I agree there is some skecthy stuff going on with testing but it’s unusual that some people I know who got “covid” had a much rougher time then they normally do with flu or other corona virus. I do beleive they lab altered a corona virus to make it attack people in more ways.
My biggest hurdle in getting through the illness I had after the high fever at home and not telling anyone in the house because I had no intention of going to hopsital was in trying to get antibiotic for an obvious infection. local urgent care would not help me til I quarantined 11 days. i didnot think of telehealth (partly because I wasn’t thinking clearly during and shortly after fever and I never used such service before but telehealth was great, very helpful the 2 times I called) and when I did get to see urgent care after 11 days, the doctor would not prescribe antibiotic even after I told him my normal pattern is to get flu or virus and then have secondary infection. I also had wheezing at times which I never had with previous flu or cold virus so to me, this illness was different then any other flu or cold in my life, but not really worse than others excpet when I had MONO some decades ago.
When I had “the Vid” I tried to get antibiotics, for the same reasons you stated. I was in the Hospital for 10 hours. They gave me nothing to drink, wouldn’t let me use the bathroom, and gave me a duck to pee into. I had my daughter call the hospital and give them a verbal “standing on the desk and screamfest”. They let me out, with a prescription for a antibiotic commonly given to bacterial pneumonia patients, and within 4 days I was back on my feet. OH, they did let me have one of those lung exerciser things that you take deep breaths and measure the results though. It just felt like when I was a young punk and took a really big bong hit, my lung discomfort. Like bronchitis, or pneumonia.. BTW I am considered someone with multiple co-morbidities... over 67, cancer patient, high blood sugar getting close to Type 2 diabetes and about 35 lbs overweight. It wasn’t my time, and now I used the time to rededicate myself to losing weight and cutting out carbs, and fasting 18 hours a day. Doctors took me off of insulin, and my blood pressure is down..plus lost 38 lbs...
Thanks for explaining that. I completely understand where you are coming from because I also had what I originally thought was the flu but developed the worst sore throat of my life. It felt like I had an open wound and swallowing was so painful, I thought it was going to drive me insane. The next day at the doctor I was told I probably had COVID but since I have had the same doctor for 30 years and we are essentially friends he agreed to prescribe antibiotics for the sore throat and then see how I responded before taking any further steps. 2 days later my throat was fine, temperature was almost normal and I was good to go.
So yeah, COVID is real and I never said it wasn’t, but the paranoia and insanity surrounding it is asinine an neurotic, and the death toll is inflated by millions. It still is NOT a pandemic and has NOT killed millions. The vaccines on the other hand probably will be killing millions for decades to come.