2019-nCoV (Coronavirus)

[giles]

You guys aren't the first who have said that. Several people I know down there in Ohio, particularly SE, had these very symptoms back in December and January. Friends that had horrible coughs, fevers and all that spread around to their families. My wife and I both had a bad cough and runny nose back at the first of the year that we attributed to moving my sister and allergies. Only thing we didn't check was our temp. Hers was so bad she had to go in and get all kinds of steroids and all just to get relief. Makes you wonder anyway.

Wait a minute, I live in SW Ohio. Thank goodness I always travel to SE Ohio and NW Ohio. Wait...wut...hmmmm

 

[Bowkills]

I have the worst case of pink eye the doc has seen in a long time.....getting steroids nasal sprays and antis happy to load my body up with covid on the prowl.....been seeing old folks hacking in town and didn't want to go but I want to see straight and not have to pry my eyes open in the morning.

 

[Fluteman]

Good luck man.

I am another believer that this has been around for months. They’re just testing for it now. We had something take everyone but me down in our house. Canceled school and everything. That went around the state and I remember the talks here about that. My two sons never popped positive for the flu, my wife and daughter did one son and my daughter both came back strep positive a week later. The ups and downs that they all had was crazy. Craziest part was that I felt fine. Even being in the middle of it all. I also never get the flu shot.

I spoke with a local physician I went to school with and asked her if it was possible it went around late last year/earlier this year, as we had some pretty nasty stuff hit us last month. She said it's always possible, but if it did, they didn't see the influx of really sick people in the ERs in need of ventilators, at least locally. As hard as China, Italy, and now Washington has been hit, and how overwhelmed their hospitals have been, if we had that particular strain here earlier in the year, the hospitals would have been jam packed. She did say it was possible we could have several different strains, but her overall impressions are what we saw earlier this year was a different virus.

 

[giles]

I spoke with a local physician I went to school with and asked her if it was possible it went around late last year/earlier this year, as we had some pretty nasty stuff hit us last month. She said it's always possible, but if it did, they didn't see the influx of really sick people in the ERs in need of ventilators, at least locally. As hard as China, Italy, and now Washington has been hit, and how overwhelmed their hospitals have been, if we had that particular strain here earlier in the year, the hospitals would have been jam packed. She did say it was possible we could have several different strains, but her overall impressions are what we saw earlier this year was a different virus.

True, and I didn’t think about that part of it.

 

[Bowkills]

So there should be a dramatic boom very soon according to all data and history of the other countries.....

 

[Sgt Fury]

George, are these facts or just something on the internet. I don’t want everyone making decisions on anything but facts. I’m not suggesting there not, just asking. I’ve heard about the hospitals and the 104 year old recovery. The president is on, you’d think he would shed light on advances

Don’t know if they are facts...that’s why I suggested that maybe Joe could shed some light.

 

[triple_duece]

Whew I passed my CV19 test. What a relief.

 

[triple_duece]

 

[Big_Holla]

So there should be a dramatic boom very soon according to all data and history of the other countries.....

Keep in mind it will happen simply because there is more testing available.

 

[giles]

And just like that, we all became doctors...

 

[Bowkills]

Keep in mind it will happen simply because there is more testing available.

I think its everywhere but I'm just talking like the o shit our hospitals r full boom. The fear that's been predicted with it....

 

[Clay Showalter]

Whew I passed my CV19 test. What a relief.

Well that is good.

 

[Cogz]

And just like that, we all became doctors...View attachment 97646

And economists, epidemiologists and philosophers.

 

[Sgt Fury]

Whew I passed my CV19 test. What a relief.

They didn’t test you for gaybies?

 

[giles]

And economists, epidemiologists and philosophers.

Do any of those come with sign on bonuses? Asking for a friend.

 

[triple_duece]

They didn’t test you for gaybies?

Not here in the south. Must be a northern thing.

 

[Mike]

And economists, epidemiologists and philosophers.

I'm none of those things, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

 

[Ohiosam]

Gives new meaning to the term SOCIAL distancing.

 

[Jackalope]

I'm hearing many stories similar to Sam. I think it has been around since Nov/Dec. Maybe not exact same strain?

You guys aren't the first who have said that. Several people I know down there in Ohio, particularly SE, had these very symptoms back in December and January. Friends that had horrible coughs, fevers and all that spread around to their families. My wife and I both had a bad cough and runny nose back at the first of the year that we attributed to moving my sister and allergies. Only thing we didn't check was our temp. Hers was so bad she had to go in and get all kinds of steroids and all just to get relief. Makes you wonder anyway.

Unfortunately this is a rumor perpetuated by social media. The COVID virus was discovered by a private company in late December in Wuhan when they were researching a spike in people with sudden respiratory symptoms. They reported a never before seen SARS like virus was discovered to the Chinese government. On January 3rd the Chinese government ordered their reports and specimens destroyed. In late January the epidemic became too large to ignore in Wuhan and it leaked out to the rest of the world. The Chinese had even hid it from visiting WHO and CDC officials just a couple weeks prior. The first case in the US was travel related in Late January. The first case of identified community transmission in the US was Febuary 26 or 27th. Can't remember but one of those.

 

[Jackalope]

Don’t know if they are facts...that’s why I suggested that maybe Joe could shed some light.

Man, that's a lot of stuff to fact check. I don't doubt most of it is real. The entire scientific world is concentrated on a single issue.

I have read that some of the drugs that Italy, South Korea, and China had great success with are not approved for use by the FDA. I can't remember but it started with an R.

As for China I think what we're seeing now is the proactive management of a sustained, but not rising, epidemic. Remember china ignored it for a month and a half before even doing anything. This allowed for a large spread and a lot of infected people. By the time they started treating and working it they detected a large number of existing cases. They had to catch up. Now they have things in place to slow the transmission, test, and quarantine. They've "Flattened the curve"

In the US we acted rather quickly to slow transmission. While we still do not have the ability to test on the scale required, or the hospital capacity to handle a large spike, we have taken measures to slow it down. This buys us critical time to ramp up testing capabilities, get the hospitals ready, and get prepare to handle this. If we did nothing and tried to do all of that first, we would end up in the same situation as China when they started 30 days behind the curve.