May Have Finally Gotten a Low-Grade Virus
Oct. 29th, 2023 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorThe last few days I've wondered if I don't have a low-grade cold. Symptoms have been mild enough that it's hard to tell if this is really a cold or if I have something else going on here. Maybe I've developed a seasonal allergy or something. I broke out the covid testing of course but it has come back negative so far, so as far as I know, this is not covid-19, but I understand covid tests have a lot of false negatives so that's not very definitive either.
I am already vaccinated for covid-19 and flu this season (since September), and still following my masking and distancing protocols, so if this is a cold then something got through. Which is unfortunate but would still mean that my immunization, masking, and distancing protocols are still greatly reducing both the frequency and intensity of illness for me. Pre-pandemic I used to get nasty colds at least once a year--this is the first thing I've thought might be a virus that I've had since before the pandemic started in 2020.
Another thing that might help reduce sickness intensity for me is that I take mild sickness much more seriously than I did pre-covid, so I've been taking it as easy as I can. It's appalling for me to think how sick I had to be pre-covid to try not to go places, or even just take it easy and allow myself to recuperate. It's appalling that our society still expects people to drag themselves to work or school when they're dying of a virus so they can work themselves to death and infect others. Our society really is killing us in so many ways.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to keep making an effort to avoid getting viruses. It's not just covid I'll benefit from avoiding, either--there are plenty of other viruses I'd rather not get, especially the older I get. And if I do get a virus, I want to do everything in my power to recuperate from it and avoid passing it to others.
I am already vaccinated for covid-19 and flu this season (since September), and still following my masking and distancing protocols, so if this is a cold then something got through. Which is unfortunate but would still mean that my immunization, masking, and distancing protocols are still greatly reducing both the frequency and intensity of illness for me. Pre-pandemic I used to get nasty colds at least once a year--this is the first thing I've thought might be a virus that I've had since before the pandemic started in 2020.
Another thing that might help reduce sickness intensity for me is that I take mild sickness much more seriously than I did pre-covid, so I've been taking it as easy as I can. It's appalling for me to think how sick I had to be pre-covid to try not to go places, or even just take it easy and allow myself to recuperate. It's appalling that our society still expects people to drag themselves to work or school when they're dying of a virus so they can work themselves to death and infect others. Our society really is killing us in so many ways.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to keep making an effort to avoid getting viruses. It's not just covid I'll benefit from avoiding, either--there are plenty of other viruses I'd rather not get, especially the older I get. And if I do get a virus, I want to do everything in my power to recuperate from it and avoid passing it to others.