09/09/2025
🚨 IVECCS COVID exposure🚨
This will be a temporary post that I take down in like a week, but in case people are looking to see, yes COVID was at IVECCS 2025. A conference being a COVID hotbed? Who knew.
I'm angry. I did (almost) everything right. But I want people to be safe, so I'm disclosing that I tested positive for COVID coming home from IVECCS. I test before and after every trip I do. And after seeing my positive test, I checked my temperature and realized I had a mild fever.
I recommend that you test yourself before and after you go on a trip or if you ever feel sick. COVID is NOT a cold. It is a vascular illness that can have cumulative effects over time. It can lead to chronic illnesses and further health complications and it is something that I'm legitimately terrified of because what if one time I get infected, I lose my ability to remember something important for my job? What if it permanently disables me and I can't work anymore. What if I infect someone I care about? All of these are real fears.
And please consider masking again for the chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people in your life.
Heartbroken and scared and angry does not begin to cover how I feel right now.