>>43607
>So your acquaintance with the smell loss had the symptoms of common cold, like nasal cavity is blocked by the membrane thickened by inflamation and snot. And beside that is experiencing long term smell loss, now that he can breath normally through his nose.
>Was your smell loss paired with similar "nasal blockage"?

My case: first day it was light rhinitis, nose wasn't blocked completely but I've had discomfort and leaking nose. At second day smell sense started to became wrong, and I thought that this is typical bacterial-like nasal disease (I've had few once in past, they transform smells). But at the end of the day I've noticed that there are no smells at all, and decided that it is covid.
There was no serious nasal block, just partial blockage with discomfort, and it became not noticeable after few days, while body temperature was stable at 37.2 - 37.5.

Person who has no smell not noticed initial nasal part first, and was very nervous about covid at all, so thought only about media horror stories. In such situation it is easy to forget about specific nose feelings.

Covid loss of smell is interesting - I could feel irritating effect of air (with menthol or smoke), but no "taste" of it. That person has same now, nose is completely functional but "tasteless".