Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

This thread will tell you all you need to know
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/344858/

But personally, I was pretty sick back in March for about a month. It took me about another six weeks to get over it. So I kinda want to know if that was Covid-19 or not. If not, I need to worry about what the hell it was. If so, I don't, and (IMO) I don't need to worry too much about having it again*.

*Personally given there's no evidence of reinfection I'm not too worried about that, but even if I did get it again I believe the symptoms would be less severe. I know that there is also no evidence of lasting immunity.

Curious as to people's reasons for buying antibody tests

Not saying it applies to anyone here but from discussions elsewhere it seems for many to be an attempt at post-hoc justification for poor social distancing behaviour.

"Well, if I'm immune I can't have been spreading the virus to anyone."

If the general population turns from a stance of "Act like you have the virus" (rather than "Act like you don't want to get the virus") to "Act like you've had the virus" then social distancing is going to quickly disappear down the pan and take a good number of other people down with it.

(And conveniently ignores the fact that those with a positive antibody test can still be infectious, albeit only for a few days, and can forever transfer the virus thanks to poor personal hygiene [specifically handwashing] if they come into contact with it elsewhere.)