#i tested positive for influenza B at the time because I'm the only one of us who went to a doctor about it
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A weird thing people do pretty regularly is that they'll fight me when I say I had the flu in March of 2020. They're always certain I had covid or I had covid AND the flu. I tested positive for influenza B at the time, I know I was exposed 2 days earlier and the person I got it from got sick a couple hours before me, there was no covid in my county for me to have been exposed to at the time, the course of the illness was very typical of the flu and extremely irregular of covid, when I was tested for covid antibodies when that became available in May I tested negative, and now that I've definitely had covid I can say it felt nothing like covid. There was just ALSO a really bad flu strain that winter
And most importantly, it doesn't fucking matter to anyone but me if it was the flu or covid. I generally talk about it to lead into the story about a dude trying to make fun of me for wearing a mask when I had a highly infectious respiratory illness or to talk about the time I coughed up blood. It does not matter in 2024 if either of those were caused by covid or the flu, let me just tell my fucking story.
#what gets me is that they seem to think I never considered that it could've been covid#my partner and I both paid for antibody tests out of pocket when they became available because we both were questioning it!#i tested positive for influenza B at the time because I'm the only one of us who went to a doctor about it#and where I used to gladly waffle about “yeah no I'm not actually sure it wasnt both! it felt bad enough to be both!”#like. it doesnt fucking matter. i coughed up blood! thats wild!#some dude told me I was silly for having a mask on when I was at the pharmacy for my medicine! thats wild!#and so often they seem to get offended that I actually did consider if I had the plague during the plague times#like I'm being a smartaleck for having answers about a thing I actually did spend many hours considering at the time#I might start implying this happened later in the pandemic and just saying I tested negative for covid#Because I did! just... for covid antibodies like 12 weeks later and not in a lab at the time because that test didnt exist yet#roz says a thing
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