And may I remind everyone that among those who called me stupid or even wanted me thrown out of public places, locked up, or held down and needle-raped not one said person has apologized to me. Not one so pardon me (or not) if I consider all of those alleged "humans" pieces of **** and always will -- even at this point the default is to act like it never happened. Well it did happen, they did say that, they advocated for it all the way up to our former President and I've not destroyed my memory by addling it with various and sundry drugs nor am I riddled with dementia so if they die as a consequence **** them because to obtain forgiveness you must first be sorry (among other acts) and they're not -- even today.
But the virus came and then it (mostly) went -- exactly as I and a few others said it would and, by the way, almost-exactly on the pattern we believe was OC43 that first showed up in the late 1800s (and which still circulates today, incidentally.) In other words all our much-vaunted "countermeasures" did exactly nothing -- except screw people and businesses to one degree or another. Oh sure, people still get it, but one of the things that the crazy taught me was to distrust everything. That wound up with my deciding to add a handful of supplements to my daily routine along with paying attention to overnight HRV and...... not one respiratory illness that has been sufficient for me to call myself "sick" in roughly four years. As a benchmark I usually got a fairly-decent cold or flu once or twice a year and had since I remember back to my time as a teen so this is a rather statistically-significant change. I'm sure eventually I'll get something that flattens me for several days but the improvement I've managed in that regard is not small and its cost minuscule thus I'll keep doing it. Now to be fair maybe something viral sort-of got me in the last couple weeks -- no fever, but a few other annoyances that historically back to my youth have reliably marked such events and there was confirmation in my Garmin's overnight HRV readings. Whoopie