A lot of people are sick right now: Are we allowed to be regular sick?

We have an ongoing joke that exists around here that is probably a thing all around the world around when we say "Are we allowed to be regular sick or is everything still Covid?" A lot of people are ill right now, and one of them is me. Nobody will go to the doctor or hospital though because they know that if they do test positive for Covid that there is nothing that the doctors can do for you and all that is going to happen is that they will inconvenience you and all the people that you have been around and that live in your building.

Everyone I know and 90% of the country is vaccinated at least 2 times so either the vaccine is going to do its job or it doesn't work at all.

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My illness is a strange one and reminds me of the 18 years or so that I was a smoker. I wake up each morning with a cloud in my lungs and after about an hour of being awake and coughing a bit to get it all out of there, that's it for the day. I then feel fine for the remainder of the day although I do feel tired. I don't know if the fatigue is just me being lazy or some sort of illness-related thing. I have always been a bit of a low-energy person anyway especially if i sit and stare at computer monitors all day long... which is my job.

If i take a capful of this and just wait 30 minutes my issues go away. It was funny at the pharmacist because I asked for expectorant and initially she gave me a bottle of something and said "herbal style" an I handed it back and asked for "real medicine."

When I send messages around to the other people I know basically everyone has a sinus issue of some sort they same way that seasonal illnesses used to travel around with everything before the word decided that a little bit of a runny nose means that you have a life-threatening disease or even worse, that you are going to kill grandmas.

I stay home for the most part not because I am concerned about spreading a virus that I do not believe I have but because when I am feeling a bit under the weather I tend to stay home anyway. Most of the people that I know are doing the same thing. If I do have Covid and I really hope that I do, and this is all that it does to you then I'm not all that worried about it anyway.

I know one particular animal that is quite pleased that I am spending time at home and she even has her new squeaky carrot to hang onto while we watch a bunch of films. At the moment I am halfway through the new Ghostbusters film, which so far, has been pretty good.

I just think it is kind of strange that basically everyone I know is sick right now but everyone has the same opinion about going to get tested - they aren't going to do it and this is a real problem. Since testing positive results in nothing good for you and only bad things for you and those around you, most people are afraid to go get a test and this isn't a good thing now is it?