CORONAVIRUS: Just when you think you are safe!...

We are all going to get it. Just a matter of time so better to get it now while hospitals can cope and take good care of you and bring you back to health then in 30 days when your local city resembles Wuhan. Remember just 1 month ago there was only 41 cases.

This whole story is exactly why I think I had coronavirus and got over it, painfully and slowly, over the course of nearly a month.

Nobody tested me, of course. They barely test you now unless you have traveled to or sleep with someone who traveled to China.

What I can tell you is I was so sick I almost died. With EVERY SINGLE SYMPTOM I have found for this thing except organ failure.

I honestly think if I were to be tested for the virus there is a distinct possibility I had it because some clueless individual like the one you dealt with handed it to me. I work in the health field on a volunteer basis and did not want to admit this to myself, but now I have.

I, too, live in the country but was in a major population area near NYC and had contact with many over the holidays.

How many people here have already had it and got over it I wonder? How many have died of "the flu" but it's "that flu?"

The illness I had was like no other flu I have suffered. Thank God I am in good health or I swear it would have killed me.

The account below details a personal encounter I had today while at work. Sorry for the length but I am trying to process this while I recount it. I still can't believe it!



Yesterday, I didn't know ANYONE from China as we have a very small Asian population in Asheville and thought the chances I would encounter anyone from China or anyone directly connected with anyone from China were slim to none. I felt safe. My Community felt safe. And now this evening, my husband is joking about making me sleep in our guest bedroom for the next 14 days and I am considering it! All because my job took me to a "petrie dish" today that may or may not have included the dreaded CORONAVIRUS! WTH!!!

Thank you for taking the time to read all of this. I am really not a fearful person, despite my over use of exclamation points in this thread. I am just frustrated that the lack of info on this topic and lack of serious reporting by our government officials and MSM could doom us all! Those few of us trying to keep track of this can only wake up those closest to us and even some of those choose to believe the MSM and government over us.

It won't be easy for any of us to come to terms with this new reality but we need to start processing the strong possibility that our world is actually very small and made smaller still with constant air travel. This thing is here. Not coming...HERE!
Otherwise, just when you think you are safe and it's not in your area, someone with a direct personal link to this pandemic walks right up to you and shakes your hand!



Final important note...If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you might want to get on that. If what we are hearing and seeing out of China is truly now here, alot of us folks and many we know are about to meet Him!

Pneumonia cases have tripled in the last month

The account below details a personal encounter I had today while at work. Sorry for the length but I am trying to process this while I recount it. I still can't believe it!

My husband and I have been camped out on the Coronavirus thread since third week of January when news of it first broke. We have watched every video of every expert and seen every twitter post before it got deleted. It prompted us to go and top off our preps, sit down with our teenager boys and have "that" talk and decide to avoid the public as much as possible. We live in a small town on the outskirts of Asheville in the mountains of Western North Carolina and felt like we were somewhat safe, same as many of you. That was...TIL TODAY!

My husband has taken this seriously enough to begin working from home but I can't do that yet. So today, I visited a local High School in Asheville as part of my job. While there, an older gentleman approached me and introduced himself. We shook hands and he proceeded to tell me that his only daughter had a former connection with my employer. I asked him what she is doing now and he said she works as a music teacher in Shanghai, China. That got my attention.

I asked him if she was reporting any news to him about this pandemic and he said he didn't know much about it to ask because our news wasn't making that big of a deal about it. He said all she knew about it was that she had just gotten back into China from a week-long trip to the UK to discover that her school was shut down until March so she and her husband (also a teacher in Shanghai) are just holed up in their apartment with their young son self-isolating like everyone else. So either their news isn't telling them much or she is downplaying it for your dad's sake (which is probably most likely). Either way, my heart goes out to him, his daughter and her family but I am still thinking I am safe.

Then he goes on to say that she and her husband and several people from her school in Shanghai had just flown to the UK on or about January 20th along with teachers from all over China (Wuhan, Beijing, etc.) for a global recruiting seminar to find job placement in other "Ambassador Schools" (I am convinced at this point that they were part of the group of around 2,000 from China that the UK are looking for). He said the Chinese principal from the school where his daughter works decided to stay an extra few days in the UK to tour and is now stuck in quarantine for two weeks and can't get back. His daughter and son-in-law got out just before the UK quarantine. I am very intrigued at this point because I had just been reading about the Chinese in the UK on GLP and so far, everything he is telling me is happening either in China or the UK. Sucks for them but I am still feeling confident that I am safe.

Now, mind you, I have not let on to him that I am somewhat of a self-proclaimed Coronavirus "expert". Like most of you, I have lurked on the GLP CV thread and watched every video of every expert and seen every twitter feed posted out of China. I can hold my own in a conversation about this with my new working knowledge of RO levels, infectious rates of travel and virus incubation periods. I could probably even take and pass an exam on basic epidemiology after all the experts I have listened to on this subject in the past week. But with him and while at work, I am playing it cool.

