So I caught the ugly fish, Covid 19, in early January. Like a huge catfish, it latched onto me with its sucker mouth and slathered me with all of its nasty symptoms. This includes losing my sense of smell (Anosmia) and taste (Ageusia) for a week.
These are the twin sisters of senses as the loss of smell effects the sense of taste.
…and smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose…
~ Anthelme Brilliant-Savarin (and see note below)