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"title": "COVID-19: A Review",
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"COVID",
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"Pandemic",
"COVID-19"
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"summary": "It turned out I wans't the Chosen One after all",
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"date_published": "2023-01-06T07:02:01.999Z",
"content": "\nSo I got COVID. Not exactly any headline material right now but still felt like a trip through hell to me.\n\n### Day 1: The Fever\n\nI was looking out a day before the feast of Stephen. There was no snow laying roundabout, deep and crisp and even. But I felt a chill crawling all over my body. My wife got a fever 2 days before and tested positive just before Christmas Eve. I knew I must've had it.\n\nThe fever felt okay to me. Not that it was any kind to me but I just felt, well, like I was high. I think it was partly because my brain was overclocked by that 1 or 2 degree increase in body temperature so my mind was gallavanting around every corner in the universe. I even had several breakthroughs , not that I could remember any of them.\n\nI measured 38.5 degree celsius (101.3 degree farenheit to all the infidels) that night so I took some ibuprofen and went to sleep.\n\n### Day 2: The Fever: Returned\n\nI woke up a new man the next day. The fever was gone, though I still tested overwhelmingly positive. I thought maybe I was the Chosen One (I had the same thought just before I got COVID), being able to beat COVID in just 1 day.\n\nI started working (since it was Monday) and 2 hours later, the fever returned. I measured 38.5 once again and started feeling high, once again. I may have had several breakthroughs but once again, I couldn't remember any. Just hours later, the high wore off a little but the fever persisted.\n\nI credited this morning's good condition to ibuprofen so I took some more before sleep.\n\n### Day 3~5: The Cough: Enhanced Edition\n\nI was acquainted to upper respiratory infections since I was just a kid. It then became a recurring role in my life, checking on me once several years. During each infection, I would have a fever for 1 or 2 days before coughing like I was about to spew out my lungs. Unfortunately (or fortunately, if you were the virus), COVID was no different.\n\nIt was 3 years ago, just days before the pandemic began that I had my latest infection and this time, COVID hit me harder. Not only did the cough returned, it returned with a bang. I knew drinking water would make me feel better sooner but my respiratory system felt parched all the time. No amount of water could quench that thirst. I started drinking water anyway and frequented the bathroom every 20 minutes or so.\n\nOn day 5, the cough seemed on a leash. It didn't stop. I just wasn't coughing my inside out all the time.\n\n### Day 6~10: The Blocked Nose & The Fatigue\n\nI felt somewhat difficult to breathe since day 3 but it was eclipsed by the violent cough. Now that the cough was reduced to a nuisance, the nose became a menace.\n\nDon't get me wrong. I could still breathe. It just felt like my nose was filled with cement (and many others felt the same way). My throat still felt parched so every breath felt like a battle.\n\nI also felt tired all the time. Even folding clothes became an uphill struggle. I found myself resting from all kinds of activities all the time.\n\n### Day 11~Now: The Aftermath & The Conclusion\n\nThe symptoms were almost gone, other than the occasional phlegm in my throat. I still feel tired whenever my heartrate elevates.\n\nMy review on the COVID-19 (unknown variant) so far is:\n\n**The Fever**: 4/5. Would have it again just to experience the high (as long as it doesn't last longer than 2 days)\n\n**The Cough**: 1/5. Wouldn't have it no matter what.\n\n**The Fatigue**: 2/5. Didn't expect I would mind it but ended up a hindrance to most of my daily activities.\n\n**The Blocked Nose**: 2/5. I studies structural materials and had a Master's degree in Civil Engineering. I can tell you as a fact that it's not funny having cement in your nose.\n\n**The rest**: 3/5. Didn't have other symptoms so I couldn't say for sure.\n\n**Overall rating**: 2/5. Just don't have it. If you catch it, try to drink as much water as possible and have as much rest as possible.",
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