I had COVID

I'm not sure I really documented it anywhere, but I had COVID. I'm not exactly sure how I got it. My best guess was while I was masked at a tween jewellery store. People weren't masked there, it was tight. At some point someone was coughing.

 

I was on 2 day of a migraine and took Alice for a ride and by the time I got to the Corktown bridge, I was tired. Really, really winded and tired. I didn't understand why. The next day I had the slightest feeling things were off so I took a RAT. I didn't think that there was a line, but Laura disagreed. She took me for a PCR to confirm what she thought - I had COVID. Alice didn't get it. Laura got herself and Isaac tested and they were okay. I did the isolation from them which was a bit hard for everyone. I didn't get too ill, but while I was sick I would so very easily get winded. Like, standing up to make coffee was too much. When I was on the mend I went for a outside walk with Laura and she told me a joke. I laughed and laughed... and then had to sit down on the curb for a while so I didn't pass out.

So, I seemed to have gotten COVID while masked (not with my best mask) in a mall for less than an hour. I've always felt like I am the weak one health wise. This doesn't make me feel better about that. So when people are not concerned about going back to pre-pandemic life despite the wastewater clearly showing we're in another wave, I am concerned. I feel there is high risk and the benefits people list seem like shit, specifically for work. I've heard we should go back to the office because "I liked my morning run on the way to the office" (from upper management), "real estate prices will go down if we don't use the office" (upper management), and "I like eating food someone else cooked".

Oh, and for the office masks aren't required unless you're in a hallway or elevator. Because after 2+ years we're all pretending that it's droplet and not airborne. Fun times. It's honestly stressing me out so much thinking about going back to the office. And I'm not even going back until like end of August or September! sigh I think that they'll roll back the plans anyways since we'll be in another wave. Again. And again. Every season there will be a wave because this keeps on getting easier to transmit and people keep on removing the protections we know work. I get less done at the office. It can be a source of COVID. Laura suggested that I will need to mentally re-frame how I think about the office but I don't know if I can right now.

I just don't know if I can.