Ex Corona and running?

[Oracle]

Were you tested and had a proper diagnosis Oracle or are you assuming you had it due to your symptoms?

No test. But those who get it badly know it can hardly be anything else.

The dry persistent cough. It is not the usual cough.
The difficulty breathing is unlike anything else I ever had, you can tell your lungs are congested and not working,
It wasn’t a cold: no running nose or sore throat.
It wasnt flu. I’ve had bacterial lung infections and this mucus was a very different colour. This was more like pale translucent sticky saliva. It got progressively worse in the second week before clearing.

I understand that for those that get into serious trouble the mucus starts to harden.

This happened at a time when everyone said there must be a high temperature. Which advice was eventually changed. Long after many had had it but thought it might not be because of temperature.

Many we knew in portugal had had similar before the advice on symptom alerts were changed.
It started in jan in Portugal. The first case I knew was the guy who manages my house over there. He was in a state but still working. At a time Portugal said it had 100 cases we seemed to know half of them.
We met people in a lot of places who had the same cough.

The natural instinct to feeling rough is taking either paracetamol or ibuprofen for the duration, and to help sleep ( which is hard without sitting up) which probably masks the small temperature we had.

OH got it but fought it off after 4/5 days.

Portugal - just like U.K. - tells you not to contact medical services so nobody could report it.

As for isolation: after four or five days it is bad enough that you would not want to leave home.