Life With COVID-19 and Post-Election Thoughts

 So on Election Day, two hours after I voted, I tested positive for Coronavirus. As a result, I am locked in my house so I don't give it to anyone else (given how contentious this election was, it was probably for the best that I wasn't outside anyway). Let me tell you, having this thing sucks. One night, before I knew anything was wrong, I woke up with cold sweats. For the next few nights, I hit a wall at like 8pm or so and was extremely fatigued. After that, I started feeling sore and was coughing and had a stuffy nose. After testing positive, I had different symptoms every day. I had terrible body aches that made me not want to move at all, I had a fever that went away soon after, then came back again and went away a second time, I had brain fog that severely impacted my ability to do work, and at one point my sinuses were so swollen, it hurt to breathe through my nose. I also can't taste anything that isn't salty, which fucking sucks. Despite all of this, I seriously think that the mental toll this virus took on me was worse than the physical. Early on, my mind was racing, wondering if I would die of the virus or get some sort of permanent organ damage. I'm very lucky I just had a minor case, though I'm still not fully recovered and operating at I would say 95%. My isolation ends Friday, but I'm still not leaving for a few more days just to be sure. No reason to risk infecting others. Thankfully I was able to Zoom in to my classes and not miss much, I'll just keep doing that. I will say Trump losing the election and the temper tantrums thrown by him and his supporters helped put me in a good mood during the worst of the virus. I am not a Joe Biden fan by any stretch of the imagination, but the country needs a better leader to guide it through this chaos. I have to say I am absolutely stunned that 71 million people looked at the events of last 4 years including all the scandals, the pandemic, the current economic depression, the divisiveness, the violence, and the lies and thought "yeah, I want more of that". I knew this dude was a charlatan and a con-artist from the beginning and it floors me that his supporters don't see that despite everything that has happened. Trump isn't even trying to be a populist anymore, he's run the worst political campaign I've ever seen in my life, and he STILL got 71 million votes! This country has some serious critical thinking issues. Fingers crossed Trump's coup attempt is a miserable failure and the impending ideological civil war in the Republican party destroys it from the inside.