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Covid-19: A Stubborn Enemy

By Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee
June 27, 2022
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It started with a ticklish throat. Allergy-like. Vague. Nothing to fear but the recent pollination of Southern California grasses. But in my heart, I knew the truth. After an international move, masked trips across Europe, government-mandated lockdowns, incessant PCR tests, and two and a half years of a global pandemic, I evaded the coronavirus.

But it came to me all the same.

When I tested for coronavirus earlier this month, the red “T” line, which we’ve become conditioned to fear, materialized as if perfectly penciled in hue and intensity. At that moment, my two Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines and my Moderna booster shot eased my fears, but all the original concerns about the virus sprung to the forefront of my mind: will I have long-Covid? Neurological damage? A need for hospitalization?

Before the symptoms, came the anxiety.

Within twenty-four hours, I developed a low-grade fever, a mind-stirring migraine, and the strange need to swallow constantly. I spent the following seventy-two hours in bed, muscles aching, face feeling as though I’d gotten into a brawl, pondering about who’d infected me. What virus strain that had traveled a world of bodies and surfaces multiplied in my throat, nose, and lungs?

Advocates and followers of science, my partner and I never stopped wearing our masks in public. At the slightest throat tickle, we’d perform rapid antigens on each other, four swabs to both tonsils, ten rotations in one nostril. We memorized the movements like a dance. With cases rising in Southern California with more verve than the seasonal wildfires, we spent most of our time hiking, at the beach, or at home, away from crowds. Mindful that our immunities from our vaccines and boosters waned with time.

COVID-19 Post Infection

It took ten days for me to test negative. Before re-venturing into society, I tested four more times to affirm my negative status, scrubbed every surface of my home to keep from reinfection and hoped those positive with the virus remained as diligent.

Within days, my partner’s father and my sister tested positive for the Covid-19.

A healthy twenty-six-year-old woman, fully vaxxed and boosted, my sister ended up in the emergency room with a 104-degree fever.

In recent months—far longer for many parts of the United States—pandemic fatigue has loosened the fight against the virus. While variant characteristics point to less severe infections in population majorities, Covid-19 remains a public health threat that affects the global community.

To maintain a handle on the evolving sickness, we, as an integral body, mustn’t thwart efforts to curb the spread of the virus. 

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Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee

As an antiquarian, Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee grew up knowing she’d incorporate history into her career, studying ancient civilizations and the physical, cerebral, and social jewels they left behind. During her studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where Du Mont-Greenlee earned her bachelor’s degree in City and Regional Planning, Du Mont- Greenlee realized her passion for architecture and urban forms, physical spaces that bridge cultures and enable sociality. After working several years in public and private sector urban planning, Du Mont-Greenlee returned to academia, earning her master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. At Goldsmiths, she wrote anthropological ethnographies including the following topics: how sense of place authenticity relays to mental experiences in restaurants, and an auto-ethnographic piece on the South Orange County suburbs that moves between architecture and people and sets an analogy between the making of homes and the making of housewives, informed by classic feminist theory. To better understand the politics of place, place authenticity, historical remembrance through spatial awareness, and architecture’s construction of sociality, she spent a year and a half researching urban trends during the coronavirus pandemic in London, England. Du Mont- Greenlee compared her social findings that society underwent gentrification of the mind amid the pandemic to the gentrification of urban places, including Shoreditch, London. In doing so, she found that anything—even longstanding architectural bastions once revered for their ingenuity could be erased or forgotten. Much like the books of old burned for their revolutionary messages. While not sculpted from brick and mortar or concrete or wood, the written word weathers time as do the architectural wonders of the world. Both are fragile, capable of crumbling in a moment, but both transcend time and remind humankind of history. Touched equally by the lives of collapsed civilizations as those breathing alongside her today, Du Mont-Greenlee believes the marvels humans create reflect the soul of humankind. These ideas inspire the non-fiction articles she writes for Coffee House Writers and her fiction manuscript Edge of Worlds.

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