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I've been wondering since the outbreak was official what the strange infection may have been that I had in October/November. This seems much too early for COVID-19 (in Britain), and I have so far assumed that as I didn't have any breathing difficulties that it couldn't have been COVID. The main symptoms were a dreadful cough, a feeling of being ill that I haven't had before (hard to describe), headaches, and that it seemed to get better and worse, over about 3 1/2 weeks in total. It wasn't too debilitating, just very unpleasant.
Same. Early December. Only thing I've had that I can remember in adulthood that I couldn't get out of bed from. Main event lasted 2-3 days, but it lingered for a week beforehand, then two weeks afterwards. Wrote off my Dec.
One of the flats in our block of eight was being used as an airbnb hotel for Chinese tourists.
That said, it briefly made life miserable for our then 2 yr old. Wife deftly avoided it, or had no symptoms.
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Same. Early December. Only thing I've had that I can remember in adulthood that I couldn't get out of bed from. Main event lasted 2-3 days, but it lingered for a week beforehand, then two weeks afterwards. Wrote off my Dec.
Interesting. I've just checked the dates again and I think mine was mainly in November. I don't have a direct-seeming connection to China like yours. I do know someone who went to work in Hong Kong around the middle of last year, and I don't know if he went for an exploratory visit before, but that would probably push the timeline too far back. I had loads of opportunities to pick it up from someone else somewhere, certainly from someone unknown to me.
I could get out of bed, but was feeling distinctly ropey.
That said, it briefly made life miserable for our then 2 yr old. Wife deftly avoided it, or had no symptoms.
Yeah, but she probably just cured it with cake.
Oliver Schick
This is also an interesting tale of virus experience:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/weird-hell-professor-advent-calendar-covid-19-symptoms-paul-garner
I've been wondering since the outbreak was official what the strange infection may have been that I had in October/November. This seems much too early for COVID-19 (in Britain), and I have so far assumed that as I didn't have any breathing difficulties that it couldn't have been COVID. The main symptoms were a dreadful cough, a feeling of being ill that I haven't had before (hard to describe), headaches, and that it seemed to get better and worse, over about 3 1/2 weeks in total. It wasn't too debilitating, just very unpleasant. Reading the above makes me think that either the people describing it had something else like me or I may have had it. But so early? I can well imagine that I may have come into contact with an international traveller who already had it, but I don't know. That's one reason why I've been interested in finding out whether the virus may have been here much earlier than believed so far. Having said that, the way Paul Garner experienced it was clearly far worse than what I had, and it may well have been just another conventional infection with similar symptoms. I suppose I won't know until/if I get 'it' for real.