Oh dear, David. Fingers crossed! That would really be adding insult to injury.

I didn't even go to Sturgis! C'mon, man! I've been pretty fuckin' isolated and masked up since March!

I didn't even go to Sturgis!

For real, one of Tim's co-workers is at Sturgis. And I'm positive he's not going to self-quarantine for 2 weeks after he comes back, and I am fucking FURIOUS about it. So goddamn selfish and irresponsible.

I'm with Steph. Get tested. But stress hives or even hives from a bug bite happen. At least to me, a lot.

Definitely get tested, but two bites next to each other like that can be flea bites.

I've heard people say essentially that they don't care if they get COVID, but it's hard for me to understand how you can't make the connection to collective action being the key to keeping things under control and getting things back to normal.

I mean, honestly, I don't care if I get COVID even if it kills me, but I care a lot about not spreading it to others.

I mean, we put up with stop signs and stop lights because we know it would suck if everybody ignored them. Why is wearing a mask so different?

I almost have the opposite reaction: I was just considering last night that I have an absolute conviction that I WON'T get COVID, that I'll turn out to be immune or something, or else I'll get a mild case if I do (for all I know, I already have). I try my best to take every safe precaution, because spreading it would be catastrophic where I work. But I bone-deep don't believe I'll get sick.

Minds are funny things.

My funny mind swings between being certain I won't get Covid, and being terrified I will. Make up your mind, mind. But yes, wearing masks and washing hands etc because I believe in risk reduction.

I've been so damn tired. This new job is taking all my energy. The guy whose job I'm doing promised he'd leave me documentation on everything I could possibly need; surprise, he did not.

Yeah, I go back and forth between being convinced I won't get it (good immunity, never had a flu, consistent mask and hand washing), and OMG I coughed, I must have Covid!! Since it is easy enough to get tested here I'll do so again a week or so after Brendon arrives since I'll be scheduling him anyway. Tests are reassuring. Bless NY for making it easy and free.

It doesn't seem easy or free for students here in Rochester. I guess they can only get tests if they show symptoms. But health care workers can skip the quarantine if they are tested, which would be nice, because they will be in the hospital caring for patients. And we have no way to monitor it. It is kind of a shit show!

I have this weird consipiricacy theory that I actually had it in late February, because I was SO SICK,like the sickest I have ever been in my life, and kept waking up not being able to breathe, but I did not have the flu or pneumonia. But I think if that were true, other folks I work with would have gotten sick, certainly.

Some places are doing antibody tests when you donate blood.