Apparently, the common cold can result in a positive COVID test result which I did not know about until after I took the test today.
That's because there are between 200 and 300 common colds, each one being an individual virus strain, of which, 15% of those common cold viruses are coronaviruses.
That means between 30-45 common colds are coronaviruses. So around 1 in 7 common colds is classified as a corona virus. As a result, having previously had a coronavirus common cold strain, you may trigger a positive PCR test for Covid - it really just goes to show how useless the PCR test is. It is NOT a diagnostic tool. It simply takes very small material, and amplifies that material upwards of two billion times to make it easier to read. Nothing more, nothing less.
On the bright side of this is if I do have COVID, I have read that it provides better immunity than vaccines do. Did you know that the common cold boosts one’s immunity to COVID?
Yes, exposure to common cold strain coronaviruses can give a person partial immunity to Covid. As can exposure to previous variants. Either way, it's just a cold - or at least a flu - to 99.9% of healthy non-obese people under the age of 65.
You are at SLIGHTLY higher risk, being 77...but since you are in good health, you are still relatively not at risk.
That being said, if you had a bad history with colds and flus...or if you have respiratory problems, etc, you may be at greater risk than most people. In your case, I would say that AGE is the biggest variable working against you. Otherwise, your health is good.
You DO understand that anyone can drop dead at any point from age 40 on, right? And that masses of people die of heart attacks in their forties on a daily basis...right? So why would Covid be any different? Of course it can kill you.
I did not. My plan is to treat this as I would a cold. I've already started a Zicam routine. If that doesn't work, a little scotch is like injecting disinfectant into your body.... thank you Trump for your wisdom.
Trump said nothing of the sort. It used the word as a classification, which it IS a classification. Not necessarily the most appropriate classification - but the nonsense said by leftists about "drinking bleach" is utterly leftist stupidity at its worst.