Paris-Roubaix cancelled in response to soaring levels of coronavirus

Lucky you. I know me, my wife and her work friend, (who still has lung issues 6 months later). I'm also aware of two people at my work who lost parents and an Indian Contractor I was working with on a project who was 43, relatively healthy with kids who passed away. And another one who was on a ventilator and almost followed. 

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

Lucky you. I know me, my wife and her work friend, (who still has lung issues 6 months later). I'm also aware of two people at my work who lost parents and an Indian Contractor I was working with on a project who was 43, relatively healthy with kids who passed away. And another one who was on a ventilator and almost followed. 

Interesting, thanks for sharing....worrying stuff!

Do you know anyone who was infected & died of other (non-covid of course) more common respiratory viruses?
Or who were debilitated long term or even permanently or their life  drastically changed by infection from other respiratory viruses?

In the last 6 months. No.

In the last 5 years, one. My dad died of Flu induced Pneumonia at the age of 87 two years ago. 

iandon wrote:

Dont know anyone who has had this virus...  mmmm

Two friends of mine caught it on a trip to Venice earlier this year though neither were hospitalised - they described it as being like really bad flu for a few days. Another friend's son (20ish) caught it more recently in Bristol and didn't require medical treatment though he found that the loss of taste was worse than the fever.

Edit: All three of these cases had confirmed tests

My Mrs reckons her sense of taste is finally back to normal after 6 months. I just had the fever higher then hers for a couple of days. The cough was the same as I normally get in the colder months when I suck in a lungful of cold air cycling. I will stress that we never got official tests and can only go on the list of symptoms. 

Frontline NHS, very sure got Cov-19 in work, so are my managers (I won't go into details). Got flu-like symptoms for a few days then seemed to have kicked it into the long grass. Then on day seven bang, total loss of taste and smell, sore throat, like I had my head over a bucket of boiling tar! Then came the tight chest like a steel band and shortness of breath. I had one night where I knew if this did not stop I was going straight back to work, but as a patient not staff! Then I suffered brain fog and a total sense of grief that had no reason for weeks. The S-O-B took six weeks to go, I couldn't even get out of bed or clean my teeth without my heart rate going to the sky (so no riding a bike!!) as I once passed out and came round on the floor. It took seven weeks to get back to work and then part time, I previously in ten years had had two days off sick due to ill health. I am not overweight and many of my work colleges think of Me as the fit 40 something in work as I cycle a lot! Do not take Cov-19 lightly it can really really ruin your year!!! Yes I am now just getting my old mojo back but it has been touch and go and a very long time coming back to pre illness fitness.

Good luck on your recovery.

I fear for my better half getting it and indeed worry about myself.  I need to be relatively active at work and have to cycle commute.

It probably took the life of my first big boss, he had risen to be head of a very prestigeous institute.

Glad to read you are on the mend... fitness does not seem to be a determinant.  I know two mid 50 yr olds who had it;  One, works out regularly, kickboxer, marathon runner, ended up hospitalised.  The other, overweight, no fitness regimen, had it and barely noticed, only knew he'd had it because his employer paid for antibody tests.

They always clear off the worst of the mud a day or two before the races so the pics from the other week wouldn't have remotely shown the same conditions as race day.