I guess I'm wondering how people who get Covid these days know that they have it. I mean yeah, you get tested and the test says you have it, but how did you decide to get tested in the first place? What made you think it was Covid and not just a regular cold? It's winter where I am. I get sniffles, coughs, sore throat, and it's gone in a day or two. I'll admit, if I cough more than once or twice in an hour, I'll think "Oh shit, is this it? Did I finally get Covid?" Then later I realize that I haven't coughed for the rest of the day, and the next day, I'm fine. This has happened a few times. If it's gone the next day, I'm gonna assume it wasn't Covid, and even if it was, I'm not even showing symptoms anymore.
Covid is a respiratory disease, so I assume the cough is going to be a bronchial cough, my lungs feeling like there's crap in there that needs to be expelled, not a tickle in the back of my throat like a "normal" cough.
They say that if I'm showing symptoms, I should get tested. Well, yeah. But how are Covid symptoms any different from my normal winter maladies?