@corlin Sounds almost exactly like the onset of COVID when I had it last month. I tested negative the first day, positive the next (and for two weeks thereafter when I was feeling fine).

@gemswinc That was Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, not the Commodore. I'd let it go, but it's such a deft and brilliant paraphrase it's become better known than its creator (no relation AFAIK).

The original was "We have met the enemy and they are ours," written by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry after defeating a force of American Indians on Lake Erie in 1813 -- long before the other Commodore Perry, Matthew Calbraith, forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West.

@sfleetucker He didn't come up with that himself. It's part of a hypothesis put forth in the 1980s by Peter Duesberg, an otherwise respectable professor at UC Berkeley; the other part is collapse of the immune system by malnutrition and/or exposure to multiple microbes. It was a reasonable hypothesis in the late 1970s/early 1980s, when we knew little about AIDS epidemiology and nothing about HIV.
Despite evidence, Duesberg never retracted it, leading to deaths in South Africa and elsewhere.