As someone who has bad lungs (asthma and a history of pneumonia) I take this disease relatively seriously but no much that I’m a total nuisance like that woman is. My attitude is just *shrug* there are worse things out there that can kill me. Hell I don’t even wear a mask everywhere I go (just in tightly packed environments).
I also have "bad" lungs in the sense that I was prone to developing pneumonia in my youth, and I still tend to contract upper respiratory illnesses which don't resolve easily. I have a post-nasal drip and chronic congestion.
The thing is, gay china virus isn't a run-of-the-mill respiratory bug. It really seems to be a strange inflammatory (dare i say NUROTRAWPIC) ailment that causes acute respiratory problems in fringe cases. Obviously you can develop pneumonia from it (as you can from basically anything) but it doesn't seem to follow the same upper resp. > bronchial > pneumonia progression that normal respiratory illnesses do.
I mentioned to you fags that I contracted china virus approximately 2 weeks ago. The first 5 days or so of incubation caused a minor immune response without any respiratory developments. Around 5 days the shit came down hard (fine one hour, chills and fever the next), but the fever broke almost immediately and it then manifested entirely as neuropathic symptoms. Tension headache centered on the optic nerves, burning skin (like diffuse shingles), and fatigue. There were ZERO respiratory symptoms, congestion, mucus production, etc. In fact my mucosa were dry as fuck after I lost smell/taste, as if they had been bleached.
Only around day 10 or so, when the primary symptoms had gone away and I was clearly recovering did I get some mild congestion and cough. I still have no serious mucus troubles, but it seems like my bronchial lining is trying to fuck off, causing a minor semi-productive cough that's only nasty right after waking up.
I think that the strange nature of this virus actually makes it less deadly, because the impression that I got from my experience was that as long as your immune system didn't freak out from the initial viral attack, the illness would mostly leave your respiratory system alone. This is contrasted to my experience of "normal" viruses/bacterials which overload your mucosa progressively until you're drowning in phlegm and taking antibiotics to stave off developing pneumonia.
