{"id":672,"date":"2022-06-19T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=672"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:58:02","slug":"we-brought-home-a-souvenir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/06\/19\/we-brought-home-a-souvenir\/","title":{"rendered":"We brought home a souvenir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone wants a tourist souvenir, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had some nasal congestion when the plane flight began descending, with a very infrequent cough to clear out a little swallowed mucous (just a little). Thought it was the air pressure change. Early in the trip, my wife had a stuffy nose; she thought it was the head cold she had a few months back. That was mostly gone by week 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day after we got back, we both ran rapid tests and tested positive for Covid. I probably had it asymptomatically for days \u2013 possibly as grass pollen allergies on Wednesday (we were in outdoor museum complex on grass farmland).  The BionaxNow test kit has a 61% false negative rate for asymptomatic cases &#8211; it literally misses 2\/3ds of the asymptomatic cases &#8211; which are 35-40% of all cases. Which means frequent testing will not work to stop the spread (only immunity and mutations to less virulent forms will end the pandemic). My wife&#8217;s + result was likely residual detection from an infection that was now over with for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Covid symptoms were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On Saturday, occasionally sniffing my nose \u2013 very, very infrequently \u2013 about the same as usual. Very intermittently swallowing some mucous. Felt tired.<\/li><li>Later, felt very tired and had a bad headache. In fact, the best way to describe the symptoms is &#8220;super tired with a headache&#8221;. That&#8217;s all.<\/li><li>On Sunday, still tired but less so than day before and much less headache. For a few hours, the tiredness and headache were completely gone, although the fatigue resumed later. Overall, other than fatigued, am fairly functional on Sunday (the day I am writing these posts).<\/li><li>Bouts of fatigue lasting a few hours continued for 2-3 more days. The headache was gone. I mowed the lawn, did a 2-mile walk (I live in a small town, semi-rural area), worked in the yard and on various projects. Sort of the least bad common cold I&#8217;ve ever had.<\/li><li>Will be staying at home for a while and not planning to retest until a while. Mid week still tested positive; I might re-test next week. I&#8217;m told that 10 days or 2 days after all symptoms have gone, you are over it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We view this as good news &#8211; triple vaxxed plus acquired immunity from the disease is said to be a powerful combination more effective than being vaccinated only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update <\/strong>&#8211; A occasional dry cough lingered for about 2 weeks, as did a slightly stuffy nose. Neither bothered me. I did, however, suffer bouts of extreme, sudden onset fatigue for about 8 weeks total. In a matter of minutes, I would have to lie down and fall asleep for 45 minutes to two hours. While this may have been &#8220;long Covid&#8221;, I was also recovering from hepatitis in May, and &#8220;long hep&#8221; also induces bouts of fatigue like this. In any case, this ended in early August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:51% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ed-test-Large-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-676 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ed-test-Large-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ed-test-Large-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ed-test-Large-1-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ed-test-Large-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much to our surprise, we brought home an unexpected souvenir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}