After sitting on the fence and waiting until the last minute before RSVPs were due, I ultimately bailed on my niece’s wedding next month. Everything is scheduled to be outside, but Cape Cod, the middle of July, just seemed like a wall-to-wall spreader event for the weekend. So we gave our apologies and sent an extra special gift instead.
I think the rest of the family thinks we’re wimping out though.
Well, there’s not going to be temp-taking, but masks are welcomed and social distancing will be encouraged.
We may not be going, as my brother’s driving, and our attendance hinges on whether or not he has the virus, as he’s going to wait and see if he shows any symptoms before taking his home test in a couple of days.
He got upset that I said I wanted to burn someone for possibly infecting him, as it turned out to be someone whom he cares about. I got not just a text but a phone call. And he’s TEXTING ME now, sheezus-pleezus!
And he’s like, oh well I was an alcoholic for 35 years, why don’t I need a liver transplant and blah blah and not having a spleen notwithstanding, I think I won’t get it (he has been vaxxed and boosted once; not sure if he’s had his 2d booster). REALLY? He does wear a mask, but STILL…
Ugh, got my 2d booster yesterday, and feel icky today. Felt icky yesterday after I’d mowed the front lawn w/the push-reel mower.
No fever, but those aches & pains in the joints. Wouldn’t it be nice to have temporary out-of-body experiences when one is ill or feeling physical discomfort to whatever degree, lol?
Plus, aging isn’t for sissies.
My brother works at a Trader Joe’s in Portland, Maine, and right now 14 employees at that store are out due to Covid.
St. Louis is back in the “high community spread” category with a 20% positivity rate. It’s hard to say what that actually means, given at-home tests etc. but for comparison, two months ago it was 3% – so of course, most people pretended it was all over and stopped taking precautions (if they took any at all in the first place).
As you infer, positivity rate is meaningless now, due to at-home testing. What’s happening is that people who test positive at home, and want to get Paxlovid or one of the other anti-virals, are discovering that their healthcare providers insist on another, traceable test performed by an actual lab or clinic lab to prevent stockpiling and/or hoarding. People suck.
“Resisting”. “Falling behind”.
Criminal over-use of “normalcy.”
It’s frivolous, but it also sucks that I have to spend any amount of time thinking about the risk I’m putting myself into just to go see a band play some music.
Yeah, I feel ya. I just heard that Regina Spektor is going to be in ATL in October, and I’d love to see her… but…
Journal of the Corona Year
6/13/2022
Where I work, everyone is coughing. There are various reasons why that might be. It’s like Russian roulette — you never know which cough will be the one that gets you.
Last week one of my co-workers had Covid-19 for the second time. She previously had it the same time as I did, during the Omicron surge. We are currently in the midst of another surge, but I don’t know the name of it.
This time it hit her much harder. One evening, she couldn’t walk across her apartment without getting winded. She was afraid to go to sleep. She’s 29, doesn’t smoke and is an avid runner. She is fully-vaccinated and “boosted.”
The next day she went to her doctor, who prescribed her steroids and some type of inhaler.
Within two days she was feeling fine. That might be due to of the prescriptions, or just due to the vagaries of COVID-19. She ran four miles on Sunday.
I have several friends with long COVID. One can no longer work. She is on full-time disability. I had several calls with her where she was VERY close to suicide. She is now on continuous steroids, which helps, but creates other issues of course.
The other 2 people I know have had brain fog. They both have had trouble working full time. They own their own businesses. One of them has taken a part time job; she I think had to step back from he own business because she just couldn’t work a lot of the time.
It’s so hard here. Literally no one wears a mask anymore. I went to get my 4th booster - there were hardly any people signed up to get theirs.
When I move to Israel, I’m super excited b/c 90% of their population is vaxxed.
We flew into Knoxville recently, and also Myrtle Beach. We went in masked up, but nobody was wearing their mask. And (shameful to say), we weren’t either when we left. We’re vaxxed up and double boostered. So we just kinda went along with the culture. Going into the old folk’s home, the mask was required, but everything else nobody had them.
But man I feel for those people that have long Covid. There’s not even any way to prepare for something like that. It just hits you and then it’s like also it’s the rest of your life. How the fuck do you deal with that?
Like any other human who’s been struck with a disability, I guess. The best you can.
