What is your covid status?

[Demovictory9]

57 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Had covid and recovered
	5 (9%)
	Have covid
	0 (0%)
	Might have had covid. never tested
	11 (19%)
	Have not had covid
	41 (72%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
Show usernames Disclaimer: This is an Internet poll

[GPV]

1. Assume I have not had it, vaxxed.

[bluecollar2]

6. Likewise...n/t

[Dorian Gray]

34. Also me

unless a really weak case snuck past me in the beginning. I started testing every other week last fall through spring when I got vaccinated.

[gopiscrap]

2. I had COVID very early on

felt sicker than shit but recovered

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Same.

There were no tests, or treatments when I had it. January 2020.

Until I saw Chris Cuomo reporting his experience, I thought I had just been really really sick with flu, and had maybe gone a little kookoo. Some of those symptoms, at least mine, were kinda weird.

[Celerity]

5. Were you in Wuhan before that? All of the eight US cases in January 2020 were directly related to

Wuhan travel. 6 direct and then on January 30 and January 31, two person to person spreads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_cases_of_COVID-19_in_the_United_States

[meadowlander]

10. At that stage there were so few tests, you could only get one if you had travel links to China.

[Celerity]

13. The odds of having COVID in the US in January 2020 are staggering low, especially if not

coming from Wuhan, or having direct contact with one of the 6 who did bring it in. If a person does think they did have COVID in January 2020, surely they would wanted to find out, once the pandemic really kicked off, and to find out, as that literally could change the entire paradigm of the origin of the US spread.

We know many here in Sweden who thought they had COVID and it turns out not one of the did. That includes a co-worker of my wife, and he WAS in Wuhan. Was sick as dog. Turned out to be regular flu, not COVID. The bloke had shit luck, as he actually did catch COVID later on, in the early fall of 2020, before there were vaccines being publicly distributed. He said the actual COVID was less severe than the earlier flu he had, so he was fortunate there.

[meadowlander]

14. We don't know what the odds are because the data is rubbish because there were no tests.

If you only test people who travelled to China or their immediate connections, surprise! you're only going to find cases of people who travelled to China.

It wasn't until March or April that you could get a doctor to order a test if you didn't meet extremely narrow criteria. So there could easily be a lot of people who slipped through the cracks who just thought they had garden variety flu or who suspected, correctly, that they had Covid but weren't able too confirm it.

[Celerity]

15. I'm sticking to the science, & documented epidemiological data, not contrarian anecdotal conjecture.

[boston bean]

27. Doesn't the science show covid was here in the fall of 2019? Waste water samples show that, no?

[Celerity]

29. Show me documented human infections from then and I will gladly retract that part.

Not theories, but actual fully documented cases. Of the first 2 known human to human transmission cases in the US that are fully documented (they occurred on January 30 and 31st, 2020) the one on the 31st was not confirmed until April, via post mortem. There are some supposed cases back to around Christmas, but the tests done on those could likely be showing antibodies that came from other coronaviral infections (the common cold is often a coronavirus for instance).



https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/the-first-sars-cov-2-infections-in-humans-occurred-during-fall-2019-but-not-enough-evidence-exists-to-confirm-a-global-spread-before-early-2020/

[boston bean]

32. Waste water to predict covid waves.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/minnesota-wastewater-predicted-each-covid-wave-including-this-one/89-8cadce74-65f7-4445-8705-15149ff29ec1

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science/coronavirus-traces-found-in-march-2019-sewage-sample-spanish-study-shows-idUSKBN23X2HQ

[Celerity]

36. That is not in the the US, nor does it list any documented human cases.

That article is over a year old, yet the accepted scientific consensus still is that it started in Wuhan, whether by random infection or via an accidental lab release.

[meadowlander]

28. Right, and the science says we don't know because there were no tests.

You can't quote data out of context and draw conclusions based on it. That's not how science works.

Any actual scientist would say the data is insufficient to support the conclusion that the first patients identified by tests were the first Covid cases in the US and definitely not that every January 2020 Covid case in the US was identified through testing.

[Celerity]

30. see my other posts, this entire thing is veering off into the weeds

I stand by original statement, that the odds are staggering low that it is a January COVID-19 case, especially as there was no direct or close (like a spouse) secondary connection to Wuhan travel.

People are absolutely free to disagree and say, 'Well, yes, yes it was, or likely could have been COVID-19'. I am not one who will say that.

[Cracklin Charlie]

20. No.

I have no idea what I had. Many, many people from my area had been having the same symptoms since at least Thanksgiving 2019, some that I knew (older) died. My granddaughter (my exposure) missed pretty much the whole school month of January that year because she kept running fever and getting sent home. The president was on teevee telling everyone it wasn’t coming here. All I know is that I had pretty much all the same symptoms as Cuomo.

High fever for four days, rigors, hallucinations. The virus seemed to be attacking my organs (kidneys), I was dizzy. I didn’t sleep for four days, nor eat for a week. I really couldn’t eat normally for about six weeks. When I stepped on a scale eight weeks later, I realized I had lost about 15 pounds (that’s more than 10% of my body weight). I was really somewhat exhausted until about June.

