canyonwalker: coronavirus (coronavirus)
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I've been sick all week. Starting Sunday night I had a sore throat and slept poorly. Then other symptoms started to develop. Monday evening I had feverish chills. I think that was the worst of it. But that wasn't the end of it. I've had various cold symptoms all week. I think the most annoying is sticky phlegm in my lungs that I can't seem to cough out.

Part of The New Normal is wondering, "Is this Covid?" whenever cold-like symptoms appear. Every coughing fit, sneezing fit, sore throat, etc. is suspicious.

Part of the new normal is wondering "Is this Covid?" with every cold (Jan 2024)

Indeed I did something Coronavirus-risky a few days before my symptoms started: I traveled on an airplane and attended a training session for 2 days with 25 colleagues. And judging from the conversations I heard over breakfast each day, an alarming number of my colleagues espouse all sorts of gloom-and-doom, the-country's-going-to-hell beliefs... except the belief that, "Hey, y'all, Coronavirus is a real thing, it's still potentially deadly, and there are simple things you can do to protect yourself... like get vaccinated."

So I tested myself for Covid in between gobbling all sorts of pills to treat cold symptoms. Covid: negative. It's just a cold. And not even a particularly bad one, though it is the worst I've had in several years now.


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