I prolly have covid

[Warpy]

17. I don't know what I had because tests were strictly rationed

to people in serious trouble. I'm over 70, so I might have gotten one, but I didn't feel like infecting anyone else in order to go out and get it.

I had a low fever that maxed out at 101, a splitting headache and a dry cough. My lungs sounded diminished in the bases with a lot of upper airway wheezing and rhonchi. The worst was over in a few days but the fever kept going up and down for over a week, chills alternating with sweats. That was the most uncomfortable part, outside of the headache.

One day we'll have antibody tests and I'll be sure It was certainly unlike anything I've had before, but if that's what a mild case is like, I can see why people are trying to power through it to stay employed.

I'm going blind and I can't drive, so I was most likely infected by a cabbie or a clerk, they're the only people I was in close proximity to. I was meticulous about hand hygiene and not touching my face, but when ya gotta breathe, ya gotta breathe. I just hope whoever infected me with whatever it was had an equally mild case. I was home long enough before and after symptoms that any bugs I shed died a lonely and frustrated death.

And no, cloth masks don't work, they're a feel-good measure. Those tiny gaps in the weave that you need to magnify in order to see are open barn doors to a virus and when they get wet, virus particles flow right through them. About all they're good for is stopping droplets when a person is coughing, the advantage over a hankie or tissue being uncontaminated hands. Cough into your elbow, it does a better job.