Health - B E Hoch https://www.brianho.ch/categories/health/ Recent content in Health on B E Hoch Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us brian@brianho.ch (Brian E Hoch) brian@brianho.ch (Brian E Hoch) Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Doctor StrangeVirus or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the COVID-19 Pandemic https://www.brianho.ch/posts/doctor-strangevirus-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 brian@brianho.ch (Brian E Hoch) https://www.brianho.ch/posts/doctor-strangevirus-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-covid-19-pandemic/ <h2 id="covid-19">COVID-19</h2> <p>On Halloween 2020 my wife was getting ready to visit her sister in Idaho who was going through an awful divorce and I began to feel a tickle in my throat. I knew it wasn’t COVID because I had been so careful; I never went anywhere without my mask, I hadn’t been around anyone who had it, and I washed my hands religiously whenever I returned home.</p> <p>Since my wife was flying, though, I went to get tested first thing the next day just to be safe.</p>