那天是周一。上午打完第三针疫苗，中午我便回办公室继续我的拍摄工作。虽然工作时感觉人有点虚弱，还是坚持至工作结束，晚上回到家后开始有点咳嗽和喉咙痛的症状，但我也没有太在意，毕竟早上刚打完第三针疫苗，我想，这大概只是打完疫苗后的副作用罢了。
但是，到了第二第三天，咳嗽、喉咙痛以及头疼等症状并没有如预期般消退，反而是愈发激烈，甚至到了晚上无法入眠的程度；因为当时香港疫情还没到“全面爆发“的程度，加上我已经打了三针疫苗，有一定的抵抗力，且疫情期间除了工作需要很少出门，因此我并没有想过自己感染了新冠肺炎的可能性。
直到第四天早上再次需要外出拍摄时，我给我的主管发了一条信息，说明我的身体抱恙，可能不适合拍摄，他的回复终于警醒了我：“你会不会是感染了新冠肺炎？你不如去做一个检测吧。” 此刻，我才如梦初醒。
It wasn’t until the morning of the fourth day when I needed to go out for work again, I sent a message to my boss stating that I was ill and might not be suitable for work. His reply woke me up: “Could you be infected with the COVID? Why don't you do a test?”
我马上去就近的私家诊所看了医生，医生开了一些治疗喉咙痛的常见药给我，我领取了深喉样本检测瓶，也顺带购买了快速检测试剂，回家自我检测，是阳性。当下心情犹如晴天霹雳，倒不是害怕病毒——我相信自己年轻力壮终能战胜病毒——而是因为我与外公外婆两位老人同住，害怕把病毒传染给家中老人。I immediately went to the nearest private clinic to see the doctor and he prescribed me some common medicines for sore throats. I also received a specimen collection pack and bought a rapid test kit. I went home and tested positive. I was frightened, not because I am afraid of the virus - I am confident that I can defeat the virus because I am still young - but because I am living with my grandparents whom are already in their 80s, and I am afraid of spreading the virus to them.
2022年2月18日，香港铜锣湾街道。图源：网络快速测试出阳性结果后，为避免影响家中老人，我马上决定搬离，乘坐私家车搬到母亲的住所，而母亲也替我提前准备好自我隔离的物资，搬到外公外婆家，与我互换居所。毕竟快速测试未必准确，加上那几天开始有大量新闻报道医院不胜负荷的消息，在衡量过自己的病情轻重后，我决定先暂时在家自我隔离。As the rapid test may not be accurate, and there have been a lot of news reports that the hospital is overwhelmed so I decided to do self-isolation at home.
在提交了深喉测试样本后两天，终于收到了政府的短信通知：我的确是感染了。短信里虽说“留在家中等候卫生防护中心联络”，但却迟迟未收到进一步的通知。我心急如焚，不知下一步如何是好；幸好家中早已备好了必理痛与食物，加上病状已开始逐渐消减，而且这段时间我已习惯了在家办公，于是我重新开始了工作，独自在家自我隔离的时间也不至于无聊。Two days after submitting the specimen samples, I finally received a text message from the government: I was indeed infected. Although the text message said "Stay at home and wait for the CHP to contact", but no further notice was received. I was so anxious, I didn't know what to do next; But the symptoms have started to subside, and I have gotten used to working from home during epidemic, so I resumed to work, and the time of self-isolating at home was not too boring.
到了第八九天只有轻微的咳嗽，身体已无大碍，在之后连续几天快速测试结果都是阴性后，迎来了十四天的自我隔离的结束。结束的第一时间我到了政府认可的检测中心做了核酸检测，看到阴性二字，终于能放下心头大石。On the eighth and ninth day, I had almost recovered. I tested negative with the rapid test for consecutive days, and finally the fourteen-day self-isolation came to an end. I went to a testing center to do a proper PCR test, and I felt so relieved when I know I tested negative.
工作中的George Chan大概是因为我年轻抵抗力强，加上已经打了三针疫苗，所以病症并没有想象中的痛苦难熬，每天定时吃必理痛与喝热茶，大概一周的时间慢慢就恢复了起来。在我写下这篇抗疫日记之时，我已经重新开始外出拍摄的工作，一口气爬完了麦理浩径长二十五公里的第九、十段。Probably because I am still young and I had already received three injections of the vaccine, so the symptoms were not as bad as I imagined. I have now resumed to work and climbed the Sections 9 and 10 of MacLehose Trail in one day.
我打败了病毒。