Holy cow. I wondered what 2022 was going to be like and if the first week is any indication...
well anyway. I got the Covid. Symptoms started on Sunday the 2nd and I started popping zinc lozenges and my handy-dandy oregano oil right away. Got my test on Monday that came back positive. Monday and Tuesday were flat out miserable, and then my fever broke around noon on Tuesday. I took Wednesday off, due to extreme fatigue, and woke up Thursday morning with normal-ish energy and stuffed sinuses. It was on Thursday that my sense of smell went away, but my taste hasn't been affected that I've noticed.
I plan on continuing with my zinc and oregano home treatment (I'm treating this as I would if I started catching a cold or the flu, or cellulitis for that matter.) for 10 days, because that's the limit on how long you should take oregano daily. I'm actually proud of myself for knowing about oregano oil, and not trying to rely on a dr. visit who might not have offered any treatment unless I got short of breath. Actually, I'm thrilled that zinc DOES seem to stop or shorten the common cold, and I've used it many times over my adult life. Whenever I get the slightest tickle in my throat, or a feverish feeling, I start sucking on zinc lozenges. Usually this stops a cold flat out, and 100% of the time it shortens the duration of symptoms while making the symptoms lighter.
I had the vaccine in April last year, and was planning on the booster when my mom got her booster and it caused her fingertips to tingle. This wigged me out, so I put off getting the booster, and got sick and now I have natural immunity so eff the booster, I ain't getting it. Wylie is not happy with my decision, reckoning that my not having the booster puts him in danger due to his heart condition. Well baloney, babe. I'm immune now. I guess it's possible a variant will come along that my system doesn't recognize, but it's not likely to be deadly. And he HAS had his booster, and his test came back negative, as did my mom's...so maybe if I hadn't let my mom's weird neurological reaction to the booster stop me, I might not have gotten the Covid. But it is what it is, and now I have natural immunity. No booster for me.
And I am now reading The Real Anthony Fauci, which I had on hold at the library and am thinking I'll purchase a copy for my home library because chances are everyone needs to read this book and I'll be wanting to lend it. It's long, over 400 pages, and dense, with pages and pages of end notes per chapter. And I'm doing my due diligence and checking his sources because I don't want to get in a rage over nothing. Because believe me, this is ENRAGING information. I feel like I'm swallowing the red pill...and it's giving me a stomach ache. I will say one thing, having got through the introduction and half of the first chapter:
We are being lied to. Our health practices in this nation are being overseen and directed by a man who has only dollars in mind, not the health of the American people. And that's all for now. It took a long time to fall asleep last night, and a long time to fall back asleep when Wylie woke me up getting out of bed because I was snoring
Eating is actually really good. I haven't lost my appetite...food doesn't taste weird... but I'm stopping at satiation and not eating between meals, etc.
Haven't been to the gym since Sunday morning...which I'm sure the health department will notify but I also called them after my positive result and let them know. I'm pretty sure that's where I got it, anyway. I work from home, and the gym is the only place I go with any frequency where masks are kinda rare. I haven't been wearing a mask...while working out? nope. And most people don't. Groceries a few times a month, and I did shop at my local Blick Art Supplies last week, where masks are required so it doesn't seem likely there.
The only other place MIGHT be a restaurant we ate at on Saturday (heh, I guess my food hasn't been all that compliant after all...but I did stop at satiation) which I'm sure the health department will notify them...right?
Anyway, seems Covid is here to stay. We're all going to be exposed, lots of us are going to get it, and it's more likely to be a brutal head cold than a terminal illness. AND with early action (oregano oil, zinc? ivermectin? hydroxychloroquine? I mean, there are a LOT of treatments that were shown to successfully treat Covid, preventing hospitalizations and deaths, then "the powers that be" said "No! There is no early treatment for this illness! Go home. Isolate. If you get short of breath, come back and we'll put you in ICU! Do NOT use horse medicine! Do NOT use that stuff that evil Orange Man talked about once in a press conference. Nope. Nothing you can do but get sicker and sicker and hope for a vaccine soon."
Sorry. I said I wasn't going to say anything more. And now I am done. I'm appalled at what I am learning about how our Director of NIH has handled this crisis...and there's chapters coming up about his handling of AIDS when it broke out in the 80's.