Omicron felled me, but like the unheard tree in the forest I couldn’t prove it

‘I had a scratchy throat, muscle aches, fatigue, a cough. But I tested negative on my one and only RAT, no other RATs were available and I didn’t have access to PCR testing.’ Photograph: stock_colors/Getty Images

I was on a walk with my friend Ivan, talking about the time I had Covid, and how it was bad but not too bad, and on the bright side at least now I had some antibodies, before he interrupted me and said: “You didn’t have it.”

“What? I didn’t have Covid? Yes I did!”