I'm a baby when it comes to sore throats.

It's the one "tell" I follow that leads me to test.

A sore throat is the worst symptom I get from the "common cold" or "seasonal flu". I can't imagine how much worse it is with an severe respiratory infection like COVID!!

We're just entering the summer months. If Nimbus continues to spread it may be fall blown pandemic again by the fall or winter!

unfortunately. People here in NYC mostly treating it like a bad cold. My daughter had her annual physical lat month, and the doctor recommended a covid shot for her (it's been over two years and she was worried they wouldn't be available to kids for much longer). So we did. And then I learned about three friends who had covid shortly after.

Here's to keeping healthy and no razor blade throat!

(It does seem like for those of us who have been vaccinated and have some immunity, covid's effects are mainly minimal. But I'm wary for severely unhealthy people. My MIL has COPD and we stay away from her with every sniffle.).

Like what are those names with numbers and letters that don’t mean anything and sre hard to remember?

will not help quell the spread.

You don't like that, do you.

But I definitely don't like razor blades in my throat.

By covid tests. A few months ago my wife and I were sick as hell. It was as bad an illness as I've had in about thirty years, and it took me about 10-11 days to kick. However, we both tested negative for the flu and covid.

For one thing, I haven't had a cold in over 4 years. Also, having a vaccination denier, road kill eating heroin addict with a history of brain worms being in charge of Health and Human Services pretty much means I have to look after myself, even if I do look silly. (Although I always see others wearing masks, too.)

Also read that latest Surgeon General nominee's brother is one of Road Kill Kennedy's advisors. Let's face it - we're on our own, now.

Mask in sprite of side eye from others. Especially if you're over 65. The majority of deaths occur in that group. Several hundred are still dying every week from Covid and the summer surge is just starting.

in crowded places.

It might save your health and even your life!

If and when his brain worm gives him permission to do so.

And a swim in shit creek

If I had this back in March of this year. I had what I thought was a head cold in March, and had a sore throat for about five days that felt like what is described. I then lost my sense of taste and have only had it back for about a month. Never occurred to me I might have Covid until I lost my sense of taste because it just didn’t seem that bad except for the sore throat.

These were my exact symptoms.