Thread by @EnemyInAState

1/ I think I had it in Dec 2019—or a progenitor of some kind: same thing lost my smell and taste, felt dreadful for 2-3 weeks, lungs felt wheezy—days of fever: took about a month to get better. I remember in I kept thinking to myself (almost laughing in my head) 'I wonder if..

https://twitter.com/tigresseleanor/status/1507486155977236484

2/ ...I have Sars' hahahaha SARS! could never be': a few weeks later China announces an outbreak of Sars 2...

I was struggling to breathe but no pulse Oximeter back in those days...so will never know what readings I had.

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Whatever that virus—and it was nasty AF—it was nowhere near as infectious as the version that would come to dominate in March 2020.

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Nobody else around me caught it and this was over the Xmas period—including being around elderly relatives etc: so obviously all windows closed, heating full blast etc.

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At the time, I knew it wasn't flu, because I've had flu before: and I just couldn't pin point it. It was really horrible—due to terrible immune system I'm always the first to get viruses.

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I'd imagine those of us with crap immune systems probably understand reinfection better than most—getting the same fucking colds every 3 weeks of the year in winter...