After 2.5 years, I finally tested positive for Covid. I have a few thoughts:
Using the term “mild” to describe my symptoms is bad. It makes it sound like I had to blow my nose a couple of times. My symptoms may have been mild relative to the worst case but they were still pretty bad. I lost basically an entire week of work. I didn’t have breathing troubles, but if this had been a cold, it would have been a severe cold. Does it matter? I think it does. We should avoid Covid even if we expect to have mild symptoms. It’s costly to you, your family, your employer, your coworkers, and society in general.
It’s good tests are plentiful. I might have spread it to dozens of other people if I hadn’t tested as soon as I had symptoms.
The preferred spelling is apparently all caps: COVID. That’s dumb. Nobody wants to type in all caps.
It’s not entirely clear when to quarantine and when not. The guidance isn’t that bad, really. What I wanted was a website that asked a few questions and then popped up a window telling me how long to quarantine and wear a mask. The situation could be a lot worse. It’s better than a blanket rule that requires most to overquarantine. There’s room for improvement.