User blog comment:Fishrus/Who is the player?/@comment-28019375-20161031050644/@comment-28224627-20161104232745

Nah. He didn't get hit in the head too hard.

But I did have a theory, that when he woke up in the life pod: 2 weeks passed. Cuz it takes 5 weeks for the virus to infect and kill you, but he still had 3 weeks remaining from exposure.

So, that's the only logic that being hit in the head would be.