Hard to say if we had it. If we get antibody testing then we can proclaim to the world we are Covid survivors. I doubted we had it at first because the "reported cases" here were very low when I got sick and because it seemed like just a cold. Now they have backtracked on that and they claim at that time, when you and I were sick, there was virtually no testing being done (in the US I don't know what the UK was doing early March) and so many more people could have had it than they knew. This would seem a good theory based on the fact that when I spoke to the doctor in early March they did not want you to come in for Covid testing. This was in part because at the time there was a shortage of tests and so you had to "qualify" for testing by having a certain set of symptoms and at a certain severity level. That being the case, how the hell would they be able to gauge how many people had it if the protocol at that time was to ask a series of questions on the phone?

Julia kept asking me over and over if I thought we had Covid during our lock down and I said that the doctor said to keep tabs on if we got a fever and of course if breathing became more difficult. These things never happened...so I have no idea what to think. Then there is the pain in the ass side of this where they claim people can have it and be a carrier and have no symptoms at all. They could really only know that if there was mass testing...and there has not been in the US because our orange turd does not want clear numbers for this to ever come out. 

I mention the drinking because there are two sides to that as well...one says drinking if you have Covid makes it worse, the other that it has no impact. Bottom line is I don't think they have adequate answers to questions on it yet. I can say, using myself as a test case, I felt better when I was drinking. But again, this could just be an issue you and I have, Mick. 

There are claims there are two strains of the virus already, one that is more aggressive and thus more dangerous. Did you and I have the more mild strain?

We have a couple doctors here in Gene and Dan so they could provide better thoughts than most of us punters I would say. 

I never really thought I would die of a virus. Basically, I always thought it was much more likely that one day I would walk out of the market and somebody would say "Reg?" and I would say "Yes." and he would say "I'm Marc, from the Baerwald board." and then he'd unload an entire clip from his M16 into me. I'd lie there on the pavement in my crimson puddle staring up into the beautiful blue sky and the thought would run through my head "Yeah, that guy Marc was kind of a cunt."