I had Covid in 2022 and weeks after the infection I still wasn't feeling better. And my doctor apparently didn't know or care about Long Covid and just told me to slowly start working again. That's made me even worse and now I mostly have to lie in bed. I bet he doesn't even feel bad about that.

My uncle missed Thanksgiving 2019 because he was in an Arkansas hospital for "untreatable viral pneumonia" and the various complications that came with it. Shit was fucking everywhere already by then.

I have a friend who I took to the doctor in February 2020 for an extremely severe sore throat and whole body achiness/fatigue. They said it was a viral upper respiratory infection and gave him some stuff to ease the symptoms while he recovered. Ever since then I can't help but wonder, you know?

Had a cousin go to the cottage with a bunch of people who flew in internationally Jan 2020, they all came down with a really bad flu and they had to call for ambulances. He died of a heart attack after running out to the ambulance when it arrived.

There was actually a whole thing going around in like November/December in the service industry in NYC where they’d be treated for pneumonia, but were told it wasn’t quite pneumonia. They’re pretty convinced at this point it was Covid. One of my friends got hit again in 2021 and said the symptoms were damn near the same.

Did he ask them when their last period was? Did he suggest they needed to just lose some weight?

November 2019 everyone in my house got it. Well, we don’t know we got it but we’re pretty sure we got it.

Went to urgent care and was told it’s probably the flu. It checked every box for the flu. So they tested us and sent us home. Flu test came back negative for everyone.

We were utterly miserable for a week then got better. Then we started hearing about the “first covid cases in the US”. I think their timeline is off and it came over before they started testing for it.

I worked retail and caught that shit in like March 2020. Me and one of my peers both called in that monday with fever and we were both off over the weekend. We were the first two that I personally knew to get it and luckily we didn't get anyone else sick but about a month later SHTF and we had dozens of cases every week and half the store went on LOA due to fear of getting sick.

Wild fucking times, it feels like a lifetime ago.

I got the worst flu of lifetime Jan 2020 but before COVID "officially" arrived. Worked in a cinema with a lot of Chinese student customers, nobody visibly ill though and probably not returned all the way from home that month.. I can't decide if it was or wasn't. The real COVID I had was 2 day sickness then instant recovery (with vaccine) :S

Man thats some !agedlikemilk@lemmy.world but at least they realized it lmao