Until the science settles
You still have to get through Thursday.
These notes are practical, not a protocol. They do not take a side in the infection-versus-signaling fight. They take a side against isolation and against picking until morning.
- 01
Skin, without a manifesto
Keep wounds clean and covered. Short nails. A cool compress beats a deep excavation. Ordinary bacterial infection on top of open sores is common and treatable — fever, spreading redness, pus are reasons to seek care today, not reasons to win an internet argument.
- 02
The hour you want to pick
Have a boring alternative ready before the hour arrives: ice pack, walking the hallway, calling one person who will not debate etiology. Covering a site can be a kindness to future-you. Shame is a poor bandage.
- 03
Sleep
Crawling is worse at night for a lot of people. Light, temperature, and a rule against inspecting the skin after a certain hour will not cure anything. They sometimes make the next clinic visit possible.
- 04
People in the house
Family does not have to join a theory to help. They can look at a wound, drive, sit, and refuse to call you a liar. They can also refuse bleach-the-whole-house spirals. Both can be love.
- 05
Work and money
This illness wrecks jobs. Document dates, photos, missed days. That file is for disability paperwork and for your own memory when fog takes the week.
- 06
What not to buy
No machine, parasite cleanse, or “nano” protocol is a substitute for a clinician who will look. The original FAQ flirted with bioterror. We are not selling that story, or a supplement stack to match it.
A pocket log
Date. Place on the body. What you felt. What you saw, in plain words. Sleep hours. What you put on the skin. No need to store this on a server — a notebook is harder to subpoena and easier to bring.