So I had Covid about 4 months ago. Did all the vitamins, minerals, supplements, etc. I got over it in about a week. Wasn't the worst, wasn't the least cold/flu I've ever experienced. FF to about a month ago. My morning commute takes me very close to the shore of the Florida Keys. We had an unusual high tide that seemed to last for a week, or it seemed that the tide lined up to my passing every morning to be very high. Then I drove past low tide, and it was the most intense nastiness I've ever smelled from the ocean.
I asked around at work and got tepid responses. Everyone was "meh" about the smell. Cue the next several days. Suddenly I started smelling that swamp smell everywhere! I take a shit, there it is. I cook bacon, same smell. Beef. Pork. Chicken. I'm now hyper sensitive to the actual swamp smell that I'm the only one who notices it in a group.
The condition I have is called parosmia. I've researched that it can go away if I train my brain to remember what smells are supposed to smell like. Apparently the virus destroys smell receptors in the brain and when they grow back, they don't grow exactly how they used to be.
I'm writing this post for anyone who is suffering from this and thinks they're going crazy like I once thought. I don't think my sense of smell will ever be the same. Luckily for me though, it is not as bad as other people are saying. I can still eat bacon. It's like in the Matrix where the kid is bending the spoon. Don't think that the bacon is sour, instead, think that the bacon is not there at all.
But the same person wouldn't have different symptoms for the same virus. I've gotten the flu like 4 times in my life and its always been the same. Except this time.. very very different. None of the typical stuff and only new stuff
Same person can absolutely have different symptoms for the same virus. This is virology 101. You could of had a “very very” different strain of the flu. You don’t know, and neither do the tests.
Thats another virus. a different strain. okay wanna play that game? corona virus is a new lab modified strain of the flu. what causes all the shit i said. now what? nothing changes. its still new, still has things ive never experienced before, still need to take zink etc. I really dont understand why people feel the need to twist and bend every single thing in life into sometimes else even when the outcome is the same. because the truth is we will NEVER know for a fact whats really going on if viruses are even real, if this is just a strain of the flu, if this is novel, or if this is all made up and i am one of many many bots in a global conspiracy. dude you ever had a cold or flu before? NOPE you haven't its just a strain of pinkeye and you just experience different symptoms thats all. flu has only been around for a couple hundred years. its not real it is actually pink eye. you dont see how difficult it is to argue with nonsense like this?