Everyone Has COVID

 

A few days ago I was trying out for cheer over zoom. Normally, we tryout at Troy High but because of the current lockdown order by Michigan's very own Gretchen Whitmer, we were unable to meet in person. I logged into the Zoom call and was greeted by my coaches, one of which sounded a little raspier than normal. If there wasn't a world wide pandemic going on, I would think nothing of it. However, that is not the case, and my mind immediately jumped to COVID. I find it funny how that was the first thing I thought of. I failed to think about the fact that the weathers changing and my coach could just as easily have a cold. I automatically assumed she had COVID. Anywhere I go, if someone coughs or sneezes, I jokingly turn to my friends and whisper "COVID". However, I am always half serious. Its very possible that they could have it. Making these assumptions doesn't just go for me. I'm afraid to cough of even go as far as clear my throat in public because I know as soon as I do, all eyes will turn to me, and the same thought that I always have will pop into their heads. Its crazy to think about how less than a year ago I would have never assumed someone had COVID because their voice was a little raspy. Heck I barely knew what COVID was. Now every where I go: the store, the mall, the movie theater, it seems like everyone has COVID or assumes I do. I would love to go back to last year around Christmas time when 400 people were out with the flu and another couple hundred came to school with it and no one seemed to care. Some teachers, not saying any names, moved the possible sick students to the back of the class or quarantined them in the school store before quarantining was a thing, but that was it. No one looked at people like they were a monster if they coughed. It was a better time. 

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