My mempool.space page running on my node shows a long list of FULL blocks and a current backlog of 6-9 blocks worth of transactions waiting to get in.

And I don't need colossal storage, bandwidth or computation power to see it all.

I would say it's running as intended.

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Covid update.  Tested neg today.  All the cold symptoms 90% gone aside from very slight chest congestion (I never really had a cough). Only really annoying thing left is a powerful fatigue and fairly strong heart palpitations on exertion.
I feel this is reasonable payment for superhuman immunity. Hopefully the spike proteins did not lasting damage.  Little fuckers.