{"id":2455875,"date":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322767"},"modified":"2020-03-17T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:42:28","slug":"whom-the-gods-destroy-they-first-make-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/whom-the-gods-destroy-they-first-make-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With so much varied information flying around about the coronavirus, I thought I\u2019d share my experience, for what it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I\u2019m convinced that I and another individual I\u2019ve spoken with had this thing back in November. In my case, it came on with two days of low-grade fever and a dry cough occurring in paroxysms lasting from 20 to 40 minutes. I had no nasal congestion or other symptoms. For a month I could not sleep in a bed, but only by sitting upright in an armchair with a lot of cough drops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After three weeks, I developed a bacterial sinus infection for which I was prescribed amoxicillin. Ten days later, I felt better, but the cough did not fully abate for another four weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Here\u2019s the good news. I\u2019m 76 and was never really \u201cknocked out\u201d by this thing. I could function. And although I coughed all over the place, my wife never became ill. Nor have I lost much lung function.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The bad news is that I think our society has over-hyped this thing. The title of my letter comes from Euripides. I\u2019m inclined to agree with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Chad Klinger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/whom-the-gods-destroy-they-first-make-mad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so much varied information flying around about the coronavirus, I thought I\u2019d share my experience, for what it\u2019s worth. I\u2019m convinced that I and another individual I\u2019ve spoken with had this thing back in November. In my case, it came on with two days of low-grade fever and a dry cough occurring in paroxysms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 10:06:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455890,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455875\/revisions\/2455890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}