i think for some it was the way it presented for them so they just assumed? i know it did'nt present that way for any of us in our household and it presented in 3 different manners for the 4 of us. with 2 of us (dh and i) i think had it not been for the fact that we have a disabled adult child that although he had much milder symptoms than us we took turns (shifts) and pushed ourselves to make sure he was taking in hydration and food we may have been in a dangerous situation b/c it hit us like a freight train of exhaustion and all we wanted to do was sleep, never stirring unless forced to take in some water/some food. i knew of one person who had passed away from covid prior to our contracting it and her family felt (still feels) tremendous guilt b/c they thought she was just 'sleeping it off' as she (and they and so many others) had done throughout their lives with colds, minor viruses and the like. they had previously had covid w/very minor cold like symptoms so they would check in with her by phone and she would mumble that she was fine, just taking a nap, feeling better-never a clue to them that she had the brain numbing fog that some of us experienced and slipping right back to sleep for what they later realized when she stopped answering the phone had been days on end without food and hydration.
hits different people different ways.
