We have a friend with a teenage son and an ex-wife. Teenage son tells our friend that the wife (his mother) was sick. She was coughing and had tightness in the chest along with a fever that came and went, but no stuffiness in her nose. She called a Kaiser Permanente doctor, who said it was most likely the flu, even though she had no stuffiness characteristic of the flu. Instead, this sounded like a classic coronavirus infection. She (according to the son) figured it wasn’t a big deal, then, and went to the grocery store to go food shopping. While she was coughing. Not bright, even if it was only the flu.
And people wonder why state governments have to step in with mandatory stay-at-home orders!