I'm sure everyone has. But here is the real question:
In the past, when you had a cold or mild flu, was your sense of smell or taste normal as it usually is, or was it off (couldn't smell or taste the same)?
I honestly can't say one way or the other. I never thought about my sense of smell or taste when I had a cold. I just felt bad and dealt with it. I do know that I tasted cough syrup that tasted bad, but I don't remember ever smelling it. I don't specifically remember if my normal sense of smell was working or not, or my taste.
The reason I ask is that I am wondering about all the people who got "sick with Covid" and said their sense of taste or smell was gone.
Is this the way it USUALLY (or ALWAYS) is when one has a cold or flu? Or is this really abnormal and not what usually happens?
IOW: Is it possible that everyone reporting a loss of taste/smell is because the MEDIA bombarded us with that message, and so we paid attention (maybe for the first time ever) and noticed? Was it just a subliminal message that people were responding to?
Do we usually lose our sense of smell or taste, but this time we noticed because the media kept pushing that message?
loss of taste are associated with colds, sinus infections, and too much radiation
Pretty much every cold comes with a decreased ability to taste because of the stuffed up nose. Anytime the nose is plugged with mucous smell and taste decrease significantly.
^^^ This. Each time I had a cold, my sense of smell was modified. Not killed but things smelt different.
But when I got "flu" in Jan 2020, I lost my sense of taste completely, for a week, but not my appetite.
I have no recollection of the symptoms of any previous influenza so I can't say whether this one was different.
I think the new strain of the flu effected small/taste more the usual so they ran with it. In the beginning they said Covid had move fevers then normal.
You mean affected smell.
more than usual
I use to get bronchitis quite often and every time I couldn't taste or smell.
So you couldn't smell anything except your own poop?
I think that's crap.
I’m 60 years old I survived chickenpox measles and mumps. As a the child of an army NCO, I remember getting whole series of shots before deploying overseas multiple times. I’m guessing they were for local endemic diseases. I’ve never had a flu shot and I didn’t get the Covid vaccine. I’ve had flu like illness maybe twice in my life, the most recent being when my entire family and the entire family of the contractors building the new addition to our home all fell ill 1 by 1 until it ran through both families. In November 2019.
Nov 2019 is when the "plandemic" was released. Coincidence?
yeah i couldn't smell anything! Haven't been ill at all for a few years either... even medical papers say loss of smell and taste are flu, at least the old ones
It's standard to lose your sense of taste / smell when your nose is blocked due to sinus congestion. It's always been like that for me & family. Makes eating while sick lame because you just get a sense of texture but that's about it.
I got my wife to put chilli powder in everything.
when I get sick with anything my sense of smell is out of wack for a few days.
Smell and taste both go with common colds and flu. Even with allergies and plain sinus problems. I have had them my entire life.
Always have decreased sense of smell and taste whenever ive been sick. Only been sick a few times in my life and only once from the flu that was really bad. Shivering, sweating, whole body malaise until 3 in the morning when it finally broke, but completely stuffed up and couldn't sleep lying down. Zero sense of smell and greatly muted taste. I can't say for certain, but I think the gullible people ate this covid symptom shit up like candy. whenever I mentioned it toe my gullible friends, they said that this was long term loss of smell and taste, but they are also super slow to ever admit they were wrong and kinda a bunch of drama queens.
In Feb 2020 our business manager went to NYC to visit her sister. After she got back it went through the entire engineering dept, almost one by one.
It was like nothing I'd ever experienced.
For three days I couldn't even go upstairs to bed because I was so tired I felt like I wouldn't make it. Also pain all over. Medium grade fever. No nausea like the flu. but it was hell.
Three days in a chair. Couldn't watch anything or do anything.
But I got better. Glad wifey didn't come home from work to find me dead.
So I know people really want to say that the virus isn't real. It is the flu, or it is a bad cold. But I know this was something I had never gone through before, and at the time I had heard about the Wuhan virus but didn't think it had come to the USA. It was weeks afterwards that I realized it.
Wifey is a nurse at a major hospital. She 'volunteered' to work on a covid floor. It was heartwrenching as these old people died alone on ventilators in rooms that the nurses hardly visited because of the elaborate procedures they had to go through everytime you left the room. Families of course couldn't say good bye.
