Hope your family member recovers soon, BF. I think we've all had people close to us that have been affected. I've known two people very well that died, reportedly from Covid. Both in their late 60's. One I know had multiple other health issues, while the other I have no idea. He taught tennis and golf on a daily basis and was a regular substitute teacher at a local school.
One friend of mine, who is the strength coach at Troy, battled it for weeks on end. Was in ICU and then a rehab facility until just recently. I'm not aware of any underlying health problems he might have. It's wild how it affects people in different ways. Most are just positive and have no symptoms, while it will send others to the grave. But honestly, so will the regular flu.
Yep. That's where I am on this. I had the flu last year. Was sick for a few days, got better. Another guy who went four or five days a week to the gym I went to, a guy ten years younger than me and in good shape got it about the same time I did. He was dead two weeks later.
Here's what else I know. There IS NO COVID-19. That terminology is misleading. The fact that this virus affects different people in vastly different ways indicates to me that there is no single strain. Either that, or it is (in the words of Stephen King from The Stand) a shifting-antigen virus (likely man-made) that adapts to the host. Everything we are being told (other than to wash your hands) is an outright fucking lie.
If you have a cold, the flu, stomach virus or whatever, the symptoms in everyone who has it are essentially the same. With this? Fever? Not always. Stomach problems? Not always. Sore throat? Not always. Congestion? Not always. Cough? Not always. You don't have that many wildly varying symptoms and it be the same thing. I know one person who had it, had the sniffles for three or four days and was fine. Another who had no sniffles, no congestion, no cough but nearly shit themselves blind for eight days. Another who's had a nagging cough for about two weeks.
All tested positive" (which is horseshit anyway). I know another (73 years old) who had lung problems for years (on an inhaler, had been hospitalized three times in the past year for breathing issues) and while hospitalized with the most recent problems had COVID added to the diagnosis. She died. From COVID? Well, that's what they said. I don't know. All I know is that every single one of those people "had COVID" with symptoms that were nothing alike. No commonalities. That's not a "single virus" in any way we've ever known or understood one.
The flu symptoms for me and the guy who died were the same. Fever, dehydration, congestion, cough. My body fought it off. His failed somewhere along the line.
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