I don’t care if you believe me, or not. I have lived my life since then assuming I had something else, and not depending on any supposed immunity that my experience conferred upon me. I am fully vaccinated, wear face coverings in public, and pretty much stay home all the time. But my experience completely cured me of wishing this disease on anyone else, antivaxxer or not. I don’t want anybody to feel like I did. It’s horrible.

[Celerity]

25. I believe you were really sick, I did not mean to imply that at all, sorry if it came off like that

glad to hear you are fully vaxxed!

hugz

Cel

[Celerity]

26. I believe you were really sick, I did not mean to imply that at all, sorry if it came off like that

glad to hear you are fully vaxxed!

hugz

Cel

[Cracklin Charlie]

33. It's okay.

I shouldn’t be so blunt. I got a dead tree in my yard, and on windy days I’m a nervous wreck. Tree guy coming Thursday.

But, I really do think I had covid in January 2020. I really wasn’t sure (mostly) until April of that year. I have never hallucinated before or since, never ever lost at least 15 pounds in one week, and the recovery was just exceedingly long.

I’m old… I’ve had flu several times. This wasn’t flu. Just too many weird things.

[ItsjustMe]

3. I thought I had COVID

I had many of the symptoms.
I went to the ER yesterday, Covid test shows I am not positive for Covid.
Doctor said I was dehydrated, but otherwise in good shape.

[Demovictory9]

7. Glad you are ok

[DFW]

8. Not had it, twice vaxxed with Moderna, not letting down our guard one bit.

Plenty of travel, but no bars, no parties, and lots of spare masks wherever we go.

[JoanofArgh]

9. I had COVID in January 2021 before vaccines were available for my age group.

Wore masks everywhere but the cable went out one day, cable guy had on thin loose fitting bandana etc. Don't blame him but called the cable company and told them if their workers were going to be entering people's homes , they needed to have on proper medical masks. COVID was the weirdest sickness I've ever had, bar none. Thank god , I never had to be hospitalized. Am now vaccinated and paranoid as hell. I don't want even a mild , breakthough case of this crap again.

[Raine]

11. Pretty sure I had it this March

it wasn't too bad, I've had colds that were worse.

[meadowlander]

12. If there was an antibody test, I'd have been interested to have one before I got vaccinated.

I'm not sure I had it but I caught a wicked bug on a Trans-Pacific flight in January 2019 that turned into pneumonia and knocked me on my ass for four months. I've never had anything like that before. It took easily nine or ten months before the brain fog and fatigue cleared up.

Then in April 2020 I had terrible Covid toes to the point where I couldn't even wear shoes. I had unbearable hives and all my toes turned dark purple. I got a Covid test about four weeks in and it was negative but the doctor said I could have had it and it just wasn't in my nasal passage anymore by the time they did the test. I live a few blocks from a nursing home which was ground zero for the outbreak in my city but was in total lockdown at the time so would have had to have caught it outdoors on my daily walk past the bus stop which some of the nursing home employees might have been using. A long shot, but not totally impossible.

[cadoman]

16. I'm surprised how few seem to have had it so far..

Is there a comparable study or poll with this information we can look at?

Might be good to break down between those who got a blood test and those who just got PCR. PCR it was discovered recently is pretty unreliable, and different regions have been using different cycle counts.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. Um, PCRs are most certainly not "pretty unreliable"

Especially when conducted properly as recommended.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. I've been tested between 100 and 130 times. No COVID.

1st vax shot administered December 26, 2020. I'll get the booster when they recommend it.

[NurseJackie]

19. Asking that question is a violation of HIPPO!

[Demovictory9]

21. 😀

[smirkymonkey]

22. Might have had it very early, shortly before the alarms went off publicly in the US.

Other than that, I was tested on Tuesday and apparently I am negative (was having some Covid like symptoms since last week). First started out like bad allergies and then went into severe body aches, headache, abdominal distress, sore throat and, what scared me the most, extreme lung congestion. However, I seem to be on the mend, so I am not sure what it was.

[JCMach1]

23. Had Covid, permanent damage...

[Demovictory9]

37. I'm sorry

[FormerRepukeR]

24. I'm fully vaxxed and wear a mask everywhere

my friends and family make fun of me, but I just laugh and ask if committing suicide was now the repuke party line?

None of them get it, except maybe for my sister, and that's too bad for them.

Stupid idiots.

[FakeNoose]

35. I don't know many anti-vaxxers

... but when I do happen to run into one, I asked them if their life insurance is paid up. I remind them to make sure their will is written and filed. Also they should let their next of kin know whether they want to be buried or cremated. It sort of casts a pall on the conversation, which is fine with me.

Almost everyone I know is vaccinated already.

[Victor_c3]

31. I don't even know anyone who has Covid

I have of friends of friends who’ve had Covid, but not anyone I know personally. I guess I’ve just been lucky. Everyone I know is vaccinated and are somewhat good about wearing masks, but I admit I don’t always think to grab one when I run into a store really quick.