So if the point of your post is to speculate that the virus is not real, I'm just going to make it very clear that I believe that is incorrect. It probably is something created by Fauci and the CCP and released for an agenda, but the plandemic is based on a real virus IMHO.
Interesting timing, because I also got sick with something around that time. I, too, had heard of Wuhan but didn't really think it was what I had.
But I did something different than what I had always done in the past. This cold/flu/whatever was in some ways the worst I ever had, but it was very very short-lived.
When I woke up one morning, I had a sore throat, which told me I might be "coming down with something." So, I dry fasted all day. No food, no water, no nothing. This was the second time I tried this when feeling like I might be getting sick.
Felt crappy all day, but powered through. That night, I felt nauseous, and went to the sink to vomit. I have never vomitted from a cold or flu in my life. This time, I had dry heaves. I would have vomitted if I had anything in my stomach, but because I had been dry fasting all day, there was nothing in there. I had the heaves, but that was it.
No idea if I could smell or taste normally since that was the last think I was thinking about.
The next morning, I woke up feeling much better, and had a mostly normal day. The next morning after that, I felt pretty close to 100%.
My colds in the past always dragged me down for 2-3 weeks. ALWAYS. And I always ate/drank mostly normal (sometimes chicken soup, but some sort of food).
The last two times now when I started to feel sick, I dry fasted, and it was OVER within 48 hours both times -- including FEB 2020 when I had the worst symptoms ever in my life.
Dry fasting works to heal quickly because the body can focus energy on cleansing and killing off pathogens, rather than digestion which usually takes up a significant amount of energy. I have proven it (to myself) twice now -- 2 for 2.
I DO think something has been going on. I DO NOT think it is nearly as serious as it is claimed by Fraud Fauci or the Fake News Media.
I think it is likely a combination of things. Trying to parse out details to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
Is loss of smell/taste normal for regular colds/flu? Some here are saying yes, and that MIGHT be one reason why people reported that. Maybe they just noticed it for the first time because so many people were talking about it.
Wow. Colds don't make you vomit but I can't even count the number of times I have had the flu and spend days vomiting over and over.
Hmm ... interesting. I have never experienced that. Maybe I never had a flu before, and it was always a cold of some sort.
It was over very quickly for me, I think due to dry fasting. Maybe that is one reason I tend to downplay it somewhat, but I also know that something has been going on.
Seems like it is so different for a lot of people, that "gain of function" in a lab is likely.
I'm an elder-pede so I think the Wuhan virus hit me harder than most but didn't kill me.
Also, I haven't been sick with a flu that made me vomit for days for many years so the flu viruses may have evolved to be less disruptive. After all, when you can't leave your house because you are throwing up every three hours you aren't spreading it to anybody outside your household, so mutations that don't make you vomit would have an advantage.
Meaningless recency bias. Your conclusions from this are horseshit.
I had a nasty flu once in high school 50 years ago.
I had the coof, I can say with certainty that I lost my sense of taste and smell. It wasn’t attributed to congestion as I was free of it. It’s like it just shut off. I have sense regained both, but notice certain foods are scents just don’t smell right anymore
I used to get colds and flu every year when I was in my teens and 20s. I always lost smell and taste until I had consumed my moms remedies. I could judge when I'm getting better by the degree these senses returned.
I've never had the flu. I think I had the sniffles some when I was a child.
The wife and I both had covid back at the end of last year.
It never affected my sense of taste or smell, but she had a much worse time with it, and her sense of taste and smell is just now coming back. This virus has been engineered in my opinion to be more damaging than the old flu. It is not any more deadly for people in high risk groups, and it is not deadly at all for those with good immune systems.
Everyone I know who takes the "flu shot" gets the flu regularly. I've never taken one and the first and last time I had the flu I was 25 years old, I'm 68 now.
I've watched this at my place of employment over 20yrs (they offer the flu shot every year) My co-workers flock to get the flu shot. Then a couple of weeks later they are sick. I personally have never gotten the flu shot and haven't had a cold or flu since in my 30's. I'm in my 60's now.
Vaccines for any virus or bacteria that is able to mutate so quickly are absolutely useless. It works for tuberculosis and tetanus because those don’t really mutate.