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Okay, scratch that.
I edited, I meant to say upper-respiratory, not sinus, my bad.
But yea, whatever I have is a polite and friendly invader. I have no worries. I would take 2 weeks of this over the common cold/flu.
I think that we will finally come to see the flu as the mass killer it is and that a lot of all that we have done and are doing because of this panic, will transfer over to decreasing our annual flu deaths.
After seeing so many comparisons between the flu and C-19, we as a people have learned that we have this ‘pandemic’ every year that kills 20,000 to 80,000 of us in the U.S. alone, and we weren’t even really paying attention to it.
I hope this fear mongering doesn’t make modern American popular culture even more timid and submissive to group think and low risk life than it currently is.
I am sure that for decades to come every household in America will now maintain a larger reserve of toilet paper.
In the northern part of PA there was a nasty bug going around about a 4-6 weeks ago where they would get violent cough till you barf and explosive diarrhea but it only lasted like 24-36 hrs and then poof! and they felt great but didn’t have big appetite for a day of two because of the stomach trauma.
Never got it down here in southeast part of the state.
With all the trees blooming now the pollen is giving my the standard dry cough and some sneezing but it is normal spring stuff.
About a month ago the wife and I had some chills into sweat a couple nights but fought that off no problem.
I too have wondered if you can just get a whiff of this virus without the full schnog, can it be real mild and unknown that you had it?
Maybe so.
When people spout off how the flu kills x amount of people each season, well OK, but you are using data that has occurred over years.
No way to compare something like Covid-19 which is still processing.
Come back in a year and we can compare numbers.
All I do know is I can’t wait to get back on the road and do things that are normal.
Yard sales, flea markets, car shows, carnivals, day at the zoo, etc.
Visiting relatives and friends in person.
Here’s my new bumper sticker;
“Who knew Normal could feel so Good?”
I actually had a really strong cold / sore throat last week, lasted about 4 days. Don’t know what it was, but I’m fine now.
A few years ago I had deviated septum/polyps/sinus RotoRooter service (never realized there were sinus cavities in the rear of my head). I was using Afrin (3squirts/per nostril up to 6 times daily) One of the questions on their form was “any color in your mucus?”
I thought it humorous…boogers are always yellow…not true, seems I had a longterm sinus infection I had discounted.
Getting that fixed ranks up there with my quitting smoking and laserblasting my Urine Canal as to best improvements in my quality of life that I can recommend to other oldpharts (77yesterday) out there. Stay healthy.
Thought of something else that will happen when this all dies down,
The Covid Baby Boom, move over blizzard babies.
New popular baby name, Covy, Covie, Covee, and some variation with an umlaut.
You read it here first kids 
Coronials.
slmjim
i had a bad flu few weeks ago, high fever for 2-3 days, little cough, no breathing issues, strong back pain, first few days when i coughed it felt like barb wire was pulled thru thorat,\chest, had some phlegm come out, went for an xray 5 days later, felt very weak, but lungs were clean, but still don’t feel 100% , at that time i did not have enough symptoms to be tested, doc never took a flu swab. maybe it was c19, may not, but no one in my family who was around me got sick, i did use caution thou, kept distance from them, i did take tamiflu, started the first day i had fever
Perspective:
Population of U.S. = 327,200,000
Number of cases of CV-19 in U.S. as of this writing = 85,435
Percentage of U.S. population infected with CV-19 = 0.03%
slmjim
I think the next weeks will be gruesome. Actually, last year, WHO warned about a global pandemic with potential to kill 50-80 million people. And all worlds nations should start prepare. What we witness now is a foreboding catastrophe. Problem is that world leaders didn’t take WHO seriously.
Number of cases of CV-19 in U.S. as of this writing = 85,435 (Reported and Known)
vs how many tested?
To say people are “overreacting” is subjective. Afterwords if the overreaction works, some say “see! it was all for nothing” when it may well have been the overreaction that helped slow it down, or if it got bad and everything got snowed under “how could you not see this coming?”
A guy in NYC who carries around garlic to fend off cougar attacks,“but there has not been a cougar attack here in 100 years” “See how well it works”
Or the guy who carries a bomb with him every time he flies “The odds of there being a bomb on a plane are very low, the odds of there being 2 bombs on a plane are pretty much zero”
Or the piece of emergency equipment that never gets used, because like all emergency equipment, you don’t need it al all, right up until the point you need it really badly
I like the way you think.
Just like y2k. Was it going to be a non-issue? Or was the hysteria what kept everything from going boom?
Seeing this should probably be mandatory!!!
Sorry, I forgot to include the link. It’s a German news website but deepl.com or Google Translate might be able to translate it into English.