Peeking into the rock

My thoughts exactly! The main thing that covid has done to my thinking in general is that I'm taking all sorts of disease much more seriously than in the past. I think back on how I too used to go to work and school sick and congratulate myself for being tough and brave and determined. And I used to think it was fine for kids to get "mildly" ill, that it would train up their immune systems. But apparently measles-which I didn't think of as a mild disease, at least I knew better than that, but there are people to this day who think that because it's a "childhood disease" it's not serious-apparently it makes the immune system forget everything it's learned, wiping out all those trained cells. If one virus can do that, so can others, and anyway, it's clear now that many diseases which are not all that severe in the acute phase leave various systems of the body quite weakened.

So now I'm much more protective about "minor colds" and so on & I'm willing to stay home with the grand goblin if there's snottiness around even if no "serious" disease has been diagnosed.

I'm blaming a certain portion of my fatigue and head thing on the cumulative effects of viral infections throughout my young adulthood, even though there's no solid evidence for it (my symptoms are so generalized that they're undiagnosible, at least in the health care context I can access). My daughter has something similar-but-different going on, and I'd like to spare the grand goblin if possible, because it's been really disappointing to go through life like this.