I had a student come to my office half an hour early when I wasn't expecting them, caught me without a mask, joked about not having seen me without a mask before, and then proceed to cough a bunch owing to 'allergies'.

Want to guess what it wasn't? Allergies.

before covid, it was a yearly tradition for some of my officemates to come in with suspicious allergies in the dead of winter

and then weirdly everyone else started getting allergies right after

and then I'd get allergies and couldn't function for several weeks because I'm disabled

damn allergies are wild