Got COVID?

JMJ

My test looked like the middle one

It's been a while since I wrote an article about COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 and I decided to write this because on my first post-COVID vacation, I caught it.

I actually still 'have' it as I am now in my third day and I'm on the mend. As I lay in bed with the fever, headache, and pain (it seems that COVID wanted to remind me of old injuries); I thought about how I expected some of my harsher critics to react.

Here are my ruminations

See the vaccine didn't work you caught covid!

I disagree ...
When my children caught what, based on symptoms, appeared to be COVID, I was able to help take care of them. I did not get sick. That was one of my motivations for taking the vaccine.
It is known that the vaccines are about 90% effective in creating antibodies and that this immunity wanes over time. I had my shots over a year ago. So I was expecting to catch it at some point in time.
The virus has mutated as they do, meaning that the version I caught is different than the version upon which my vaccine was based. The mRNA vaccines, as I understand it, are quite specific in their creation of immunity, as the virus mutates these changes can make vaccines less effective. Note: Less effective doesn't mean ineffective.

You didn't get too sick!

True, this is about on par with the worst flu that I have experienced. With one exception, my breathing hasn't been affected. The head-ache, pain, exhaustion, sinus issues all were present, but thankfully not the difficulty breathing that I have experienced in the past. Whether this is due to the vaccine or simply due to the less dangerous version that I caught is unknowable.
I am still relatively young and in good health so I wouldn't expect anything different unless I won the lottery and got a major viral load.

Maybe that was why my golf game was off on Monday 😀

Two my managers have recently caught COVID-19 as well as several colleagues, so I could see it coming, I just didn't plan on happening on my vacation. My wife noted that I always seem to get sick on vacation. There does seem to be a pattern and this might be due to a sustained period of stress in which your immune system is heightened and when the stressors are removed, the immune system dips.

I'm not going to ponder it too much more.

Wishing you all the best wherever you may be!

P^3

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