We spent over two years in a pandemic. I know a lot of people would argue with the lockdowns and social distancing measures. Some of the advice was ok and somewhat solid though. I can think of the advice - if you are sick, isolate yourself away from others to prevent passing on your illness. That makes sense and it's a solid piece of health advice that should be carried forward into everyone's lives - if you are symptomatically sick, stay away from others.
I had covid during the summer. It was an illness that was about 1 week long for me followed by another week recovering. The taste and smell took about 14 days.
At some stage after that, I met up with my partner. We live apart and it works for us. It was only when we were sitting down together having a meal in a restaurant did he tell me he was sick the night before. A few days pass and I became heavily nauseous for hours. It took hours for me to vomit. Then I spent the night with D & V.
I isolated myself into my room for 24 hours. I only got up in the middle of the night when my family were gone to bed to get bottled water, vitamins, toast. I wore masks. I allowed that dose to pass through me before missing with others. When I did start mixing with others, I work masks. I was so happy when 3/4/5/6 days passed and my family never got sick from me.
My partner has one thing to do when he was sick and that was to stay away from others. Just stay away tip it passes. I was horrified to learned he passed that dose around to so many people. His adult siblings and their families. He was the common demoninator. One of them even ended up with hospital. My partners attitude was - it's not covid so in his mind - walking around with any other illness is fair game to him.
He was sick again last week. He tested and it wasn't covid so he couldn't be bothered to isolate even though he was coughing and he was symptomatically ill.
I'm so sick of this. I was diagnosed earlier this year with a condition. My own body can make me sick and I experienced a few flares already this year. I am already in a vulnerable and compromised position and he doesn't seem to understand it. I don't need other people to add on top of it and make me sick, once more.
These illnesses that I picked up from him could have been avoided if he was forthcoming in advance of meeting me and if he just isolated himself too when he is ill.
I had a sibling home for a few weeks and he became sick one weekend. He isolated in his room for a whole weekend. He didn't meet all and sundry and pass it on.