I’ve been wearing a mask at crowded spaces but a couple of days ago the supermarket was very very busy and someone let their child run up behind me and open mouth cough right next to me.
Masks work and it took 4 years for me to catch it the first time, but they aren’t miracle workers if the general public are allowed to basically come up and assault you.
I hope it’s just the flu but I recognise these emerging symptoms as the same as when I first got it last April.
You might think I’m overreacting but the last time I got COVID it hit me hard. I have no memory of the week and a half it was at its worst, as It was just a haze of pain, fever dreams and confusion. It scares me to think how it might have damaged my brain (insert obvious jokes here) and I’m terrified of having it again. Especially if it does worse damage each time you get it.
i believe the flu is much more common than covid right now, so it’s deffo more likely to be the flu
if it ends up being covid: if you can and have the means to, paxlovid can help a bunch with covid
at least in the US you can get a prescription from sending a pic of a positive test to telehealth or CVS/walgreens clinics
and also US exclusive paxlovid gives out a free set of medicine once if you dont have insurance
https://www.paxlovid.com/paxcess#have-medicare-medicaid-or-are-uninsured-your-paxlovid-may-be-free
otherwise if you have the essentials for a flu or covid that should hopefully be good, repeat infections are (usually) milder than the first but still be careful