Re: Test and Trace boss Dido Harding defends paying consultants £1,000-a-day
Originally Posted by
Tiffany
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Strange you should say that, as my Daughter, Son & I had a weird cold type bug just before Christmas 2019., Weird cough with it & that lasted a few weeks as well. We had never had anything like it before & the cough was a dry one. None of us felt particularly ill with it, it was just annoying.
Yes, they sound just like the symptoms we had and AFAIK these or very similar were widespread around the Lincs coast and up to & including Hull at least at that time too.
Or so friends, family and colleagues told us when we were all feeling the effects of whatever it was.
I should point out that I'm no conspiracy theorist; I'm pointing out what happened in my family & friends and when.
But it is interesting that there have been suggestions of a pensioner from Kent being the first recognized death, way back in January 2020 and this is confirmed by our own ONS.
And since we now know that from exposure to infection with symptoms to a conclusion like death usually takes many weeks (and there are suggestions that this interval increases with age) it surely isn't unreasonable to assume from there that this virus was active at least somewhere in the UK before the Christmas of 2019.
Whether or not we will see any of this researched-into more fully remains to be seen, but it is certainly food for thought.