The number of COVID responses in this thread is pretty telling and pretty ominous. Also people waving it off, commenting it was like a bad flu… it can be, sure, until it isn’t.
I had it while pregnant I'm 2022. Spent a couple days in the hospital and then the next 10 days injecting myself twice a day with heparin because I was coughing up blood clot looking things 😬
To be fair, the reason its so good at spreading is because the vast majority of cases are either asymptomatic or very mild allowing its spread to continue without its host being hindered to badly. We still dont understand why it beats some people up as bad as it does. 86% of cases fall into asymptomatic or very mild. There will always be a huge presence of negative events reported because those that have severe symptoms are far more likely to talk about it.
“Mild” is all relative when extreme is death, stroke, winding up on a ventilator, etc. And there’s been plenty of evidence that even non-severe cases do a number on the circulatory system.
For those of us who have never been symptomatic, is there even an accessible way to check for antibodies? Would an asymptomatic infection leave anything detectable long term?
You could get an antibody test, but a quick Google is telling me antibodies only stick around for a few months to a year. Plus youll have them if youve been vaccinated anyways. Ive only had it once, but I always qualify that with "that I know of..." because there really is no way to tell. I do think its safe to assume that unless you live alone in the woods, you've probably had it at some point.
Yeah, I'm sure I've had it but it might've been years ago. I've been vaccinated multiple times. I'm kinda haunted by the fact that I've probably had it but I'll never know when and if I infected anybody else.
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u/PsychologicalFox3357 10h ago
The number of COVID responses in this thread is pretty telling and pretty ominous. Also people waving it off, commenting it was like a bad flu… it can be, sure, until it isn’t.
It also hit me hard.