Safety
Covid Is No Hoax, and No Joke Either
An AIN editor shares his experience with the disease.
Drive through Covid test sites such as this one in New York have attempted to streamline the process and add to the volume of testing done, in an attempt to curtail the spread of the virus. (Photo: Curt Epstein)
Drive through Covid test sites such as this one in New York have attempted to streamline the process and add to the volume of testing done, in an attempt to curtail the spread of the virus. (Photo: Curt Epstein)

I don’t know exactly how I contracted Covid-19, but it was three days after my return from an annual industry event in March when I began feeling off. This was back in the days before the call for mask-wearing in public. Yet, I attempted to keep my distance during the event, declining handshakes and hugs, skipping all after-hours socializing, grabbing take out food each night to eat in my hotel room while writing, and watching reruns on TV. Even so, inescapably, there was the navigation through crowded airports, and on the flight itself, you couldn’t ignore the sounds of people coughing and sneezing around you.