I tested positive for Covid-19 today...
I live in Springfield if you're curious.
Started with a headache, sore throat, and neck/shoulder stiffness Wednesday night. My wife is a lead nurse at one of Vanderbilt's walk in clinics that's on the front lines of testing every day. Went in yesterday to get tested and they pushed my test to the front of the line because of her being there.
Currently, the wait to get tested is over 3 hours and the wait for results is 3 days. Why? Because so many people without symptoms are rushing to get tested right after they load up on asswipe and lysol. Those same idiots who were showing symptoms were told to sit in their cars and I could see them walking to Kroger and Starbucks. Just unreal.
My wife texted me this morning and told me my results came back positive. We pretty much knew yesterday when my standard flu test came back negative that I was going to be positive. My wife has yet to show any symptoms, but they went ahead and sent her home today for two weeks also. I imagine her symptoms will show up any day now, but she runs that clinic and for them to send her home without symptoms is serious for them. Ironically, all of them there say they feel safest at work when they're in full PPE.
There is so much misinformation out there about this it's mind bottling. They need to shut everything down that can be shut down. The amount of people I've been in contact with the last 7-10 days, let alone up to 24 days is staggering. Not just handshakes as those have gone the way of social distancing greetings, but things I've touched, where I've just been breathing, grocery shopping, Starbucks, literally my daily routine as I've been working the whole time.
I don't know where I caught it from, but I honestly could have exposed 100 people or more just in the past 7-10 days. Easily. That somehow seems scarier knowing it's me doing the walking around instead of the "what if" of someone else walking around while I grab my Americano or beer.
With that said, I don't feel bad. Slightly fluish still without the fever and whole body aches, but I've felt way worse than this after bad food before. I had the flu the first week of January for the first time in nearly 20 years. I was miserable for a week then and this is more like a hangover by comparison.
Hopefully it doesn't get worse and I don't anticipate it will. The worst part was the test. I took a video and if you are curious about it, it isn't pleasant. They go through your nose all the way down to the back of your throat. She said you might have a little bloody nose, but I bled for a few minutes. She said you have a deviated septum. I said you chose the wrong nostril. I laughed, my wife laughed, she shook her head.