That's the question I posed my doctor as he called to tell me the news that my Covid test came back negative.

I'm 30 years old and I live in Texas. I came down with a 102 fever in late June, horrible body aches (as if I had spent the previous day doing yard work all day), diarrhea, a cough, overall exhaustion, and a pressure headache right behind my eyes that lasted four whole days. In my area of Texas, we have a heat index of 97-105 most days because of the humidity.

My wife is pregnant so we've been staying inside more than we would have otherwise. I came down with the bug first and quarantined myself in case it was Covid. All of a sudden my wife and cat start exhibiting symptoms.

There are no other respiratory viruses going around in the Texas summer heat that infect humans and cats. 100% we had Coronavirus. But my test came back negative. As soon as I told my doctor that my cat was coughing now too, he told me to ignore the test and just act like we're positive.

There is some serious fuckery going on in the labs here in Texas.