My uncle missed Thanksgiving 2019 because he was in an Arkansas hospital for “untreatable viral pneumonia” and the various complications that came with it. Shit was fucking everywhere already by then.

There is zero proof that was covid.

There is proof it was not.

Don’t spread stupid.

Don't claim there is proof that it wasn't without providing said proof

As far as I'm aware, it is far from settled when cases first appeared in the US

The people asking you to prove that that the commenters uncle didnt have covid are silly.

However the commenter never even mentioned covid??? You’re the only one who is saying that their uncle definitely did / definitely did not have covid. Please calm the fuck down.

2% of all tested US blood donations given December 13-19 2019 had antibodies to and neutralized COVID, and because people don’t donate blood while sick, those folks likely had and fought it off around Thanksgiving. Source:

academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472

Serologic Testing of US Blood Donations to Identify Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)–Reactive Antibodies: December 2019–January 2020

Retrospective SARS-CoV-2 serological testing of routine blood donations collected in 9 US states from 13 December 2019–17 January 2020 suggests that the vi

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Thanksgiving isn’t in December.