Hi there and welcome to PSA Thursday.

My attempt at a weekly segment in which every Thursday I talk about

COVID-19, but I miss last Thursday because of a very

unexpected turn of events which is I tested positive for COVID-19. I tested positive for coronavirus and

for the last week I've been

really really sick really sick

so in today's episode I want to describe what that experience has been like.

What does it feel like to have COVID-19?

First of all, I'll walk through the timeline. During the week of March 9 through 13th,

that week I started binge reading a whole bunch of articles about coronavirus.

And I am typically a person who's very skeptical of media fear mongering,

but the week of March 9 through 13, as the more I read about coronavirus and flattening the curve

and our hospitals very quickly becoming overwhelmed, the more I became convinced that like,

this is real and this is big and this is maybe one of the biggest things that's going to

impact us in our lifetimes and this needs to be taken seriously. So the week of March 9 through 13th,

I felt perfectly healthy, I felt perfectly fine, but at the intellectual level I was like,

oh my goodness, this is serious and I want to do everything in my power to do my part to help flatten

the curve. So then the night of Friday March 13th, I had a friend who was having a birthday celebration

out at a bar. So a bunch of our friends were going out to the bars. I texted one of my friends

and said, hey, I'm not going to go because I'm really worried about coronavirus. I don't think

this is a good idea. So I'm staying in for the night and my friend wrote me back and said,

yeah, you know, I get that, but it's just going to be a small group of us and it's only people

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