Subject: 2 years later.....still masking

2 years into the Covid pandemic I still mask up before entering any business without my trusty N95 mask. Last week I visited the building dept in city hall and learned the entire staff was out sick or observing a 5 day Covid protocol for those known to be exposed to the sick people, the temp clerk warned me. Had my annual wellness visit this; everyone in the doctors office is double masked and they screen for fever at the check-in desk. I haven't been ill since the rugrats shared their cooties with me over the 2019 holidays.

I digress..... Every so often there's an article that consoles me for putting up with wearing the mask.

I love to cook and, living in one of the top US fishing, agriculture and wine producing regions, being repulsed by the aromas would be a horrible state of affairs.

"Thousands of people who had Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic are still finding that certain foods, toiletries and even their loved ones smell repulsive.....
....Parosmia is essentially a distorted sense of smell. It is thought to be caused by specialised nerve cells in the nose failing to detect and translate odours in a way the brain can properly make sense of.
.....It is estimated that about 65% of people who get coronavirus will temporarily lose their sense of smell, known as anosmia, and that at least 10% of those go on to develop parosmia - or a rarer condition, phantosmia, when you smell something that isn't there.

Some clinical studies even suggest parosmia affects more like 40%-50% of people with covid-related anosmia.">>
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63...