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Originally Posted by BWillie
I've been reading that alot of people feel like they have the cold, then they feel like they have the flu, then they feel a bit better and then wham. Pneumonia and death.
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See and I wonder if simple awareness will bring that 'incubation rate' down. If maybe that's what initially had us at 10-14 days.
Because at 5 days they had a cough and a slight fever and thought nothing of it. So they didn't do anything and they slowly kicked the fever. But then their system was overwhelmed, started losing the fight and by days 9-10 they were in significant distress.
That's just the nature of viral illness. You get it, you feel some crap, your body responds and attacks. You start to feel better and if your body wins the fight, that's that. You keep felling better and join the ranks of the recovered. Yippee!!! But if your body goes through its first wave, you feel better, and then the body starts to LOSE the fight, you backslide into the critical category and shit hits the fan.
When they report feeling like shit on day 10, that's the birth of a "10 day incubation period!!!". It also makes sense because only the more serious cases (those that didn't win with the first wave) were being reported and intensely studied. Now that awareness has shifted strongly upward, people are reporting fever/cough earlier in and suddenly we're noticing that this thing is surfacing MUCH faster - people just didn't realize what they were being hit with.
We're gonna beat this thing. I think we'll beat it faster than we realize. But I really hope we get a better stimulus package in the interim.