lost our senses

How do you know you all caught covid? That’s an excellent question. You’re right, I can’t say with absolute certainty that I know we all caught covid, but I can say with certainty that I know we all caught something, and I don’t believe it was a cold or the flu, and that something was unlike any other something we have experienced. Perhaps I shouldn’t call it covid, and I should call it something.  Our eldest daughter, who is 12, besides having strep throat twice in her life, rarely gets a cold, and if she does, it’s usually mild. Several weeks ago, just before bed on a Thursday night, she noticed she was warm, so we checked her temp, and it was 101+. Since the only two times she ever had a significant temp was when she had strep throat, we didn’t know if it may have been strep, flu, or something. Although I considered it, I honestly didn’t think it was something; I didn’t know what was causing the fever, but I hoped it would run its course by morning. At that time, she displayed no symptoms other than the fever. The following morning, she had a slight fever of 99.9, but she felt fine otherwise. Regardless, we brought her to our family doctor, and her lungs were clear and her blood pressure was normal. She was tested for strep, influenza, and something, and according to a rapid antigen (as well as a PCR test) she was positive for something called covid. Her fever never returned, and she displayed no further symptoms other than the loss of taste/smell for the following 48 hours. On Saturday morning, our other daughter who is 11, had a slight fever of 99.9, so we assumed she caught something as well. We did not take her to our doctor. She did not get tested. She contracted influenza twice in her life, and both bouts of flu knocked her out for more than 7 days, including several days of high fevers, loss of appetite, aches, fatigue, bedridden, etc. Her most recent bout of flu was in December 2019, when she had a fever that lasted 7+ days. At that time she tested positive for influenza A (I believe it was A, but I could be mistaken, it may have been B). Other than the flu, she has only experienced conjunctivitis (once) and mild colds, similar to her older sister. When she caught something, besides a slight fever for one day, she displayed no symptoms other than the loss of taste/smell, which lasted for approximately 48 hours, similar to her sister. Then, on Monday morning, I didn’t feel well, but I didn’t have a fever, however I was very achey and fatigued. That night, I woke up every hour with chills, but still no fever. For the next 3-5 days, I was very fatigued and not sleeping well; the chills would occur throughout the night and I was waking up every hour or so. By the fifth day, I started feeling 50% better, but then I lost my sense of taste/smell, and that lasted for more than 10 days. On Wednesday, two days after I started displaying symptoms, my partner Tree started showing symptoms. She had no fever, but she had tremendous pressure in her forehead, as well as intense sinus pressure. She was stuffy, her ears wouldn’t “pop,” and she was fatigued and achey; bedridden for two of those days. After approximately 7 days, she started to feel 50% better, but then she lost her sense of taste/smell, and experienced what she dubbed “brain fog” for nearly two weeks. My eldest daughter was the only person who was tested for something (therefore, three unreported cases from one home; think CFR). We all contracted something, and our symptoms varied with one exception: Our two daughters displayed similar mild symptoms (24-hour fever and 48-hour loss of taste/smell); Tree’s symptoms were noticeably worse than mine. Note: Tree received two shots of Pfizer back in March-April of this year; she is the only person in our house who was vaccinated; she has alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder. The one common denominator was that all four of us lost our sense of taste/smell, which was highly unusual, and something we have never experienced. Also noteworthy, not one of us experienced shortness of breath, trouble breathing, or coughing (Tree had a very minor cough for two days) which were always claimed to be common symptoms. Tree rarely gets sick, except for the occasional cold (sometimes mild, sometimes moderate) and she contracted flu once when she was a child. She doesn’t get annual flu jabs. I rarely get sick, except for the occasional mild cold (exception: In 2018, I was working in an old damp dirt crawlspace for a few days without proper ventilation and protective equipment, and contracted a respiratory illness which knocked me out, bedridden for 3+ days). Other than that, I’ve never had flu, and I’ve never had a flu jab. Whatever the four of us contracted, it was unlike anything we’ve ever experienced in our lives. It was also the first time all four of us got infected with something at the same time. Note: I was in very close contact with our daughter both times she got the flu, and neither time did I get the flu. This was the first time all of us experienced the loss of taste/smell, evidence that something affected our neurological systems. Personally, I have never been achey and fatigued for more than 3 days without having a fever for more than 24 hours (recall the crawl space illness) and more importantly, I was achey and fatigued (although not bedridden like Tree) on and off for nearly two weeks because of something. The fact that Tree and I never had fevers at anytime was puzzling as well, especially since our daughters both had fevers for 24 hours (I attribute this to the strength and response of their immune systems). Whatever we contracted, whether it was covid, or something that is being labeled covid, was unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. And, the takeaway from all of this is that Tree is the only person in our house who was recently double jabbed for something, and yet she displayed the worst symptoms of all four of us, possibly due to the combination of her autoimmune disorder and the ineffectiveness of the vaxxx. Needless to say, neither Tree nor I want our daughters to be required to get the jab, and they have expressed to us that they don’t see a need for them to get the jab, not because of a fear of needles, rather because they contracted something labeled covid, recovered quickly, and probably now have the requisite antibodies (short-term at least). None of us have ever had the flu jab, and the public schools in our state (with the exception of pre-K in NYC) do not require flu jabs, but I have a suspicion that they will eventually try to require covid and/or flu jabs for public school students and staff here where I live; that is a reality the four of us, especially our daughters, may soon have to face. I hope this sheds some light on my experience, I am interested to hear your thoughts and insights.

