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Covid and Me

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Remember, no good deed goes unpunished, but do them anyway.

We supported a friend by attending his father’s funeral a year ago, in December 2019. No one really talked about Covid then, just of a few deaths caused by an unknown disease in China. The funeral was crowded, with a mix of young and old. The father was a life-long New Yorker, but the service was just across the river, near Fort Lee. There had been some tension in the family, and the friend appreciated our presence.

We came home and life was normal for a couple of weeks. Around New Years, I got sick, low fever, chronically exhausted, couldn’t get out of bed. The symptoms were odd for me, but I thought it was a bad case of flu. My wife took ill a couple of days later. Maybe two weeks after that, as I was starting to feel…

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    1. You’re welcome. I have been covering pandemic issues for about 15 years or so. Covid-19 is a natural draw. I still don’t know if one of two different illnesses I had last year and in February were normal lung nasties or Covid. I have not been tested and had to work up courage just to go out and get my annual flu shot in September. At 76, I am more that freaked out by what has been going on. Two neighbors across the street have just started getting back t normal after fighting Covid for 3 weeks.

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    2. Not sure there is such a thing as “back to normal”, more like a new normal. We’ve confirmed the virus was in the US in December, and there was no testing in January. Assuming we had it based on symptoms, including sense of taste. I’m 67 btw.

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    3. agree on new normal. I had no loss of taste or smell but that has not been universal. I was working in a clinic for homeless men and we had a ton of lung illnesses in January that defied diagnosis – but could have been other disease as well. In April, I used all vacation and sick time I had accumulated and never went back.

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