Somewhere near the beginning of Mass Effect 2, you’re tasked to go to Omega to find some people for your team. Thing is… Omega Has a Plague.
One of those is a Scientist who is vital to your cause. Loopy Genius Salarian Dr Mordin Solas is busy trying to find a cure. But at the time Shep is making her way through… It’s still in its prime and people are still coughing themselves hoarse. And Dying From It.
It doesn’t half sound a Lot Like COVID.
It’s Disturbing. And it’s bringing out the worst in my mind.
The Cold Terror. The Flashbacks. The AGONISING PAIN of Not Being Able To Stop Coughing Long Enough To Try To Breathe…
When she enters the room with the two bodies and hears their Voice Logs, how they're coughing and suffering.. dying... The Flashbacks of the Worst of COVID Lockdown time came back, with the pictures and stories and rising death-tolls...
It was Jarring... Bad enough that I actually got a panic attack from it.
... The last time I experienced them that vividly, it was when I was fighting for my own life with a SEVERE chest infection from a Respiratory Aspiration. There was one night I couldn't even catch even a fragment of a breath; turned my Ventolin inhaler and masked-spacer into a makeshift nebuliser ALL Night... And I Just About Made It.
Scariest Night of my life.
That day is when I got Antibiotics from the GP -- And luckily they kicked ass from the moment I took them. Shouldn't have been taken in with being convinced it was COVID; leaving it to its own devices to run riot and roughshod right through my poor lungs. I had a Chest Infection - Just A Chest Infection - that entire time, and I had a week of distressed panic and tortured by wound-up terror...
... I Will Always Just Wish The NHS & Media Hadn't Had Me Convinced it Must Be COVID - AND to NOT Call the GP, to NOT Call An Ambulance... They were Too Inundated... So - I Nearly Died for that ridiculous propaganda. I would never have usually waited even half that long -- I'd have had a Nebuliser Right Then And There after calling for an Ambulance.
One lesson learned...
NEVER. AGAIN.
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