I’m more and more sure that this thing came through my social circle and work circle in early to mid January, though in a milder form. Multiple bouts of sickness with a brief “healthy” period, a cough that couldn’t be shaken and went deeper into my lungs on the second round (to the point where there was a rattling sensation in my chest). Hmmmm. And now we get to see what happens when we rely on private lab testing on a large scale.
I would wonder if it went through all my in-laws and my work starting in mid February except that nobody except that I don't think a single one out of a few dozen have had symptoms worse than 'cold with a lingering cough'. And that includes some heavy smokers who don't exercise pushing 70.
Yeah I felt pretty shitty when my mother-in-law went down about the same time. She's still got laryngitis. Except I didn't so much as go into the house and she's got like eight students (all in their 60s-70s-80s) who have been dealing with said-same. This is the part where the CDC goes "well duh that's why we've stopped community testing. When we say 'endemic to the region' this is what we're talking about."