# Dopers who speculate they have (have already had) COVID-19 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 24, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204 "2020-03-24T22:37:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204/41 "2020-04-01T02:04:19Z")
I’ve been sick these past 3 days. I’ve followed Ontario’s online guidelines and found out my condition wasn’t serious enough to get testing (no serious breathing nor pre-existing health problems) and I’d just need to isolate myself from loved ones for 10-14 days. So that’s what I did. Feels like a flu with some odd symptoms (numbness/metallic taste, soreness, bouts of disorientation). ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204/42 "2020-04-01T02:14:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > At the beginning of this [article](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/11/1926380/-My-Bout-with-COVID-19?utm_campaign=trending)is a chart that compares the symptoms of cold, flu, and COVID. Several people in this thread have been describing symptoms that sound, to my nonexpert ears, like a much closer fit to something else, like flu, than to COVID-19. So what makes you guys think you have _The_ Virus? ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204/43 "2020-04-01T02:46:54Z")
Wondering if around Christmas I had it. I had been travelling a lot in the couple months before - in airports almost every weekend. Could feel it coming on Christmas day. The day after Christmas, it hit me like a truck. I couldn’t get off the couch - was just flattened. Fever, constant dry cough. I rarely get sick, and this was like nothing I had ever had before. Was better in 2-3 days. At the time, figured it was just the flu since, as noted, it was the season for that too and there are all kinds of germs going around. But now I wonder. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204/44 "2020-04-01T13:03:51Z")
Ms. P had three days of fever and cold symptoms back in February. Son and I never had symptoms. I work in an elementary school, so it seems like it would have gone through like wildfire even if I were asymptomatic. Right now I have my normal seasonal allergies. The rain settled the pollen down yesterday, so I got a day of relief from allergies. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204/45 "2020-04-02T01:19:39Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Several people in this thread have been describing symptoms that sound, to my nonexpert ears, like a much closer fit to something else, like flu, than to COVID-19. So what makes you guys think you have _The_ Virus? Well, I got a flu shot for one thing. Another is that the lethargy I’ve experienced has been extreme in proportion to other symptoms. I.e., shitton of lethargy, not a lot of anything else. It seems like something I’ve never had before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204.md?page=2)