My husband had Covid last week but none of the rest of us got it.

Meanwhile, today, I have a cold – gravelly throat, an out-of-it feeling, and chills.

He didn’t have those symptoms and I have tested 4 times in the last week (including earlier this evening) and given how his timeline worked, I would have been testing positive by now.

I was feeling a bit puzzled

“I’m sick but it’s *not* Covid?”

“And it’s not a migraine?“

“What is this?“

Oh RIGHT!

Colds are a thing.

In all these years of wearing masks, I had kind of taken colds off the list of things that happen to me.

And now I am wearing a mask around my house, something it never occurred to me to do before Covid.

Now it is so normalized and so civilized.

I guess before we just treated viruses as inevitable?

Weird, hey?