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[sovay]

My ironic virtual con crud has progressed to the point of keeping me up at night coughing and sneezing when I get up in the afternoon. I have some fairly solid reasons for believing it not to be COVID-19, but have nonetheless put in a call to my PCP in order to warn them that my history with normal respiratory crud is quite bad and if I am not lucky I will be calling them later in the week about it. In the meantime, I am trying to procure more orange juice.

I want to write about so many things and I need to do my job and the state of my body is not helping. Nothing is interacting—physically—well in here. It's not new and I still hate it.

Have a nice thread about Jewish atheism and some smoking twelfth-century sunglasses.

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[sovay]

(I think sneezing is not usually a Covid symptom? But that doesn't make it less unpleasant.)

Well, now that the CDC has its ass in gear at last, the fact that I called my doctor's office about potential sinus infection was enough to fast-track me to triage and I am set to be tested for COVID-19 at you've-got-to-be-kidding-me o'clock tomorrow morning. But it still feels like sadly familiar crud to me. I don't know what to do with the fact that respiratory symptoms lasting more than ten days are now a COVID-19 flag, since I have never had a cold in my life that went away in less than two weeks and sometimes persisted much longer than that.

[gwynnega]

I can relate, because my allergies have been trolling me on and off for the whole pandemic! I'm sorry you have to get up so early for the test, but I guess it's good the CDC is on the ball now, in general.