I don't want to stoke your conspiracy theory, but I remember getting violently ill in November of 2019, and everyone I worked with was sick at the same time. I was coughing up a lung, to the point where my throat was completely raw, and I could barely breathe walking to work, or even doing anything. there were multiple young people I worked with who were admitted with viral pneumonia, but specifically not the flu. I kept going back to an urgent care, and they gave me like 3 tests for the flu that all came back negative, but just shrugged their shoulders and gave me some meds. On my last visit, asking for another course of steroids/taper, the doctor said that I should probably be admitted, but I pushed back because I needed to work. Every door in that clinic had some dumb warning about vaping... Hardly anyone I worked with vaped. I don't want to dox myself, but I worked at a hospital that was not too far from a famous US lab that was closed down a few months prior... cough ... everybody tells me it is impossible that it could have been covid... it took me almost 3 months to start feeling like I had energy/my breath back... I still think it was covid.