Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

JRPGfan said:

Ka-pi96 said:

hmm, I'd say if you're barely capable of getting out of bed, your stomach hurts and you're puking then you've got the flu.
If you're capable of being a normal functioning person, but don't want to because you feel like crap, you've got a cold.

^ this 100%.

Theres no "blurry line" between a cold and a flu.

A bad case of influenza, is spending a week in bed, with fever, the shakes, barely able to drink water and keep it down (vomiting most of it back up), no appitate (or able to eat and keep it down), diarrea, headaches ect.

While a common cold is like a occasional sneeze/caugh only. Things that dont even prevent you from going to school/work, or haveing a normal life.
Influenze atleast means bed ridden, imo.

They are two vastly differnt things.

Sorry, but that is just absolute bullshit. Maybe the line becomes blurrier when you compare a bad cold with a light flu instead of the other way around. You talk as if the flu has only one mode and is as strong for everyone. Same with a cold.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/03/17/290878964/even-if-you-dont-have-symptoms-you-may-still-have-the-flu

Might as well start claiming that people who only have a sore throat cannot have COVID-19 because they are not dying.

Last edited by vivster - on 13 May 2020