Eating raw garlic? That just sounds like a lot. My usual method is to chug a half gallon of orange juice if I even remotely suspect I'm getting sick. When that fails I usually just take 3x the recommended dose of cough suppressant and let a low grade robotrip mask my symptoms.

Covid got me last year and messed up my fun a bit. Had a rather mild case but it left me a parting gift of vertigo that took a couple months to resolve. If I held my head still it was fine, so I could write and edit without difficulty but as soon as I moved my head the world spun. Made working in my flowerbeds feel like a constant roller coaster ride.