At first I thought it was fake. Until I got it myself. The distinct absence of taste and smell was new to me and I only had a light cough on top. More than 1 million people caught it in my city with very few deaths...
Yes, getting it helps you understand it isn't fake. I got the Delta and was extremely sick, also, lost taste and smell.
My husband had a light case and lost taste and smell, my teenage son was also pretty sick. In 3 days went through 6 boxes of Kleenex!
My brother in Dallas had it same time as me and the virus attacked his lungs. He was able to get the infusion and it saved his life. After he had the monoclonial antibody infusion, they sent him home and he was told if your fever gets over 103 get to the hospital immediately. Well it was over 103 and he took cold showers, tylenol, and advil that night and by morning fever broke.
He knew if he went back to hospital he wasn't coming out alive.
A friend of mine did die. The hospital basically killed him. Gave him remdesivir and not the Monoclonal Antibody Treatment infusion and he was put on oxygen. He refused a ventilator and when they took him off oxygen he died. I sent many friends to get the infusion after his death and seeing how the infusion saved my brothers life. Texas and Florida saved soo many lives cause they made it very available.
Then in Ohio they started closing the infusion places down and you couldn't get Ivermectin anywhere also except through the frontline doctors.
My cousin and her husband did die of Covid a month ago and both were double jabbed and boostered.
My friends father who is 65 is on a ventilator now.
So lost 2 family members. 1 friend, and a friends father is on a ventilator.
However, I have over 200 family and friends who have had it and recovered.
I also ended up with Omnicron, but only sick 2 days and mild compared to Delta...
It baffles me how some people it hardly fazes them, others like me get it bad for 2 weeks but not where it turns into pneumonia, and others die.
I did notice one thing, the ones that died or almost did were diabetic.....not overweight, but had diabetes.