In the interests of protecting our readers from the new, even more deadly variant of the CCP or COVID-19 SARS-2 (whatever you want to call it) pandemic phase, we suggest you post this warning graphic in various convenient locations as you get face-diapers on again, get the ##th jab, and go back to social distancing and lockdowns:
We of course get greenie points for recycling this from 2020.
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I bought some of the kits and tested positive way back in the before times. And so did my daughter, but not my wife, who are the only 3 still at home. We both still have robust antibody levels, my wife still reads negative.
BUT… my daughter and I were death-warmed-over sick back in early September 2019, before COVID was a thing. As in, getting out of bed only to head to the bathroom. If that wasn’t COVID, then both of us had completely asymptomatic “cases” somewhere between that and August 2020.
FWIW, what was the strangest thing is that none of us are “ever” sick, let alone in early Fall.
Unless I accept that they are lying about when it was first seen, I pretty much have to accept that everything they have said about it since is a lie. Or, I remind myself, don’t be hasty. They might well be lying about both…
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Amen!
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“Unless I accept that they are lying about when it was first seen”
Well, I guess it depends on who you ask.
A Harvard study of satellite imagery says that in China, hospital traffic dramatically increased, as did Internet searches on COVID-19 type symptoms, in August of 2019.
Last time I did some looking, I found reports of cases in the US at least as early as late October or early November of 2019 — these were found when coroners went back and tested some tissue taken in autopsies of people who died in that time frame, IIRC.
In early March of 2020, when they first started with “two weeks to stop the (community) spread, I told my wife — who works in the epidemiology department at a large university, and had several staff members who frequently traveled back and forth to Asia — “they’re out of their minds — it’s been in community spread for some time now, probably including your university.”
Sure enough, in 2021, some researchers who had taken doorknob swabs to track the spread of influenza went back and tested the swabs for COVID. A swab from the door of her building tested positive for COVID. It was taken in early January of 2020.
It was almost certainly here by September of 2019, and it was in community spread by the beginning of 2020. It apparently hadn’t reached a critical mass yet (maybe it was a variant that wasn’t initially as contagious, but mutated), but it was here and spreading.
Was it as terrible as made out to be? Not for most people. For most people, it was basically a flu, maybe severe but not necessarily, if it was symptomatic at all. It was old people who had a 5% death rate (including, unfortunately, my mother, who caught it in her nursing home).
Even if mandates like we saw are justifiable under some circumstances (I don’t think they are), they definitely weren’t justifiable under THIS circumstance. And they actually slow-walked some things. The Moderna vaccine passed its general safety trial in May of 2020 (whether it should have is another question). At that point, who cares if we KNOW its effective, get it out to the nursing homes and FIND OUT if it’s effective. My mom got it in August after an employee brought it in. She COULD have been vaccinated by then, had she wanted to and if the FDA would have allowed her to be.
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Tom, thanks for sharing that with us.
I have a similar story, but not from a medical point of view: one of our clients, a couple in their 50s with a construction and excavation company in the Four Corners, had themselves and all their employees get sick “with flu” in December of 2019 and January of 2020 Everyone recovered, and quickly. But after the pandemic panic started, they realized that their symptoms matched COVID. None of them or their families got COVID and did not get vaccinated.
I am sorry to hear about your mother – I had forgotten she was one of those who did die. One more death we can mark up to our beloved powers-that-be.
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I finally got the crud a couple of weeks ago. Not pleasant. I’ve had cases of influenza that were worse overall, but this thing just kept coming back — I’d feel good, decide to get back to normal, and within 24 hours it would be at its worst again (other than the fever — that spiked the first couple of days and never really came back).
LAST year, of the five people in our house, I was the only one to never test positive or develop symptoms. Three of the other four had taken the mRNA Pfizer/Moderna vaxes, and got mildly ill. A fourth had decided to avoid the vaccine (“I don’t use drugs that are in beta”) and got sick as a dog. I was a guinea pig for the Novavax non-mRNA vaccine, and I guess it worked. But obviously not on this variant.
I really don’t care what decisions other people make on vaccines, etc. Their call, as long as they don’t push it on others. But if you know you have the crud, it’s not very nice to run around in public knowing you’ll probably give it to others. That’s no unique to COVID. I also would spend some quality time at home if I had a cold, the flu, or TB.
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I’m at very high risk, I fly a Betsy Ross Flag.
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