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Fatigue is a symptom of depression.

It is also a symptom of pneumonia.

I had COVID, back before it was fashionable (February, 2020). It took me 10 months to feel normal again (the acute symptoms lasted 2 weeks. I hadn’t been that sick in decades).

Fatigue figured prominently. While I was experiencing acute symptoms, getting up to go to the bathroom basically finished my day.

I thought I had pneumonia, and the really scary stuff stopped, just before I was going to go to hospital. Thank Cthulhu I didn’t go. They would have killed me, and I would have infected a lot of people (as it was, all my family and friends got it. Share, and share alike).

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> They would have killed me

I'm curious about this. Could you share more?

Is there evidence that hospitalization with COVID worsened the outcome?

As background, my father was hospitalized with COVID and passed away.

In the early days, they jammed you onto a respirator.

Apparently, this was the worst thing you could do.

Was this known at the time? If not, was it the best choice given the information then?

You say that as if there is a just one doctor running one hospital in the entire world. I'm also aware the CDC gives advice but was this part of it?

I really don't know, and I won't get drawn into an argument over it. I'm absolutely gobsmacked at people wanting to fight over this stuff. It's ridiculous.

It was what it was, and it is, what it is.

Still here, and still breathing, so that's a win, in my column.

It's almost become a religious argument. It's really weird.

Then why did you state your opinion?

What?

In one comment you said "just before I was going to go to hospital. Thank Cthulhu I didn’t go. They would have killed me, "

Then when asked why you would have died you said "In the early days, they jammed you onto a respirator. Apparently, this was the worst thing you could do."

Are you not implying doctors at hospitals were acting against your best interest? Specifically the use of "they" instead of saying "it would have killed me" (as in going to the hospital)

Well, even more obvious is that concentrating large numbers of infectious people in an area that shares ventilation with a large number of unhealthy people seems to increase the infection rate significantly.

I believe most hospitals had patients were in isolation wards. Seems they use negative air pressure to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. [1]

Considering that diseases which spread through the air existed long before Covid wouldn't it be obvious that hospitals would be properly set up to isolate patients and avoid infecting visitors and people at the hospital for other reasons?

[1]https://www.csemag.com/articles/why-indoor-air-quality-matte...

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