Conavirus......

[Teacher Terry]

My best friend said when flu season comes she may isolate again. Her husband works in a casino, her 3 grandchildren go to school and her daughter isn’t careful so not sure what the point is. She will want us to do the same but doubt we will do that.

[iris lilies]

I mentioned that my friend had it in February before we all knew to take precautions.
She said she was super sick and in bed for several days and when it was over she had some weird stuff going on with her lungs. I remember her coming to sit down in our living room and saying she just been to doc in a box to check for pneumonia because she didn’t know what was going on with her lungs.

Several months later she got tested and she has the antibodies so she’s quite certain she had it. She traced the time of getting it and timing makes sense that it coincides with a hair salon appointment.Her hairdresser has clients several women who travel to Europe. Her hairdresser had also been sick with something around that time.


My friend is 65 years old has diabetes and all kinds of compromising health situations, but she’s made a full recovery.

[JaneV2.0]

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My friend is 65 years old has diabetes and all kinds of compromising health situations, but she’s made a full recovery.

That's encouraging. I suspect I'd survive--as I've historically been pretty robust--but I have no desire to chance it. I have way too many books yet to read.

[frugal-one]

I talked to a woman on the phone recently that went dancing for her 74th birthday and didn't wear a mask. I asked her why she did not take precautions for the virus. Her response was she could take the "medicine" if she got sick. I asked what she was referring to and she said chloroquine. It is sad to see people listening to trump instead of the scientists and doctors. ... "the trump mentality" is staggering.

[Tammy]

A college student who belongs to my church was sent home from her college elsewhere in the Midwest due to high positive test rates. She was apparently quite the social butterfly at school and now that she’s back with her parents, she still won’t stay home. Our pastor has forbidden her to come to services until she’s self quarantined for 14 days and has a negative test at the end of those 14 days. A number of our seniors have just started coming back to church. No more than 30 are allowed in a service, chairs far apart, etc. She is refusing to do what’s necessary for her to be allowed back at services. She’s very blatant about her continued socializing. It’s all over social media. I’ve seen it myself.

Unless the pastor forbids her parents as well, it won’t do any good. They are exposed to her and will bring it church if she has it.

[Tammy]

I don't know.

No one knows for sure. And many people who had it don’t show antibodies after a few weeks, but they might have a T cell response if exposed again, which would confer immunity. A negative antibody test means little, but a positive test confirms that you had covid.

[Tradd]

Unless the pastor forbids her parents as well, it won’t do any good. They are exposed to her and will bring it church if she has it.

The parents are staying home themselves.

[SteveinMN]

No one knows for sure. And many people who had it don’t show antibodies after a few weeks, but they might have a T cell response if exposed again, which would confer immunity. A negative antibody test means little, but a positive test confirms that you had covid.

It's tough to know, and the unreliability of many antibody tests doesn't help.

DW and I and DD/DSiL had really persistent upper-respiratory infections in February. DD insists it was the coronavirus because colds don't usually knock her flat for 3-4 days like this one did. DW and I had the same bad cold but it didn't knock us down for several days; it just took forever to get over and I just assumed we were ping-ponging it back and forth for weeks. None of us had the classic symptoms. Maybe it was COVID-19; at that time, you didn't get a test unless you were on your way to a ventilator.

Sometimes I still feel like there's not much left in my tank, but I don't know if it's allergies being especially bad this year or that we didn't get the exercise we were used to because our activities stopped old in March. Since we're taking precautions, I don't know if it matters if we've had COVID-19 or haven't had it -- it's not like people can tell us right now with high specificity what it all means for now and the future. So we go on and act like we have it and could get it again. Seems the safest thing to do.

[Yppej]

I may have had it in January but at this point I think I will never know. Any antibodies I may have had have probably faded by now. Tests were available but my doctor would not give them/order them.

[early morning]

Our DD who lives with us came back from attending/working a conference in Fla in mid March, tired and run-down. She just kept getting sicker and sicker - trouble breathing (and she is asthmatic), nausea, headaches, muscle aches, hives, and a nasty itchy rash on her legs... her doctor declined to test (or let her come to the office!) and just kept saying "if you can't breathe go to the ER, we can't do anything here". She is still not at 100%, all these months later. She finally got an antibody test last week, but nothing showed. Her current physician is sure she had covid, from the description of symptoms. DH and I did not have any symptoms, thankfully. However, we are continuing to proceed carefully, only going out masked, armed with sanitizer, and trying to stay away from others as much as possible.