Be smart. Learn from my mistakes. It’s been more than a year since I got COVID (last year at the end of February). I’m still fighting with residual symptoms. It doesn’t sound bad, but it is bad. Phantom smells, brain fog, abdominal pain, chest pain—a lot of symptoms are gone. But a small chest pain is still here. I have some workarounds to deal with it, but I think I’ll have it for the rest of my life. Be smart, try to minimize the risk of getting COVID. Get vaccinated, avoid excessive traveling by airplane, avoid big gatherings, and if you hear somebody coughing next to you, stay away. If you get information that someone potentially has COVID, stay away. I am lucky; I did not die, and I did not get a severe case of long-COVID, but it is enough to sometimes make me feel defeated. Just keep swimming, though.