I was starting to get skeptical for a long time about it but it's not the flu or pneumonia. I've worn masks more for woodworking and being in attics than I have for this. I probably hadn't worn a mask more than 30 minutes in a month leading up to my infection, there is only one grocery store I wear it in and the library. My symptoms were extreme tiredness and shortness of breath. I treated it with aspirin, vitamins, and colloidal silver. My wife also had it, some of my other family members had it, two of them lost their sense of taste and smell. I'm still not back to my normal energy levels. I don't get sick very often, but for the worst three days of the covid infection I barely had the energy to get off the couch. Covid doesn't deserve the lockdowns and mask mandates we're getting but it is real.