Intense Fatigue and Rapid Heartrate

 I'm sure not being able to smell your food or having continually sore toes is irritating, but the most concerning symptoms really are the breathlessness and heart inflammation. When you're wiped out climbing to a third-floor landing up steps you often take two at a time while in and out, up and down a few times daily, you know something is wrong with your body, weeks after you beat the fever. The virus's effects can linger and long-term, we don't know the cost. I did test for antibodies, for what the $35 pharmacy test is worth, still detectable a few weeks back from natural immunity and the JandJ jab in April. I feel strong again but avoid the kids and adults coughing and sneezing of late, and all the angry people, repressed or upfront in passing negativity. No thanks.

Vaccines are placebos for many, but you'll know if you're otherwise healthy, that you might have Covid from the breathlessness and increased resting heart rate, observed in this latest strain too. Rest and beat it, especially if you've got a chest congestion too, like walking pneumonia that you can fight through but catches up with you, or that deep cough you can hear something settled in the lungs of others, especially (northern) schoolkids around now.

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* The local library where I use the printer is right down from a middle school where the kids come in, coughing and talking and partially masked, right after school as daycare for working to parents who pick them up later.  Library doesn't open until noon now, so you got to time it right to avoid contagious children parents can't afford to care for at home now.

Until common sense and personal discipline prevails, I don't think America is on track to beating this thing.  Hopefully the heart effects and breathless exhaustion abate, the symptoms don't linger and expose the younger, enclosed kids to more bacterial spread of common winter illnesses.

If they have to shut schools again because too many kids or teachers are out, someone will have to stay home again with the remote learners. Pray enough parents have a backup plan, because it is doubtful America in all classes are going to collectively accommodate another lockdown, even with a lot of semi-sick folks walking around...