Today will hit over 105F (40C) where I live – inland, temperatures are 10 to 20 degrees F hotter. We stay indoors, close the windows and shutters, keeping the house dark and gloomy, only opening the shutters as the sun travels east to west. The air conditioning is put on when the house reaches about 80F. Then, you plop down, to conserve your own energy as well as electric energy – air conditioning is set no lower than 76F to help the grid and hopefully avoid a black out. Everything you can charge gets charged before the heat of the day begins, just to be safe: phone, laptops, tablets. I just wish I could charge myself as all this makes me a blob.
The first year after we moved inland 20 miles from the coast was pleasant in our valley. The next summer was like the weather we are having now – hot, hot, hot. It was hot all that second summer. This summer we have had a few weeks of such heat mixed with cooler periods. I guess I shouldn’t complain. However, that second summer I got what I thought was the flu. I was exhausted, sniffly, and weak for days. It wasn’t the flu. Instead, I was dehydrated despite drinking water and close to heat exhaustion. Flu symptoms and overheating symptoms are very much the same, at least for me.
Enter the coronavirus. So many different symptoms. And the heat is here. What is going on? Yesterday, I was dead tired – again, not my usual feeling. Chills. Flu? Coronavirus? Heat? No fever, drinking Gatorade, and two naps later, I was still tired. This morning I feel more human, but still tired.
It is a strange feeling when you don’t know what is going on. Is it real? Is it a symptom of something serious? Do I have coronavirus, the flu, or am I just in need of more water and Gatorade? Are my allergies the reason for the cough or is it the air conditioning?
Heat makes you crazier than you already are.
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