I agree. My mother had the original illness in March 2020 and it was unlike any illness she'd ever had. She's a retired teacher with a robust immune system and she was knocked out for 2 weeks. Didn't feel normal for 4. Hair was falling out for several months after.
When I had two bouts of omicron in 2022 it was 3 days of odd symptoms each time, which had never before accompanied a head cold. A friend of mine completely lost her sense of taste and smell for 6 weeks but had zero other symptoms.
To me this doesn't prove GoF per se but it proves that something out of the norm was circulating and that the illness was real.
In Feb 2020, I caught a nasty illness which was vaguely IL, but significantly different from anything I'd ever had in my 60+ preceding years. I believe my PA saved my life when I came to her with a horrible cough, so much drainage that I had to sleep on my stomach to avoid sever choking, loss of smell and taste, the strangest "aches and pains" I'd ever had before. My PA was not your standard allopathic, checklist driven medic. She said I had a virus, atypical pneumonia in both lungs, and asked me if I preferred going to the hospital or treating at home. I chose home, thankfully, as many who went to the hospital here died.
My PA told me the usual virus advie (rest, fluids, C,zinc). She also prescribed for me an inhaler in case of sever broncho-spasms, 7 day titre-down dose of prednisone, and 2 courses of azithromycin to take back-to-back.
NOONE is going to convince that I had normal 'flu' or 'cold'. I have had many serious bouts of pneumonia from childhood onward, as well as 'flu' many times. This was very different.
I agree. My mother had the original illness in March 2020 and it was unlike any illness she'd ever had. She's a retired teacher with a robust immune system and she was knocked out for 2 weeks. Didn't feel normal for 4. Hair was falling out for several months after.
When I had two bouts of omicron in 2022 it was 3 days of odd symptoms each time, which had never before accompanied a head cold. A friend of mine completely lost her sense of taste and smell for 6 weeks but had zero other symptoms.
To me this doesn't prove GoF per se but it proves that something out of the norm was circulating and that the illness was real.
In Feb 2020, I caught a nasty illness which was vaguely IL, but significantly different from anything I'd ever had in my 60+ preceding years. I believe my PA saved my life when I came to her with a horrible cough, so much drainage that I had to sleep on my stomach to avoid sever choking, loss of smell and taste, the strangest "aches and pains" I'd ever had before. My PA was not your standard allopathic, checklist driven medic. She said I had a virus, atypical pneumonia in both lungs, and asked me if I preferred going to the hospital or treating at home. I chose home, thankfully, as many who went to the hospital here died.
My PA told me the usual virus advie (rest, fluids, C,zinc). She also prescribed for me an inhaler in case of sever broncho-spasms, 7 day titre-down dose of prednisone, and 2 courses of azithromycin to take back-to-back.
NOONE is going to convince that I had normal 'flu' or 'cold'. I have had many serious bouts of pneumonia from childhood onward, as well as 'flu' many times. This was very different.