Having a bad cough these days is painful - and not just the pain in the chest and/or ribs caused by the involuntary action of coughing, but the pain of embarrassment caused by everyone around you staring as you cough.
For the sole reason that you're coughing. Loudly. In public.
As if you're patient zero of a new pandemic.
Coughing in public now requires an abrupt snap of your head into the nook of one of your arms bent at the elbow, and an elaborate set of twisting, turning convolutions so that your cough is not directed anywhere near other humans.
Which, maybe, should have always been the coughing protocol - might have avoided a lot of the mess of the past four years.
But that's a moot point, and I have to go find a box of surgical masks.
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