COVID-19 Check-in Thread

[Labster]

Everyone's still here at Chez Labster.

My current theory is that my family has already had the novel coronavirus, back in the last week of December through early January.  My evidence for this:

• New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew -- community transmission was occurring back in December in Northern California
  
• I hang out with some politicians, who are the sort of people to shake lots of hands and travel to Sacramento to work
  
• Everyone in my family got a severe respiratory infection at about the same time.  I was two or three days earlier, and my efforts to avoid the rest of the family were not successful, consistent with easy airborne spread and long incubation period.
  
• My parents both went to the emergency room, and were put on a nebulizer immediately.  Everyone got to recover at home, though.
  
• Both parents tested negative for influenza
  
• I didn't get it as bad, but did have a high fever.  Oh, and coughing, lots of coughing.
  
• We have lots of asthma meds in our house so we were able to keep it under control early.
  
• Lasted about two weeks, with full recovery taking about a month
  
• I spent my whole damn week and a half of Christmas vacation very sick
  
• Christmas dinner: can of soup
  

It's too bad there's no way to test this theory out, because it would definitely put me at ease a little more.  I mean, there's definitely a way to test the theory, an antibody test, but I wouldn't expect that to be available to people showing no symptoms for six months, maybe a year.  The federal government is scaling back on its testing program already.

So I can rate it no better than a coin flip: 50% odds we're immune, 50% odds something even worse than what we already had is out there ready to kill my mom.