I can tell he obviously has no idea of the importance of what he is telling me and I don't want to alarm him about the potential his only daughter and her family could be facing. I also get the impression he only knows what CNN and the MSM tell him so anything I say to the contrary wouldn't resonate with his normalcy bias anyway and I would just come across as a crazy person. You need time to ease people into discussions about what could very well be the end of the world as we know it and I didn't have alot of time today to get into it. I just wanted to ask a few semi-probing questions for the GLP thread I knew I was going to come back here and write when I got home from work...and, at this point, I still felt safe.

I was not prepared for what he said next! As he continued with his stream of though, he stated that the day or two before his daughter flew from China to the UK, his WIFE flew from Asheville to China to babysit their grandson in Shanghai. She arrived there on or about January 19 and remained there until their daughter returned from the UK (on or around last Tuesday, January 28). His wife then flew back into the US from China and arrived back in Asheville on Wednesday, the 29th. No screening, no questions, no nothing. She got home, visited with him for a few days and then left again this past weekend to drive to Myrtle Beach where they have a house under renovation. She was scheduled to meet this week with several contractors about the renovations....blah...blah...blah...

He is droning on about these renovations but all I could think was...

BACK UP! Your wife just flew here from China?


"GOOD FEELING GONE!" His wife has been in China during this outbreak and flew back into the US on an airbus with God knows WHO ELSE from China! She hopped a connecting flight in Dallas and came directly HERE! Then after a few days here, drove to the beach in South Carolina to meet with more people! She HAS to have been in contact with someone infected for the week she was in China or on the flight out of China to the US OR, at the VERY least, from her own daughter and son-in-law who just took a trip with several from around China, including Wuhan, and who has a colleague CURRENTLY IN QUARANTINE in the UK! After being in China for over a week, you KNOW she at least greeted her husband with a kiss when she got back home to Asheville. With a high RO of approx. 4.08, if she's got it then HE's got it and HE. JUST. SHOOK. MY. HAND.
(this is hitting way too close to home!)

My jaw is on the floor at this point in the conversation and he is still talking. I am trying to get my head around what he has just told me as he goes on to say that he teaches 3 classes a day at this local high school (population of approx. 1300 students) and each class has around 30 different students. According to him, some of his students are star basketball players who had a big home game this past weekend with another school in our area and it was kind of a big deal so there was a huge turnout for the game. blah...blah...blah.

I can hear him talking but my mind is reeling at this point and all I can think is how many has she been in touch with since she got back from her trip and drove on to South Carolina? And, furthermore, how many has HE been in touch with since his wife got home from her trip. It has been nearly a week and, if she has it, you know she is highly contagious and may not even be aware yet! In fact, he even bragged that if she had waiting a couple extra days to come back, she would be in quarantine at a military base right now but NOPE! She got back early. WooHoo!

I am running the numbers in my head...If she is infected but currently asymptomatic and contagious and he has direct contact with her and comes to work at a high school with 1300 students, 90 of which have direct contact with him in class (not even to mention what door knobs he has touched, etc.), some of which students played in a big home game this past weekend where a sweaty basketball was passed around with students from another local high school...You see where I am going with this?!?

Yesterday, I didn't know ANYONE from China as we have a very small Asian population in Asheville and thought the chances I would encounter anyone from China or anyone directly connected with anyone from China were slim to none. I felt safe. My Community felt safe. And now this evening, my husband is joking about making me sleep in our guest bedroom for the next 14 days and I am considering it! All because my job took me to a "petrie dish" today that may or may not have included the dreaded CORONAVIRUS! WTH!!!

All concern for myself aside, I am thinking of all of those students and faculty at the school who probably have no idea what may or may not be lying on their doorstep. I have a good mind to call the school tomorrow (anonymously of course) and tell them what I have just told you. But, really, what good would it do? At this point, they would have to quarantine everyone there, AND their families, AND the rival team that came to that school for the BB game and THEIR families... This is out of our hands and we are already far behind the ball on this!

Thank you for taking the time to read all of this. I am really not a fearful person, despite my over use of exclamation points in this thread. I am just frustrated that the lack of info on this topic and lack of serious reporting by our government officials and MSM could doom us all! Those few of us trying to keep track of this can only wake up those closest to us and even some of those choose to believe the MSM and government over us.

It won't be easy for any of us to come to terms with this new reality but we need to start processing the strong possibility that our world is actually very small and made smaller still with constant air travel. This thing is here. Not coming...HERE!
Otherwise, just when you think you are safe and it's not in your area, someone with a direct personal link to this pandemic walks right up to you and shakes your hand!



Final important note...If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you might want to get on that. If what we are hearing and seeing out of China is truly now here, alot of us folks and many we know are about to meet Him!

