I agree with you on being open to thinking that COVID-19 arrived earlier than was initially thought. When I first shared my "weird cold" story on HN, the consensus was that I was a crazy person and there was no way that could be COVID-19. There would be more deaths if it had been here. But now there are some deaths, and a large number of people with "weird cold" stories, and it really makes me think that a lot of people have already had this. Maybe the doctors at the time didn't recognize it as COVID-19 (I didn't when I had my weird cold). Maybe the numbers that we see now are just wrong; i.e. the recorded cases we have are just the tip of the iceberg (and if you tested everyone every week, we would have hundreds of millions of cases).
Or maybe that weird cold was just a weird cold and nothing more. It seems unlikely to me, but I'm open to it. I hate to make public policy suggestions on anecdotes... but someone should really look into that weird cold. Everyone in New York had it. It sure is weird.
Or maybe that weird cold was just a weird cold and nothing more. It seems unlikely to me, but I'm open to it. I hate to make public policy suggestions on anecdotes... but someone should really look into that weird cold. Everyone in New York had it. It sure is weird.