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m_d_hHaving a common cold in 2020 is so retro! T's symptoms and timing thereof are looking more and more like a common cold, so I had Amazon helicopter over some Cold-Eeze and I've started sucking on them. I threw a second box of them at T, but he's read the same studies I've read, he said, "It's too late for me, I've been symptomatic for over a day." It's not clear that zinc lozenges work at all on cold viruses, perhaps they only work against certain kinds of cold viruses -- they've seemed to work in about half of the published studies -- but they can't hurt, they're just zinc and sugar. Zinc nasal sprays can hurt, avoid those.
So, I'm back to my old school common cold prevention routines, I totally didn't miss those. Things like opening doors with my sleeves instead of my hands, paying attention to where my hands are going, washing my hands more often. The main difference is that I've never tried THIS HARD to avoid catching a cold from T before, and he's never tried THIS HARD to avoid giving me a cold before. We've never worn masks in the house, never religiously stayed six feet away from each other, never eaten on separate floors.
I've never turned off the upstairs hallway ceiling fan.
It will be interesting to see, as we all return to offices and schools next fall, whether people treat cold and flu infections more seriously, like T and I are doing this week, because of the chance it might be COVID-19, or because we care more about not getting each other sick. How much of this care and carefulness will stick post-Vaccine?
So, I'm back to my old school common cold prevention routines, I totally didn't miss those. Things like opening doors with my sleeves instead of my hands, paying attention to where my hands are going, washing my hands more often. The main difference is that I've never tried THIS HARD to avoid catching a cold from T before, and he's never tried THIS HARD to avoid giving me a cold before. We've never worn masks in the house, never religiously stayed six feet away from each other, never eaten on separate floors.
I've never turned off the upstairs hallway ceiling fan.
It will be interesting to see, as we all return to offices and schools next fall, whether people treat cold and flu infections more seriously, like T and I are doing this week, because of the chance it might be COVID-19, or because we care more about not getting each other sick. How much of this care and carefulness will stick post-Vaccine?