Are healthy people really getting hit hard by Covid?

[DoggyDaddy]

it’s amazing how different the virus affects different people.

Kind of like how differently the annual flu strain affects different people.

 

[BigRed]

Well, this 14 year old died from Covid.
Or maybe brain cancer.
But whatever

I was told on INGO cancer does not matter if covid was involved.

 

[PGRChaplain]

Friend Buried his 43 year old Son this morning. Another friend lost his 47 year old son in law a month ago. Both Healthy before Covid.

 

[bdybdall]

I had Covid last December. Spiked fevers especially in the evenings for about a week. Slept 18 hrs a day. Was weak for about 3 weeks. Still not as bad as the flu that I had about 20 yrs ago. BTW, I'm obese, hypertensive, type II diabetic, an dover 65. According to the media, I should have been dead.

 

[actaeon277]

I had Covid last December. Spiked fevers especially in the evenings for about a week. Slept 18 hrs a day. Was weak for about 3 weeks. Still not as bad as the flu that I had about 20 yrs ago. BTW, I'm obese, hypertensive, type II diabetic, an dover 65. According to the media, I should have been dead.

Are you sure you're not.

 

[ws6guy]

43 years old here, fat, and past history of afib. Caught covid last Decembrer, it kicked my ass for 3 days and after that I was good to go. The following couple months I slept a lot more than usual but besides that no issues. I also gave it to my wife and kids. Wife, same age but skinny was sick longer at about a week but then was good. Both kids ages 7 and 10 only had mild fevers for a couple days. I had an anti-body test a few weeks ago and it came back positive.

 

[nucular]

Friend Buried his 43 year old Son this morning. Another friend lost his 47 year old son in law a month ago. Both Healthy before Covid.

Just out of curiosity, can you define healthy? Exercised, not overweight, etc?

 

[AngryRooster]

51 years old, a bit of HBP but nothing else really wrong. I'm positive I had it back in the first week of Jan 2020before it was really even a thing over here. Bad flu like symptoms but it lasted about a week. The only thing that was a little different was the severity of the body aches. Had to actually crawl from the bed to the bathroom once because I couldn't walk the 8 feet.

Second time was at the end of September 2021. Still the same health wise. Just spent a week at Methodist getting blood clots dissolved and removed. Sitting here eating my eggs with an air tube attached to my face and will be for a while.

I really don't understand this virus. The level that it hits people, the way it spreads, everything. It's all inconsistent.

 

[Ingomike]

Just out of curiosity, can you define healthy? Exercised, not overweight, etc?

This is an interesting question. I have known folks that by all outward appearances everyone would have called the “healthy“. For matters like this; how are we to know? Of folks I do know their details almost as well as they know, I can assure you that there is a massive amount of misdirection if one only went by outward appearances…

 

[pmbiker]

Social media is garbage. Full stop.

 

[bdybdall]

I’m old. Nearly 50. I work at a school. My wife works at a school. My son and daughter live live with me and last year they both tested positive. My school went all the way through last year. I have been exposed prolly thousands of times. That is not including the exposures through my family. The February of 2019 before all schools shut down I was sick for nearly a month, was tested two times for both flues and back negative. I’m Pretty sure I had it then. If I didn’t have it I must have a great immune system or been lucky so far. Through it all I have not tested positive. I’m a pure blood.

Try getting an antibody test to see if you have had it. Tests, especially the rapid ones have a lot of false readings. I had a rapid test that showed negative two days after becoming symptomatic.

 

[bdybdall]

Are you sure you're not.

Remains to be seen.............at the viewing.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I took myself to the ER yesterday. I'd been getting sick to my stomach starting late Sunday night/early Monday morning. Couldn't keep anything down. Took my temperature and it showed 101.4. Took some Ibuprofen but it kept climbing. I didn't have any body aches or difficulty breathing or anything, but I just wanted to sleep. Yesterday morning I took my temperature and it was up to 102.9. Took more Ibuprofen and went back to bed. Got up again and temp said 105.8!!

Told DoggyMama that I had to go to the ER. The whole time I'm driving (again, not feeling feverish at all) I'm thinking, "Am I gonna stroke out with this high a fever?" Went to check in and they took my temp. It was 98.2. I still happened to have my cheap thermometer with me so when I got back to the room I took it again. It read 103.7. I showed the doc and she took my temp again with their thermometer in the room. It was 98.6.

So apparently I did/do just have a stomach bug, and not Covid (although they didn't test me). And a cheap thermometer, which I threw away when I got home.

 

[mmpsteve]

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So apparently I did/do just have a stomach bug, and not Covid (although they didn't test me). And a cheap thermometer, which I threw away when I got home.

Of course, you haven't got the bills yet, but I'd call that an expensive thermometer. Glad you're okay though.

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[DoggyDaddy]

Of course, you haven't got the bills yet, but I'd call that an expensive thermometer. Glad you're okay though.

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Yeah, I think it will wind up being a very expensive thermometer!

 

[actaeon277]

Well DD, I'm glad it isn't TOO bad.

Expensive or cheap, if it's electronic, it can fail.
One good thing about the old style mercury thermometer was they didn't.
Couse, they break.

 

[NKBJ]

Remains to be seen.............at the viewing.

Sitting up and yelling "Surprise!" could be some kinda fun.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Well DD, I'm glad it isn't TOO bad.

Expensive or cheap, if it's electronic, it can fail.
One good thing about the old style mercury thermometer was they didn't.
Couse, they break.

Yeah, I miss the old mercury thermometers.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

I took myself to the ER yesterday. I'd been getting sick to my stomach starting late Sunday night/early Monday morning. Couldn't keep anything down. Took my temperature and it showed 101.4. Took some Ibuprofen but it kept climbing. I didn't have any body aches or difficulty breathing or anything, but I just wanted to sleep. Yesterday morning I took my temperature and it was up to 102.9. Took more Ibuprofen and went back to bed. Got up again and temp said 105.8!!

Told DoggyMama that I had to go to the ER. The whole time I'm driving (again, not feeling feverish at all) I'm thinking, "Am I gonna stroke out with this high a fever?" Went to check in and they took my temp. It was 98.2. I still happened to have my cheap thermometer with me so when I got back to the room I took it again. It read 103.7. I showed the doc and she took my temp again with their thermometer in the room. It was 98.6.

So apparently I did/do just have a stomach bug, and not Covid (although they didn't test me). And a cheap thermometer, which I threw away when I got home.

You may be the only person I’ve ever heard of bringing their own thermometer to the hospital.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

You may be the only person I’ve ever heard of bringing their own thermometer to the hospital.

It was a total fluke! I had on a hoodie with the pocket in the front and must have just stuck it in there in my hurry to get to the ER. I just happened to stick my hands in the pocket when they were taking me back to the room and noticed it. Glad I did though!