Been a while since I've had the flu, at least this harsh.
I remember whenever I got "sick" as a kid it was always runny nose and coughs, so much coughing. To the point where even my dad some times would get too annoyed by it as he was trying to sleep, even though he obviously knew I couldn't help it, lol.
I've kinda always had something "weird" with my throat, not really sure why, but I remember how a few times I'd be close to suffocating from small things most people would find harmless. Like, this one time at work I threw a sugar cube into my mouth and realise a few seconds in that I couldn't breath, luckily there was a faucet there nearby so I could use the water to melt the sugarcube I guess? and I was breathing again. The same thing happened with a very minty piece of gum once when I was riding in a car, it would've been harder there to find some liquid nearby but luckily the situation dissolved on its own after a few seconds not being able to breathe in.
I've also had trouble swallowing single things in the past, like pills for instance. I'd always ask if they have a pulverised version of it that I could take with a glass of water or if it's okay to break it into two pieces. It's kind of a little mindgame when you're sitting and trying to swallow a pill with some water but for some reason it just doesn't work, your body just doesn't obey you like there's an invisible force getting in the way.
A lot of weird glitches in this human version.
Either way, I've kinda been doing good for the past couple decades, not gotten sick too often and whenever it feels like I'm about to it usually goes away the next day or later that day. This time was different, I felt my nose start to burn extra rough when inhaling a couple days ago and my throat already kind of sore, this flu was "aggressive" from the get-go so to speak, the day after felt a bit okay-ish but today when I woke up it was like my lungs were filled with phlegm and it hurt a lot in the morning when I was coughing up the night's collection. Other than the occasional coughs and runny nose I also feel kind light-headed all the time and my body feels warmer even though I don't have a fever.
The main reason I hate the flu however is because you can't do much during it, like not even entertaining procrastinating things you'd be able to do any other day when you "just don't feel like doing anything". I tried watching a movie earlier and it was so not interesting that I couldn't make it through all the way. Yet here I am writing a quick shitpost somehow, not sure why, maybe cause I haven't posted in a while again but thought I'd also mention a new tactic I wanna try against these auto-downvoters without it seeming like I'm just trying to self-vote for rewards.
The tactic is that whenever/if someone on their own accord upvotes a comment or post of mine and the autodownvotes occur, I'll be countering them a day or two later. This means that my curation rewards still take a hit because I'm voting after a few days due to the daily penalty.
The idea is that those who may vote on my comments on their own don't get penalized by the autodownvoters, at the same time I get less curation returns which in turn counters the downvoted penalty of the upvoters and gives me some author rewards so "no one" really loses out. This effectively makes whatever they're trying to do with their autodownvote trail have no effect.
So if you see me casting small upvotes on my own comments, I hope you realize it's cause of that and not cause I'm trying to earn rewards or something. I should however post a bit more often cause I could definitely use more rewards to spend on some of my projects I'd wanna see do better.
Thanks for reading, gonna go try take a nap now.