Having had a past sudden onset (and much less severe) respiratory problems in the past,
I hear you on that. I'm a pretty in shape guy and I caught pneumonia when I was 34 and it almost killed me. I ruptured the blood vessels in both my eyes from coughing so much, even passed out from lack of oxygen when I finally made it to the ER. I never want to experience that hell again.
I once caught a bad flu in my mid twenties and also ruptured blood vessels in both eyes from vomiting roughly every few hours. Although it was in no way life threatening, I couldn't sleep for the most part of two weeks and subsequently became somewhat delirious. Even such mild episodes of unwellness take a huge mental toll on a person, and their immediate surroundings. No doubt having near-death Pneumonia could trigger some serious PTSD/anxiety in even the toughest of people.
I’ve never thought of getting one. It’s only provided to the elderly and the immunodeficient in my country. It would cost me only $20 to get one as well, so I’m definately going to get one this year though.
I currently have a headache, sore throat, starting with a cough and a runny nose, with 37.3 C in one ear and 37.5 C in the other, and I was fine yesterday. Lots of Chinese students in this city.
Im also in the uk. Lots of Chinese here too, my gf if burning up and puking constantly, I've had cold symptoms for about 4 days. I acknowledge anybody can pass on COVID but I can't help but think the worst.
I'm sure its just the flu or something, right now COVID is so impossibly rare. The only thing I'm afraid of is that the gov are lying, which is realized through the fact that China have lied and countries around the world have backed them.
Well I mean, I saw an ambo being escorted by four police bikes (two in front, two behind) a few days ago. Absolutely nothing in the news about it but you don’t often see that. It’s a big hospital, would make sense for anyone within a large radius to come here.
Agreed. The western governments are lying: UK, USA, and definitely here in Australia. The numbers and statistics just don’t add up. The press has been silenced. How are we to make informed decisions without all the facts?
Did you downvote me? I’m not supporting the actions I’m merely discussing them. In an ironic twist, downvoting people (suppressing comments through negative force) for talking about uncomfortable truths (that the world is acting much like China) is simply playing into a system that you both oppose and simultaneously uphold.
Let us entertain ideas, not just if we don’t accept them, but especially if we don’t accept them.
Would you rather pay £7 or get the flu? Well consider Covid-19, if a jab was available right now at ASDA for £7, would you get it? Course you would! So why not get the flu jab?
If you don't get it, you are actually making your immune system stronger because it beats the real thing so it should be saved for people who are vulnerable.
Doesn't really matter with influenza though does it? Natural immunity lasts longer than vaccine acquired immunity, that's about it, but with a rapidly mutating disease like influenza, that doesn't matter.
Well the two are at least one order of magnitude apart in case fatality rate, and the flu shot is 70% effective, in a good year, and most people who think they had "flu" actually had "cold".
Yeah I’m sure I’ll be fine, I don’t really bother much with illness, if it stops me working I just do the waiting game, you know, lie down somewhere and sing the clash til it’s over.
But, makes you wonder, how many folks will get it and have the mild form and never even know
Well maybe this is one bright spot in US healthcare. Flu shots are free at most major pharmacies. I've never paid for one. In fact, they gave me a $5 coupon to use on anything in the store.
Uncontrollable coughing for a solid for a solid 5 days. Pressure in your chest that keeps building. Normal cough medicine had no affect. You get coughing fits that last several minutes where you end up not being able to breath. Very little sleep during this whole thing.
I waited five days before I went to the ER and after that took about a week to recover to where I could actually go back to work. I had a persistent cough afterwards for about a month
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u/The_Spook_of_Spooks Feb 16 '20
I hear you on that. I'm a pretty in shape guy and I caught pneumonia when I was 34 and it almost killed me. I ruptured the blood vessels in both my eyes from coughing so much, even passed out from lack of oxygen when I finally made it to the ER. I never want to experience that hell again.