American Greatness: If you weren’t very ill in late January or February, you probably know someone who was. The complaints often sounded the same: A fever for days, a stubborn and unusual-sounding cough, a persistent sore throat—the severity of the symptoms seemed worse than the usual influenza.
Doctors, assuming it was a version of the seasonal flu, administered flu-fighting drugs without testing. (My college daughter was very sick with the same symptoms; her flu test was negative.) Plenty of afflicted Americans just stayed in bed without ever seeing a physician.
Obviously, anecdotal evidence that the COVID-19 illness has been around for at least the past few months isn’t enough to make the case that there’s a chance the worst days of the outbreak are behind, not ahead, of us. But data from the Centers for Disease Control seems to support the possibility that the country has been besieged by the novel coronavirus since the start of 2020.
And while political leaders and medical experts push for more and more draconian measures to “flatten the curve,” it raises some questions. Are we looking at the right “curve?” And how accurate is the current curve if it doesn’t include possible cases before the height of the hysteria began in late February and early March?
The curve, according to one report, “refers to the projected number of people who will contract COVID-19 over a period of time.” To date, the novel coronavirus curve undoubtedly looks ominous. Only a smattering of coronavirus cases was reported in the U.S. during January and February; that figure jumped at the beginning of March due to testing availability.
The first known American victim, a Washington resident who had traveled back from Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, was confirmed on January 21. The U.S. coronavirus graph basically flatlines from that date until the last few days of February.
But since the disease originated in China in December at the latest, it’s highly unlikely the number of reported cases in the United States between January 1 and late February is accurate. (It’s important to note that in its order prohibiting most noncitizens from entering the United States from China, the White House confirmed that an average of 14,000 people per day traveled between the two countries in 2019. That means tens of thousands of potentially infected people entered the country for weeks prior to the travel stop.)
Therefore, how could a highly-contagious virus remain nonexistent in a free-moving society for several weeks?
The answer is, it probably did not. The CDC tracks a category called “influenza-like illness,” or ILI. Since symptoms of the flu and coronavirus are very similar, it’s instructive to look at this data, which is based on visits to health care providers in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. “For this system, ILI is defined as fever (temperature of 100°F or greater) and a cough and/or a sore throat,” reads the CDC webpage on influenza-like illness. read more
much ado about nothing….. but this creates a climate for some serious changes. Mid April we will see!
The last paragraph sums it up nicely.
I had “the flu” in November and then again in January. The symptoms were similar to those of the WuFlu.
Chinese virus SUCKS.
KILL IT WITH FIRE. FIRE!
FIIIIIRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw really sick late December and had to be put on antibiotics. Then I got sick a few weeks later. It was weird. I rarely get sick. But I had absolutely none of the CHINESE virus symptoms. Perhaps that virus(es) I had built up my immune system against contracting it. I’ll never be too sure so let me go ask Sean Penn for his professional medical opinion and I’ll get back to you all ASAP.
Great graphic MJA, BTW. LOL!
Wife and daughter had it in December, got over it in about a week.
I did have those symptoms for about three weeks. Mild temperature (I could feel it around my eyes), sore throat, dry cough, shortness of breath. I just decided not to go see a doctor unless it got really bad. I feel much better now after three weeks but I still have milder symptoms. I did get the flu vaccination in November, so that’s that.
Was it ChiCom Virus? Who knows?
Up side to Kung flu:
Borders shut, no more mass illegal immigrants
No more Russia, Russia, Russia
Chicoms and their sympathizers exposed
No mass gathering prevents deep state false flags that were planned but now cannot be executed.
No mass travel or movement by air prevents deep state from bolting to New Zealand.
National Guard mobilized and postured for support of POTUS.
Screaming liberals have created a panic that only a strong PDJT can fix giving him an excuse to enact federal law that only increases his executive power, personal safety, and authority.
The petro dollar based Central Bank will be spent dry of our current fiat currency and money sent directly to the people thus positioning us to kill the Fed and go back to the gold standard post apocalypse.
Fuel prices at all time low is a significant tax break again to the people who need it most,.
Power of the IRS curtailed and IRS stood down preventing their power over the common man.
Beginning to see a pattern here in favor of the patriots over the global cabal?
PDJT is once again using the deep state’s desperate tactics to destroy them and defund the global elite.
Big tax cuts for the regular Joe will be coming and Nancy will lose the house for opposing relief for the regular voter.
Movement of all critical supply chains back to the US.
Advanced therapies, medicines, and anti-virals flowing from an unleashed private sector medical industry unchained from a corrupt and incompetent CDC.
The death of thousands of needless government regulations that are actually just power control over the common man.
Decentralization of power from DC back to the state and local government.
Exposing the useless nature, expense, and need for physical attendance at Marxist university’s nation wide.
Return of neighborhood solidarity and bringing out the best from us during a “crisis”, for every TP horder there are 10 TP givers.
A pent up economic rebound like you have never seen.
Exposing Demonrats as focused on impeachment instead of Corona…have you heard a word about impeach foty fi from the retarded pie hole of Mad Maxine lately?
Mass media exposed as communist sympathizers whose inaccurate biased propaganda actually prevents providing timely important information to the people.
Anti-Trumpism is now dead, and the Marxists are starting their foxhole conversions.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, the patriots are in control.
Trust in God people, a little faith will take you far.
And the mullahs of Iran are dying by the thousands.
First winter in many, many years I have not caught a cold or the flu. Yet!
Our ER stopped testing patients for the virus unless you are being admitted with a severe respiratory illness or work in the healthcare industry. We are advising people to self quarantine rather than visit an ER if you have a cough and fever. Why spread what you got when medicine cannot cure it? Most likely people will survive it just the same
The transformation is complete.
Well over half of this country has been reduce to babbling idiots fighting over a roll of toilet paper by the Communist educational system and a corrupt political system, aided by a mind numbing, constant barrage from shallow minded talking heads emanating from a box on the wall.
Exactly Handsome Grim Reaper.
I keep telling people to stop watching tv, get off social media and open your doors and windows to air the house out.
It’s really (always) the elderly and already ill who are at risk.
Most of my family was sick most of November and December with a sore throat and cough that would not go away. The ones affected worst were my pregnant daughter and grandson who has weakened lungs from being born prematurely. It was pretty bad. I am now wondering if that’s what we had.
Closed border and control of movement is also killing the revenue of the cartels and their kickbacks to the deep state. So another deep state revenue cut.
The most direct threat is to the elderly, not necessarily by the virus itself, but secondary infections like pneumonia that one might get when their immune system has been depressed from it.
Of course that could happen with any virus.
Thank you Cisco Kid. Let’s add the exposure of the deep state rat…Tony Fauci. Wasn’t he in place during the h1n1 thing?
I had a wicked something about a month ago, went to bed feeling OK and woke up in the middle of the night with cold sweats. I’m still hacking up a little phlegm. My gal didn’t get it though and it’s supposed to be highly contagious.
Hmmmm
I am absolutely convinced I had it in January. I had all the same symptoms and was sick for more than a week. Yes, it was awful. Seems like everyone in town had it but no one was hospitalized or died.
Two people at my job had this exact same illness with the awful sounding cough. One ended up treated for pneumonia. This shit has been hear for months. But we have to do all we can to flatten the economy.
The-Mamomma- Oh no! I hope everyone’s okay. Especially your grandson.
I’m glad the rest of you are all okay. I hope you don’t catch it again.