COVID test came back positive. I'm exhausted. I would share more but feeling wrung out.
The test is often wrong.
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But these symptoms; exhaustion, shortness of great, listlessness point the other way. This is my reality and I urge everyone to take this disease extremely seriously. I'm not living or dying a crazy political conspiracy. Mask up! Maintain social distancing take the vaccine. Just because it hasn't effected you personally doesn't mean it can't or won't.
My apologies to anyone taking umbrage for my admonition. But realize there have been far too many lies told about this pandemic. And the biggest lie is we can attitude our way out.
I’m taking it seriously, but also questioning the establishment narrative.
Much of my family was at Disney World in November 2019. 17 of us including 6 children all under 10. Nearly all got sick afterwards with symptoms now considered common to Covid-19. All recovered nicely without hospitalization.
Hombre and I are both over 65 which technically puts us in the high risk group. I suspect we both had the virus late last winter before the country was put in pandemic mode--unexplained symptoms that lasted a few days and then passed--first me and a week later him. Never severe enough to be of serious concern and we didn't go to urgent care or our doctor. But putting two and two together it's possible. We were taking no precautions then though and nobody we were in contact with has come down with it so also maybe not. We live as though we are at risk. We haven't been motivated to endure the long lines at the testing centers. Our state has now done enough tests to have tested our entire population once, but nobody I know has been tested so apparently many people are being tested multiple times. But I do look forward to the time we can return to normal lives. I feel so badly to those whose businesses and livelihoods have been pretty much destroyed.
On reflection, several folks in my small, remote community figure there's a possibility it cam through here last year between thanksgiving and christmas. It was thought to be the annual flu and no one paid much attention to it. I had a couple of days of headache, which I almost never have headaches. I work with Chinese cargo aircraft daily and have not had any problems. No one in my professional circle has had symptoms although some have tested positive initially, with subsequent tests being negative. There are most definitely diseases out there that are deadly. If people want to protect themselves, I have no objections. But I really am having a difficult time buying into this whole narrative based on personal experience.
If based purely on personal experience, I would agree. If we had it, our symptoms were mild and non alarming. But our cousin who passed away with it was real. Our friend airlifted from the Texas Panhandle to Denver for a last chance hope of saving her life was real. (She did survive it thank God.) And our nephew who was in ICU on 90% oxygen for a week was real. He was one who doubted until he got it. He doesn't doubt any more.
Do I believe everything diagnosed as COVID is COVID? Heck no. I take into account many factors that convince me the numbers are inflated for a number of different reasons. But neither do I doubt that the virus is real and dangerous, even deadly, for some. In these things there will be many factors that provide fodder for political discussion/debate, but for us let's just care about those dealing with it and be grateful that we aren't one of them.
