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Warpy

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4. It's likely accurate
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 03:50 PM
Apr 2020

and you might be having early symptoms. The digital thermometers are accurate, the chemical ones not so much. If you live in a very humid area, your temperature might also reflect increased activity, you clothing interfering with the body's ability to sweat and cool down the core temperature. Check your resting temperature tonight when you get home and see what it is. If it's still up there, you might be coming down with something, even the garden variety flu.

Nobody's going to test you with just a low grade fever to show them, which is silly because that's how this disease is spreading, people who only feel a little "off" shedding virus like crazy. You'll need a nasty cough for that.

I was always sick when I worked retail. Everybody who's selling groceries these days is a hero(ine).

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