[BenLurkin]

Emphasis added

[Dilbert San Diego]

Trump’s fault. If he had only acted sooner, millions would have been saved from coughing.

Sarcasm.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Zhang Fei]

Ping

[mosesdapoet]

Is this an attempt to take the blame off China ?

[matt04]

I have been saying That all along. Back in late Dec-early January in
CT I notice a Huge uptick in people sick with flu like symptoms.

CCPVirus didn’t just stay in Wuhan for months with thousands of international travelers.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I had a nagging cough from late January to late February.

[NormsRevenge]

Public health officials now are considered miniGods by some. Infallible.

This crud was in the Western Hemisphere a lot earlier than most are led to believe.

Unelected, liberally educated turds couldn’t diagnose a knee sprain from a broken neck were supposed to keep an eye on things. Seems only logical after all those years of compassion Obammy displayed for the masses. We all know what a master he was at handling crisises.

[semimojo]

The farther back we keep pushing the timeline of this virus the more it calls into question its geographical origin.

We all say Wuhan because that was the first big recognized outbreak in Dec. 2019 but it's becoming clear that the virus was circulating prior to that.

If this speculated LA outbreak had been recognized at the time would we be calling it the LA virus?

[3RIVRS]

I’ve been saying for a long time after the election we will find out it was here in Nov/Dec and by then we were all along for the ride.

[LTC.Ret]

The truth lies in post-mortem detection. IF any samples of lung tissue or serum were retained from any associated fatalities, they can be tested. That is how UK and France have begun backing up their timelines -— as posted here previously.

[MrRelevant]

I think I had in January.... caught on a trip to Vegas to see a concert. Never bothered testing tho.

[Hoffer Rand]

I can believe this. Hubby and I were in the LA area in December, moving my parents to be close to us. For about a week, he was SO sick, coughing, shortness of breath, severe fatigue, aching, low grade fever, nausea. God was SO merciful. Hubby drove my parents to Utah (13 hours of driving) in that condition, and not only was he able to successfully do that, but neither of my parents ever got sick. They’re in their 80s.

[aimhigh]

A friend of mine was on a cruise ship in December to Mexico, with many Chinese passengers. He, and many got sick, with Covid symptoms.

[Crusher138]

We were in Las Vegas on December 21st and 22nd staying at Treasure Island. The guests were overwhelmingly Asian, easily +60%.

By Christmas Eve I had a fever and a weird cough that would not go away. I skipped Christmas Eve Services for the first time in my life. It hung on until January 7th.

Pretty sure I had the ‘rona.

[1Old Pro]

The researchers didn’t conduct any diagnostic tests, so they can’t say with certainty when doctors first encountered anyone infected with the virus

Trust the science, they're all over it.

[Grampa Dave]

There a few of us from Seattle to LA in the west coastal areas have wondered if we might have been visited by this critter in late Nov. Thanksgiving to/through Christmas/New Years.

Anecdotal events suggests that COVID-19 may have been here in the Bay Area in November 2019:

Covid-19 may have been circulating in China as early as August 2019, a new study from Harvard Medical School (HMS) claims.

My personal possible brush with the Corona crud this past fall/winter:

I, also live about 50 air miles from where the original Stanford study (cited below) was done:

https://spectator.us/stanford-study-suggests-coronavirus-more-widespread-realized/

I am a 81 year old male in fairly good health: Update on Immunizations and other problems:

INFs Pres Free High Dose (FLUZONE) (influenza)
Administered 9/26/2019

ZOS (Herpes zoster recombinant) Shingrix
Administered 10/4/2019, and then I had a mild fever my arm ached like a mule kicked it for About 4 days.

After the above, I felt great and had increased my mile walk to twice a day.

NOV/27/2019:
Two days before Thanksgiving, after I woke up and got out of bed, I had blood in my urine and a swollen rt. testicle and 100 degree temp. I felt like that mule kicked me over my right kidney. I had felt good the day before and did about an hour of PT with a physical therapist and my walks.
The next day I had the fever, blood in my urine and the ache described/noted above.

When that happens to an 81 year old male, the Clinics immediately bring you in.

I saw a doctor very quickly at our local big K clinic that afternoon.

She prescribed a week’s therapy of Levaquin*, an oral fluoroquinolone, which I got at the pharmacy, shortly after seeing the doctor. I took my first dose in our car while my wife drove us home. They also, got a urine sample from me, before I left the building. There was no infection just red blood in my urine. That went away after about 24 hours on the meds. I, also, got 5 days of Bactrim DS.

Later, the various tests for a kidney stone problem showed nothing.

From that onset to about to early March, I had some of the symptoms reported by other freepers: “cough” and eposodic “diarrhea”, Low energy, lack of taste/smell, headache, chills, cough and lower GI problems. Very cold feet and hands, which I never had before.

During our family Christmas dinner and the Exchange of presents, I probably passed my crud on to one of our adult sons, who had The crud until about the middle of February,. He had most of the same symptoms I had. He missed more work in a couple of six weeks with this crud than in his career.

Our 19 year old grandson, then apparently got the crud and didn’t feel good for a few days. Then he recovered and went back to college.

Both of these guys are basically never sick.

None of our women folk got the crud, Ages 20-80. If they did, it was very minor and short lived.

As noted in previous posts, several male friends, who had zero contact with me in Nov/Dec/Jan..
Had similar symptons in Feb/March. One friend labeled it the AT&T/Comcast flu as we had zero physical interactions before the crud besides phone calls and texting. Common symptoms: headache, eposodic “diarrhea, chills at night and basically no sense of smell nor appetite.

*Levaquin, (levofloxacin) is in a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. Other antibiotics in this class of drugs include ciprofloxacin (Cipro), norfloxacin, (Noroxin), ofloxacin (Floxin), trovafloxacin (Trovan), lomefloxacin (Maxaquin), gatifloxacin (Tequin), and moxifloxacin (Avelox).

Just before all of this happened, I got a new Resmed Cpap machine. That enabled me to get a good night’s rest during this possible bout with the CV and since then.

https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/06/the-curve-is-already-flat/

[SpaceBar]

Researchers from UCLA...

Has anyone visited a bio-lab lately? To say it's dominated by asians, mostly chinese is an understatement.

[null and void]

You might call this 20/19 hindsight...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[US_MilitaryRules]

I’m sure my wife and Mother in law had it in January. My wife said she lost her sense of smell and taste and what a weird cold she had. It lasted about a month or so. I never got it so I was probably one of the people who was asymptomatic? No symptoms for me.