Future aka New Normal

[Rickk]

You mentioned Belgium, and Belgium have gone on the record as saying they have inflated their covid-19 death toll by 100%.

...Professor Steven Van Gucht.The virologist and public face of Brussels' scientific response to the crisis says Belgium's "honest" method of counting COVID-19 victims means the country's death rate should be divided by two for a more accurate comparison with most other nations.

Picking and choosing which OFFICIAL death tolls are correct is beyond comprehension. All these false statistics will go down in history as facts

Or that other countries are only reporting half the actual death rate.

 

[chillyinCanada]

I also had a bad flu-like episode around half of February, after having being in contact with a guy coming from the epicentre of the Italian infection.
All my family got it, and my wife had cough and heavy breathing for almost three weeks. For me it was lighter.
We will have the blood test tomorrow morning (it is just 30 euros now), so I will know tomorrow afternoon and report here.
However my doctor says that being tested negative does not mean with certainty that I have not catched it, as it appears that a number of people do not have antigens anymore after two months.
On the other side, he says that some people result positive, but they never were ill.
I think that doctors have not understood properly the behaviour of this virus.

It seems far more likely to me that you and yours were exposed and became infected than Laurie and her neighbours.

 

[tridacna]

LOL, really? I didn't tell you all the symptoms. Also, the town was hit suddenly by this and there were a number of people reporting identical symptoms.

I hope you have good trip insurance. Keep us informed what happens. There’s a thread here tracking trip status info. Good luck!

 

[Darnold9999]

I spent most of March very ill with flu symptoms that progressed into my lungs - something going around as well. Extremely unlikely it was COVID, and extremely likely it was Influenza B as my partner did not get it - she did get a flu vaccination - I did not. You need a bit more evidence than flu symptoms to diagnose COVID, and getting the flu last December means it is extremely unlikely it was COVID unless you have a direct connection to the part of China that this seems to have originated in.

 

[DownUnderwater Dan]

Coronavirus is the flu.

It's slightly different. The flu is the influenza virus. Coronaviruses are the causes of the common cold. Different genetic make-up. Coronaviruses and flu pretty much similar symptoms, except coronaviruses are weaker and generally go away faster. Coronaviruses in history have shown to weaken to become a permanent common cold throughout the world at any time of the year

 

[DownUnderwater Dan]

It's slightly different. The flu is the influenza virus. Coronaviruses are the causes of the common cold. Different genetic make-up. Coronaviruses and flu pretty much similar symptoms, except coronaviruses are weaker and generally go away faster. Coronaviruses in history have shown to weaken to become a permanent common cold throughout the world at any time of the year

Also coronaviruses are slow to mutate. Whereas influenza can mutate much faster, and spread faster. Bad strains of flu are more dangerous

 

[DownUnderwater Dan]

It is A flu, not THE flu.

It isn't a flu

 

[Mr.Poseidon]

It was Murex. I've been trying to recall how it was handled at Lembeh Resort.

Last few years Lembeh Resort used a plastic cup and identified it with your name via tape.

 

[DownUnderwater Dan]

Or that other countries are only reporting half the actual death rate.

Also according to some people it can instantaneously kill people in grocery stores. Might need a covid-proof bubble,...in the literal sense

 

[Angelo Farina]

It seems far more likely to me that you and yours were exposed and became infected than Laurie and her neighbours.

Test done, both I and my wife are negative to both markers. Hence we concluded that the chance we have got it and that no immunity marker remains in both of us is really very small (according to my son, who just finished his master in bio-technologies, the chance is less than 8%).
Both my sons will be tested on Monday, if they also come out negative, then the chance that our family has been infected will be much less than 1% (I do not grasp the details of these combined probabilities, but I trust my son on this).
I will try to avoid it as long as possible, keeping distances, working from home with the Internet, etc...
And, sadly, not going diving this summer...
I have seen too many deaths here around for wanting to take the risk...