On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 04:20:47 -0400, RCE wrote:

On 6/19/2020 10:10 PM, Alex wrote:
RCE wrote:

Despite getting both a flu shot and a pneumonia shot and
practicing social distancing and wearing a mask on the
few visits to grocery stores for over two months, I caught
a flu type virus earlier this week.

I don't get sick very often ... in fact I can't even remember
the last time I had the flu ... but this one knocked me for a
loop.Â* Obviously, covid-19 came to mind but fortunately no.

Started with two days of low energy, tiredness but no other
symptoms.Â* Then, Tuesday morning I felt extremely fatigued.
By Tuesday afternoon I was in bed with all the chills, aches,
coughing and everything else that comes with the flu.

Tuesday night sweated buckets.Â* Wednesday night same thing
only worse.Â* No appetite.

Wife went out and got 6 quart bottles of Gateraid.Â* Forced
myself to drink as much as I could.

Finally, Thursday I started to feel some strength returning.
Stayed in bed anyway.

This morning feeling much better.Â* I lost almost 14 lbs though
over a week.

Flu is not nice to 70 year olds.

I'd watch (or sorta listen) to the news on different channels
and all that did was make me feel worse.Â* Tuned the tv to one
of the music channels and just listened to it.Â* Much better.





Get tested again.Â* I know people that got a positive result on try #3. I
hope that isn't the case for you!


I never got tested for covid-19. If it had lasted a day or two
longer without signs of improvement, I planned to. But, it followed the
typical course of the flu and I am on the mend.

An antibody test might still be in order. In spite of all the scary
rhetoric, for most people, this is just the worst flu you can remember
or maybe just a mild cold. Fauci said early on he expected 80% to get
over this spontaneously and now they are bumping that percentage
higher. We really only hear about the ones who end up being really
sick or dying. That Marion prison thing was interesting. The infection
rate was extremely high but 95% didn't even know they had it.
My wife said she was reading that certain blood types were having a
harder time with this. "O+" was the best to have and "A" was the worst
according to what she read. We are both O+ so it gives us a little
more hope.
The news had a story about the testing here last night. It turns out
our county is a little over 7% positive on the tests and the county
just north of us is 5 sumpin. It starts getting pretty grim as you
move east across the sugar cane country tho. The worst was Palm Beach
County at over 20% (Belle Glade, not the "old Jews in the condos on
the beach" that Bill Maher talks about).