I’ve probably been overly obsessive about reading and rEsEaRcHiNg about Covid ever since the pandemic began – all aspects from the science of it to the economic and political implications to the occasional conspiracy theory (well, blitzed with them every time I open a social media site!)
Now that I’ve finally had Covid, a lot of that reading takes on a more personal context – in terms of thoughts about possible long-term effects (read an interesting debate on Twitter about whether calling it “Airborne HIV” is a better analogy to get people to realise it’s a virus that affects your immunity and vascular system rather than the popular “it’s just a mild cold” narrative or if that’s too stretched of an analogy that could cause more confusion and bring in a lot of the stigma that AIDS/HIV had and still has) to my own day-to-day situation (for example, I’m not sure if I’ve *ever* found a definitive answer about what a continuing line, even faint, on your rapid test after you have Covid means – I’ve seen pretty legitimate sources say everything from “any line, no matter how faint, means you’re still contagious” to “you’re probably not contagious after five (or is it ten?) days, even if you still have a line” to “we honestly don’t know.”) to whether my 5G reception will get better (er, I read that on a conspiracy site I think.) 😉
Anyhow, I would probably be more long-winded but one reality is that Covid has made me *really* tired all the time. (I’ve had more naps in the past week then anytime since I was two years old!).
I honestly sometimes don’t understand humanity – there are people living in tents in frigid weather and freezing to death in the streets and our decision makers, a number of whom claim to be Christians, could use their power to try to do…anything…but then they don’t.
Uhm, Merry Christmas everybody?
And then Jesus said unto his disciples: reduce the mil rate by fractions of percents while the sick and destitute watch on in horror. Bolt the tables down to prevent flipping in the temple. And give cops whatever they ask for. pic.twitter.com/koPo3nHIgy
Tea, pop (didn’t have ginger ale so using closest thing I had) and iced coffee. (Not pictured, a giant bottle full of ice water which has been my best friend the past few days!)
My Top Five Least Favourite Covid Symptoms (these change from day to day)
1. My ears constantly feel plugged like I’m in a plane taking off that never levels off
2. Intense dry mouth (especially at night)
3. Fever/sweating
4. Hacking cough (no blood but feels like there should be with the amount of coughing I’ve been doing!)
5. I was going to put diarrhea but that’s gross so I’ll say restless sleep/insomnia instead. 😉
The good old days when I could mock Covid by making a giant “C” out of our family’s negative tests back in January of this year…
…and even earlier in March 2021 which is when Shea was first able to get Covid rapid tests through her work to be used for herself and her family and remembering how excited we were to have a way to know if we had Covid without having to go get a stick jabbed into our brain at some drive-thru testing site at the Exhibition Grounds. (When were they available to the general public? Fall 2021? I can’t remember. Covid must’ve ruined my brain already!)
