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Yep, getting annoyed with people (yet again), in this case those who are posting on their social media that they are sick with a cold, the flu, a mystery virus (maybe a norovirus!), brand new allergies they’ve never had before, unexplained fever, gastroenteritis, well heck you name it. They are “summer sick” with ANYTHING BUT COVID. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT FUCKING TESTING FOR COVID.
And why would that be? Other than the mass global denial that is going on everywhere. Covid is over! Omg we can all go back to NORMAL.
We all know Covid is not over, it’s simply permutating and getting smarter thanks to us. I really hesitate to start spouting what may sound like conspiracy theories but I mean… where has all the Covid data gone since about a year ago? No testing, no nothing, and even possibly no new vaccines this autumn…
Meanwhile, yesterday evening my right nostril suddenly started STREAMING… got all itchy and sneezy. Basically became a one-nostril mucus factory (you can imagine). Left one is fine. And so okay, I have had sinus issues all my life, cannot leave the house without a whack of tissues (either kleenex or paper towels) in my bag, but my nose ALWAYS RUNS. All my life with this. But last night was different. Itching, sneezing, pressure below my eye… something wasn’t right.
And so this morning I did a Covid rapid test – because WHY WOULDN’T I? – and it was negative. But I’ll be testing daily until the symptoms subside simply because it might be Covid. For everyone who thinks Covid is behind us (usually a line of thinking to justify them not giving a shit about anyone else) you may find out sooner than later that you too are “vulnerable”.
I have been accused of being JUDGEMENTAL, and all kinds of other things, because I still take Covid seriously, test every week, stay home if I have any “just a cold” symptoms, etc… And when I’ve had to travel for work I always test that morning. Because what if I was Covid positive? Yes, I would have to abort my plans, it would fuck everything up, it would end up costing me money… but what is the option? Getting on a plane or train knowing you have a highly transmittable air-born disease and you could infect almost everyone. Just because you put yourself first.
Well, that’s just not me. If it’s you, maybe take a good look at your life priorities and then hopefully come to the realisation that this world we share isn’t just about you.
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I saw a Twitter comment by someone rolling their eyes over the number of work colleagues (thankfully encountered via Zoom meetings) who have developed this new variety of summer complaint. The New York Times, which used to be the gold (or grey) standard of journalistic responsibility, ran a piece last week about how to tell which virus you’ve got, as part of what seems to be a relentless campaign of normalization of the unsustainable. (They stopped getting my money a couple of years ago when I had had enough bothsidesism, but they pelt me daily with a headline roundup and a few stories trying to reel me back in. Fat chance.) I was hoping things might settle down with school out, just to give the doctors and nurses a break, but I guess everyone’s just gotta keep rubbing up against one another and masks are so last year. Sigh.
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So many trash articles like this. The only way you can know you don’t have Covid is to take a fucking Covid test. And more than one in the case of rapid tests as they may not pick it up the first couple of times. There are also all those articles on “Covid anxiety” as if we’re nuts for being concerned about a rapidly mutating disease that compromises immune systems (amongst many other horrible things). Right up there with “eco-anxiety” referring to totally reasonable people who are worried about climate change. Blame shifting so that deniers can carry on denying. Ufff.
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