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My nephew just got COVID-19 last week. He lost his sense of taste and smell completely. I commented to him that it's a shame he's going to miss Mackinaw Peach season this year.

Props to anyone who gets the reference. My nephew got it.

Got the fauxi flu last oct. Still can't taste or smell.

Good side is I can buy cheaper beer since I can't taste it anyway.

Mackinaw peaches Jerry! At least he wasn't bug bombed...

I had it about A year and a half ago coffee just don't taste like it used to! Iv tried them all!

Yep coffee tastes awful now to me.... like chemicals..

We have elk, deer, moose and pheasants --- during the loss of taste period all were bland --- just basically chewing cardboard. Now I notice the differences but the weird part is I used to like deer -- now not so much. BBQ season should turn this around.

Someone mentioned coffee being off and I had not thought on that. I stopped going to Tim Horton's for awhile as the taste of their coffee had changed to me.

Now that`s making lemonade out of lemons... Not that you could taste it...

Never took any precautions unless forced to, sat side by side with friends every day, and never caught anything. And I'm an old guy who should be at risk? It's about what will you forfeit.

I work from home a lot, and I thought I would never get it either and never took to many precautions other than washing my hands quite a bit more when I was out in public.. But, then my kids went back to school full time and my wife went back to work full time working with the public a lot doing Xrays, and it wasn't long until it spread in our household.

Did you die?

Damn! That sucks.

HA! Obviously not, but it was pretty touch and go for my mother-in-law when she got it... She looked like death warmed over, didn't think she was going to make it..Her oxygen level dropped down to 70% at one point and she was close to wanting to go to the emergency room and get on a ventilator which is not like her at all.. I think ivermectin and HCQ honestly saved her..I thought a lot of the talk about it being super deadly, and worse than the flu and all that was BS until I saw her go through it..

LOL True... I was think'in the same thing... Them gocksuckers have been slowly increasing the chemicals in our food for decades and our taste buds built up a tolerance/immunity to it... maybe covid wiped that out...

I lost my sense of smell and taste for about 2 weeks. I forced it back to work with whisky and vodka. Seems to be ok now.

My sense of humor has suffered tremendously since the election.

My wife’s sense of smell and taste was off for about 10 months. I don’t think I had a big change in taste or smell but my wife did for quite awhile after and even now she says there are a couple things that still don’t smell like they did.

We had it twice that we know of. The first time it was like a lingering cold that took a couple weeks to shake and the second time we probably wouldn’t have known about but one of the kids wasn’t feeling good and got “tested”. I’ve been much sicker in years past with a cold or the flu.

Most coffee smells rotten to me but tastes ok. Red wine smells rotten and tastes rotten also. Some breads and cheeses that once tasted mild taste bad. I used to prefer red wine but not anymore. White wine tastes the same.

So COVID is not the common flu?

I didnt lose smell or taste, but my tinnitus got considerably worse after Covid.