Dangerous Curves
American Greatness,
by
Julie Kelly
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
3/21/2020 11:01:37 AM
If you weren’t very ill in late January or February, you probably know someone who was. The complaints often sounded the same: A fever for days, a stubborn and unusual-sounding cough, a persistent sore throat—the severity of the symptoms seemed worse than the usual influenza.
Doctors, assuming it was a version of the seasonal flu, administered flu-fighting drugs without testing. (My college daughter was very sick with the same symptoms; her flu test was negative.) Plenty of afflicted Americans just stayed in bed without ever seeing a physician.Obviously, anecdotal evidence that the COVID-19 illness has been around for at least the past few
A lot of people have been saying something like this. I'm going to stop reading all of this stuff, my brain is about to explode. I have no idea what to think at this point.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/21/2020 11:32:23 AM (No. 353134)
This article asks some good questions. I do think this virus was here long before the first detected case and that illnesses and death due to ILI (Influenza like infections) simply got thrown into this statistic. Our teen has a ILI in mid January that came with fever, cough, aches, and pains. He had had his flu immunization. The doctor simply dismissed his illness as a virus that would run it's course. It did. Was it COVID-19? Maybe.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 3/21/2020 12:03:35 PM (No. 353188)
I don't buy this story at all. Yes, my wife had a bad cold in early Feb, over a week to get through it. It started just after a 5 day visit with niece and her three kids with runny noses and coughs the whole time. IME, pretty normal for kids under 6. All adults were on "snotty nose duty", and I washed my hands a lot. While my wife was sick, we practiced good hygiene and I didn't get it, but I rarely get colds.
I do not think that it is at all reasonable to say that this was Wuhan flu, and I think that those who want to ascribe every bad cold in the last few months as Wuhan are fooling themselves. Not a helpful viewpoint, IMO.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I disagree very much with this article.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
samoasam 3/21/2020 12:28:08 PM (No. 353228)
The author is absolutely right. The CDC is projecting from a date certain which is highly improbable. Why hasn't there been any discussions about those weeks in January and February when we've had all that travel to china, And there was all the flu related-untested viruses. Thousands of flu like cases. The CDC is notoriously slow and/or beureacratic in its Preparation, and insight as to the nature of these diseases.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 3/21/2020 12:35:14 PM (No. 353237)
Our son (age 37) lives with us. He had a really bad cold, sore throat and fever for about a week in the last part of January or early February. Neither of us caught it. I rarely get colds but my husband can get them just by being near someone who sneezes. I wonder if our son had the virus or just the regular plain flu.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
curious1 3/21/2020 2:19:21 PM (No. 353403)
It could easily have been here in December, too. People who were ill then had similar complaints and chalked it up to a rough bout of the flu.
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rushie 3/21/2020 2:23:03 PM (No. 353409)
I was sick the first part of January. First I thought it was a cold then it kept going. It was like no cold I have had and it lasted over two weeks. My neighbor was worse then me. I think we both had it. Neither of us went to the doc.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/21/2020 2:25:54 PM (No. 353415)
The author is correct. The numbers don't add up. The number of deaths to date don't justify ruining our economy or limiting our freedoms. The Work Health Organization is a branch of the UN, full of third-world hacks. The CDC is not to be trusted after the Kenyan Lightbringer messed them up.
We're being played for suckers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kono 3/21/2020 7:03:08 PM (No. 353695)
With nothing to do likely for at least another 2-3 weeks, we can count on there being a plethora of conspiracy theories. I've already got 3 or 4 or them rattling around my noggin.
But without trying to push for a premature judgment of the relative plausibility of each -- it seems pretty clear already that this establishes a number of precedents that will likely spell the end of the civil liberties that we who grew up here have simply taken for granted. Lord have mercy on us and bless you all.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
KatieJo 3/22/2020 8:44:16 AM (No. 353922)
I'm pretty sure this is what my husband and I had around Christmas and through New Years. I remember having some trouble breathing but never spent a day in bed. He had to work, except for Christmas and New Years day--we just soldiered on through it. Our neighbors, a married couple, also came down with it, both of them went to urgent care and were given antibiotics which really didn't help. We don't have insurance anyway, thank you Obamacare, but I am becoming increasingly skeptical and fearful of doctors anyway so I really didn't want to go in. Keep praying I don't get cancer or get hit by a truck.....
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