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...and I want a refund on the last year and a half of societal hysteria.

Symptoms: Nose ran like a faucet initially, then settled down into a mild runny nose. Mild sinus congestion, slight cough from nasal drainage, mild chest pressure, tiredness, and slightly decreased oxygen capacity. I ran three miles yesterday and it felt like I'd gone up 3-4000 feet in altitude. Inconvenient, but no big deal. Cold symptoms are typically worse than this.

The irony is that I caught it from some mask and vax cultists who were convinced their surgical masks, jabs, and social distancing would protect them. I've resisted the urge to remind them that I did warn them that their medical theater was useless.

I'm looking forward to being a naturally immune pureblood in short order.

...and I want a refund on the last year and a half of societal hysteria. Symptoms: Nose ran like a faucet initially, then settled down into a mild runny nose. Mild sinus congestion, slight cough from nasal drainage, mild chest pressure, tiredness, and slightly decreased oxygen capacity. I ran three miles yesterday and it felt like I'd gone up 3-4000 feet in altitude. Inconvenient, but no big deal. Cold symptoms are typically worse than this. The irony is that I caught it from some mask and vax cultists who were convinced their surgical masks, jabs, and social distancing would protect them. I've resisted the urge to remind them that I did warn them that their medical theater was useless. I'm looking forward to being a naturally immune pureblood in short order.

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[–] • 1 pt

That doesn't always happen, it's actually kind of uncommon. Out of the 50 or so people I know that had the stuff, only 1 (me) had the taste thing.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Strange, it’s listed among the most common symptoms. Some of them had to mistake it for a common cold unless they were all tested.

[–] • 0 pt

Complete loss of taste is a thing with colds, it's (probably) due to inflammation of the nerves that help with taste and smell.

It's far more common with this particular cold than others, but overall it's kind of rare so being more common just means that 1 out of 100 experience it instead of 1 out of 1000. (not actual data, just an analogy)

[–] • 1 pt

Complete loss of taste is a thing with colds,

Most people don't realize that much of what we think is taste is actually smell. When you lose your sense of smell, you cannot taste many foods at all, or they taste really bad. Coffee is a good example -- it's "taste" is almost all smell. So when someone loses their sense of smell, it's not surprising that they think -- wrongly -- that they have lost their sense of taste as well.

[–] • -1 pt

It's common, but not 100% of the time. I know a couple people who got it (same source, same time) and it was a toss-up whether they lost their sense of smell/taste or not. Probably dependent on whether the 'rona primarily impacts their nerves or inflames something else.