What do you mean no outbreak in Texas? How many cases of COVID-19 are there in Texas? It depends who you ask. On Tuesday, the answers varied wildly. Gov. Greg Abbott said at a press conference that 715 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus so far. At the same time, the Texas health services department — which reports the state’s official count every day — showed only 410 people. (Later in the evening, the number was revised to match Abbott’s statements.) Johns Hopkins University, which is tallying cases worldwide, reported 857 cases in Texas as Abbott gave his remarks. And the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s count tallied 507 cases in Texas in the morning but dropped the number to 352 by the afternoon.
Judging by your desperation, I guess you finally got margin called. What a shame. After all, you were our favorite virgin-loving prodigal son.
That’s the problem I see. No one knows where the starting line is. It could have been in the states months ago. Many multiple of people can have it and not being reported etc. Again only numbers we can really trust are population and actual deaths.
If that's the case, then the best scenario is "hope for the best and expect the worst", and not be in a denial.
Situation reported: "Yup, I was just in Nashville. They had 1000's of people packed into the country bars downtown. This has been going on nightly for weeks. No bouncers had gloves checking id too. "id please, here is a stamp and some virus back to you. Have a good night" -------------------------------------------------- My local news just showed a girl who came back from Italy with the virus. She never had fever, just coughed really badly. She lives with her parents who are negative so far. ------------------------ "As someone who is experiencing 'mild symptoms' right now, I wish people would realize this isn't a 'mild' cold. I have sore ribs and middle of chest, shooting pains in my chest occasionally, severe headaches, racing heart, lightheaded sometimes, coughing, fatigue, no sense of smell. Shit's scary. I mean, I feel pretty good considering. But the symptoms I get that come and go daily are fucking frightening, even if they are just causing me a bit of discomfort. The worst part is waking up feeling better, then slowly throughout the day getting worse and/or new symptoms. These dumb asses who don't care if they get it are going to be shitting their pants when they start feeling the rib stingers."
Redditors sharing: "I was in New Orleans during Mardi Gras for a conference, and I was taking public transit every day for over a week. I got horrendously sick toward the end of the week, to the point that I had to ask a colleague to leave the conference to escort me to urgent care because I wasn’t sure I was going to make it in an Uber on my own. I had flu-like symptoms....I show up to urgent care, and test negative for the flu. The doctor just said, “Well, you tested negative but I’m gonna go ahead and diagnose you with the flu. You’re fine to be around people again once your fever is gone.” When I asked about the coronavirus, she just told me I wasn’t in the risk group because I hadn’t recently traveled internationally or spent time with people who had been to China...nevermind the fact that I’d been surrounded by strangers from all over the world (packed in on public transport, no less) during one of the least sanitary festivals in NOLA. I’ve never been so sick in my life. Meanwhile, my boss seems to have contracted the same thing I had, based on the symptoms, and his doctor recommended a two week quarantine. Still not convinced that I wasn’t sick with COVID-19, and the doctor’s flippant attitude still pisses me off. Two or three days after I got home, NOLA was in a frenzy because they suddenly had a few confirmed cases in the area."
My theory on the whole influenza deal is that the thing circulates year-round, and most people carry it. The reason people succumb to it from time-to-time, especially in the winter season, is because... 1) When the weather gets cold, most peoples' immune systems have to work harder because the body works harder to keep itself warm. This throws off the level of efficacy of the lymphatic system. 2). During the off-season, as peoples' bodies are fighting the thing and it keeps getting killed off, it mutates. Thus the reason why they have to keep revising the flu shot each year. To try to assume the best defense for the latest mutations. Sometimes the flu shot works, sometimes it does not. Our bodies build up an immunity to strains of a virus, and we have many years of flu injections which have given out bodies a broad-based spectrum of anti-bodies to fight most influenza strains. Sometimes, we get a mutation that makes "this flu season particularly bad". With this Covid thing, it is a new entity in the antibody cycle, as we do not have as much "built-up" immunity as we do with influenza (A). I think myself and a couple of friends of mine already had the thing. Friend's parents come back from Hawaii right after New Years and visit us. Friend's dad was feeling under the weather shortly before leaving Hawaii, after being there for 2 weeks for the X-Mas holiday. Friend then gets nasty flu-like sick about 10 days after that visit. A week later she is fine. Then 2 weeks later I get nasty flu-sick and about 10 days later I am fine. (Neither of us had been sick in years from any flu-like stuff in like forever). Third friend never came down with any symptoms. So here we are, 14-15 weeks later, and life goes on as usual. Did we have the thing? Only way to know would be to get that antibody test they be talking about. Those are my thoughts on it.
I may have had it late Jan or early Feb. I told several people the flu didn’t feel like a flu I’ve had before. The one thing I recall looking back was a little shortness of breathe. It lasted 1 week.