• emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    my parents both got COVID in early December 2019 before we knew what COVID was, had all the symptoms

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Someone on here called me anti-vaxx like a week or two ago because I said the Wuhan lab leak theory sounded like bullshit. Not sure if that was a wrecker or the rare liberal who wandered in.

      • GalacticFederation [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Up until about April 2020, or maybe May 2020, if memory serves... nobody was able to get a test unless they had been to China.

        Through negligence, incompetence, a lack of testing reagents, and a protocol seemingly designed to conceal domestic transmission, the real numbers were well hidden.

      • Wordplay [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I have no knowledge when it comes to virology, but is it possible that there was a less virulent strain in circulation in those earlier months? I'm assuming that if there was, there would be evidence affirming it, right?

    • SeizeDameans [she/her,any]
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      3 years ago

      I had a horrible case of "pneumonia" about a week before the official first COViD cases happened in my area. It was before they really had any testing available. Considering I work in the service industry, there's no telling where I actually caught it or if it was actually pneumonia or not. I do know, however, that couple of other friends who I worked with also got really bad respiratory things around the same time as mine, so I don't doubt that COVID was floating around before it was actually a thing.