How was it the 2nd time?
Well, to begin, you recognize it is definitely covid - it feels strange compared to anything else.
The second time for me I had a harder time in the short term, and I did recover faster.
But I had a much worse time with fever - and that kept me knocked out about 20 hours per day for a week/seven days straight.
Hubs had an even worse time respiratory wise than the first time - but he had pneumonia 2 years earlier, with a partial collapsed lung. So, I’m certain that is why he had a worse go of it than did I - asthma, chronic bronchitis - etc.
It’s a weird illness that does not go through the “ordinary” progression. It very literally feels “artificial”.