I feel you...I'm stuck in the Matrix.
Do I really have my taste back, or is it just my brain telling me what it remembers chicken tasting like and that's why things are off?
Loss of taste or smell is due to neurological damage. Those cells are gone forever. The beauty of the human body is
the Brain will program other parts to pick up the slack.
The above said is why I am very very very angry at those who don't take covid seriously. It causes damage that one
never fully recovers from