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[brin_bellway]

[cw: illness, (arguably) venting]


is the feeling of impending doom because of the sore throat (because they are both being caused by the same medical condition), or is the feeling of impending doom because of the sore throat (because the last time I had this precise flavour of sore throat† it turned out to be COVID, and I have learned an association)

†not the same as the sore throat of the past couple of days!

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[brin_bellway]

I used to have impending doom with almost any sore throat, but between the respirators and the pollen bullshit, my priors on a more generic sore throat leading to anything worse have eventually gotten to be pretty low.

My priors on "feeling, for hours on end, like there's something stuck in your throat (though not in a way that actually impedes airflow)" being a sign of bigger problems remain rather higher. (Moment to moment, it's *less* physically unpleasant than the sore throat I woke up with (which was a clear continuation of the last couple of days), but mentally it's a lot more concerning.)