"Aced My Test"

[kane_magus]

A post by Athena Scalzi on Whatever.

I'm thinking it might be, at some point, someday, a not entirely terrible idea for me to go get tested to see if I had (or still have, since I'm still showing symptoms even now) COVID. If COVID is what I had/have, then it was/is pretty mild, as well, aside from sheer duration, because I'm pretty sure I felt a fuck-ton worse when I had the flu for a week or so around March of 2019. If this wasn't/isn't COVID... well, whatever it was/is still was/is pretty mild.

If anything, the fact that my back inexplicably gave out again this past Monday sucks far worse than this cold/flu/COVID/whatever I had/have. Having both of those issues together sucks encrusted donkey penis.

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[owsf2000]

Covid is technically "mild" for most people that will get it - there's such a high number of asymptomatic cases after all, and it's why it's so hard to contain it. That being said some people who have been asymptomatic have still suffered some degree of lung damage.

So yeah, you really should get tested, and hopefully you've been trying to stay isolated as much as possible during all this. The problems are all about how easy it is to transmit it to someone else - and risking that someone else ending up in the hospital or worse over it.

There's also the cases where people start to get better than suddenly crash. So knowing if you actually have covid would be helpful, especially if it's still lingering after all this time. Especially if your state is as bad as most with the wait time between getting tested and getting the results.

[kane_magus]

Yeah, I've got the isolation thing down. I haven't been out of the house at all since... *thinks* ...the Tuesday before Thanksgiving (Nov 24), when I went to the grocery store. And by that Saturday (Nov 28) was when I was starting to cough, then by the next Monday (Nov 30) was when I started feeling proper sick.