in December 2019, my youngest came down with a cough and on Christmas Day spiked a fever out of the blue. For a week I witnessed the strangest illness in my 25 years of raising children: random fever, no appetite and she just slept. After an urgent care visit on 12/31 said "it's just an upper respiratory virus and there's nothing to be done" for it, I took her to her doctor 1/2 where they found walking pneumonia. 3-day antibiotic treatment later and she was back to 100%.

No one else in my household got sick.

Yes, there is a "bug" going around, but it's not all that it's hyped up to be. I had been reading since November 2019 about a strange flu in China, so I know there's a pretty good chance it was everywhere before leaders went loony for lockdowns.