For years, I was hoping to be the very last American to catch COVID. I’d dodged a couple near misses, including being…close 😏… to my wife the night before she tested positive.
When it finally got me it was quite mild. I tested + when I had very mild symptoms, so I went for a run before things got bad. Felt crappy the next day, but the day after that I felt good enough to get another run in.
Not sure if it’s related, but every time I got a vaccine/booster I thought for sure that the next one would kill me.
I also didn’t use Twitter but wanted to try to get into mastodon. One thing to note is that the official mastodon app currently doesn’t allow you to follow hashtags, only people. The FEDILABS app allows you to follow topics by hashtags. Since I’m new I didnt have any people I knew of to follow off the bat, so it was nice to be able to follow #scuba and automagically see a bunch of stuff I care about pop up in my home feed.
The account @feditips@mstdn.social is full of gems like that.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.