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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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[rose_griffes]

I have a student who probably had it, but he was never tested. He felt absolutely awful for weeks, but he didn't have respiratory problems.

Someone I went to church with may have had it. It may or may not have contributed to him passing away a week or two after he got better. (He had diabetes.)

[shadowkat]

COVID is very weird. I know two people at church who had it - and discussed it on Zoom, and my mother talked to a few relatives who think they had it.
What they've described is - that it's not like anything they've ever had before. My sister-in-law described everything inside aching - her intestines hurt, she thought she was going to die. My Aunt described being sick for months, her heart having issues, her liver, etc. So I think it varies? Another person online - Face Book - described having a fever for three months...

And someone else stated that their entire body broke out in a rash afterwards. An itchy red rash.

My Aunt K told me that it depends on how you contract it - and that it attacks the gut, heart, and eventually lungs.

The damn thing reminds me a little too much of AIDs, except it's more contagious.

[rose_griffes]

Yeah, my student who probably had it reported having blisters in his throat. It hurt to breathe, to swallow anything... He was constantly exhausted but couldn't sleep. But his lungs were still clear, so no test.

[shadowkat]

That student should have been tested. Since COVID-19 effects the body in weird ways. Particularly young people.

I'll give New York's Department of Health credit over the CDC and WHO in one aspect - they are testing everybody they can get their hands on. Mainly because the CDC refused to let them test back in February - because the two suspected cases didn't fit the "criteria" - no contact with Asia.

New York developed its own test and got it FDA approved. (Although they actually did the testing before they got the approval. And they have not forgiven WHO, the CDC or the Federal Government for delaying that.)

I mean I can get a test through my workplace - but I'm waiting to do it through my doctor in June. (Since I'm not sick at the moment, and there are too many people getting tested through my workplace - so many the system got overwhelmed). The Governor of NY wants to know who has it - and if there are asymptomatic people wandering about with it.