I Wrote This At 4am Sick With Covid Access

At 4 AM, you cannot pretend. You cannot hustle. You cannot optimize or multitask or reply to emails. The virus has stripped you down to the studs. All that’s left is breath—shallow, rattling, precious breath.

I wrote this at 4 AM sick with COVID because there is no distraction deep enough to escape the inside of your own head at this hour. i wrote this at 4am sick with covid

By day three of COVID—which is when I found myself wide-eyed at 4 AM—the symptoms stop being polite and start getting weird. At 4 AM, you cannot pretend

**1. The Typos