Sorry haven't been around much for the last few days — we've both been a bit ill. Andie tested positive for COVID this morning; I'm still negative, but I'm feeling a lot of the same symptoms so I suspect I will also test positive within the next day or two. I'm all right for the moment, save for an annoying cough and a general sense of "bleh" about me, but we'll have to see how things go, I guess. If I'm too ill I guess I won't be recording a new video this weekend!
It's frustrating that catching COVID seems to be more of an inevitability than anything else right now. I know that getting COVID now isn't anywhere near as serious as it was back when the pandemic first started, but I can't help but feel that the whole switch in attitude from "do everything possible to contain this potentially deadly disease" to "eh, you're probably going to get it anyway" is a tad lackadaisical, to be polite about it.
To put things in a certain amount of admittedly biased perspective, I don't personally know anyone who had COVID at the height of the restrictions. None of my friends got it, none of my work colleagues got it, none of my family members got it. I think I might have had it right back at the start of the whole thing before anyone really knew it was a worldwide pandemic — the cough I had back then is very much like the cough I have right now — but aside from that, my world, including the "extended" aspect of it, was COVID free.
Now, in just the last few weeks, my Dad's had it, two of my local friends have had it, my wife's got it, several of my work colleagues have had it and I might have it. To me that suggests going back to being a bit more careful might not be a terrible idea… but apparently we're past that. The pandemic's over, don't you know. Everything's fine. Just don't look at the numbers.
Anyway, that's that. I'll keep you posted on my status but if I go quiet for a bit it's because I'm suffering in bed. If I go quiet for a long time, I'm probably dead, but hopefully it won't come to that.
Stay safe, wash your hands and stock up on the good cough medicine!
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