sigh, a story re: keeping thoughts to myself tho... two years ago when covid transmission was spiking, my family got sick w coughing and fever, my dad first & worst.... and for some reason when he was first getting sick i thought to myself "could it be legionnaires?" ... googled… https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1730764512268009533
and like, if i'd said something when i initially thought of it, my mom would've googled it and told me i was being ridiculous and it must be covid, which logically i agreed was most likely given transmission rates at the time... but she would've had it on her mind when they were at the hospital for those days and would have eventually insisted they test for it after the negative covid & flu tests, and he would have received the right antibiotics a week or more sooner and wouldn't have received the monoclonal antibodies
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Reply · Aug 14, 2023@Liu_eroteme idk that I've had covid but I feel *significantly* dumber after a 104 fever from legionellaReply · Jan 7, 2022@agentmangeek @Aella_Girl Idk, my mom's wild speculation is that the virus turned into pneumonia and that you can die from lack of oxygenReply · Jan 22, 2022@Virtual1nstinct My dad was on oxygen recently for Legionnaires, said he couldn't sleep because he was too entranced by the vivid shapes he would see…Reply · Mar 28, 2024@Rado9910 tbh was one of my original motivations (from childhood obsessive fear of pandemics sigh)