild
Moderate
Severe
Critical

[Looneytune253]

To be fair I've had it mildly and DH is still suffering 2 weeks on. Hadn't mentioned it on Facebook but because it's still quite rare in 'real life' when I did mention it there were people getting all hysterical on me. Telling me I shouldn't have been going out etc etc. I think people are so so frightened because they don't realise loads of people have already had it and it's not been as bad as they were expecting. Obv I understand it's like a lottery tho so u never know if you're gonna get it bad so it's right to be wary.