OK so I got SLAMMED by what I think is likely regular flu/not Covid over the wkend. It hit like a truck Saturday evening (I had a little deep-trachea type cough Friday but it passed after I coughed whatever out of the way type of thing). So Saturday, I went from just fine all day, had a nice hike to wham-o by bedtime, 102 fever, MASSIVE headache, big-time aches esp lower abdomen/back. Evidently all this is pretty standard for flu vs cold esp the fast onset though, so nothing unusual there really. I immediately started regimen of ivermectin/zinc/C/tonic water (closest thing to quercetin on hand) etc, 2x/day.

So normally I'd let fever run its course/do its thing but since aches/pains/being way out of it were making sleep or even lying still impossible I hit it with some ibuprofen Sunday. This got fever/effects under control but not all the way, I figure a decent compromise for it still battling stuff.

Now, over Sunday night fever returned all the way, so Monday I upped the game to aspirin, as again I was just like ok enough of this. Knocked fever down to normal, felt better, read awhile, then chills came back but no fever - a few minutes later the reason why became obvious (rhymes with "dire eeyah"). Oh joy. OK so now a few rounds of this/Pepto. Went to bed hugely sweating, but slept pretty well.

Fever this morning back around 100, so just living with that for now as like I say it's probably good to let body do its thing and I can function at this level more or less normally. I do now have MASSIVE sore throat so I guess maybe the virus is making its way around where it wants to try to hang out?

Anyway. Perhaps a lot of detail but figure there might be clues for medical types or people who want to compare experiences. Now for the main point of the post:

• I never really knew the difference between flu/cold esp the rapid-onset part.

• So this means looking back, I now recognize I NEVER got the flu prior to any of the Covid nonsense. ANY time I had a cold, it was slow onset and I could tell it was coming.

• I am wondering where and how I managed to pick this up. My leading theory is probably the vaxed/IgG4 tolerance essentially creating "super spreaders" like they tried to scare everyone about the unvaxed/us being. (I'd say the most likely place for picking this up may well have been a restaurant Thursday night.)(Edit: also possible, haircut Friday morning. Both places people likely to be vaxed in concentration/working/proximity.)

• Unlike past times post-Covid something came on, granted, nothing so severe/massive in onset, the ivermectin didn't really seem to do much - it's from a different source - for now, I figure best not to mention/hence implicitly accuse the supplier. I have a shipment of guaranteed product (horse paste) coming from Valley Vet today. While things ARE on the mend, if this whips things instantly into far better shape, it will be an interesting data point.

• Like I say, now that I get the difference, I never got flus before all this. Vaccine shedding? (Again I'm not generally in situations where I should be really exposed to this, e.g. family members hanging around.) Vaxed super-spreaders? Something else going on? I'm generally healthy/rarely sick especially since no longer going into office where people always insist on bringing colds in and that's always when I'd get anything.

Bottom line, main point of all this is I'm wondering if there is some attack vector designed into all this to ensnare the healthy unvaxed types so I'm curious if we'll be seeing more similar stories like this as opposed to all the ones we're getting about how sick the vaxed generally are.