Yeah, so what was your COVID experience?
COVID hit me in the third year of high school. Kind of a pain simply because I had a lot of stuff going on that was set up, competitions and stuff. Everything got cancelled.
Kind of put a half around a lot of the stuff that I was immediately going into. Felt like it probably impacted college applications a little bit, which kind of sucked, but you do the best you can. Got into a decent college anyways, so not too worried there.
Yeah, I mean, it was pretty much wrapped up by the end of my senior year, so I didn’t really care too much. Staying inside sucked because, I mean, going outside is good for you. And I would not leave my room. I would wake up for classes maybe on occasion, if not just stay inside all day.
But, I mean, it wasn’t the worst thing in the world because I guess I play games all day. Can’t complain about that much.
Outside of that, I mean, I did get the Johnson Johnson booster, or not the booster, the vaccine.
It hurt. I remember the shot hurt when I got it. But other than that, I don’t think I had any symptoms or anything else. It was just shot, sucked for a couple days, like a flu shot or something, and it was fine. I wound up getting COVID when I went to college, I want to say freshman year. But I had no symptoms. I think I had a slight cough and they were like, “Oh, you know, a bunch of our people in my friend group got COVID. So let’s just check it out.” And me and my buddy went, we both had COVID, and we were like, “Oh, alright.”
After that, it was terrible because my school handled it horribly. They chucked me. They were originally going to send me to a hotel for the quarantine period. What ended up happening is they were supposed to call somebody and pick me up to take me to the quarantine hotel. Nobody showed up. I talked to my RA. He was like, “Let me get somebody on the phone.” Somebody else shows up. They drive me down the street to a different dorm, even though I was already in my dorm. They put me in a room with nobody else. It was just like an empty dorm with no food, no blankets, no pillows. It was the most bare bones thing. I had hot water ramen for dinner that day.
After that, I sent a message. I called and was like, “Hey, so tomorrow morning, I’m getting picked up, right?” And I’m like, “Yes, be ready outside at this time.” I was like, “Okay.” So I hang up, go to sleep on my hoodie as a pillow with another hoodie on top. Wake up the next morning, take all my stuff out, wait there, and nobody shows up. So I call again, they’re like, “Oh, yeah, sorry. Nobody set in for this morning.” So they finally get me, 24 hours later, to the hotel, the most miserable experience at the hotel. What ends up happening is if you sleep for too long, because they knock on your door for meals, if you don’t wake up for the knocks, they’ll just take the food. So you get maybe two meals a day if you wake up. So I had one to two meals a day, struggling.
I would do some work, just not too much in the hotel. So that was the miserable… I had no symptoms. I was perfectly fine. I could just rejoin society, essentially, but because of the quarantine, I had to suffer in a hotel for a week.
Other than that, I mean, COVID hasn’t been too much of a detriment, me personally. I know a lot of people have had really bad experiences with it, but I was just kind of chilling. I mean, I would hope it’s the vaccine, because that’s the only thing I have that has really prevented anything like that from being worse. So, yeah, that was pretty much my experience with COVID. Cool. Wow!
