From AI ...
COVID-19 Symptoms: Cough, fever, loss of taste/smell, fatigue, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, runny nose.
Flu Symptoms: Fever, cough, sore throat, runny/stuffy nose, body aches, headache, vomiting, diarrhea.
These were my symptoms from Covid-19, which I presumed I had, which do not fit neatly into either category ...
Dry/unproductive cough
Complete loss of appetite
Fever (low grade)
Headache (low-grade but persistent)
Body aches (my body literally felt as if a freight train had barrelled through it)
No other symptoms. I was in bed for about a week (did not eat), felt better and was up and about for a few days, and then all symptoms returned for about 3 days. I took no medications because I had none and was unable to get to a chemist.
The mortality rate did rise during the two years when the Covid epidemic was at its height. Note that the statistics are an undercount because Covid was only recorded as a cause of death if there was a test to confirm and if it was a direct cause of death. In Africa, Covid was often not recorded as a cause of death but a complication if there was a existing condition that would have caused death, sooner or later, anyway. The statistics are thus complicated rather than deliberately misleading.
The following is a detailed study ...
https://sajid.co.za/index.php/sajid/.../view/679/1743
Personally, I do not think we should conclude that Covid did not exist, but rather establish where and how it originated, and why lockdowns were accepted pretty much as a global response.
I disagree with the rejection of all other recommendations/rules during the pandemic on the basis that 'they do not work'. Social distancing, wearing a mask, sanitizing, getting fresh air did not prevent infection, but they did reduce the amount of virus you were exposed to (and for how long) and thus gave your immune system a better chance of shutting down the virus before it spread in your body and caused damage, and reduced the possibility of having to be treated (symptoms) in a hospital. Even today, people in China and South East Asia will follow these guidelines when they have a cold or flu. The lie was that if you followed the guidelines, you would not be infected and would not pass on the virus. Promoting that lie was a political choice. Protecting the US and China from blame for the creation and spread of the virus was also a political choice. Lockdown was unnecessary. Many of those who were most vulnerable (TB, diabetes, chemotherapy patients, etc.) died anyway and thus the lockdown imposed on entire populations was not an effective way to protect them.




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