I need to post this, even if just to have it written down and to play it back in my head.
I have a pretty decent friend named Jordan and the last two days I've
played pool with him. I was staying away because he seemed in a foul
mood. Then today I found out that he's been extremely sick, V*ing
multiple times and stuff, and that he got it from a kid named Brian. He
was nursing Brian back to health, so I imagine he was in fairly close
contact the whole time during Brian's sickness. Apparently Jordan got
sick a day or two after being with Brian.
Now I am of course terrified that I will get it. I've been more
cautious these past two weeks than in most of my life, but for all my
cognitive this-or-that, I'm still terrified.