Just got my mind to dig out some positive too from this matter.
In my experience, like 90% of my friends whom got it, they got it like with small symptoms. Rest of 10% had to go to hospital and stay in for a while.
0 deads.

I got it on October and only reason why I went to test, was the call from healt organication, whom task is to follow the infection chain.

My only bad symptoms were a zero taste and smell, later I felt so tired all the time. So I thing I was lucky, because I am part of this risk group too.

Taste...; How weird style our brain works!
Whiting no taste, my brain imagine all food&drinks tasted like a cod liver oil!
Why not like a beef, or something else tasteful?

Later on:
I still have some dizzines and weakness left, even have no covid in my body anymore. It appears time after time and I hope it will fade a way withing time.

How about You?

I am in the high risk group, if i get C19 i am a dead man (heart problems) you did not mention your age? and what is a problem going forward is what they call "Long Covid" where you may of been healthy before but after covid you will now have long term health issues (similar to heart disease in fact).

Mezo.

This is a good thread. Thanks for starting it.

I have nothing to add, since I have not contracted the disease myself.

I've been cautious since the beginning, avoiding people, and places where people congregate. It's been fairly easy for me to do since I'm retired and don't have to go in to work. I am in the higher risk category by age, but I have no other physical problems- which is quite a blessing.

I live in the mountains and can go out for a hike or a ride anytime. I do grocery shopping on line and then pick up my order without having to go inside.

My mother is 96 years old and I am determined not to bring the disease home to her. I'm hoping she gets her vaccine shot soon- possibly within the next 2 weeks.

Good health to everyone this new year.

................shu

Affected? Yes kind of....

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Very impressed with your ability stand horizontal without falling down.

Taga, its funny how you have some ongoing symptoms long after the infection and no trace left.

When I was 14 I had viral encephalitis (Ross River / Murray River fever here in Aus) and almost died. Hit my brain, spinal column etc so I couldn’t walk and terrible fevers.

Every couple of years I have a week or two of huge temperatures, violent shaking and sweating, with no other virus etc identified.

This may be what covid will do - come back to remind us every now and then.

Great to see you survived it. The morbidity rate I read was down to around 1.4% or similar which is better than 3.3% but still a lotta humans.

Be safe.

I had symptoms back in late March that match up with COVID. A strong fever that lasted 2-3 days, loss of taste, headache, muscle aches, painfully sore throat, diarrhea. No cough though. I tried to get tested to confirm, but back then you could only get tested in BC if you were having difficulty breathing.

After about 8-10 days, the symptoms faded away - except for the loss of taste. That lasted for about a month. I've felt fine since then.

Early 50s, in very good health, and I was doing the social distancing long before I was sick and have ever since.

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It takes some serious practising....

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The risk of COVID has effected us here in our lab. I just want this COVID stuff to end so I can get back on the bike, and take a break.


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I am reasonably sure that my family all had it back in the begining of 2020 - no tests were widely available at that point - I had a fever and headache.

My wife had the loss of taste / smell (she thought that out younger daughter had stopped smoking!) as well as the fever. Our elder daughter was asymptomatic but had what is called "Covid toe" - looks like chilblains initially but occurs in warm weather. My son had a "spike" fever that is typical of a teenager - high temperature but it lasted just a couple of hours. Our younger daughter appears to have dodged it which is good as she is classed as clinically extremely vulnerable.

My father in law is still in hospital with covid but seems to be getting better.

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You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.

I've mentioned our family situation before but just to put it in context we have five people in our extended family ranging in age from mid 20's to early 60's who are front line medics - three in hospitals and two GPs. One of them - a mid 50's hospital medic - caught it back in March /April. He recovered quickly without any long term effects. His mid 50's sister, who works in school admin, caught it in Oct, again mildly and without any long term issues.

So far so good then but in some respects the social consequences have been greater than the actual illness (that's for us, obviously not for everybody). We have two people in their 80's who have hardly left their house since March (and neither has my next door neighbour - in his 90's and living alone). One of the medics, who works in a transplant ward, has been in virtual self isolation since the summer for fear of passing it on to her patients. As she's mid 20's and likely to be minimally symptomatic its been a real fear. She was one of the first in the country to get the Pfizer vaccine last month. All of them say their working lives (and social lives) have been pretty awful throughout 2020.

Quite how much risk I'm at (late 60's but with no serious health issues) I'm not sure. The statistics give mortality figures for age ranges but what I'm trying to work out is the 'age related severity index' and I've not seen any info about that. What determines how severely I'm likely to get it? Age obviously is one factor but what else? Co morbidities? - probably, but I don't have any. Fitness, fatness, diet, overactive immune system, luck of the gene pool, previous exposure to other similar bugs? Mild Covid does seem to be flu like but it ramps up from there and Long Covid does seem to be a particularly nasty outcome.

Without knowing where you stand, all in all it seems that better safe than sorry is the prudent response, but life in some form has to go on. Sometimes I do feel I'm chancing my arm even going to the shops but at other times that I'm being over cautious and that fear of the bug rather than the bug itself is controlling my behaviour. At a societal level Covid is nasty but not nasty enough to frighten everybody into complying 100% with the restrictions. If we were facing Ebola or The Black Death nobody would be arguing about whether to open / close schools and pubs.

The biggest reason Covid hasn't been far worse is we have (reluctantly and clumsily) taken precautions against spreading it. Allowed to spread unchecked it would infect around 75% of the world before natural herd immunity had an effect, and (on current numbers, maybe more if hospitals were overwhelmed) about 1% of those would die. That's around 40 million dead worldwide, which is very much in Black Death numbers. Then you have the debilitating effect of Long Covid on many who recover and the effects on national economies as a pandemic rages through the population for far longer than a controlling lockdown. No sector of the population, young or old, would be unaffected.

In my family we've been as careful as possible, and fortunately none of us have got it. A few friends had it, fit people in their 40s and 50s, and it completely knocked them out. Again, fortunately without killing them. This really isn't one to take lightly (or as one idiot politician said, "take it on the chin") and taking precautions against getting it isn't anything to do with fear, it's self preservation and care for those around you as much as wearing a helmet or a seat belt.

I won't make firm declarations here but I would not be the least surprised if I actually had it back in December 2019. It seemed that half our workforce at Seaspan was seriously ill in Victoria in December and January after a Washington State based vessel came to us for an LNG conversion (Washington at that time was one of the first US states hit with the virus). Of course we weren't looking for it back then ...at least not seriously.

Working in tight quarters on navy ships ensures that anything that goes around, goes around. But this one was very different from what I'd experienced before. Shortness of breath, diarrhea, sore throat, weakness, bronchitis, etc.

It also lingered and lingered. Several months in my case. I'd think it was over but then it would come back and more antibiotics were prescribed. I'd never been sick with a cold or flu that long before. In fact, I don't recall ever actually having the flu before. Occasionally the shortness of breath would come back until very recently. One day I'd feel on top of the world, the next I'd question if I could make the walk to the parking lot 8 minutes away.

Did I have Covid-19? I'll never really know.
Do I think I might have had it? Definitely.

So far no lingering effects aside from the shortness of breath until recently. It's actually hard to determine since I'm now always short of breath at work since masks have been made mandatory, even outside.

But on the bright side, there hasn't really been any real "flu season" or "cold season" so far at work and home due to the distancing and masking as mandated by our province.

...Michelle

That sounds exactly like my wife's symptoms during mid dec 2019 , went round the airport like wildfire , still has a loss of taste . I just felt like pants for a couple of days .
Obviously lots of Chinese nationals coming into the airport during that period , well before Beijing put its hands up .