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I had Covid-19
5 years ago
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Just after Christmas in 2019 I was very ill, I was coughing heavily all the time, pains in my chest, struggling to breath and lost my sense of taste and smell. This carried on into the new year and on the 9th of January 2020 my family had to call an ambulence because it had got so bad where I felt I couldn't breath. I felt like I was going to die.
The ambulence did come after an hour and the paramedics had a look at me; they made me feel like a fool as they dismissed any illness saying that I was just recovering from coughing so much in the two weeks prior making my chest feel sore and strained. I felt incredibly embarressed but still knew something was wrong with me.
Fast forward to the present day, Europe and other areas outside of China, are coming up to a year of Covid - vaccines are rolling out slowly and I am fortunate enough to be in the country in the lead for vaccinations outside Israel and Taiwan. However people are still calling for lockdowns to be lifted sooner then they should; citing that now we have a vaccine we should open the flood gates and get back to normality as the vaccine has saved us! -it doesn't work like that. For starters if you open the flood gates, then people who've not yet the vaccine could still get the virus, obviously. But on top of that, the virus can mutate and perhaps be ineffected by the virus; we still need to be alert to this and stop any new variants from spreading as the vaccine would need to be adapted to fight newer variants, and those who have already had old vaccines would need a 'booster' to keep themselves protected.
People need to still follow the rules and advise given by government bodies as we could still see a rise in case numbers in people who have not yet had the vaccine, or because of a new variant uneffected by the vaccine - that is why there is such a huge emphasis on testing and quarentine when entering a country - especially when it is your own country. People have arguged that they don't need to quarentine in a hotel in their home country when travelling back from another country for whatever reason, citing they should quarentine at home - well I would disagree as many people cannot be trusted, and even then those who can be might accidently pass it on when taking delivery of something in their own home. In England there was been a week long man-hunt to find out who came back from Brazil, had a test at the airport but didn't provide any details only for us to find out he was carrying the more deadly and infectious variant of the virus from Brazil - we didn't know who they were, where they were or what they are doing but they had and could be spreading a more deadly and infectious variant of covid. They were recently identified and contacted, but no one has given a comment on what would happen to the indervidual after flouting the rules and putting so many people at risk. I personally would prefer a harsher punishment a they have broken the rules and put people's lives at risk.
You may be asking, why I said I had covid, and why I started off with my recollection of events from exactly 14 months ago. That is because I am sure I had covid, as do many others in my local area back December 2019 to January 2020 - before the first confirmed diagnosed cases in Europe. The first confirmed case in China was the 17th of November 2019.
I felt like I was dieing, and since then I know of at least 23 friends and family who have been confirmed to have had covid (not including those who believe they had it Xmas 2019) and every single one of them said it was agony, saying that they felt they were dieing, but fortunately all but two come out the other on top, unfortunately the other two are still with us, but now with a heart condition making them extreamly weak and vunrable. However each citing that they wouldn't wish it upon anyone.
I'm not like that - I wish the virus on EVERYONE who flouts the rules, ignores the guidence, thinks the virus is not bad or even believes it's a conspiracy. I wish it be on them and their familes, friends and love ones - because after a year of seeing people suffer when some cases could of been prevented from other people's cooperations there is no way that these people will learn without being struck down themselves and those near them so they feel the pain and have to endure watching those around them suffer.
Follow the rules. Protected others. No 'ifs', no 'buts'.
The ambulence did come after an hour and the paramedics had a look at me; they made me feel like a fool as they dismissed any illness saying that I was just recovering from coughing so much in the two weeks prior making my chest feel sore and strained. I felt incredibly embarressed but still knew something was wrong with me.
Fast forward to the present day, Europe and other areas outside of China, are coming up to a year of Covid - vaccines are rolling out slowly and I am fortunate enough to be in the country in the lead for vaccinations outside Israel and Taiwan. However people are still calling for lockdowns to be lifted sooner then they should; citing that now we have a vaccine we should open the flood gates and get back to normality as the vaccine has saved us! -it doesn't work like that. For starters if you open the flood gates, then people who've not yet the vaccine could still get the virus, obviously. But on top of that, the virus can mutate and perhaps be ineffected by the virus; we still need to be alert to this and stop any new variants from spreading as the vaccine would need to be adapted to fight newer variants, and those who have already had old vaccines would need a 'booster' to keep themselves protected.
People need to still follow the rules and advise given by government bodies as we could still see a rise in case numbers in people who have not yet had the vaccine, or because of a new variant uneffected by the vaccine - that is why there is such a huge emphasis on testing and quarentine when entering a country - especially when it is your own country. People have arguged that they don't need to quarentine in a hotel in their home country when travelling back from another country for whatever reason, citing they should quarentine at home - well I would disagree as many people cannot be trusted, and even then those who can be might accidently pass it on when taking delivery of something in their own home. In England there was been a week long man-hunt to find out who came back from Brazil, had a test at the airport but didn't provide any details only for us to find out he was carrying the more deadly and infectious variant of the virus from Brazil - we didn't know who they were, where they were or what they are doing but they had and could be spreading a more deadly and infectious variant of covid. They were recently identified and contacted, but no one has given a comment on what would happen to the indervidual after flouting the rules and putting so many people at risk. I personally would prefer a harsher punishment a they have broken the rules and put people's lives at risk.
You may be asking, why I said I had covid, and why I started off with my recollection of events from exactly 14 months ago. That is because I am sure I had covid, as do many others in my local area back December 2019 to January 2020 - before the first confirmed diagnosed cases in Europe. The first confirmed case in China was the 17th of November 2019.
I felt like I was dieing, and since then I know of at least 23 friends and family who have been confirmed to have had covid (not including those who believe they had it Xmas 2019) and every single one of them said it was agony, saying that they felt they were dieing, but fortunately all but two come out the other on top, unfortunately the other two are still with us, but now with a heart condition making them extreamly weak and vunrable. However each citing that they wouldn't wish it upon anyone.
I'm not like that - I wish the virus on EVERYONE who flouts the rules, ignores the guidence, thinks the virus is not bad or even believes it's a conspiracy. I wish it be on them and their familes, friends and love ones - because after a year of seeing people suffer when some cases could of been prevented from other people's cooperations there is no way that these people will learn without being struck down themselves and those near them so they feel the pain and have to endure watching those around them suffer.
Follow the rules. Protected others. No 'ifs', no 'buts'.
Glad your doing ok though ! I've heard some people have like permanent effects/symptoms.
Otherwise I am fine now as far as I can tell; I was already born with a rare heart condition, but I do know of two people still going in and out of hospital for heart conditions they got from having covid.
I'm glad you were able to survive and doing well, but I would rather see people able to work and go out while doing distancing and isolating their selves when they are sick or feeling sick. Because of these lockdowns, suicide rates have spiked, alcohol and drug abuse has spiked, and domestic violence has spiked. It has done far more harm than help.
Protecting the most vulnerable is the up most importance, and everyone needs to do their part to protect those who are most susceptible, but we should not be blindly obeying those who violate their own rules and restrictions they push onto others, and to find the fact for their selves.
As for blindly obeying rules; in a democracy there are ways to have the rules changed; and in the UK most of the major parties are pretty alligned at the moment in terms of lockdown rules and how to tackle the virus; I've not been following it in the USA but the fact there are protests all the time it seems I can only imagine "the oposition" can't get a word in; at least the opposition in the UK is pushing for lockdowns to end a little sooner but still agree and cooperate with most other measures because everyone agrees it's the right approach.