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Re:What I’ve learned from having Covid by probably_wrong on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:20AM (#32721784)
My experience was almost exactly the opposite of yours.

I had covid early this year. It was the worst I've felt in the last 10 years. Waking up at night with 10 minutes of dry cough was one of those few moments when I wonder whether this is how I'd die. Luckily I didn't.

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Re:What I’ve learned from having Covid by spoils19 on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:21AM (#32722172)
It's more likely you had a bad cold rather than COVID, considering that most of the symptoms are the same. All my friends in Texas say similar things.
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Re:What I’ve learned from having Covid by probably_wrong on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:36AM (#32725469)
No, it was COVID - I took a quick home test and, by the time the liquid reached the control line, the "you have COVID" line was already bright red. A PCR test later that day confirmed it.

And second, I have never had these types of symptoms before - fever yes, dry cough no. Sure, I also have never been this old before, but if I get COVID and suffer the symptoms that health authorities say are typical of COVID, Ocam's razor would force me to discard the "it must have been something else" theory.

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