Update: I originally wrote this post in November-December 2021 as a response to a reply I received from a twitter account I’ve been following for many years. I was going to reply on twitter in the form of a thread but I felt it would be too exhaustive so I decided to write the above post. The user’s question (reply) to my original tweet regarding my family’s suspected bout with covid was simple: “How do you know you all caught covid?” As I stated in the beginning of the post, the user is absolutely correct: I don’t know if what I had was in fact “covid,” or something called “covid,” but the experience led me to believe that what we caught was something novel that the four of us never once experienced prior to 2021, most notably the loss of taste and smell. All four of us lost our senses, Tree and I lost our senses for more than 10 days, if not longer. What we caught before Halloween 2021 was definitely something different than anything we ever experienced in the past. According to my eldest daughter’s PCR and RAT, she was positive for “covid,” and the fever that didn’t subside after 24 hours was what prompted us to test her for “covid.” Whatever we contracted (likely from my daughter who likely caught it from a friend or classmate) was novel and marked with specific characteristics which created a combination unlike anything I’ve ever contracted in my 45 years. For context regarding my immune system and sickness: I have never contracted influenza pneumonia hepatitis bronchitis staph etc, maybe I caught strep once or twice when I was a young kid, as well as the chicken pox, and the worst bout of sickness I ever endured was for several days after working in a post-wwii basement, damp, and dirty, moldy and crawling with all sorts of shit, and I wasn’t wearing a respirator or even a mask and I had K95s in my truck, but it was cold, late winter, and I felt fine until the 3rd day on the job and then I went downhill real fast, bottom line, I inhaled some nasty bacteria beneath that postwar cape and it wiped me out for 2-3 days straight fully bedridden and literally feeling like hell, sleeping and aching for my survival, trying to push back against the bacterial infection in my respiratory system. I eventually returned to the job 5 or 6 days later with a respirator and finished the job by taking 3-minute outdoor fresh air breaks every 17 minutes. Some of those postwar houses with their ancient dirt crawl spaces are without a doubt deadly and let’s not even talk about all of the creepy crawlers in those dark damp dirt dungeons crawling on my back when the lights are off, fuck me. Oh, and as of March 03, 2022 New York State has not required public school students to receive covid and flu jabs (Note: NYC requires pre-K and K children under 5 years to be flu jabbed as well as the pre-K and K teachers, instructors, caregivers, etc). Tree has been a public high school teacher for 22 years and she doesn’t think the state is going to force students to get the jabs, although she, as a teacher, is required to be jabbed (not for influenza though lol); she recently got boostered (she told me I could tell you that lol) so it goes…

Note: I am not going to post the tweet (How do you know you all caught covid?) that initiated this blog post out of respect for the tweet author who I have been mutually following since 2014-15. Instead, I am going to post a gif relevant to my next blog post, “the globalists.”