This..find your nearest China wuhan clan member and have them breathe on your tongue. Very sad reality we live in now. Get a ventilator spot at the hospital now.

The account below details a personal encounter I had today while at work. Sorry for the length but I am trying to process this while I recount it. I still can't believe it!

My husband and I have been camped out on the Coronavirus thread since third week of January when news of it first broke. We have watched every video of every expert and seen every twitter post before it got deleted. It prompted us to go and top off our preps, sit down with our teenager boys and have "that" talk and decide to avoid the public as much as possible. We live in a small town on the outskirts of Asheville in the mountains of Western North Carolina and felt like we were somewhat safe, same as many of you. That was...TIL TODAY!

My husband has taken this seriously enough to begin working from home but I can't do that yet. So today, I visited a local High School in Asheville as part of my job. While there, an older gentleman approached me and introduced himself. We shook hands and he proceeded to tell me that his only daughter had a former connection with my employer. I asked him what she is doing now and he said she works as a music teacher in Shanghai, China. That got my attention.

I asked him if she was reporting any news to him about this pandemic and he said he didn't know much about it to ask because our news wasn't making that big of a deal about it. He said all she knew about it was that she had just gotten back into China from a week-long trip to the UK to discover that her school was shut down until March so she and her husband (also a teacher in Shanghai) are just holed up in their apartment with their young son self-isolating like everyone else. So either their news isn't telling them much or she is downplaying it for your dad's sake (which is probably most likely). Either way, my heart goes out to him, his daughter and her family but I am still thinking I am safe.

Then he goes on to say that she and her husband and several people from her school in Shanghai had just flown to the UK on or about January 20th along with teachers from all over China (Wuhan, Beijing, etc.) for a global recruiting seminar to find job placement in other "Ambassador Schools" (I am convinced at this point that they were part of the group of around 2,000 from China that the UK are looking for). He said the Chinese principal from the school where his daughter works decided to stay an extra few days in the UK to tour and is now stuck in quarantine for two weeks and can't get back. His daughter and son-in-law got out just before the UK quarantine. I am very intrigued at this point because I had just been reading about the Chinese in the UK on GLP and so far, everything he is telling me is happening either in China or the UK. Sucks for them but I am still feeling confident that I am safe.

Now, mind you, I have not let on to him that I am somewhat of a self-proclaimed Coronavirus "expert". Like most of you, I have lurked on the GLP CV thread and watched every video of every expert and seen every twitter feed posted out of China. I can hold my own in a conversation about this with my new working knowledge of RO levels, infectious rates of travel and virus incubation periods. I could probably even take and pass an exam on basic epidemiology after all the experts I have listened to on this subject in the past week. But with him and while at work, I am playing it cool.

I can tell he obviously has no idea of the importance of what he is telling me and I don't want to alarm him about the potential his only daughter and her family could be facing. I also get the impression he only knows what CNN and the MSM tell him so anything I say to the contrary wouldn't resonate with his normalcy bias anyway and I would just come across as a crazy person. You need time to ease people into discussions about what could very well be the end of the world as we know it and I didn't have alot of time today to get into it. I just wanted to ask a few semi-probing questions for the GLP thread I knew I was going to come back here and write when I got home from work...and, at this point, I still felt safe.

I was not prepared for what he said next! As he continued with his stream of though, he stated that the day or two before his daughter flew from China to the UK, his WIFE flew from Asheville to China to babysit their grandson in Shanghai. She arrived there on or about January 19 and remained there until their daughter returned from the UK (on or around last Tuesday, January 28). His wife then flew back into the US from China and arrived back in Asheville on Wednesday, the 29th. No screening, no questions, no nothing. She got home, visited with him for a few days and then left again this past weekend to drive to Myrtle Beach where they have a house under renovation. She was scheduled to meet this week with several contractors about the renovations....blah...blah...blah...

He is droning on about these renovations but all I could think was...

BACK UP! Your wife just flew here from China?


"GOOD FEELING GONE!" His wife has been in China during this outbreak and flew back into the US on an airbus with God knows WHO ELSE from China! She hopped a connecting flight in Dallas and came directly HERE! Then after a few days here, drove to the beach in South Carolina to meet with more people! She HAS to have been in contact with someone infected for the week she was in China or on the flight out of China to the US OR, at the VERY least, from her own daughter and son-in-law who just took a trip with several from around China, including Wuhan, and who has a colleague CURRENTLY IN QUARANTINE in the UK! After being in China for over a week, you KNOW she at least greeted her husband with a kiss when she got back home to Asheville. With a high RO of approx. 4.08, if she's got it then HE's got it and HE. JUST. SHOOK. MY. HAND.
(this is hitting way too close to home!)

