Can you provide dates here?
The last time I was sick in any way was in November 2019. I live in Berkeley and I made a shopping trip inland into the East Bay. I got sick a few days later. The S.F. Bay Area is a travel hub. People fly in from Asia very considerably, I'm thinking likely more than any other place in the U.S.A. My illness was a particularly long and difficult (for me) upper respiratory infection. I think it might have been Covid-19.
A first cousin of mine died in Manhattan in February 2020 from a URI. He was relatively young, healthy. He told his sister the day before he died that it was the worst cold he ever had. The slightest activity left him completely exhausted. Authorities did not attribute his death to covid-19, they declared that it was not in New York City. At the time I don't believe they had any way of testing for it. His sister is convinced he had covid-19, and I this likely true, based on what I know.
Sorry to hear about the cousin. That's very sudden. His sister is probably right.
Since you asked, I asked her about the dates. It's been a while and it wasn't my experience so I didn't remember the intricacies anymore. This is what I got: (I asked her questions and wrote data down as she spoke)
She said she first started to feel bad in late November (2019.) She said she thought she was starting to feel better over the following couple weeks but either relapsed or it finally dug in and kicked her ass come December 14th or so. She said she didn't start to feel normal and well again until January, 2020. So it looks like her overall experience was approximately 2 months.
She was driving school buses and told me that the bus she was driving almost always had its seat full of 78 kids. Even kids normally never really sick began missing school for over a week at a time starting in October, 2019. Her typically almost always full bus of students dropped from 78 students down to about 50 students beginning in October, 2019. So, student participation at least on one bus dropped approx. 1/3rd.
It might sound weird as hell but she swears that she transferred it to the guinea pig and the dog in the house.
When she did go see the doctor she said her O2 level was discovered to be 70. The doctor asked how she was still walking. She said she could only walk about 2 car lengths before having to take a break and get her breath back.
The doctor evaluated her and told her that she did not have pneumonia, nor bronchitis, but some sort of unknown respiratory infection they had not seen before. They also noted she had low blood pressure and low core temp. Both, the low blood pressure and lower core temp, have persisted to this day. I'll be sitting around basically naked, comfortable or hot, and she's wrapped up in a blanket next to me.
After the fact looking back, she has what are supposedly called "covid nails," bright white under the nails where there's supposed to be pink. Her nails were never bright white like that prior. When she was afflicted, she said her hair was coming out in clumps. Not going bald, just hair coming out like it never had, and never has since.
When it was announced Covid-19 was going around she noticed that the Fresno County area had lower infection rates than a lot of places. She imagines that Fresno County had already been afflicted sooner than other places so herd immunity was underway at a quicker clip.
Apparently I was wrong when I said for about a week she had her daughter check in on her hourly -- it was every 2 hours. She was afraid she was going to go to sleep and not wake up. They had alarms going every 2 hours to see if she was alive. She said one time it was very difficult for her daughter to wake her up and she (the daughter) was starting to think she (my girlfriend) truly was dead.
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