Thread by @dasscherick

My Covid experience, a 🧵

I was double-vaxxed with Pfizer in July. Three weeks ago, I started feeling ill, like a bad flu. My main symptoms were headache, chills, body aches, night sweats and general fatigue. On day two I went to my doctor and was diagnosed with Covid.

I never had any problems breathing. I had no cough, no sore throat, and no fever. I had been taking Zinc, NAC, Quercetin, and Vitamin D for the last year. I’m a healthy eater (mostly vegan), get good sleep, and am very physically active and fit. I am 49.

I felt bad for eight days then slowly started to turn the corner. I thought I’d get better soon. Nope. I stalled out at 60-70% of normal health for two frustrating weeks. Finally, two days ago, I felt like myself again.

During my three weeks of wrestling with Covid, I couldn’t read or concentrate very well; my brain was too foggy. This was the worst part of it for me, as I felt like I was just wasting time and being unproductive. I lost my smell for a few days, but not my taste.

Violeta, my wife, also got Covid. She is 46. She had already had Covid, about a year before. She was not vaccinated, as she was quite confident in her natural immunity and overall good health. She was taking all the supplements I was and is an even more conscientious eater.

Violeta had a headache and general fatigue. Those were her only symptoms. She felt unwell for three or four days and recovered quickly, rather unlike my experience. Overall, her illness was shorter, less severe, and with fewer symptoms. Her recovery was rapid.

Covid, for me, was a rather unusual illness. It lasted about twice as long as a normal “flu-like” sickness for me. My recovery was slow, frustrating, and unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced. I felt like I wasn’t myself. I felt “fuzzy,” if that makes any sense.

Covid is certainly real and serious. I recently had a healthy, entirely-too-young friend die of it. At the same time, I am at least as worried about government overreach, well-intentioned tyranny and “safety-ism” as I am about Covid. Covid is here to stay. It’s the new normal.

Life is fragile and precious. The world is an unsafe and unpredictable place. People get sick and die, even healthy people. No government or health agency can fix human mortality. This is why the resurrection of Jesus is so important, beautiful, and revolutionary.

Jesus is Lord!