This is part of the roleplay! (Any fics I write will be on my home or AU blogs)
TW: Deadly Illness, mentions of blood, nausea mentioned (no vomiting), fever, hypocrisy, discussion of potential death
Author's notes: Italics are Peso's thoughts. Peso took his temperature with an ear thermometer, which are very common in UK medical offices because they take like 2 seconds.
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Peso's head was pounding before he could even open his eyes. His mouth was dry and sticky, yet his clothes were drenched in his own perspiration. Not to mention the slight ache all over his body and the way his stomach seemingly protested its own existence.
Oh. I'm sick.
Something he had tried for years to hold back - the anxiety that should be paying a mortgage at this point - in his chest told him this was more than the flu. For once he decided to entertain it.
After all, malaria is a medical emergency. And he hasn't had human company in... well if it was malaria, probably over a week.
Struggling into a sitting position, he reached for his medical bag, where he stored bottled water, testing kits, medicine, and other useful stuff. He quickly checked his temperature with one flipper, while rummaging for the test kit with the other.
312.85º
Huh?
312.85ºK
Ohh. When did I even change it? Why did I even change it?
103.46ºF
39.7ºC
That's more like it.
He grabbed a water bottle and opened it. He knew that he would have to drink and maintain more or less all of it if he was to find out. Malaria RDT is a blood test after all.
[An hour later]
The timer buzzed (thank goodness for physical timers!) and Peso groaned and reached for the test. Like many other RDTs, two lines would mean a positive result, but it wasn't perfect.
He opened his eyes. Positive. In another scenario, he would be filling out 'notifiable disease' forms, testing the rest of the crew, and prescribing medication. Two of those were impossible, and the third was very likely to be unachievable too.
In this part of the world, cloroquine-resistant strains were very common. Doxycycline and quinine needed to be spaced out to avoid any drug interactions (why do we deliberately pair two medicines that interact anyway) and to be taken with food.
Choosing to forgo treatment, he scribbled out a note for whoever would have to find his body and rested his painful muscles against the ground, closing his eyes.
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Characters who are over achievers and constantly overworked. The type who prioritizes their goals over everything. But since they work so hard during the day they have a habit of partying hard, going on week long social benders, where after the work day they let loose and go off. This combination of overachieving + their excessive social life wrecks havoc on their immune system. Eventually they wake up with a rotten head cold, forcing them to stop their life in its busy tracks and begrudgingly take some much needed time off, because god dammit, they kind of did this to themselves.
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People ask me if Covid19 will be defeated soon, with the vaccination, with medicine, something, so we can go back to ‘normal’. The ‘normal’ was an oxymoron. Our past was very, highly abnormal. You know it! Our old ways of doing things had gone abhorrent, extremely corrupted, amoral. Humanity has lost the way.
That’s why events like a Pandemic come to us with a strong message. Lynn Koiner wrote earlier this year that “Caroline Myss once said that, when there is an epidemic that impacts the health of humanity, there is a sickness in society.” Exactly, we are very ‘sick’. We have leaders around the world reflecting the collective sickness like on a mirror, some of which people have chosen, which means that people like them. Just this fact speaks volumes about our sickness. Those leaders are now out of control, and people are falling victims of them.
Human society as a whole is decomposing and disintegrating. Many more deaths will be probably necessary before some realize the ‘message’. Some will never do, and will fall away, because, “Until we heal what is ailing in our societies, the epidemic will continue”(Lynn Koiner). Maybe, the vaccination will kill the messenger, but, as I read it on the first vaccination chart, this vaccine is not here to last. The news is already telling us that someone made a ‘mistake’ not ordering the right amount. What an accident?????!!!!!!
It’s time to isolate, not so much only to avoid contagion, but to reflect, meditate and face our own demons in order to heal those wounds. Chiron in Aries clearly shows us how vulnerable life is and that we are NOT in charge of it, but we are trusted with it as a gift, a privilege that we haven’t correctly value.The solution doesn’t lie in killing the ‘messenger’, but in reading the message, accept it and change.
