# I got Covid for Christmas **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [January 1, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043 "2022-01-01T20:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/41 "2022-01-05T20:29:53Z")
_I got Covid for Christmas_ Somebody get the lyrics to Mariah Carey. Stat! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/42 "2022-01-05T23:29:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > _I got Covid for Christmas_ > > Somebody get the lyrics to Mariah Carey. Stat I was thinking more along the lines of John Lennon’s “So This is Christmas” _I got Covid for Christmas_ _Temp a hundred and one_ _Coughing your lungs out_ _Is no goddam fun_ ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/43 "2022-01-06T13:25:01Z")
So my youngest son has it now. I was hoping he wouldn’t get it since he had the double-Pfizer as soon as it was available to 16 year olds. He was scheduled to get a booster next week. Hopefully the vax makes symptoms mild for him. That makes the entire family-- it’s been very rough on my wife as well. I’m just starting to get glimmers of being able to smell again. A couple days ago I popped a mentholyptus cough drop, and other than inhaling through my mouth and feeling the cold sensation, it might as well have been a sugar pill (my basic taste bud senses work just fine-- sweet salty sour bitter). The first thing I was able to smell, oddly, was toast. I wonder if we evolved to smell heated or burned smells better than others, similar to the way we have a dog-like ability to smell [Petrichor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor) in order to find sources of water. I can sort of taste my coffee this morning-- it’s no longer just slightly bitter hot water! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/44 "2022-01-06T14:03:09Z")
> [@solost](#): > > [Petrichor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor) Wow. Thank you for that beautiful new word. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/45 "2022-01-06T14:12:28Z")
Don’t mention it. I learn at least one new thing every day from the SDMB, glad to pass it on. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/46 "2022-01-06T17:52:20Z")
Yes, thank you. Didn’t know that word either. I love smelling petrichor! One of my favorite smells. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/47 "2022-01-08T04:02:35Z")
I just confirmed I had COVID today. I had a weird reaction to it. I have both Pfizer shots and one booster I got in November. Basically last Tuesday (December 28th 2021) I got a weird sore throat in the middle of the day at work. I worked normally but then took the next 5 days off. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday I woke up with the worst sore throat of my life. But taking Tylenol made it go away, and those were the only symptoms. Sunday was first day I woke up without symptoms. I took a rapid test Sunday night and it showed I was negative for symptoms. Just to make sure though I scheduled a PCR test at Walgreens for that Tuesday. So Monday Tuesday Wednesday I’m completely fine, no symptoms of anything. Then Thursday I started getting entirely different symptoms, no sore throat but instead sneezing and runny nose with some feelings of hotness. Friday I again have the same sneezing and runny nose symptoms. I decided to take a second rapid test and it finally tested positive for COVID. Along with my PCR test later that day through email confirming my COVID. Does anyone else know why I had two completely different types of COVID symptoms separated days apart? My first symptoms were the typical Omicron symptoms while the second symptoms seem more in line with regular COVID. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043/48 "2022-01-08T16:28:07Z")
Free! **FREE!** My Time of Isolation is OVER! Of course I now have a list of chores to do that involve going out and running around, but I’m so glad to be out of my place I don’t even mind the cold. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-covid-for-christmas/957043.md?page=2)