Lost weekend

[white_hart]

I spent most of yesterday in bed, much of it feeling too exhausted even to sit up and read a book.

Today I managed to get up and put clothes on, and then flopped on the sofa under a blanket and watched The Emperor's New Groove followed by Kiki's Delivery Service and then put the 2020 Emma* on in the background and read Sandman.

I've been doing daily lateral flow tests which keep coming out negative, but even for January this really isn't normal. I suppose it could be actual burnout, though covid still seems more likely...

*which is the last film I saw in the cinema, at the end of February 2020

Comments

[mountainkiss]

I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I know so many people now who've had obvious covid symptoms after known close-hand exposure and tested negative throughout (LFT and PCR) makes me think that we will discover at some point that there's something about omicron that can't be picked up by some tests that catch other variants. Usual caveats: not an epidemiologist and my acquaintanceship is not a statistically significant sample.

[girlyswot]

This. Including but not limited to me.

[mountainkiss]

Also Josh Winfield who had cold symptoms for nine days after having spent Christmas day inside with his parents who then tested positive two days later. Occam's razor holds.

[white_hart]

Well, this is certainly possible. It's also possible that I am just too crap at taking the swabs and not managing to get a decent sample.

[mountainkiss]

I was convinced that I was going to find out in 2024 that I'd been doing them wrong all along, but then when I actually did have covid I did 14 positive tests in a row, so I now think that if I can do them then anyone can.