2nd round for me right now
1st time was in January. Had cold symptoms and a nasty cough for a day and a half then cleared. Had the brain fog BAD for at least a month. Definitely impacted getting work done at the office. I'd read and re-read sentences several times and would just zone out. Very strange.
2nd round has been decent cold symptoms - sore throat, congestion, cough. Doesn't seem to be lingering though and feels like it's sitting higher in the respiratory system than Rd 1. Hopefully done with that part of it and can avoid the brain fog this time. I did have a massive headache yesterday, so my hopes aren't too high there.
Is what it is. Seems to be going around everywhere. Like any coronavirus, we're just gonna have to get exposed to it several times, let it do its mutating thing, and eventually we'll shelve it next to the other coronaviruses that cause the common cold. I'm just glad we seem to be past the versions that killed so many folks. That or earlier versions were no more deadly than today, but simply took advantage of a naïve population with a slow immune response. Time solves that with natural infections and vaccinations.
Surely we are getting closer to where we can treat this like a common cold right or flu? I get the "long covid" concerns, but what virus doesn't have long-view risks? Not sure why Covid is any different there and it's simply not practical to have a zero exposure strategy as an individual. I work from home mostly, so it's not the biggest deal for me, but "isolating" myself for a week seems to be overkill. I know folks that have to be present for work can't do this. So, why not come out of the cave when you don't have a fever for a day like any other common contagious airborne disease we try to manage? Maybe hospitalization rates are still a bit higher than flu/colds/etc., but surely we are getting close to "acceptable risk" point?
