My uncle missed Thanksgiving 2019 because he was in an Arkansas hospital for "untreatable viral pneumonia" and the various complications that came with it. Shit was fucking everywhere already by then.

Had a cousin go to the cottage with a bunch of people who flew in internationally Jan 2020, they all came down with a really bad flu and they had to call for ambulances. He died of a heart attack after running out to the ambulance when it arrived.

If only, if only we were allowed to not go to work when we are sick

Obviously a mistake in retrospect, but I think that's the most common causes of shortness of breath in young people.

I got the worst flu of lifetime Jan 2020 but before COVID "officially" arrived. Worked in a cinema with a lot of Chinese student customers, nobody visibly ill though and probably not returned all the way from home that month.. I can't decide if it was or wasn't. The real COVID I had was 2 day sickness then instant recovery (with vaccine) :S

Don't mind me. I'm just vaping so much that I get vape tongue, the mysterious symptom which makes me lose my entire senses of taste and smell in late 2019.

Man thats some !agedlikemilk@lemmy.world but at least they realized it lmao