My wife, my son, myself, probably my dog, too. We all have it.
I mean, I didn’t test the dog. I have a general rule of thumb: Don’t stick cotton swabs up any any creature’s nose that is in close proximity to rows of razor-sharp teeth.
I feel like it’s worked for me so far.
Still, he does seem a little sluggish, sleeping as many as 16 1/2 hours a day as opposed to his typical 16 1/4.
I’m worried about him.
I also did not test our hermit crab in part because I have no idea where his nose is. I’m just going to take it on faith that my entire house is awash in covid despite my best efforts.
Well, okay, not “best” efforts. My good efforts. Reasonable efforts?
Okay, fine, my efforts.
In all seriousness, while I tried to be respectful of others, I gave up taking herculean mitigation measures a long time ago, deciding in part that the social and psychic costs and dangers were far worse than the virus for both us and our son and in part because I don’t like playing safety theater, and it all started feeling like theater to me and little more.
When Omicron hit and I started coming across tweets like this, I really stopped caring.
“Please don’t be complacent just because you’re vaccinated.”
Why? You weren’t. You just said you weren’t. You said you were “always super careful” and yet you still got it. What does complacency have to do with anything? Why does this particular illness have this weird moral component to it?
There it is again. “Super careful.” Like holy words, or some incantation of protection.
Still, he was not as super careful as the following woman who hasn’t been to a restaurant since March of ‘20. N95. Triple vaxxed. Pretty much everyone around her the same. Australia has become a nuthouse of authoritarian enforcement of virus transmission mitigation and…
She still caught it.
“End vaccine patents?”
So we can all, what? Get Covid anyway?
The logic of the emotionally broken is fascinating to me. They did everything right, did the “virtuous” thing, wrapped their entire sense of self worth in their dutiful adherence to the church of covid.
Which ends up with real nuttery like this. (Language warning.)
Let’s follow this logic.
His friend, triple vaxxed, masked, etc., still caught covid.
Because of an unvaxxed person?
How does that work, exactly? If we can all get it, and all transmit it, which he pretty much just admitted, and we know from the Science (trademark Anthony Fauci 2021) why blame the one unvaxxed guy? Heck, he probably caught it from a triple-vaxxed quadruple-masked emotionally crippled shut-in.
The only individuals unvaxxed people imperil are, at most, themselves.
Or, pharma executives.
This virus will be endemic, it just will. Everyone needs to wrap their heads around that and deal with it in a way that works for them.
Just leave the rest of us out of it, please, we don’t affect you, really, it’s everywhere already.
I should note that while my wife and I took home tests, my son got an official test at a testing center. (Something we figured we’d need to show his school.) Guess what that got you?
A friendly text from your Department of Pandemia!
Lovely!
YOU HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO THE AUTHORITIES AS BEING UNCLEAN! STAY HOME, VERMIN!
Also, click this convenient link to snitch on all your friends, neighbors and acquaintances because that’s going to be useful somehow.
My wife and I are both vaxxed. I never got the booster, and talked my wife out of it as well.
I was considering it at first, but since I had completed my second Moderna shot in late May, my vaccine status was relatively up to date compared to a lot of people so there was no great urgency.
(I had held off getting vaccinated, thinking over it carefully and finally settling on the careful calculus of, “ah, what the heck.” And yes, I make a lot of health care decisions that way. Also, career decisions. Okay, all decisisons.)
Since there was no rush, I was able to watch boostermania take hold from the sidelines. It went from talk of just one booster, maybe after eight months, you know, just a little extra something, to an endless stream of boosters every few months.
Okay. Boosters were out.
They were definitely out for my twelve-year-old son. In fact, he happily remains part of the global control group in this grand mRNA vaccine experiment having never gotten vaccinated.
Mind you, he wanted to, and would have had it been up to him, which fortunately it is not in the commonwealth of Virginia. He was receiving enormous pressure from peers and had to put up with hearing about how his parents were “anti-vaxxers” which I found particularly amusing as we had actually gotten the stupid vaccine. It’s just a very different calculus with a young child.
“What the heck,” doesn’t quite capture it when you have your whole life is ahead of you.
Given all that, how are we faring, (you probably didn’t ask but are going to make believe you did now because otherwise it would awkward)?
I have to admit, I’m surprised I have the strength to write.
Although that’s probably more the gin.
Ha! Just kidding! I don’t drink gin in the afternoon. On Mondays.
We are fine. In fact, I believe the most imminent threat to our health right now is being murdered in our sleep given we need to spend the rest of the week together in our small house.
(For the first time ever, I suspect we will be fighting over who gets to go outside and walk the dog.)
Other than that, we are experiencing uniformly medium-to-mild cold symptoms, all three of us, vaccinated or not.
Would my symptoms have been as mild had I not been vaccinated? Maybe. Maybe not. I’m allegedly well past the time I should have gotten a booster they tell me, but whatever supports the “all vaccines all the time” narrative, right?
My son, being young and healthy, was never in any real danger regardless, certainly no more than any other danger someone his age faces.
So, we’ll sit tight here, wallowing together in our petrie dish of covid, waiting it out, watching people as they stroll past our house, their masks on, perhaps thinking about where they’ll get their fourth booster…
Thanks,but we’re good.
As Robert W Malone, MD, has said: "This is the first time in history that the ineffectiveness of a medicine is being blamed on those who haven't taken it."
Does that part in "V for Vendetta" where the government creates a virus and uses that to obtain dictatorial powers over its citizens sound familiar?
Hope you all are back to normal soon.