Thank you everyone for the warm birthday wishes. I had a lovely low key day with my wife. We played games and ate food and it was just what I needed to feel good again.
I also want to thank everyone for the encouraging words while I've been sick. I am now in my 5th week of this, and while the symptoms remain mild as long as I don't push myself too hard, it's been hard to keep a positive attitude about recovering. I've heard from the studies that it can take someone with respiratory symptoms anywhere from 2-6 weeks to fully recover so I am trying to be patient and gentle with myself. assuming it will take the full 6 weeks, I should be feeling better once May hits.
Stay safe and healthy out there everyone, despite what the non-experts want us to believe, we have to stay smart and careful about this. Value your life and the lives of others, we are just numbers to the higher ups.