Joking aside, Dad ignored a 'chesty cough' lingering from Easter. By September he was in hospital for a month and by mid November he couldn't breathe, and two days later was dead, lungs riddled with tumours.
Your choice, I guess... Not getting checked because of Batflu, would be a bit like not getting your prostrate checked because you think you might have piles
For want of a much better analogy
Similar thing happened to my Mum a few years ago. She developed a chesty cough in the February which was dismissed as a seasonal viral infection. The cough got worse and in a few weeks she started to have breathing difficulties. They insisted it was nothing to worry about and sent her home with an inhaler, but by the beginning of April her neck had swollen up. I took her to hospital mid April for a scan and an appointment with a specialist and she never came home.
It turned out that she had a small but very aggressive tumour in one of her lungs and the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes in her neck, by which time there wasn't much they could do other than make her comfortable. She passed away on 30th April.
I wonder if it had happened now, would she get written off as a Covid-19 victim.
Go get yourself checked out Uncle STEMO.