So, I'm currently recovering from the CCP virus. It's surprising the things you experience at the hands of the medical system when you're on the receiving end of the Wuhan flu.
This started earlier this week, when I did not start feeling too good. My body temperature was within acceptable levels at this time, even by the time I left work early to go home. Now, as I was working out of town for the day, I also had a company car loaned to me to get by, so I used the car to get home. However, when I got home, I checked my body temperature again, and it exploded to 40C. I wasn't sure it if it was the CCP virus or not, so I decided to get purchase a PCR test kit from my local chemist just in case, and that turned out negative, so I thought it was going to be all good. Unfortunately, by the next day, my situation got worse, and my girlfriend (who fortunately, is out of town at the moment) suggested I should go to a hospital, as my symptoms were getting worse - specifically my incredibly high body temperature. Problem is, the hospitals I did call up apparently don't take people with high temperatures, for fear of the CCP - the Chinese Communist Pneumonia/Covid. So, at my girlfriend's suggestion, I called the emergency number (which is 119 in Japan, compared to 000 in my country).
When the ambulance crew turned up to my place, I was already struggling to stay conscious. I know they needed to get information about the circumstances leading up to my situation, but goddamn, was one of the guys incredibly rude as fuck. His reactions to my answers were like I did the worst possible thing I could ever do. What's worse, is that while they could take me to a hospital to get me checked out, they would not help me get back home - also because of high fever, I'm not allowed to take a taxi or public transport to get home, leaving my only option to walk home, and at that time, I was no condition to be walking significant distances beyond the entranceway of my apartment. So yeah, fuck the ambulance crew for their rudeness, and fuck the lack of support for those that don't have private transport available to them to get home from the hospital.
Anyway, I called my girlfriend up while the ambulance crew were still at my apartment, just so I could clarify what was being told to me, and my girlfriend was able to some other questions. In any case, after a while, they managed to find a hospital they could take me to. They gave me another PCR test, and would get my results the next morning. As for getting back home, well since my girlfriend cannot drive (she came to check up on me and help me get home), we took a taxi (despite instructions to not do so, but fuck that shit), and I made sure to keep my mask on, not talk, and try not to cough. My girlfriend took the train back, while I went straight home.
Come next morning though, I get a call from the hospital advising that I do have the CCP virus after all, and that PCR test I took the day before going to hospital:
Luckily, the worst of it seems to be over, as my fever broke on Thursday, and all that's remaining is a lingering light cough. Now that my appetite has returned, I can actually eat 3 meals again, rather than just eating breakfast and drinking plenty of fluids. As I don't have any accrued leave that I could use for my work, my boss has said it is ok for me to work from home if I'm up to it, and I may take them up on that offer, as it would give me something to do besides watching youtube videos all day long. I may try to get my site finally updated this weekend too.
But yeah, the medical is completely merciless and bullshit if you don't have a car, or anyone who has a car, not to mention the ambulance crew that tended to me were rude as fuck.
そいつらへ：うせろやろう！！(# ﾟДﾟ)
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