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Corona in Ibiza, Spain — Did we already have the virus?
These facts and experiences tell me we did
From January 12th I got sick for 3 weeks. In the first days, I expected it to be the kind of regularly returning winter flu. I already experienced this influenza virus here on Ibiza, the small island in the Mediterranean, 70 km out of the coast of mainland Spain.
This ‘Ibiza’ flu is different than the one I got in Holland where I lived for 45 years prior to moving to Ibiza. The air is dryer in Ibiza, and this flu comes with a dry cough and the party is sometimes topped up with a running nose. This ‘Ibiza’ flu never took me longer than about a week to recover from and the end spurt was coughing up big trunks of moist mucus that apparently finally had decided to see some daylight.
Excuse me for boring you with my flu experiences, but unless you live in an Iglo in Lapland or on mars you must have been exposed in one way or the other to information related to how to wash your hands, how to deal with quarantine and how to not touch your face. And the following words: Covid19, Social Distancing, Herd Immunity and #staythefuckhome.
To come back to my storyline: I got sick in January, and it was nothing like I had experienced before. My intention is to stay as factual as possible and not to overdo it for the…