2022-09-23
I managed to dodge infection for 922 days of the Covid pandemic (Based on the World Health Organisation's declaration of the outbreak being a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and my positive test on 19 September 2022, I stayed uninfected for two years, six months, one week, and one day. But who's counting?), but it caught up with me eventually.
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Frankly, it's surprising that it took this long. We've always been careful, in accordance with guidance at any given time, nd we all got our jabs and boosters as soon as we were able... but conversely: we've got school-age children who naturally seem to be the biggest disease vectors imaginable. Our youngest, in fact, already had Covid, but the rest of us managed to dodge it perhaps thanks to all these precautions.
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Luckily I'm not suffering too badly, probably thanks to the immunisation. It's still not great, but I dread to think how it might have been without the benefit of the jab! A minor fever came and went, and then it's just been a few days of coughing, exhaustion, and... the most-incredible level of brain-fog.
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I've taken the week off work to recover, which was a wise choice. As well as getting rest, it's meant that I've managed to avoid writing production code with my addled brain! Instead, I've spent a lot of time chilling in bed and watching all of the films that I'd been meaning to! This week, I've watched:
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Anyway: hopefully next week I'll be feeling more normal and my poor Covid-struck brain can be trusted with code again. Until then: time to try to rest some more.
