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[shadowkat]

I kind of want to do a poll. Because, I've been wondering...does anyone have COVID-19? Does anyone's family or friends? Do you know people who have died from it?

[I know people who have had it, and people who have died. No one close to me has died, more distant, and an old guy at church who I'd gotten used to seeing and saying hello to.)

Is everyone in quarantine? To what extent? Are you opening up next week or have you done so already?

Do you feel this weirdness, where some people are living in the world of COVID and others seem to be oblivious...wandering about as if it's not an issue?

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[tellshannon815]

The only person I know who has tested positive is someone I went to university with, she is a doctor and thinks she was most likely infected through work. I have heard quite a lot of the obligatory speculating about whether people's flu at New Year could have been it.

I had something in March which I believed at the time was a regular old cold, and still think that's most likely what it was. The one thing that might have made me wonder is that when I had my hair cut on 29th February, my old stylist visited the salon having not long come back from Italy. Having said that, I don't know exactly when she did get back from there so it could have been longer than 14 days, she did say that at the time she left the closest confirmed case was 80 miles away, and we didn't have 15 minutes face to face conversation which is what the government were saying constituted close contact at the time. I doubt very much I would have been tested at the time had I tried for it. The first confirmed case in my county was around 8th March, and if the rumours on social media at the time were true it wasn't her (a specific place the person worked was named, although I never knew if that was legit).

[shadowkat]

Interesting, we both got haircuts on the 29th of February. During mine, the gal in the chair next to me was discussing how her travel schedule had changed - she worked for American Express - and they'd begun restricting international travel that week. But I don't think she'd gone anywhere recently, also she was six feet away, and we weren't facing each other.

It's weird, we all wonder if we have it, or had it. I had something weird in November - which was when it was beginning to pop up in China. But I keep thinking that was too soon? (shrugs)

Without the antibody test - there's no way of knowing. I guess.