flowerbug
Garden Master
i don't know what you all had, without a blood sample and a genetic sequence it could have been something completely different than the flu or another corona virus. do you know how many millions of viruses there are? i don't, but it's quite a big number. luckily most of them are not harmful to humans. same for bacteria and fungi.
my views are not an insular opinion, but *shrug* whatever... i'll trust what scientists say who study these things for a living over isolated reports of what people think they had.
and no, it's not BS.
this is an older article which gives the basics that were known back then:
www.nytimes.com
this report came later but i've not seen any reliable followups on this:
www.livescience.com
this article contains the same information as above, but gives more details on the genetic tracing done:
www.sciencealert.com
as of yet i've seen nothing credible which changes my mind about how this has come about.
note you can find a lot of news reports which repeat the same false and unverified claims of other studies which have since then been questioned because their testing and methods were not very sound, but people still take these news reports as gospel and keep repeating them as facts.
my views are not an insular opinion, but *shrug* whatever... i'll trust what scientists say who study these things for a living over isolated reports of what people think they had.
and no, it's not BS.
this is an older article which gives the basics that were known back then:
When Did the Coronavirus Arrive in the U.S.? Here’s a Review of the Evidence. (Published 2020)
Was the virus here in January? In December? Earlier? Here’s a look at the evidence of how the virus emerged from China and landed in the United States.
this report came later but i've not seen any reliable followups on this:
Coronavirus was circulating in France in December, case report suggests
The coronavirus may have been circulating around the world earlier than thought.
this article contains the same information as above, but gives more details on the genetic tracing done:
Genetic Study Shows COVID-19 Was in France Weeks Before The First Case Was Reported
China reported its first cases of the new coronavirus in December.
www.sciencealert.com
as of yet i've seen nothing credible which changes my mind about how this has come about.
note you can find a lot of news reports which repeat the same false and unverified claims of other studies which have since then been questioned because their testing and methods were not very sound, but people still take these news reports as gospel and keep repeating them as facts.
careful 
