if you've been wondering why i've been shitposting even more than usual, openly full of rage, and showing my real face for longer than five minutes, it's because i got suspected covid-19 and i have asthma and it got real bad.. . but i'm ok now. yee haw.

i got sick on the 22nd and diagnosed on the 23rd via video chat. i'm pretty sure i got sick because the starbucks at 195 broadway stayed open way past when they should have and my friend/roommate works there. we both got sick around the 22nd.

when i thought i might die, around the 26th, i was so angry because starbucks' greed would have fucking killed me. but i'm still here!! and i'm still very angry!!

i'm gonna talk about my untreated asthma now because it's a related issue. my covid was mild?? i mean it was AWFUL but i think it was mild. and i could not breathe. i've been asthmatic since age 8 but didn't get diagnosed til 14.

i was incorrectly diagnosed with exercise induced asthma at that time and given albuterol, which has never worked. but no doctor has ever given me anything else. i have been un and underinsured my entire life. the past year the asthma got worse. last summer when the weather

changed, i had asthma attacks constantly, i thought i was going to die. i did not go to the emergency room because 1) i cannot afford it 2) i have medical trauma from the dozens of times i have been told point blank i am a liar, that i want a hotel, all sorts of bullshit

again i have never been able to get a doctor to treat me seriously on this issue. but i am going to fight until i get the maintenance inhalers i clearly need because this experience has taught me that asthma might be what fucking kills me. and i'm not going out that way

there's at least one other thread going over the symptoms that person had and my experience is pretty similar so i'm going to mostly focus on inequities that nearly got me killed. because i am not the only one in this situation and there are people in way worse situations

i have another doctor's appt (that is a whole nother story on how hard it was to get) in about an hour so i need to go prepare for that but i have more to say and will add to this thread later.