My jaw is on the floor at this point in the conversation and he is still talking. I am trying to get my head around what he has just told me as he goes on to say that he teaches 3 classes a day at this local high school (population of approx. 1300 students) and each class has around 30 different students. According to him, some of his students are star basketball players who had a big home game this past weekend with another school in our area and it was kind of a big deal so there was a huge turnout for the game. blah...blah...blah.

I can hear him talking but my mind is reeling at this point and all I can think is how many has she been in touch with since she got back from her trip and drove on to South Carolina? And, furthermore, how many has HE been in touch with since his wife got home from her trip. It has been nearly a week and, if she has it, you know she is highly contagious and may not even be aware yet! In fact, he even bragged that if she had waiting a couple extra days to come back, she would be in quarantine at a military base right now but NOPE! She got back early. WooHoo!

I am running the numbers in my head...If she is infected but currently asymptomatic and contagious and he has direct contact with her and comes to work at a high school with 1300 students, 90 of which have direct contact with him in class (not even to mention what door knobs he has touched, etc.), some of which students played in a big home game this past weekend where a sweaty basketball was passed around with students from another local high school...You see where I am going with this?!?

Yesterday, I didn't know ANYONE from China as we have a very small Asian population in Asheville and thought the chances I would encounter anyone from China or anyone directly connected with anyone from China were slim to none. I felt safe. My Community felt safe. And now this evening, my husband is joking about making me sleep in our guest bedroom for the next 14 days and I am considering it! All because my job took me to a "petrie dish" today that may or may not have included the dreaded CORONAVIRUS! WTH!!!

All concern for myself aside, I am thinking of all of those students and faculty at the school who probably have no idea what may or may not be lying on their doorstep. I have a good mind to call the school tomorrow (anonymously of course) and tell them what I have just told you. But, really, what good would it do? At this point, they would have to quarantine everyone there, AND their families, AND the rival team that came to that school for the BB game and THEIR families... This is out of our hands and we are already far behind the ball on this!

Thank you for taking the time to read all of this. I am really not a fearful person, despite my over use of exclamation points in this thread. I am just frustrated that the lack of info on this topic and lack of serious reporting by our government officials and MSM could doom us all! Those few of us trying to keep track of this can only wake up those closest to us and even some of those choose to believe the MSM and government over us.

It won't be easy for any of us to come to terms with this new reality but we need to start processing the strong possibility that our world is actually very small and made smaller still with constant air travel. This thing is here. Not coming...HERE!
Otherwise, just when you think you are safe and it's not in your area, someone with a direct personal link to this pandemic walks right up to you and shakes your hand!



Final important note...If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you might want to get on that. If what we are hearing and seeing out of China is truly now here, alot of us folks and many we know are about to meet Him!

This whole story is exactly why I think I had coronavirus and got over it, painfully and slowly, over the course of nearly a month.

Nobody tested me, of course. They barely test you now unless you have traveled to or sleep with someone who traveled to China.

What I can tell you is I was so sick I almost died. With EVERY SINGLE SYMPTOM I have found for this thing except organ failure.

I honestly think if I were to be tested for the virus there is a distinct possibility I had it because some clueless individual like the one you dealt with handed it to me. I work in the health field on a volunteer basis and did not want to admit this to myself, but now I have.

I, too, live in the country but was in a major population area near NYC and had contact with many over the holidays.

How many people here have already had it and got over it I wonder? How many have died of "the flu" but it's "that flu?"

The illness I had was like no other flu I have suffered. Thank God I am in good health or I swear it would have killed me.

That tripps flu that you got over will come back. It has HIV guts.

You should be a writer. 5 stars.

May Almighty God keep you safe.

TL/DFR

Paranoid dipshit.

1 star

Thanks for all of your replies and well wishes. I sure hope it's nothing! The first thing my husband said (after stepping slowly back away from me) was that I need to call our local health department and report what I learned today. I do feel an obligation to do that at least. But, really what can they do? Especially since most are towing the government line on this. SO frustrating!

Once you see the reality of what is really going on here, things become quite bleak. I was looking up how to buy a ventilator on ebay earlier. You can't unless you have the papers to prove you are a health care provider. This is some doomy shit right now. My only hope is that this bug targets only Asians, not likely but a hope with the added doom it is only affecting Asians. What a sad world we have now.

My god women can turn a simple a simple couple of lines story into a full blown useless rant. Nobody is gonna read that story that is 70% about you, your social standing and how important you are to a heap of unimportant people. Loose the ego and the life story, nobody gives a fuck.

Final important note...If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you might want to get on that. If what we are hearing and seeing out of China is truly now here, alot of us folks and many we know are about to meet Him!

My god women can turn a simple a simple couple of lines story into a full blown useless rant. Nobody is gonna read that story that is 70% about you, your social standing and how important you are to a heap of unimportant people. Loose the ego and the life story, nobody gives a fuck.