Symptoms of Covid-19

[JemPD]

ugh poor you @Arnie Pye hope its just some mild short lived tummy bug with nothing else coming of it

 

[rvallee]

“Generally, if you’ve got true flu, you’re bed bound. With Covid, you might actually be quite well.

Why not say - symptom severity can vary, from life-threatening or requiring hospitalisation to mild symptoms or being asymptomatic, but mild or asymptomatic infections can still cause lasting damage.

Very damaging disinformation, from someone who spread so much disinformation that she once said on TV she'd stop making predictions. But without consequences for it, it's too easy to get right back to it, news media are always seeking out minimizers and it's always easiest to go with regulars.

Regardless of this ridiculous idea suggesting that COVID is always mild, it's very likely to be true of the flu as well. We literally don't know. It could even be true of the original SARS. We literally don't know because only highly symptomatic people are ever tested. It could be that this is mostly true for most pathogens. This has never been tested, even with a pandemic offering this opportunity it's being completely scrambled.

And it's not even true that "true flu" necessarily means bedbound. What an incredible mess. It feeds directly into the explicit purpose of modern propaganda: the goal isn't to push a particular perspective, the goal is to push the idea that everyone lies and/or is confused, that no one knows the truth, and that therefore you can't trust anyone, not even experts. And here you have actual licensed experts doing exactly that and benefitting from huge platforms, after years of having done that with huge consequences for the public, but tangible benefits for them.

 

[Ash]

The viral infection I had in August - I'm assuming FLIRT variant - gave me the worse cough I've ever had and I'm a very coughy person. I'm asthmatic, regularly have chest infections after viral infections, have had acute bronchitis several times and pneumonia. Most of the time it was a nasty, but familiar, rattly productive cough but for two days there were paroxysms of coughing that were far deeper than I've ever experienced and caused the coughing up of some blood.

How terrifying.