I tested Covid negative today, and feel fine. What a strange virus this was, it's a somewhat unique experience to have been infected with a new disease. For me, the first symptom was a sore throat of the sort that hay fever, or dust irritation causes. This is so common to me that I feel it now, so I'm unsure if this even is or was an actual symptom. The first definitely detectable symptom was a raised body temperature to between 37.5 and 38 degrees, about 1 or 2 degrees above my normal. My thermometer picked this up but I didn't feel particularly warm. This, with a raging thirst, lasted for about 4 days. The space behind my eyes hurt, simply looking left and right was strangely agonising.
During the feverish four days, the nature of my sore throat changed to one of swollen tonsils, thus pain while swallowing. Then, the temperatures subsided and I had a very slight, very infrequent but very itchy, dry cough; thus the bulk of the disease was then over. I gradually felt more normal until finally testing negative, 12 days after my first noticible symptoms and 11 days after a first positive test (I didn't test daily); but 14 days after my exposure and certain infection on June 19th.
One main conclusion is that Covid tests are nearly useless, particularly at the start of a disease, only showing a positive result when already obviouly symptomatic, and not when asymptomatic and infectious. A test showing when actually infectious would have really been useful; an exhalation test of some sort?
Well, over the past week I managed to keep busy, despite remaining isolated to protect my parents. I've upgraded Prometheus twice and sampled a lot of strings, tuned percussion, bass sounds, and some keyboard sounds, a total of 506 wav files sampled, trimmed, and looped. The auto-looper was vital for this, it would have taken far longer and had inferior quality to do that manually.
Deb helped with a third proof of How To Organise Your Computer Files last night, and I've made the final few changes. The book is now published. Deb, for the record, wanted more commas before more each use of 'too' at the ends of sentences... I resisted.
I've also updated my website and the Pentangel website with these details and ordered a few copies for the national libraries, friends etc.
I now need to work on art, need to create.
