Only because someone might be interested in the life of a mild case of the coronavirus.
I caught it around the tenth of February, without knowing what it was I had at the time. I had spent a long weekend at one of the early epicenters of the disease, and had not taken any special precautions, other than some extra hand-washing.
The symptoms appeared around a week later*. The most obvious of them was one that I have never seen mentioned: I felt that whatever I was suffering from was totally different from all the colds and flus I had had in my life. It was something new, a different feeling of being, full of truly incredible fatigue and lassitude.
My other symptoms were very minor. I had a fever which rose and fell repeatedly over a few days, extreme joint and muscle pain, and I lost both my sense of smell and my sense of taste. I did cough, but not much, I had a mild headache and a sore throat, and one night I felt that hot, red-raw feeling slowly sink down towards my lungs but somehow I managed to stop it from getting there**!
The recovery was fairly fast except for the fatigue which hung around for several months. But the after-effects have not been pleasant, if they are after-effects of the virus. I got the first urinary tract infection of my life, simultaneously with a sinus infection (which is a more repeated problem with me), the sinus infection returned three times before it finally succumbed to very strong antibiotics. I got two gum infections, and dental checks found no explanation for them. I got severe pain in my toes and slightly less pain in my fingers. I suffered from moving pains in my intestinal tract which seemed to have no correlation to what I ate or what I did. And so on.
I am glad to say that all that is now in the past. About ten days ago I realized that I was running up the stairs for the first time in months, and that carrying the laundry basket down to the basement (where the washing machine is) didn't have to be carefully planned beforehand like a polar expedition! I had muscle power back! I felt human again! But getting to that point took four months.
So wear your masks, practice social distancing, wash your hands and avoid large public indoor gatherings.
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* I assumed that I got the ordinary flu, despite being vaccinated against it, and that the weird overall feeling was linked to it being a version one gets with the vaccine. For purely random reasons I probably didn't give the virus to anyone else. At first I was too tired to go out, and then I thought I had the flu so had someone else get me groceries and that person didn't get the virus. But none of that is to my own credit.
** All I can say about that weird sentence is that it felt that way. I did a lot of qigong breathing exercises that night, but the outcome probably was just good luck.