My story begins like many of this nature, with a mystery illness. Several friends of mine had purchased an old hotel in the Swiss mountains, and I had just arrived to spend a month helping paint some walls and do some plastering. I had been told upon arrival that there was some viral infection going around the house that was knocking people on their ass for a week at a time. This was May of 2023, and while the pandemic wasn't too far in the background, for whatever reason nobody really considered this might be covid. Sure enough, about a week into my visit, my nose started to run and my sleep ...