Well I am now out the other side and symptom free. Mrs Puppy is so far not showing any symptoms! I wonder how many got infected on that flight back from Mexico? interesting theory for you all. Mrs Puppy was quite ill in December and I now think she had Covid then. I feel the virus was already in the UK as well as being brought in through travel. Is it possible that Chineses students returning to UK universities in September time introduced it?
Is it possible that it didn't originate in China at all and they were just the first to realise this was a different virus?
Oh yeah I forgot to mention. Good to hear you're doing alright @tobytykespuppy try to take it easy for a week or so anyway though just to be on the safe side
Glad you're better. As to covid19 being around at December, surely if that was the case there'd have been more deaths around then too. I'm a bit dubious.
Maybe there was and they were incorrectly recorded as flu deaths as the symptoms are extremely similar.
We need to sort this out quickly. My missus hasn't seen our grandson for 3 weeks and she's making arrangements to have China nuked.
There were loads. As there are every year from flu, they just weren't reported. I'm not advocating this theory by the way, but this isn't an argument to refute it.
People do die in their hundreds every day from flu. Some years we get 30,000 people die in the UK from flu. Over the flu season that's in the hundreds per day. We'll not get the figures for this year for quite a while. I doubt Covid-19 was present in this country before it was reported, but it's possible. The first reported case was January 31st. By the end of February it had barely made a mark. But in the next month it went stratospheric. It most likely did all emanate from those few cases in February. Or it was more prevalent than we thought at that time resulting in the figures we've seen. We weren't testing for it until late January so even if it was there we couldn't have recorded it as we didn't know it existed.
That says her sister died of flu in January 2018 though. Seems most likely it was standard flu (that caused a cytokine storm). Standard flu can kill young people too
First possible case in China was 17th November, but first confirmed case to experience symptoms was 1st December meaning he or she had contracted it several days before then. Due to the lack of identification it was certainly outside China before they realised on the 26th December that something weird was going on. On the 20th January the number of cases was recorded at just 136, which seems unlikely to be close to the actual number.